Mr. Jean-Francois P Hamel

Lecturer
BPEC Laboratory Supervisor and Associate Industrial Liaison Officer

Primary DLC

Department of Chemical Engineering

MIT Room: 66-0005

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Bioengineering
Biochemical Engineering
Isolation and Purification of Biological Products
Pilot-Scale High Cell Density Fermentation and Integrated Downstream Processing
Engineering Aspects of Mammalian Cell Cultures
Metabolic Analysis of Fermentation
Production of Therapeutic Proteins and Enzymes
Microfiltration and Ultrafiltration for Cell and Inclusion Body Recovery, and Protein Purification
Cell Disruption by High Pressure Homogenization, by Jet Impingement and Using Near-Critical and Supercritical Fluids
Computer-Aided Simulation of Biochemical Processes
On-Line Metabolic Analysis of Fermentation in Bioreactors Using Mass Spectrometry
Cell Debris Removal by Continuous Centrifugation
DNA Removal by Chromatography
Particle Size Analysis as a Tool to Follow Inclusion Body Isolation and Solubilization
Nitrogen Fixation Studies During Fermentation of Azotobacter Species
Production of Cellulose by Fermentation of Acetobacter Species
Production of Anti-Cancer Drugs by Fermentation of E.coli
Vortex Flow Filtration for Concentration of Activated Sludge and for Denitrification of Water

Recent Work