Date                   Lecture                 Chapter                  Expt. No.

Jan   22  R     Introduction to Microbiol.    1, 2                      

     27  T      Prokaryote structure           3                          1, 2, 3

     29  R      Prokaryote structure           3

Feb.   3  T      Prokaryote structure           3                          6, 7, 8

          5  R      Eucaryote structure            4

       10  T      Microbial nutrition             5                            9, 10, 11, 12

       12  R      Microbial growth               6

       17  T      Microbial growth               6                          13, 14, 15

       19  R      EXAM I      

       24  T      Control of growth              7                          16, 17, 18, 19

       26  R      Control of growth              7

Mar.  2  T      Microbial metabolism          8                          20, 21

         4  R      No class

         9  T      Microbial metabolism          9                          22, 24, 25, 28

       11  R      Microbial metabolism           10

       Spring Break

       23  T      Microbial genetics               11                          26, 27, 29, 30, 63

       25  R      Microbial genetics               12

       30  T      Microbial genetics               13                          31, 32, 33, 34

Apr.   1  R     EXAM II

         6  T      Viruses                                16, 17                          complete above

         8  R      Follow Monday schedule

       13  T      Viruses                                    18                          38, 48

   15  R      Prokaryote diversity            19, 20

  20  T      Prokaryote diversity             21, 22                         38, 48

   22  R      Prokaryote diversity            23, 24

   27  T      Microbial diseases               34                          38, 36, Biolog

   29  R      Microbial diseases               34

May  4  T      Antimicrobial chemo.           35                          42, 43

        6  R      Epidemiology                   37

      15  Sat.   FINAL EXAM        1:30 PM

BIO 230 – Microbiology, Spring 2004

This microbiology course is intended to introduce the student to the world of bacteria and their viruses.   It is appropriate for biology majors who are interested in microbes and those who seek to further their education in the health professions.  However, it is not a medical microbiology course but one that examines the diversity of microbes in the world around us, including pathogens.  All students should come away with an appreciation of the role that bacteria and viruses play in our lives, in foods, the environment, and in health and disease.

4 lecture/laboratory quizzes at 2% each = 8%

2 lecture exams at 20% each = 40%

General unknown report = 10%

One short review paper = 7%

Lab reports = 15%

Total = 100%

The college honor code applies to all work submitted for a grade.  In cases where laboratory data is shared, the conclusions derived from that data are to be one’s own and not that of the team.  The same applies to the answers to laboratory exercise questions to be assigned.  Please do your own work.

Attendance is expected for all classes and laboratory sessions.  If you must miss a class or laboratory, please notify me in advance, when possible.  Chronic tardiness or absences will result in lower grades.  Cell phones and other electronic devices are to be switched off during class and laboratory sessions.

Your personal safety is an important issue in microbiology.  Please read ad adhere to all safety procedures as given in the inside front cover of the laboratory manual.  NO FOOD OR DRINK IS PERMITTED IN THE LABORATORY.  Safety goggles and/or gloves will be required from time to time.  All bacteria should be considered to be potential pathogens.

In order to gain the most from the laboratory experience, you must read the background information and techniques of the exercises scheduled before coming to lab.  Not knowing what the experiments are about leads to confusion, is detrimental to those working with you, and slows you down.  As a part of the laboratory experience, you may be required to remove cultures from the incubator or observe results of earlier inoculations one, two or more days after inoculation on your own schedule or during the following lecture.  This is especially true for your unknown cultures.  Please make every effort to do this during the day so that I may be available to answer questions or assist you with problems.

Laboratory reports and questions answered will be due the week after completion of the exercise.

Each person will write a short review on a specific bacterial or viral disease of interest to you.  You are a medical or environmental expert with the CDC or WHO being sent into an area in which an outbreak of a particular bacterial (or viral) disease has occurred.  This could be somewhere in the US or another country.  After consultation with me, select an organism, explain who (or what) is affected, how it is transmitted, methods you suggest to combat it, and a simple way to educate the population to minimize its occurrence.  You are to make this document in either 1) memo; 2) letter, or 3) speech format.  Emerging diseases such as SARS, West Nile virus, ebola, influenza, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, etc. are among the many good topics available.  There is a number of print and electronic resources at your disposal.  See the course web page for some of these.

I will make current articles and web site addresses available from time to time as we cover germane topics.  Notice of these readings will be made in class, posted by e-mail, or will appear in the course home page reading list.