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Environmental Microbial Biogeochemistry

3-0-9 units · Graduate

Provides a thorough introduction to biogeochemical cycling from the vantage point of microbial physiology. Emphasizes molecular mechanisms, experimental design and methodology, hypothesis testing, and applications. Topics include aerobic and anaerobic respiration, trace metals, secondary metabolites, redox, plant-microbe interactions, carbon storage, agriculture, and bioengineering. Formal lectures and in-depth discussions of foundational and contemporary primary literature. Students use knowledge of microbial metabolisms to develop final projects on applied solutions to problems in agriculture and biogeochemistry. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.

Fall 2004 · Environmental Microbiology

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Cell Biology and Genetics
  • Biosynthesis and Fuelling
  • Metabolic Diversity
  • Methods
  • Populations, Communities, Ecosystems
  • Applied Environmental Microbiology

Readings

  • All readings listed below are from this text: Madigan, M., J. Martinko, and J. Parker. Brock Biology of Microorganisms . 10th ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN: 0130662712.
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  • lec #: 1 · Readings: Chapter 1.2-1.6
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  • lec #: 2 · Readings: Chapter 2.1-2.3, 4.1-4.10
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  • lec #: 3 · Readings: Chapter 4.11-4.13, 7.4, 10.8-10.10, 9.1-9.3, 9.6-9.8 Chapter 9.8-9.10 (recommended)
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  • lec #: 4 · Readings: Chapter 10.1-10.3, 10.5-10.8, 10.17
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  • lec #: 5 · Readings: Chapter 11.3-11.7, 11.9-11.10
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  • lec #: 6 · Readings: Chapter 2.4, 5.1, 5.4-5.5
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  • lec #: 7 · Readings: Chapter 5.6-5.15
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  • lec #: 8 · Readings: Chapter 17.13-17.15, 17.18.
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  • lec #: 9 · Readings: Chapter 17.16-17.17, 17.19-17.21, 19.10
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  • lec #: 10 · Readings: Chapter 17.25-17.27, 17.22-17.24
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  • lec #: 11 · Readings: Chapter 17.2-17.7
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  • lec #: 12 · Readings: Chapter 8.1-8.3, 8.5-8.7
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  • lec #: 13 · Readings: Chapter 19.1-19.3, 18.1-18.2
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  • lec #: 14 · Readings: Chapter 18.3-18.4
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  • lec #: 15 · Readings: Chapter 18.5
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  • lec #: 16 · Readings: Chapter 18.6-18.7
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  • lec #: 16 · Readings: Chapter 6.1-6.5, 6.8-6.13
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  • lec #: 17 · Readings: Chapter 19.19-19.22
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  • lec #: 18 · Readings: No reading from book
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  • lec #: 19 · Readings: No reading from book
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  • lec #: 20 · Readings: Chapter 19.17-19.18
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  • lec #: 21 · Readings: Chapter 19.14-19.16
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  • lec #: 22-23 · Readings: No reading from book
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  • Madigan, M., J. Martinko, and J. Parker. Brock Biology of Microorganisms . 10th ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN: 0130662712.
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  • The book is a comprehensive microbiology text. We will primarily rely on the chapters covering molecular biology, metabolism, microbial diversity, and ecology. Unfortunately, there is currently no textbook available that covers all aspects of the course.
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Prerequisites & course information

Subject meets with 1.089 Prereq: Biology (GIR) G (Spring) 3-0-9 units

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