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BIO307: Microbiology
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Course Introduction
Unit 1: Microbes
Unit 2: Microbial Metabolism
Unit 3: Bacterial Growth, Reproduction, and Genetics
Unit 4: Microbial Characteristics and Identification
Unit 5: Bacteria and Human Disease
Unit 6: Fungi
Unit 7: Protozoa and Helminths
Unit 8: Viruses
Unit 9: Defense Against Microbes
Unit 10: Applied Microbiology
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Unit 2: Microbial Metabolism
2.1: Cellular Metabolism
John Kimball's "Factors Affecting Enzyme Action"
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John Kimball's "Factors Affecting Enzyme Action"
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Brian J. Ford's "History of the Microscope"
Brian J. Ford's "Hooke and Leeuwenhoek Microscopes" and "The Discovery of Sperm"
Brian J. Ford's "Leeuwenhoek as Experimental Biologist"
Jeffrey Noel's "Microbe Types"
Nobelprize.org: "Microscopes"
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Timothy Paustian's "The Microbial World: Spontaneous Generation"
Seung Yon Rhee's "Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)"
W. H. Freeman's "Pasteur's Experiment"
Harvard University Library: "Robert Koch, 1843 - 1910"
Zoltán Imre's "Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis"
Wikipedia: "Yearly Mortality Rates"
University of Houston: John Lienhard's "Nightingale's Graph"
Kenneth Todar's "Online Textbook of Bacteriology: Control of Microbial Growth"
University of California, Berkeley: Ben Waggoner & B.R. Speer's "The Phylogeny of Life"
Eugene V. Koonin's "The Two Empires and the Three Domains of Life in the Postgenomic Age"
College of DuPage: Lynn Fancher's "Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells"
Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes Quiz
University of California, Berkeley: Ben Waggoner & B.R. Speer's "Introduction to Archaea"
University of California, Berkeley: Ben Waggoner & B.R. Speer's "Archaea: Morphology"
John W. Kimball's "Archaea"
Kenneth Todar's "Online Textbook of Bacteriology: Structure and Function of Bacterial Cells"
Fox Valley Technical College: Barbara Liang's "Identifying Eukaryotic Animal Cell Organelles"
David R. Wessner's "The Origins of Viruses"
Essentials of Cell Biology
: "Cell Metabolism"
The University of Arizona Biology Project: "Energy, Enzymes, and Catalysis Problem Set"
University of Texas: Peter Jurtsuk's "Bacterial Metabolism"
Aerobic Respiration
The Japan Academy: Tadayuki Imanaka's "Molecular Bases of Thermophily in Hyperthermophiles"
Michael L. Ginger's "The Evolution of Organellar Metabolism in Unicellular Eukaryotes"
Garry T. Cole's "Basic Biology of Fungi"
Kenneth Todar's "Online Textbook of Bacteriology: Nutrition and Growth of Bacteria"
Community College of Baltimore County: Gary Kaiser's "Bacterial Growth and Microbial Metabolism"
Kenneth Todar's "Online Textbook of Bacteriology: The Growth of Bacterial Populations"
Dr. Harold Eddleman's "How to Count Bacteria"
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Kenneth Todar's "The Control of Microbial Growth"
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Kenneth Todar's "Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics"
Community College of Baltimore County: Dr. Gary E. Kaiser's "Lab 4: Enumeration of Microorganisms”
Clinton Community College: Michael J. Gregory's "Mitosis and Meiosis"
Cornell University: "Binary Fission and Other Forms of Reproduction in Bacteria"
TutorVista: "Budding in Yeast and Hydra"
Cornell University: "Bacterial Endospores"
South Dakota State University: Stanley Malloy's "Bacterial Chromosome"
McGraw Hill: "Processing of Gene Information: Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Gene Mayer's "Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Gene Mayer's "Exchange of Genetic Information"
Anthony Griffiths' "Spontaneous Mutations"
Antibiotic Resistance
University of Sydney: "Microbial Concepts: Reproduction"
The Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "Sizes, Shapes, and Arrangements of Bacteria"
Mike Kempf's "Microbes Defined by Size"
Beatrice Leung and Shijun Liu's "Interpreting Plates"
Sigma-Aldrich: "Media Preparation"
Fox Valley Technical College: Kristine Snow's "Gram Stain Procedure"
Fox Valley Technical College: Kristine Snow's "Acid-Fast Stain"
Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "Lab 5: Direct Stain and Indirect Stain"
Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "Lab 6: Gram Stain and Capsule Stain"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Alvin Fox's "General Aspects of Bacterial Pathogenesis"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Alvin Fox's "Staphylococci"
Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "Isolation and Identification of Staphylococci"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Alvin Fox's "Streptococci"
The Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "Enterococcus Species"
Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "Isolation and Identification of Streptococci and Enterococci"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Alvin Fox's "Spirochetes and Neisseria"
Kenneth Todar's "Online Textbook on Bacteriology: The Genus Bacillus"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Alvin Fox's "Anaerobes and Pseudomonas-Opportunistic Infections"
Kenneth Todar's "Online Textbook on Bacteriology: Listeria Monocytogenes"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Alvin Fox's "Mycobacteria and Corynebacteria"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Art DiSalvo's "Actinomycetes"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Alvin Fox's "Anaerobes and Pseudomonas-Opportunistic Infections"
