Meet the editor

Dr. Madhusmita Mishra holds a PhD and has more than 7 years of experience in academic and industrial Research and Development. She has extensive experience in Biotechnology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Analytical Instrumentation and associated Data Stations, and Data Analysis. Her doctoral work covered both aerobic and anaerobic microbiology along with wide applications of molecular biology tools. As a postdoctoral

fellow, she worked in field of development of microdevices for health diagnostics, a project funded by Grand Challenges Canada (GCC). Dr. Mishra has also worked as Analytical Researcher in one of the major oil companies, Shell Technology India Market Private Ltd. Her recent role as experimentalist at Shell involves project designing and implementation of analytical instrumentation for characterization of crude oil and its products.

Contents

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 37**

**Chapter 3 59**

**Chapter 4 81**

**Chapter 5 93** What Is Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) and Its Applicability in Endotoxin

**Chapter 6 107**

**Chapter 7 129**

Mycelium Differentiation and Development of *Streptomyces* in Liquid Nonsporulating Cultures: Programmed Cell Death, Differentiation,

*by Angel Manteca, Beatriz Rioseras, Nathaly González-Quiñónez,* 

Growing and Handling of Bacterial Cultures within a Shared Core Facility

*by Lisa R. Warner, Olga Mass, Nancy Donnelly Lenn, Briana R. Grantham* 

Design and Operation of Fixed-Bed Bioreactors for Immobilized Bacterial

*Geobacillus* Bacteria: Potential Commercial Applications in Industry,

Bioremediation, and Bioenergy Production

for Integrated Structural Biology Program

*by Branka Bedenić and Sanda Sardelić*

*by Ralf Pörtner and Rebecca Faschian*

Quantification of Pharma Products

The War between Bacteria and Bacteriophages *by Beata Orzechowska and Manal Mohammed*

*Gemma Fernández-García and Paula Yagüe*

and Lysis Condition Secondary Metabolite Production

*and Julia Thom Oxford*

Carbapenemases

*by Yasir Mehmood*

Culture

*by Galina Novik, Victoria Savich and Olga Meerovskaya*
