Metabolic Engineering

3 credits · Undergraduate

Analysis and synthesis of metabolic networks using principles of thermodynamics, kinetics, and transport phenomena. Computational approaches for predicting metabolic phenotypes. Experimental techniques to measure and manipulate key metabolic variables including pathway fluxes, protein/gene expression, enzyme regulation, and intracellular metabolite concentrations. Prerequisite: BSCI 1510 or CHBE 2150; junior standing. [3]