Industrial Biotechnology

1. Yeast turns sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Does it make you wonder how microbes could produce other useful things?

2. In a lab class you have to prepare a sterile growth medium and inoculate it with bacteria. How do you feel?

3. A factory wants to replace a chemical process with an enzyme-based one that uses less energy. Would you like to help design it?

4. How do you get on with chemistry and biology at school?

5. You’re asked to calculate how much glucose a fermentation tank needs for a day’s production. How do you react?

6. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll do lab projects with students from many countries. How do you feel about that?

7. A batch of product turns out contaminated. What would you do?

8. Food waste could be turned into bioplastics or biogas. How does that idea strike you?

9. Would you like an internship in a brewery, dairy, pharmaceutical or enzyme plant?

10. What motivates you most to study Industrial Biotechnology?