Course details

  • Study time: 4h

  • Target audience: Bachelor/Master students/Industry/academia representatives in the field of (Bio)chemical engineering, chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Welcome Video

    • Meet the teacher

    • Learning objectives

    • What do you want to learn?

    • Present yourself to your peers

    • Become familiar with the learning platform
  • 2

    Enzyme introduction

    • Before really kicking off...

    • Definition of enzyme

    • The structure of enzymes

    • Enzymatic Activities and units

    • Notes of enzymatic kinetics: Vmax and Km

    • Inhibition of enzymes

    • Nomenclature and classification of enzymes

    • Exercise 1 - Principles of Enzymatic production

    • Exercise 2 - Principles of Enzymatic production

    • Discussion question

    • First example of enzyme application - Chymosin for the dairy industry

    • Second example of enzyme application - Taq polymerase for molecular biology

    • Test your knowledge
  • 3

    Conclusion

    • What did you learn?

    • Help us to improve this course

    • Thanks to our sponsors

Instructor(s)

Research Director

Roberto Verga

Research Director at BiCT - Biological and Chemical Technologies