Zivko Nikolov

Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Research Page

Telephone: (979) 458-0763
Fax Number: (979) 845-6446
E-mail: znikolov@tamu.edu

Mailing Address...
303F Scoates Hall
2117 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2117

Education

Ph.D., Iowa State University, Ames, 1986
M.S., Iowa State University, Ames, 1983
Dipl. Ing., University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1977

Awards & Honors

Dow Chemical Professorship, Texas A&M University, 2003
Editorial Board Member, Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2003
Academic Research Fellow, Kraft Foods, Inc., 1995-96
Visiting Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, State University of Campinas, Brazil, 1997
ADM Award for Best Publication in Engineering & Technology, 1986

Research Interests

Dr. Nikolov’s research interests include the recovery of recombinant biomolecules from transgenic systems; bioprocessing of transgenic plants; fractionation and characterization of plant phenolics; and bioprocess design and economics.

Selected Publications

Woodard, S. L., Wilken, L. R., Barros, G.O.F., White, S.G., & Nikolov, Z. L. 2009. Evaluation of Monoclonal Antibody and Phenolic Extraction from Transgenic Lemna for Purification Process Development. Biotechnol. Bioeng. (www.interscience.wiley.co). DOI 10.1002/bit.22428.

Nikolov, Z. L. Regan, J. T., Dickey. L. F. and Woodard, S. L. Purification of Antibodies from Transgenic Plants in Process Scale Purification of Antibodies (Uwe Gottschalk, ed.), Wiley, 2009, pp. 387-406.

Woodard, S. and Nikolov, Z. L., Bioseparation of Proteins Expressed in Plant/Animal Products in The Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food and Biological Engineering, (D. Heldman, ed.), Taylor &Francis. 2008.

Wilken, L. R., and Nikolov, Z. L. 2006. Factors influencing recombinant human lysozyme extraction and cation exchange adsorption. Biotechnol. Prog., 22: 745-752.

Lamphear, B. J., Barker, D. K. Brookes, C. A. Delaney, D. E., Lane, J.R. Beifuss, K, Love, R. Thompson, K. Mayor, J., Horn, M. E , Streatfield, S. J., Nikolov, Z., Woodard, S.L., Hood E. E., and Howard, J. A. 2005. Expression of the sweet protein brazzein in maize for production of a new commercial sweetener. Plant Biotechnol. J., 3: 103-114.