NatSci 197 - Microbiology

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Calendar/Assignments

LearnSmart, Pre/Post Quizzes, Audio Lectures can be accessed through Blackboard's Link to CONNECT. Blackboard>TOOLS>HIGHER EDUCATION through the ASSIGNMENT page.

Date
Unit
Lecture, LearnSmart/Lecture Quizzes
Assign Due
8/24
1
 Introduction
8/31
8/31
   Procaryotes/Eucaryotes

9/7

9/9

   Viruses
9/14
9/14
2
 Microbial Nutrition
9/21
9/21
Microbial Genetics
9/28
9/28
3
 Control of Microbes
10/5
10/5
Antibiotics
10/12
10/12
4
 Immunology I
10/19
10/19
Immunology II
10/26
10/26
Immunology III
11/2
11/2
5
 Cocci of Importance
11/9
11/9
Gram Positive Bacilli
11/16
11/16
Gram Negative Bacilli
11/23
11/23
Special Bacteria
11/30
11/30
6
 Fungi & Parasites
12/7
12/7
DNA Viruses - RNA Viruses
12/14
12/14
Bioterrorism
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Lab Assignments

Assignments can be accessed by clicking the hyperlink under the lecture column.

Date
Lab Assignments
Assign Due
8/24
 Ubiquity, Colony Characteristics
8/31
8/31
 Microscopy, Isolation Techniques

9/9

9/9

 Simple Stain, Gram Stain
9/14
9/14
 Enriched Media, Selective/Differential Media
9/21
9/21
 Enzymatic Activity
9/28
9/28
 Physical Control, Chemical Control
10/5
10/5
 Susceptibility Testing
10/12
10/12
 WBC Differentials
10/19
10/19
 Epidemiology Instructions/ Template/ Questions
10/26
10/26
 Staphylococci, Enterococci
11/2
11/2
 Alpha Streptococci, Beta Streptococci
11/9
11/9
 Gram Negative Bacilli, GNB ID Chart
11/16
11/16
 Gram Negative Bacilli, GNB ID Chart
11/23
11/23
 Unknown, Mycology
11/30
11/30
 Protozoa
12/7
12/7
 Helminthes
12/14

 

Test Schedule

Tests will be posted online and available until 6:00 pm of the end date. An announcement appears in Blackboard when the tests becomes available.

Unit 1 Sep 9 - 11 Unit 2 Sep 23 - Sep 25
Unit 3 Oct 7 - 9 Unit 4 Oct 28 - 30
Unit 5 Nov 30 - Dec 1 Unit 6 Dec 14 -15

 

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To the naked eye, it is invisible, a nothing. Under the microscope, it seems a silvery corkscrew undulating on a darkfield. The form has a simple elegance, like the whorl of a nautilus shell or the sweep of a dragonfly wing. But that simplicity is an illusion. Through the more powerful electron microscope you see not a featureless wiggle but a shape-shifter―now a spiral, now a thread, now a rod or a sphere―with two walls, a dozen whiplike appendages and internal structures. And any microscope's view, revealed only indirectly, by laboratory tests, lies a marvel of complexities. The surface bristles with molecules that sense and respond to the environment, and the interior churns like a chemical factory. Inside, more than a thousand genes flicker on and off in changing sequences, to allow survival in places as different a a tick's gut, a dog's knee and a human brain.
From Biography of a Germ by Arno Karlen