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MI2011:03

Microbial Diversity

Townsville

HECS Band 2

35 hours lectures, 33 hours practicals. Semester 1.

Staff:

Assoc. Professor W Shipton.

Basic concepts of the structure, classification, identification, metabolism and growth of bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoan and metazoan parasites and other microbes; mechanisms of variation; microbial genetics and their application to recombinant DNA technology; nutrition of microbes, influence of environmental parameters on growth and reproduction; introduction to the immune system. Microbiology of soil, air, water and food and aspects of industrial microbiology.

Learning Objectives:

describe the basic principles which regulate the activities and account for the behaviour of microorganisms and parasites;

understand the fundamental aspects of the immune response;

recognise the relevance of microbes and parasites to public health, industry and agriculture;

outline the basic concepts which are fundamental to understanding the usefulness of microbes in biotechnology;

safely manipulate microbes in the laboratory and be skilled in the basic techniques used in their identification.

Assessment by laboratory assignments (30%); examination (70%).