Hey!! As per your demand here I am providing you syllabus of the Microbiology of M.Sc of IIT Bombay

-The scope of industrial microbiology.

-Screening strategies for new metabolite such as antibodies, enzymes, amino acids and other substances.

-Strain improvement methods and their application.

-Fermentation media, stock cultures, and inoculum preparation.

-Sources of raw materials for Biotechnology industry.

-Fermentation procedures, purification and recovery of products.

-Biochemical basis of production processes.

-Production, structure, biosynthesis, regulation and uses of organic acids, amino acids,
nucleosid es, nucleotides and related compounds, vitamins antibiotics and ergot alkaloids.

-Microbial transformations and their application.

-Immobilised enzymes and cells.

-Enzymes as products of fermentation.

-Representative examples - Penicillin acylase, glucose iso merase, invertase.

-Aspects of single cell proteins, microbial leaching, Extra cellular polysaccharides.

-A brief introduction to patents and secret processes.

-Fermentation economics and process appraisal.



Text/References :

-Crueger and A. Crueger; Biotechnology: A Textbook of Industrial Microbiology (Eng. Ed. T. D. Brook). Sinaeur Associates, 1990.

-L. E. Casida, Jr.; Industrial Microbiology. Wiley Eastern Ltd., 1989.

-G. Reed (Ed.); Prescott and Dunn's Industrial Microbiology (4th Ed.). CBS Publishers, 1987.

-H. J. Rehm, G. Reed and H. Pape (Eds.) Biotechnology (A Comprehensive Treatise vols. 1-8). VCH, 1986.

-Harry W.Seeley,Jr. and Paul Van Denmark; Microbes in Actions: A lab Manual of Microbiology. D. B. Taraporwalla and Sons, 1984.

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