{"id":102,"date":"2016-06-07T11:40:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2016-06-07T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T14:00:13","slug":"biol229-microbiology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/teaching\/biol229-microbiology\/","title":{"rendered":"BIOL229 Microbiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/files\/2013\/06\/100_1131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/files\/2013\/06\/100_1131-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"100_1131\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/files\/2013\/06\/100_1131-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/files\/2013\/06\/100_1131-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/files\/2013\/06\/100_1131-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Microorganisms (or microbes) are organisms that can not be seen with the naked eye, and are frequently single-celled.\u00a0 They are the most numerous, most diverse and most important organisms on earth.\u00a0 Species of bacteria have been found that can live in temperatures above the boiling point and below the freezing point.\u00a0 As a group, microbes can metabolize almost any compound.\u00a0 They are essential to the biogeochemical cycling of elements on our earth, and yet a single bacterium can kill a human.\u00a0 The mechanisms by which microbes perform all these and many other unique functions are biologically interesting, and their impact on our world is unsurpassed by any other group of organisms.\u00a0 The overall goals of this course include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To introduce students\u00a0to the unique aspects of biology of microbes and to the role that these organisms play in our world.<\/strong> \u00a0A broad range of topics in the field will be presented.\u00a0 These include microbial cell structure &amp; function, microbial growth &amp; nutrition, unique aspects of microbial metabolism, viruses, microbial ecology, and microbial pathogenesis.\u00a0 The contributions of microbes to the world, both positive and negative, will be highlighted through out the course.<\/li>\n<li><strong>To help students\u00a0understand the process by which scientific knowledge is acquired.<\/strong> In the laboratory, after a brief introduction to the tools of microbiology, students\u00a0will use these tools to characterize unknown microbes. \u00a0They will also either ask and answer their\u00a0own research questions or explore current open questions in microbiology research.<\/li>\n<li><strong>To teach students\u00a0how to read and apply the current scientific literature. <\/strong>\u00a0Some of the most exciting parts of science involve ongoing research, so students\u00a0will learn how to read and analyze primary literature related to microbiology.<\/li>\n<li><strong>To enable students to communicate scientific ideas.<\/strong> The ability to clearly and precisely articulate ideas, both in the written and oral form, is one of the hallmarks of a student trained in the liberal arts.\u00a0 These skills will be further polished in the context of communicating scientific ideas. \u00a0Students will present lab results in written reports, and you will communicate your understanding of microbiology orally in our class discussions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/files\/2016\/06\/16BIOL229SYLLABUS.pdf\">16BIOL229SYLLABUS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/files\/2016\/06\/16BIOL229-schedule-V7.pdf\">16BIOL229 schedule V7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Microorganisms (or microbes) are organisms that can not be seen with the naked eye, and are frequently single-celled.\u00a0 They are the most numerous, most diverse and most important organisms on earth.\u00a0 Species of bacteria have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/teaching\/biol229-microbiology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1960,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/rj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}