Michael Flickinger

Bio

Dr. Michael C. Flickinger, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the BTEC Director for Academic Programs, is an internationally recognized expert in upstream industrial bioprocess technology, cell culture technology, biochemical engineering, industrial microbiology, intensification of bioprocesses using biocoatings, biocontainment technology, and bioprocess facilities and equipment design.

Professor Flickinger has authored over 130 academic and professional publications, holds 20 patents and has trained more than 35 graduate students in biotechnology related to processs technology. He was the former Director of the National Cancer Institute’s Fermentation Program, Founding Director of the University of Minnesota BioTechnology Institute, and is the Editor of the international Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology (1999), the Encyclopedia of Industrial Biotechnology (2010) and his forth coming advanced desk reference Upstream, Downstream Industrial Biotechnology (2013). His BTEC teaching efforts focus on development of new graduate courses related to emerging technologies in biomanufacturing and biocatalysis science and engineering as well as industry case studies in process development for biopharmaceutical or vaccine manufacturing.

Area(s) of Expertise

Cellular biocomposite materials, microbial C1 metabolism

Publications

• Bioprocess intensification: A route to efficient and sustainable biocatalytic transformations for the future , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND PROCESSING-PROCESS INTENSIFICATION (2022)
• A concept for continuous virus manufacture using a moving bed bioreactor: Growth of MDCK cells to confluence on paper as a model support , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND PROCESSING-PROCESS INTENSIFICATION (2021)
• A falling film bioreactor (FFBR) for generating effective gas-to-liquid mass transfer using wavy laminar flow for continuous microbial gas processing , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE (2020)
• Loofah-based microalgae and cyanobacteria biocomposites for intensifying carbon dioxide capture , JOURNAL OF CO2 UTILIZATION (2020)
• A Microalgae Biocomposite-Integrated Spinning Disk Bioreactor (SDBR): Toward a Scalable Engineering Approach for Bioprocess Intensification in Light-Driven CO2 Absorption Applications , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH (2019)
• Experiments and finite element modeling of hydrodynamics and mass transfer for continuous gas-to-liquid biocatalysis using a biocomposite falling film reactor , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE (2019)
• A technique for lyopreservation of Clostridium ljungdahlii in a biocomposite matrix for CO absorption , PLOS ONE (2017)
• Biocoatings: A new challenge for environmental biotechnology , BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL (2017)
• Biocoatings: challenges to expanding the functionality of waterborne latex coatings by incorporating concentrated living microorganisms , JOURNAL OF COATINGS TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH (2017)
• Dynamic adsorption of ammonia: apparatus, testing conditions, and adsorption capacities , MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (2017)