Marc Aucoin
Professor
Biology
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
"Professor Marc Aucoin is an expert in the area of Biochemical Engineering, in particular biological nano-particles (Virus-Like Particles or VLPs) with significant experience in transient production systems, including transfection technology and inducible systems. Aucoin is the Chair of the Biotechnology Division of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers, is a Faculty Advisor for the University of Waterloo’s international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition student team and is the academic contact for the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE)."
Research Interest
Synthetic biology; Virus based systems as novel nanobiomaterials; complex biologiesBaculovirus Bioprocessing, Biologic Production in Insect Cells using Baculovirus Expression Vectors, Cell Culture Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation, Monoclonal Antibody Production and Modification.
Publications
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Sokolenko S, McKay R, Blondeel EJ, Lewis MJ, Chang D, George B, Aucoin MG. Understanding the variability of compound quantification from targeted profiling metabolomics of 1D-1H-NMR spectra in synthetic mixtures and urine with additional insights on choice of pulse sequences and robotic sampling. Metabolomics. 2013 Aug 1;9(4):887-903.
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Nicastro J, Sheldon K, El-zarkout FA, Sokolenko S, Aucoin MG, Slavcev R. Construction and analysis of a genetically tuneable lytic phage display system. Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2013 Sep 1;97(17):7791-804.
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Srirangan K, Akawi L, Liu X, Westbrook A, Blondeel EJ, Aucoin MG, Moo-Young M, Chou CP. Manipulating the sleeping beauty mutase operon for the production of 1-propanol in engineered Escherichia coli. Biotechnology for biofuels. 2013 Sep 28;6(1):139.
