MICROBIOLOGY 101 SYLLABUS
Spring Quarter 2006
Textbook: “Brock Biology of Microorganisms” by Madigan, Martinko and Parker (11st edition).
Instructors: Dr. Robert Gunsalus, Office: MSB 3610C, Email: robg@microbio.ucla.edu
Dr. Peter Bradley, Office: MSB 2610B, Email: pbradley@ucla.edu
Lecture
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3
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5
Date
4/3
4/5
4/7
4/10
4/12
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7
8
9
10
11
4/14
4/17
4/19
4/21
4/24
4/26
4/27
4/28
5/1
5/3
5/5
5/8
12
13
14
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26
27
28
5/10
5/12
5/15
5/17
5/18
5/19
5/22
5/24
5/26
5/29
5/31
6/2
6/5
6/7
6/9
6/12
Subject
Introduction to the Microbial World & History of Microbiology
Microscopy and the General Organization of Microbial Cells
Diversity of Microbes and Phylogeny
How do Microbes Grow and How to Measure Growth
Designing a Growth Medium and Environmental Factors that
Affect Growth
The Cell Wall and Surface Structures
Prokaryotic Microbe Structures for Motility
Eukaryotic Microbe Structures for Motility
Carbon Assimilation: from CO2 to large carbon polymers
Transport of nutrients by microbial cells
Respiration
MIDTERM I (5:00-7:00 PM; ) [Young CS76, Franz 1178]
Fermentation
Nitrogen Assimilation: N2, nitrate, ammonia, and symbiosis.
Photosynthesis
Organization and Function of the Genome
Acquisition of New DNA Elements (Transposons, Plasmids,
Conjugation)
Replication/Gene Regulation I
Gene Regulation II
Viruses I: Discovery of viruses
Viruses II: Viral Replication and Gene Regulation
MIDTERM II (5:00-7:00 PM; ) [Young CS76, Franz 1178]
Development and Differentiation I: spores, cysts, & fruiting bodies
Development and Differentiation II: predator & prey
How Microbes Talk to Each Other
Symbiosis: microbes, cows & termites
HOLIDAY
Microbiology of water treatment and purification
General Strategies for Pathogenesis
Host-Pathogen Interactions I
Host-Pathogen Interactions II
No Lecture – student questions/review
FINAL EXAM (11:30-2:30 PM) Rooms TBA
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