AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Department of Food 
Science & Human Nutrition

Principles of Food Biotechnology

Content

i. From the antiquity to Manouil Sarris Tenedios and from Antonie van Leeuwenhoek the systems biology – Definition and colors of Biotechnology.
ii. Microorganisms if Industrial Fermentations; fungi, yeasts, bacteria and their physiological features.
iii. How microbial cells grow. Factors influencing the microbial growth.
iv. Basic metabolic pathways utilized and basic metabolic products synthesized by the microorganisms of the Industrial Fermentations.
v. Basic mathematical models simulating microbial growth.
vi. The kinetics of microbial growth: Batch culture. Mass balances and calculations.
vii. The kinetics of microbial growth: Fed-batch culture. Mass balances and calculations.
viii. The kinetics of microbial growth: Continuous culture. Mass balances and calculations.
ix. Technology of bioreactors – Scale up of processes – Modeling of processes.
x. Enzyme technology – The enzymatic catalysis – Influence of pH and temperature upon the enzymatic catalysis – Models of enzymatic catalysis.
x. Down-stream processing of biotechnological products.

Learning results

The course aims at:
a) providing knowledge of the Principles of the Microbial Biotechnology, the Fermentation Technology and the Bioprocesses.
b) providing knowledge and expertise in microbial (principally) and enzymatic (to lesser extent) processes implicated with the White Biotechnology and the Food Technology.
c) the acquisition of competencies concerning how microbial cells, enzymes and bioreactors function and how biotechnological products are recovered.
d) finally the development of the ability of the person to successfully perform calculations concerning the various studied bioprocesses related with the Food Technology and the White Biotechnology.

Bibliography

• ΜΙΚΡΟΒΙΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΙΚΡΟΒΙΑΚΗ ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ, Συγγραφέας: Γ. ΑΓΓΕΛΗΣ, Εκδόσεις ΣΤΑΜΟΥΛΗΣ ΑΕ, 2007
• ΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΗ ΒΙΟΔΙΕΡΓΑΣΙΩΝ - ΒΑΣΙΚΕΣ ΕΝΝΟΙΕΣ, Συγγραφέας: M. SHULER – F. KARGI, ΠΑΝ/ΚΕΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΕΜΠ, 2005

NEWSLETTER

The Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition (renamed Department of Food Science and Technology, Decree 80/27/5/13, Government Gazette A119 28/5/13) offers its students the scientific background for a rational approach to scientific and technological issues related to the food sector.
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