Wayne A. Brown

TL;DR: The self-cycling fermentation (SCF) technique was applied to a culture of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus RAG-1 and was shown to result in synchronization of the cells, achieving a 77% improvement in cell synchrony over that of the batch case.

TL;DR: From the results, SCFs provide a convenient method by which to produce and harvest emulsan, and Foaming problems often associated with the complete utilization of the insoluble substrate were eliminated using SCF technology, because harvesting occurs immediately following carbon depletion.

TL;DR: Caffeine degradation rates for cell free extracts were found to be 2.4mol g cells −1 min −1 ; this rate is 55 times faster than previously reported P. putida data.

TL;DR: The biodegradation of chlorinated alkanes was studied under oxic conditions with the objective of identifying favorable and unfavorable intramolecular chlorination sequences with respect to the enzymes studied and demonstrating the importance of abiotic factors in degrading commercial polychlorinated alkane mixtures.

TL;DR: Self-cycling fermentation was coupled with a genetic algorithm (GA) to provide a simple system for evaluating biological models and suggests that the SCF provides a coherent system that can facilitate the characterization of biological systems.