Microbial Physiology and Therapeutic Opportunities

3 Units

This course will cover the physiology and metabolic pathways of microbes, with a biomedical emphasis on bacteria and archaea and a brief discussion of fungi and other eukaryotic organisms. We will emphasize how physiological and metabolic characteristics can either be targeted (in the case of infectious disease) or utilized/exploited (in the case of, for instance, antibiotics and other bioactive natural products and fermentation products). Offered as BIOC 310 and BIOC 410 . Prereq: BIOL 215 and ( CHEM 223 or CHEM 323 ).