Applied Microbiology Lab: From Gene to Metagenome and Microbe to Microbiome

3 cr · Undergraduate

This lab course will introduce students to the study of microorganisms starting from microbiomes and community analysis using modern technologies, through isolate characterization. Students will deepen their understanding of microbes and their roles in their environment by conducting discovery-based experiments that involve sampling and analyzing diverse microbiomes, isolating strains from samples, analyzing single genes to metagenomes, and characterizing isolate phenotypes to microbial community phenomes. May not be held with the former MBIO 4480.