General Environmental Microbiology

Catalog description

This course will teach General Microbiology with an emphasis on environmental microbes and research techniques. It will integrate research and knowledge of environmental microbial communities into the basic framework of General Microbiology. The structure and function of the microbial cell will be taught from the point of view of what each of these structures do in a natural environment and how they influence that environment. The course has a 2-hour laboratory associated with it that focusses on teaching standard microbiology techniques that CERE students will use for their research. Prerequisite: ENVI251 Principles of Environmental Science