Table of Contents

Advanced Cell Biology Concerns in Advancing • Process Biotechnology • Patenting of Life Forms – Tarun K. Ghose • Concepts of Technologically Redesigning Fermenting Cell System – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Cell Redesign Engineering and Tools – Saroj Mishra • Techniques and Strategies of Cell Redesigning – J.K. Deb and S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Concerns and Topics of Advanced Upstream Process Biotechnology • Fermentation Media Design Principles – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Mixing in Fermentation : Needs and Progress – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • State and Control Variables of Fermentation Process Biotechnology – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Reaction Engineering Considerations in Free Cell Cultivation : Part I and II – D.P. Rao •Immobilization of Cells and Methods – S.N. Mukhopadhyay and S. Chand • Rheological Variables and their Measurement in Biotechnology – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Offline and Online Measurement and Control of Fermentation Variables – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Areation in Thermophilic B. stearothermophilus CU21 Cell Cultivation – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Metabolic Engineering Foundation and Frontline – S. Mehra, I. Roy, A. Bhaskar and S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Fermentation Bioreactor Containments – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Operation Modes of Fermentation Bioreactors – S.N. Mukhopadhyay and V. Sahai • Fermentation Process Types : Conventional, Immobilized and Transfectional – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Solid State Fermentation : Recent Advances – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Catabolic Repression : At Molecular Level – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Modelling and Simulation of Fermentation Process – James Gomes • Commercial Fermentation : Impact in Indian Industries – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Fermentation Process Biotechnology in Production of Vaccine – Asok Mukhopadhyay • Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Bioprocess Control – James Gomes • Fundamentals to Biochemical Engineering Application of Virus – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Apoptosis : Why and How in Fermentation Process Biotechnology – S.N.Mukhopadhyay Modern Techniques of Assay in Fermentation Process Effluents – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Economic Considerations and Evaluation of Fermentation Process Biotechnology • Solid Phase Bioreactors for Bioprocessing of Mammalian Cells – Asok Mukhopadhyay • Chemicals from Plant Cell Fermentation – V.S. Bisaria • Characteristics and Analysis of Bioreactors for Plant Cell Cultivation – V.S. Bisaria • Extractive Bioconversion : An Upcoming Strategy in Lactic Acid Production – Pradip K. Roy Choudhury • Advances in Biosensors – Sujoy K. Guha • Treatment of Waste Water by Biological Oxidation – S.N. Mukhopadhyay and N. Saha • Section III : Advanced Downstream Processing in Process Biotechnology • Advances of in vivo and ex vivo Membranes and Membrane Phenomena in Process Biotechnology – S.N. Mukhopadhyay • Crosslinking Aid in Stabilizing Biochemicals – Renu Tyagi and M.N. Gupta • Concepts and Applications of Immobilized Metal Ion Affinity Chromatography – G.P. Agarwal • Technical Challenges in Separation of Proteins by Membranes – G.P. Agarwal • Modern Hardwares and Methods of Fermentation Product Recovery and Purification – G.P. Agarwal • Section IV : Miscellaneous Industrial Process Biotechnology :Topics and Concerns • Progress in Bioprocessing of Biofertilizer – K.B. Ramachandran • Lipases : Production and Application – P. K. Ghosh • Industrial Bioprocessing of Chemicals : The Aspect of Cost-affective Components of the Fermentation – Abhay Deshpande

About the Author

Satya Narayan Mukhopadhyay completed his B.Sc. Honours in Chemistry from Calcutta University, B.Tech and M.Tech in Food Technology and Biochemical Engineering from Jadavpur University, and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. He stared his teaching career at HBTI, Kanpur and later at IIT Delhi. A recipient of the JSPS Award and Fulbright Fellowship, he is a Life Fellow at the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering, and is a Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education. He retired as Professor from IIT Delhi, and thereafter served as a Professor at Gautam Buddha University for few months and is currently Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Prof. Mukhopadhyay’s publications include Oxygen Responses, Reactivities and Measurements in Biosystems, Process Biotechnology Fundamentals, Advanced Process Biotechnology, Experimental Process Biotechnology Protocols, and Process Biotechnology: Theory and Practice.