Faculty of Engineering

Department of Biotechnology

The Department of Biotechnology has seven courses of study. The faculty is responsible for education in advanced subjects covering the themes given under each courses of study.

1 Enzyme Chemistry
Microbiology; Biochemistry; Enzymology; Organic chemistry; Molecular biology; Molecular genetics; Gene engineering; Protein engineering; Improvement of enzyme function based on its 3D structure; High-throughput screening of enzymes; Enzyme chip technology; Enzymatic synthesis of chiral intermediates; Biotransformation of synthetic chemicals.

2 Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing
Biocatalysis; Enzyme engineering; Molecular genetics; Protein engineering; Biological chemistry; Applied microbiology.

3 Microbial engineering
Microbiology; Microbial taxonomy; Microbial screening; Microbial metabolism and regulation; Mic-robial secondary metabolites; Bioactive natural products; Molecular microbiology; Microbial genetics; Metabolite engineering; Actinomycetologica.

4 Bioorganic Chemistry
Chemistry and Functionality of Polyglycerols; Chemistry of Woody Biomass and Lignin; Develop-ment of Novel Synthetic Methodology; Total Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products.

5 Food science and technology
Molecular biochemistry of functional foods; Metabolism of biofactors including physiological and dietary compounds; Enzyme chemistry of xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes; Molecular neurophysiology.

6 Plant and Cell Engineering
Plant cell and tissue culture; Cell and genetic engineering; Molecular breeding; Natural product biosynthesis; Metabolism and its regulation; Environment purification; Phytoremediation technology; Biomass utilization; Genetic resources preservation; Functional food.

7 Applied Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics; System biology; Microbiology; Applied microbiology; Gene engineering; Molecular biology; Natural compounds biosynthesized by microorganism; Cloning of genes for secondary metabolites; Medical scien-ce; Protein engineering.