MI2031:03
Marine Microbiology
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
26 hours lectures, 36 hours practicals, 11 hours tutorials. Semester 1.
Staff: Dr L Owens.
The ecological role of microbes in the marine and estuarine environments; their role in nutrient cycles including chemotropism, symbiosis, fouling, degradation of pollutants and maricultural ecology; bacteria, cyanobacteria, fungi, viruses and picoplankton in the marine environment; introduction to disease-causing microbes.
Learning Objectives:
- instil in students the importance of marine microbes to the biosphere;
- demonstrate the role of microbes in marine symbioses;
- introduce how marine microbes impact on human activities;
- introduce the students to the culture methods for the major ecological groups of marine bacteria.
Assessment by examination (60%); practical reports (40%).