Unit · year 2
BU-203 · Microbiology
Threads systems · evolution25 lectures5 concepts
The biology of bacteria, archaea and viruses.
PREREQUISITES
Lectures
| L01 | The Microbial World — |
| L02 | Bacterial Structure and Classification — |
| L03 | Culturing Microorganisms |
| L04 | The Bacterial Growth Curve |
| L05 | Exponential Phase and Generation Time |
| L06 | Stationary and Death Phases |
| L07 | Continuous Culture and the Chemostat |
| L08 | Microbial Metabolic Diversity |
| L09 | Autotrophy, Heterotrophy, and Energy Sources |
| L10 | Anaerobic Respiration and Fermentation |
| L11 | Chemolithotrophs and Extremophiles |
| L12 | Microbes in Biogeochemical Cycles |
| L13 | Antibiotics and Their Targets |
| L14 | Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance |
| L15 | The Evolution and Spread of Resistance |
| L16 | Stewardship and the Resistance Crisis |
| L17 | Transformation |
| L18 | Transduction |
| L19 | Conjugation and Plasmids |
| L20 | Viruses: Structure and Classification |
| L21 | The Lytic Cycle |
| L22 | The Lysogenic Cycle |
| L23 | Retroviruses and Reverse Transcription |
| L24 | The Microbiome and Host Interaction — |
| L25 | Synthesis: Small Organisms, Global Consequence |
Concepts in this unit
T-041
The bacterial growth curve
Lag, exponential, stationary and death phases.
T-042
Antibiotic resistance
Evolution in action under drug selection.
T-043
Horizontal gene transfer
Sharing genes between unrelated lineages.
T-044
Viral replication
The lytic and lysogenic strategies.
T-045
Microbial metabolic diversity
The many ways microbes extract energy.