Video and web resources

Video resources

• Arun Mazumdar on Industrial revolution for a sustainable future

  • Bioprocess industry

  • Chris Somerville on Lignocellulosic derived fuel

• Daniel Nocera on Powering the planet

• David McKay on Sustainable energy without the hot air

• Differential equations by Prof. Arthur Mattuch - MIT OCW

• Fundamentals of biology by Prof. Eric Lander - MIT OCW

• Highlights of calculus by Prof. Gilbert Strang - MIT OCW

• How to give a good talk. Videos 

• Integration of math and life

• Introductory biology by Prof. Graham Walker - MIT OCW

• J D Keasling on Synthetic fuels

• Jack Pronk on 2G biofuels

• Johan Thevelein on 'Recent developments in genetic engineering of industrial yeast strains'

• LearnChemE - YouTube resource for chemical engineering studies

• Linear algebra by Prof. Gilbert Strang - MIT OCW

• Mathematical modelling in biology - videos 2 and 3 speak about microbial growth

• Michael Ladisch on Pre-treatment of lignocellulosic materials

• Probability for mathematical sciences. by Prof. Enderton (deceased). UCLA 

• Overview of the yeast genome. Link to PDF

• SP pesquisa - YouTube channel from Univesp; in Portuguese.

• Teaching college level science and engineering by Prof. Sanjoy Mahajan

• The implications of synthetic biology. Video

• Uri Alon on 'How to give a good talk'. Full text Article

• Vaclav Smil on 'Energy transitiions'

• 'What is life' by Prof. Jeremy England - evolution and fitness from Physics point of view

• 'What is life' by Prof. Denis Noble - exceptions to Darwinian theory

Web resources

• Bionumbers book

• Bionumbers database

• Biochemical Pathways

• Biocyc

• Pubmed books

• Sustainable energy without the hot air

• Yeast genome

Misc:

• Contaminant fate modelling (differential equations)

• Diffusion and Fick's law (probability)

• Enzyme kinetics (kinetics!)

• Kinetics and equilibrium (Activation energy)

• Linear approximations (solving differential equation using approximations)

• MIT concept videos