UMBC Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering Department
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Faculty in our department focus their research in nine core areas encompassing biological, environmental, and educational research. Our department offers an undergraduate course of study leading to a B.S. in Chemical Engineering through three tracks of study: (i) Traditional Track, (ii) Biotechnology and Bioengineering Track and (iii) Environmental Engineering and Sustainability track. We also offer both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees through two different graduate programs. Details can be found on our website: http://www.umbc.edu/cbe
Recent Submissions
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Wastewater-based epidemiology in Beijing, China: Prevalence of antibiotic use in flu season and association of pharmaceuticals and personal care products with socioeconomic characteristics
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019-04)Wastewater-based epidemiology is an emerging field that has mostly been applied to investigate consumption of illicit drugs. In this study, the wastewater-based epidemiology approach was employed to study consumption of ... -
Nanoparticles for Environment, Engineering, and Nanomedicine
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Degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid by UV 253.7 and UV-H2O2: Reaction kinetics and effects of interfering substances
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)This work investigates the degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2,4-D) using UV irradiation and the UV-H₂O₂ advanced oxidation process (AOP). For UV irradiation at 253.7 nm, ∼66% degradation was observed for a ... -
Coupling feedback genetic circuits with growth phenotype for dynamic population control and intelligent bioproduction
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-03-30)Metabolic engineering entails target modification of cell metabolism to maximize cell's production potential. Due to the complexity of cell metabolism, feedback genetic circuits have emerged as basic tools to combat metabolic ... -
Effects of antimicrobial exposure on detrital biofilm metabolism in urban and rural stream environments
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-05-20)The occurrence of antimicrobials and other pharmaceuticals in streams is increasingly being reported, yet the impacts of these contaminants of emerging concern on aquatic ecosystems are relatively unknown. Bacteria and fungi ... -
Nanoparticles for Environment, Engineering, and Nanomedicine
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Modeling transcriptional factor cross-talk to understand parabolic kinetics, bimodal gene expression and retroactivity in biosensor design
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-02-05)Transcriptional factor-based biosensor has been widely used to reprogram and adjust cellular activity to the changing environment. These biosensors translate an internal cellular signal to a transcriptional reporter ... -
Combining 26s rDNA and the Cre-loxP System for Iterative Gene Integration and Efficient Marker Curation in Yarrowia lipolytica
(American Chemical Society, 2019-01-29)Conventional plasmid-based gene expression tends to introduce genetic instability and gene copy number variations that lead to degenerated production. The limited number of auxotrophic markers in Yarrowia lipolytica also ... -
Understanding lipogenesis by dynamically profiling transcriptional activity of lipogenic promoters in Yarrowia lipolytica
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2019-02-07)Lipogenesis is a complicated process involving global transcriptional reprogramming of lipogenic pathways. It is commonly believed that nitrogen starvation triggers a metabolic shift that reroutes carbon flux from Krebs ... -
Proteomic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm cells grown under physiologically relevant fluid shear stress conditions
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2014-04-30)Background: The biofilm forming bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for maladies ranging from severe skin infection to major diseases such as bacteremia, endocarditis and osteomyelitis. A flow displacement ... -
Rheological Characterization and Biological and Mass Transfer Kinetics of Cellulase-Producing T. reesei Viscous Suspensions
(1995)Steady and dynamic shear measurements are utilized to characterize the rheological behavior of Trichoderma reesi RUT-C30 fungal suspensions during batch growth on xylose (soluble substrate) or cellulose (particulate solid ... -
Analyzing Two-Dimensional Gel Images
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A fast and simple method to estimate relative, hyphal tensile‐strength of filamentous fungi used to assess the effect of autophagy
(John Wiley & Sons, 2017-11-14)Fungal hyphal strength is an important phenotype which can have a profound impact on bioprocess behavior. Until now, there is not an efficient method which allows its characterization. Currently available methods are very ... -
Protein Image Alignment via Piecewise Affine Transformations
We present a new approach for aligning families of 2D gels. Instead of choosing one of the gels as reference and performing a pairwise alignment, we construct an ideal gel that is representative of the entire family and ... -
Blood Serum Affects Polysaccharide Production and Surface Protein Expression in S. Aureus
(2017-03-03)Background: S. aureus biofilm serves a major role in pathogenesis. Two of the major components of bacterial biofilm are Polysaccharides intercellular adhesions (PIA) and surface proteins. It is not known how PIA and ... -
Altered secretion patterns and cell wall organization caused by loss of PodB function in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans
(Springer Nature Publishing AG., 2018-07-30)Filamentous fungi are widely used in the production of a variety of industrially relevant enzymes and proteins as they have the unique ability to secrete tremendous amounts of proteins. However, the secretory pathways in ... -
Optical characteristics of novel bulk and nanoengineered laser host materials
(SPIE, 2018-02-23)The hexagonal apatite single crystals have been investigated for their applications as laser host materials. Czochralksi and flux growth methods have been utilized to obtain single crystals. For low temperature processing ... -
Effect of additives: γ-Ray sensors based on ionizing organic nanocomposites
We have developed ionizing organic based composites which have demonstrated great promise for radiation sensing. Nickel oxide has been proven as an active material for detecting high energy radiation. The oxidation state ...
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