Cellular Bioengineering

Cellular engineering is the science of making practical applications of the knowledge of cell biology in the construction of genetically modified organisms, large scale production of recombinant human proteins, as well as production of cells and cellular products (e.g. proteins, microsomes, antibodies) as therapeutics for various human diseases. The course requires students to have a good understanding of key cellular processes in the transmission of genetic information encoded in DNA to functional proteins as well as the regulatory mechanisms that enable cells to produce a huge diversity of functional products from a fixed and limited genome. The ability to engineer cells to make useful products for human leverages on different technologies to manipulate these regulatory processes, which will be covered in this course.