Semester/Master’s/ Bachelor’s thesis - Kinetic study of fungal cell disruption

20.05.2025, Studentische Hilfskräfte, Praktikantenstellen, Studienarbeiten

Filamentous fungi in particularly basidiomycetes or wood rotting fungi are beneficial to humankind as they have a lot of biomolecules such as protein, polysaccharides which have different applications in food, the cosmetic industry and so on.

The project aims to ferment these fungi sustainably, with a later focus on extracting and separating these biomolecules using novel and conventional methods.The part of the project here is to study the cell disruption of fungi with respect to the kinetic (time) behavior for conventional and non conventional cell disruption methods

Research Objective
-To study the effect of different parameters of cell disruption on fungal cells

-Studying the kinetics based equation for the different method

-Developing/Analysing the cell disruption equation for fungi

Profile
-Structured and independent work
-Motivation to work as a team/ willing to learn
-Master/Bachelor student in chemical engineering, biotechnology (IBT, MBT), biochemistry, chemistry, microbiology, or similar
-Start date: as soon as possible
-Language: English
-Ideal, but not required: Lab experience

Please send application with all the relevant documents

Kontakt: Bhagyeshri Ulhas Mantri - b.mantri@tum.de