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Dhinakar S. Kompala

Associate Professor

ECCH 114

(303) 492-6350
dhinakar.kompala@colorado.edu

Education:

B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1979)
M.S., Ph.D., Purdue University (1982, 1984)

Awards:

• Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Grant, 1990-1993

Selected Publications:

Altintas, M.M., K.O. Ulgen, D. Palmer-Toy, V.E. Shih, D.S. Kompala and J. Reiser, “Emerging roles for metabolic engineering – Understanding primitive and complex metabolic models and their relevance to healthy and diseased kidney  podocytes”, Current Chemical Biology 2: 69-83 (2008).

Kompala, D.S., “Cell Growth and Protein Expression Kinetics”, invited article in The Encyclopedia of Cell Culture Technology, Ed.-in-Chief: Michael Flickinger, John Wiley (2007).

Research Interests:

• Recombinant Mammalian Cell Cultures
• Metabolic Engineering of Zymomonas mobilis to Ferment Pentose Sugars
• Metabolic Oscillations in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Teaching Interests:

Bioprocess Engineering:
This course is offered jointly to undergraduate ChE seniors following the biotechnology/pre-medicine curriculum option and to entering graduate students interested in biotechnology research. In addition to the classroom lectures, homework assignments (click here for sample) and tests (click here for sample), a major component of the course involves four hands-on laboratory exercises

1. Enzyme Kinetics
2. Yeast Fermentation
3. Recombinant Bacterial Growth and Foreign Protein Production
4. Perfusion Cultures of CHO Cells