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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%).