Environmental Biotechnology. 3 credits

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Biotechnology plays a central role in many environmental fields, such as wastewater treatment, bioremediation, pathogen control, and biofuel production. The objective of the course is to provide environmental scientists with advanced chemical and biochemical concepts necessary for understanding environmental processes and control systems. The course integrates chemical, biological, and biochemical principles for building a quantitative framework applicable to various environmental biotechnologies. The course begins with a revision of the fundamentals of microbiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Quantitative concepts of biochemical and microbial kinetics, metabolic pathways, and bioenergetics are then covered, with special emphasis on environmental processes. These principles are applied to different environmental biotechnologies, including water and wastewater treatment, bioremediation, environmental genomics, biofuel production, and biosensors. Offered by Chemistry . May not be repeated for credit.