The 39th Annual Biochemical Engineering Symposium was held at Kansas State University on Saturday, April 17, 2010. The conference provides an opportunity for students to present their research to faculty and students from the participating universities and to discuss their research with interested individuals. Thirty-five individuals participated in the symposium. This proceedings includes manuscripts of several of the presentations and abstracts of many of the other presentations. Readers who want more information on a topic are encouraged to contact the authors directly. Some of the research has been submitted to journals that publish papers after peer review. The program and a listing of the participants are included. The editor would like to thank all of the authors and presenters for their participation in the symposium, and Florence Sperman for helping to prepare the manuscripts for publication in this proceedings. Financial support from the Kansas State University Department of Chemical Engineering and the Center for Hazardous Substance Research is gratefully acknowledged.

Contents

List of Posters

Manuscripts

"Classification of Ketoacyl Synthases by Their Primary and Tertiary Structures" - Yingfei Chen and Peter J. Reilly, ISU

"Growth of Algae using Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Waste Water" - Richard Reed, Larry Erickson, and Wenqiao Yuan, KSU

"Proteomics Approach for Predicting Retention Behavior of a Mixture of Proteins during Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography" - Ryan Swanson and Charles E. Glatz, ISU

"Scaffold Architecture's Effect on Preosteoblastic Cultures Exposed to Continuous Fluid Shear" -

Samuel B. VanGordon, RomanS. Voronov, Taren B. Blue, Robert L. Shambaugh, Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou, and Vassilios I. Sikavitsas, OU

"Targeted Enzyme/Prodrug Therapy for the Treatment of Solid Tumors" - Brent D. Van Rite and Roger G. Harrison, OU

"Markovian Modeling and Monte Carlo Simulation of Bacterial Disinfection: Non-Linear Approach" - Andres Argoti, L. T. Fan, and S. T. Chou, KSU

"Evaluation of Different Agricultural Feedstocks for Bioethanol Production" - Sunil Bansal, Praveen V adlani and Scott Staggenborg, KSU

"Classification of Ketoacyl Synthases by Their Primary and Tertiary Structures" - Yingfei Chen and Peter J. Reilly, ISU

"Catalytic Domain Organization in Hydroxyacyl Dehydratases, Enoyl Reductases, and Ketoacyl Reductases" - Tingsong Dai, Zachary Beversdorf, and Peter J. Reilly, ISU

"Molecular Dynamics Investigation of the Effects of lonic Strength on LCST of Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)" - Hongbo Du, Ranil Wickramasinghe and Xianghong Qian, CSU

"Development of a Bioreactor System for the Cultivation of an Engineered Periodontal Graft" - Selda Goktas, John J. Dmytryk, and Peter S. McFetridge, OU

"Regulation of focal adhesion maturation and cell edge dynamics by epidermal growth factor" - Yue Hou and Ian Schneider, ISU

"Bio-chemical Functionalization of Graphene for Cancer Cell Detection" - Kabeer Jasuja and Vikas Berry, KSU

"Bioinspired Synthesis of Calcium Phosphate Nanocomposites Templated by Block Copolymer-Peptide Conjugates" - Xunpei Liu, Mathumai Kanapathipillai, Yusuf Yusufoglu, Yan-yan Hu, Mufit Akinc, Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, and Surya Mallapragada, ISU

"Field Investigation of the Bioremediation of Chlorinated Ethenes in Groundwater" - Mark A. McClure, L.C. Davis, L.E. Erickson, KSU

"Ultrafast, Label-Free Detection Of Pathogenic Bacteria Via Peptide-Modified-Graphene Bio-Sensor" - Nihar Mohanty, Angela D. Adams, Duy H. Hua, and Vikas Berry, KSU

"Live Bacterium Wrapping with Graphene Peptide Nano-Swaddler: a New Paradigm for Electron Microscopy and Raman Enhancement" - Nihar Mohanty, Ashvin Nagaraja, Monica Frey and Vikas Berry, KSU

"Targeted Single- Walled Carbon Nanotubes for the Treatment of Cancer" - Luis F. F. Neves, Whitney Prickett, Daniel E. Resasco, and Roger G. Harrison, OU

"Development of Fast-acting Microspheres for Thrombolytic Therapy" - Hoai Nguyen, Edgar O'Rear, Eugene Patterson, OU

"Growth of Algae Using Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Wastewater" - Richard Reed, Larry E. Erickson, and Wenqiao Yuan, KSU

"Designing Virus Surrogates" -

Emily Stump, Hailey Cutler, Guadalupe D. Gutierrez, Scott Husson, John Pellegrino, Ranil Wickramasinghe

"Proteomics Approach for Predicting Retention Behavior of a Mixture of Proteins During Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography" - Ryan Swanson and Charles E. Glatz

"Scaffold Architecture's Effect on Preosteoblastic Cultures Exposed to Continuous Fluid Shear" - Samuel B. VanGordon, RomanS. Voronov, Taren B. Blue, Robert L. Shambaugh, Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou, and Vassilios I. Sikavitsas, OU

"The Use of Targeted Enzyme/Prodrugs for the Treatment of Solid Tumors" - Brent D. Van Rite, Magali Pagnon, Yahya Lazrak, and Roger G. Harrison, OU

"Highly porous uniform pore size membranes for ultrafiltration" - Xinying Wang, Scott M. Husson, Xianghong Qian, and S. Ranil Wickramasinghe, CSU

"Production and Characterization of Porins" - Sebastian Wendel, Stefan Bossmann, Peter Pfromm, and Peter Czermak, KSU

"Production of Nitrogen-Based Platform Chemical: Cyanophycin Biosynthesis using Recombinant Escherichia coli" - Yixing Zhang, Amit Kumar, Praveen Vadlani, and Sanjeev Narayanan, KSU