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**Important! All students must print ALL lab handouts (make a packet) and bring ALL of them to lab every class.  If you do not have your lab packet, you will not be allowed to attend lab and that absence will be unexcused!**

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lecture Handouts

Note:  These handouts are not necessarily in chronological order.  Check syllabus for sequence.

**Lab Handouts**

Note:  These handouts are not necessarily in chronological order.  Check syllabus for sequence.

Audio Recordings

Lecture Syllabus - Tentative Lab Syllabus - Tentative

Introduction

Introduction Lab Safety

Intro cont. / Microscopy

  "Where Do I Put It"

Gram stain / Anatomy of Proks

Microscopy 2-1 Ubiquity of Microorganisms/Environmental Plate

Metabolism Pt. 1

Functional Anatomy of Bacteria 1-3 Common Aseptic Transfers

Metabolism Pt. 2

Metabolism 3-1 Microscope

Bacterial Growth Pt. 1

Bacterial Growth 3-4 Simple Stain  
Microbial Genetics 3-6 Gram Stain  
Classification 3-7 Acid-fast Stain  
Bacterial Groups 3-9 Endospore Stain  
Control of Microbial Growth 3-5; 3-8 Negative Stain/Capsule Stain  
Antimicrobials 3-10; 5-22 Motility  
Fungi 3-11 Flagella Stain  
Bacterial Viruses 2-3; 2-4 Growth Patterns  
Animal Viruses Free-Living and Parasitic Protozoa  
Principles of Disease Fungi  
Pathogenicity&Innate Immunity 2-8 Temperature  
Adaptive Immunity 2-6 Aerotolerance  
Immune Disorders 2-7 Anaerobic Jar  
HIV/AIDS 1-4 Steak Plate Isolation  
TB 6-1 Standard Plate Count  
Calculating Bacterial Growth - see textbook for more info 4-1, 2, 4, 6 Selective and Differential Media  
Symbiotic Relationships - not for this semester Selective and Differential Media Chart  
  5-11, 14, 16 Starch, Lipid, Gelatin Hydrolysis  

Lac Operon Animation

5-6 Nitrate  

Cell Size and Scale Animation

5-4 Catalase  
 DNA Sequencing Animation 5-2, 3, 7, 12, 17 Indole, Sulfur, Urease, MR/VP, carbs  
  Biochemical Test Summary Chart  
  7-2 Antimicrobial Susceptibility  

 

2-12 Chemical Germicides: Disinfectants and Antiseptics  
  6-3 Bacteriophage Plaque Assay  
  Gradient Plate - Isolation of Streptomycin Resistance  
  7-5 Water Testing - Membrane Filter Method  
  5-20; 5-21 Microbial Flora of Throat and Skin - Staph and Strep  
  8-3Transformation  
  8-2 UV  
  7-1 Snyder Test  
  Gram Stain Grade Sheet  
  Morphological Unknown Grade Sheet  
  Streak Plate Grade Sheet  
 

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  Quorum Sensing  

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