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Innovative Bioengineering Research at Dowling College
Unique Opportunity for Students to Gain Relevant Research Experience
Dowling College is becoming known as a center for innovative
Bioenginnering and Biotechnological research on Long Island and a team
of Professors has now developed a new way of designing experiments for
designing the media for fermentation process. The work, co-authored by
Dr. Fred Rispoli of the Department of Mathematics and Dr. Vishal Shah of
Biology Department, has been published in the journal Biotechnology
Progress and the Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology.
The team reports the modification of the method used for the design of
experiments that is widely used in pharmaceutical and other industries
to suit the biotechnology industry. The modified method increases the
reliability of the results and provides more information on the
influence of different nutrient component on the production while
reducing the number of experiments that one would need to perform. The
research focused on finding the right combination of various nutrient
ingredients for maximum production of an enzyme from fungi. Earlier
last year, team of undergraduate students and Dr. Shah reported the
process of making biosurfactants from restaurant waste oil.
These projects provide a unique opportunity to the undergraduate
students to gain industrially and academically relevant research
experience. Dr. Rispoli, Director of the new B.S. program in Applied
Math feels, "The research we are carrying out will give the students
who will enroll in the new program a chance to complement their learning
with research experience." Dr. Shah insists, "That by allowing
students to be involved in peer-reviewed innovative research, graduates
that are well grounded in both the theoretical and research aspect of
the subject can be developed."
The new program of B.S. in Applied Math, Bioengineering track will be
offered starting Fall 2008. This new program is intended to train
students in the application of the life sciences and mathematics to
define and solve problems in biology, medicine, healthcare, and other
fields. Upon completion, students may pursue careers in areas such as
pharmaceutical research, industrial microbiology, and biotechnology.
For further details on the program or research, please contact Dr. Fred
Rispoli at rispolif@dowling.edu or Dr. Shah at ShahV@dowling.edu.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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