Cell Factory Engineering (CFE) - Study line
Cell Factory Engineering
Specialization: Cell Factory Engineering:
- Cell Factory engineers contribute to the transition towards a sustainable society by supplying genetically engineered cell factories for fermentation-based production of proteins or biochemicals.
- Within this specialization, you will obtain competences in designing, constructing, and optimizing cell factories using either bacterial, yeast, molds, plant or animal cell cultures.
- Focus areas include optimization of cellular performance using techniques and knowledge from synthetic biology, genetic engineering, secondary metabolites, cell physiology, and regulatory networks.
Recomended prequisites for the specialization (to be completed during the bachelor education):
- Bioinformatics (exemplified by the DTU course: 22111 Introduction to Bioinformatics)
- Experimental microbiology (exemplified by the DTU course: 27027 Experimental Molecular Microbiology)
Choose 30 ECTS among the rest of the programme specific courses to obtain the specialization Cell Factury Engineering:
| 26436 | Pharmaceutical Drug Development | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 27220 | Advanced prokaryotic biotechnology | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 27255 | Advanced experimental prokaryotic molecular biology and ecology | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 27330 | Quantitative analysis and modeling in protein science | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 27419 | Filamentous Fungi: Biology and Biotechnology | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 27422 | Biosynthesis of natural products | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 27432 | Experimental molecular biology of eukaryotes | 5 | point | June |
| 27455 | Microbial adaptation to industrial processes | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 27666 | AI-guided Protein Science: From Design to Engineering | 5 | point | January |
Specializations are merely recommended ways of choosing the courses in the curriculum. Applicants are not admitted to a specialization but to the programme and it is possible to choose among all the courses in the curriculum following the directions given. However, if a specialization has been fulfilled the title of the specialization may be added to the diploma.