Fall 2006
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Biology
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Molecular Biology and Biotechnology |
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- Biomass production of industrially important hydrocarbons.
- Microbial biotechnology: microbial growth and production of enzymes and primary metabolites; fungal morphology; biotransformations using cells and soluble enzymes; development of advanced fermentation methodology; process development and technology transfer, studies relating to growth, product formation and stability of recombinant microorganisms.
- Isolation and characterization of heat shock protein genes, in Xenopus. Analysis of their expression in normal and transgenic frog embryos.
- Isolation and molecular genetic analysis of biochemical mutants of the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Biochemistry and physiology of purine salvage pathway in plants. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of tobacco and Arabidopsis.
- Isolation and characterization of microbial and plant genes with the aim of understanding their function and regulation as well as their use in solving problems of industrial importance. Gene expression of carbon cycle proteins during chloroplast development.
- Evolution of molecular mechanisms regulating gene expression. Enzymology and physiology of hyperthermophilic microorganisms. Molecular and developmental analysis of genes involved in methyl metabolism in plants.
- Cytokinin metabolism in higher plants.
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