UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN MICROBIOLOGY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester VI - Paper XII - MCC-603 - Industrial Microbiology

Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Max Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit I :

General concepts of industrial microbiology, principles of exploitation of micro-orgnisms of their products, screening, strain development strategies, immobilization methods, adsorption; covalent linkages - advantages and disadvantages, raw materials used in media production, industrial sterilization, fermentation equipment and its uses, types of fermentation - ingle, batch, continuous, dual or multiple, surface, submerged of alcohol and fermentation.

Unit II :

Food fermentations and food produced by microbes, bread, cheese, vinegar, fermented dairy products and oriented fermented foods, microbial cells as food-single cell proteins; mushroom cultivation, production of alcohol and fermented beverages, beer and wine.

Unit III :

Industrial products derived from microbes, industrial enzymes-amylase, proteinase, celluase, aminoacid production - glutamic acid and lysine. Production of antibiotics pemcillins, streptomycins, vitamins - ribofalvin, cyanocobalamin. Vaccines - genetic recombinant vaccines.