Instructors: Prof. Katrina Edwards & Assist. Res.
Prof. Jason Sylvan
With
guest lectures by Dr. Jean-Paul Baquiran
This class will focus on fundamental aspects of microbiology
as they apply in an environmental context.
Our principal textbook will use Brock’s Biology of Microorganisms, but
we also draw heavily from other resources and the primary literature. Topics to be covered in the lecture portion
of the class (T, Th) include:
- · Introduction to and History of Environmental Microbiology
- · Methods in Microbial Ecology
- · Marine Biogeochemistry and the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and iron
- · Carbon fixation mechanisms and pathways
- · Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic microbiology
- · Food Webs in microbiology
- · Applied microbiology and technology
- · Terrestrial microbiology
- · “observatory” science
- · The deep subsurface biosphere
- · Extreme environments
- · Recent advances
This class will have alternating Laboratory Demonstrations
and Discussions on Fridays, which may or may not overlap directly with the
lecture topics. This portion of the
course will also include two field trips to nearby locales.
Please contact Katrina Edwards kje@usc.edu
for more information.
