Next Generation Biomanufacturing Technologies

Navanietha Krishnaraj Rathinam is a Research Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. His research interests include bioelectrochemical systems for the production of biofuels and value-added products, extremophilic bioprocessing, and space biology. He is a recipient of prestigious awards including Bioenergy-Awards for Cutting Edge Research, Australian Overseas Research Award, and Young Faculty Award in Engineering. He has published over 40 research articles, 10 book chapters, edited 6 books, has 1 patent, and has acted as PI/Co-PI for 4 research grants. He also serves as a panelist for federal agencies such as NASA and NSF. He is selected as a U.S. Ambassador for the American Society for Microbiology. Rajesh K. Sani is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Department of Applied Biological Sciences at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. His research expertise includes Author Biography extremophilic bioprocessing, biocatalysis, biomaterials, gas to liquid fuels, space biology, genome editing of extremophiles, homo/heterologous expression of genes, and metabolic engineering. Over the past 13 years, he has acted as the PI or co-PI on over $44.39 million in funded research. He has one patent, seven invention disclosures, has published over 80 peer reviewed articles in high impact factor journals, and has contributed to several book chapters. In addition, he has edited seven books, and one Proceedings for Springer International Publishing AG, Wiley, and ACS publications. Sani has also been leading a research consortium funded by the National Science Foundation with the aid of 69 scientists and engineers.

Preface

Chapter 1. Functional Approach for the Development and Production of Novel ExtremeBiocatalysts, Paulina Caceres-Moreno, Sebastian A. Munoz-Ibacache, Maria T. Monsalves, Maximiliano J. Amenabar, and Jenny M. Blamey
Chapter 2. Cyanobacterial Cell Factories for Improved Carotenoid Biosynthesis through a Synthetic Biology Approach, Aditya Sarnaik, Kaustubh Sawant, Jayshri Khadilkar, Gayatri Pillai, Reena Pandit, and Arvind Lali
Chapter 3. Yeasts as Microbial Factories for Production of Recombinant Human Interferon Alpha 2b of Therapeutic Importance, Srikanth Katla and Senthilkumar Sivaprakasam
Chapter 4. Advances in Plant Based Biologics, Iyappan Gowtham and Ramalingam Sathishkumar
Chapter 5. Bacterial Cell Surface Display, Shabnam Parwin, Sashi Kalan, and Preeti Srivastava
Chapter 6. Rational Design of Next-Generation Therapeutic Antibodies Using Protein Engineering Tools, Harvinder Kour Khera and Koustav Maity
Chapter 7. Material and Methods of Bacterial Sensing in the Process of Pharmaceutical Biomanufacturing, Santosh Kumar Misra
Chapter 8. Functional Oligosaccharides: Production and Action, Gobinath Rajagopalan and Chandraraj Krishnan
Chapter 9. Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering Approaches for Improved Production and Recovery of Bacterial Polyhydroxyalkanoates, Aneesh Balakrishna Pillai, Arjun Jaya Kumar, and Harikrishnan Kumarapillai
Chapter 10. Electrospinning: An Efficient Biopolymer-Based Micro- and Nanofibers Fabrication Technique, Tara Chand Yadav, Amit Kumar Srivastava, Purusottam Mishra, Divya Singh, Navdeep Raghuwanshi, Nitin Kumar Singh, Amit Kumar Singh, Saurabh Kumar Tiwari, Ramasare Prasad, and Vikas Pruthi
Chapter 11. New Trends in the Biomanufacturing of Green Surfactants: Biobased Surfactants and Biosurfactants, Ramani Kandasamy, Muneeswari Rajasekaran, Swathi Krishnan Venkatesan, and Maseed Uddin
Chapter 12. Sequestering of CO2 to Value-Added Products through Various Biological Processes, G. Velvizhi, K. Balakumar, and S. Dharanidharan
Chapter 13. Characteristics and Applications of Biodiesels and Design of Reactors for Their Industrial Manufacture, C. M. Narayanan, Jaya Sikder, and Tripti De
Chapter 14. Microbial Biofilm Membranes for Water Remediation and Photobiocatalysis, Paresh Kumar Samantaray, Giridhar Madras, and Suryasarathi Bose

Editors' Biographies
Author Index
Subject Index