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: "General Information: Brucellosis"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Abdul Ghaffar's "Bordetella, Haemophilus, and Legionella"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Alvin Fox's "Enterobacteriaceae, Vibrio, Campylobacter, and Helicobacter"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Alvin Fox's "Spirochetes and Neisseria"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Alvin Fox's "Enterobacteriaceae, Vibrio, Campylobacter, and Helicobacter"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Gene Mayer's "Chlamydia and Chlamydophila"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Gene Mayer's "Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma"
Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "Isolation and Identification of Neisseriae, Mycobacteria and Obligate Anaerobes"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Gene Mayer's "Antibiotics: Protein Synthesis, Nucleic Acid Synthesis and Metabolism"
Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "Direct Serologic Testing"
Phage Therapy
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Arthur DiSalvo's "Introduction to Mycology"
Stephen T. Abedon's "Fungi"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Arthur DiSalvo's "Dimorphic Fungi"
TheSickHouseDoctor: "Mold and Mycotoxins"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Arthur DiSalvo's "Yeasts"
Alison Morris et al.'s "Current Epidemiology of Pneumocystis Pneumonia"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Arthur DiSalvo's "Filamentous Fungi"
University of Wisconsin: Tom Volk's "Penicillium Chrysogenum"
University of Wisconsin: Tom Volk's "Saccharomyces Cerevisiae"
Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "The Yeasts, Part 1"
Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "The Yeasts, Part 2"
Dennis M. Dixon and Thomas J. Walsh's "Antifungal Agents"
Mountain Empire Community College: Rosa-less Cook's "Protozoa"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Abdul Ghaffar's "Intestinal and Luminal Protozoa"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Abdul Ghaffar's "Blood and Tissue Protozoa"
University of Delaware: Don Lehman's "Trichomonas Vaginalis"
Gilbert A. Castro's "Helminths: Structure, Classification, Growth, and Development"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Abdul Ghaffar's "Nematodes"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Abdul Ghaffar and Gregory Brower's "Trematodes"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Abdul Ghaffar and Gregory Brower's "Cestodes"
Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "Parasitology"
University of Arizona: Peder Cuneo's "Antiparasitic Drugs"
Khan Academy: "Introduction to Viruses"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Margaret Hunt's "Basic Virology: Definitions, Classification, Morphology and Chemistry"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Margaret Hunt's "Basic Virology: Replication of Viruses"
University of Pittsburgh: Peter H. Russell's "Poxviridae (Veterinary Virology)"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Richard C. Hunt's "Oncogenic Viruses"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Margaret Hunt and Richard Hunt's "Parvoviruses and Fifth Disease"
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: "Geminiviridae"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Margaret Hunt's "Arboviruses"
Journal of General Virology
: Joan Pous, Christophe Chevalier, et al.'s "Structure of Birnavirus-like Particles Determined by Combined Electron Cryomicroscopy and X-ray Crystallography"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Richard Hunt's "Corona Viruses, Colds, and SARS"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Richard Hunt's "Picornaviruses Part One: Enteroviruses and General Features of Picornaviruses"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Richard Hunt's "Picornaviruses Part Two: Rhinoviruses"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: N. Narayan and Helmut Albrecht's "Rotaviruses, Caliciviruses, Adenoviruses, Astroviruses, and Others"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Margaret Hunt's "Influenza Virus (Orthomyxoviruses)"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Margaret Hunt's "Measles (Rubeola) and Mumps"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Richard Hunt's "Rabies"
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: "Filoviridae"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Richard Hunt's "Hepatitis Viruses"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Richard Hunt's "Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AIDS"
The University of Arizona Biology Project: "Viruses Tutorial"
Viral Disease
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Richard Hunt's "Anti-Viral Chemotherapy"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Gene Mayer's "Innate (Non-Specific) Immunity"
The Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "The Adaptive Immune System"
The University of Arizona Biology Project: "HIV Impacts"
Community College of Baltimore County: Gary E. Kaiser's "Indirect Serologic Testing"
University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Richard Hunt's "Vaccines: Past Successes and Future Prospects"
U.S. Geological Survey: "Bioremediation: Nature's Way to a Cleaner Environment”
John Kimball's "Sewage Treatment"
U.S. Food and Drug Administration: "Guide to Inspections of Aseptic Processing and Packaging for the Food Industry"
Washington State University: R. E. Hurlbert's "Preparation of Yogurt, Beer, and Sauerkraut"
The University of Arizona Biology Project: "Metabolism Problem Set"
San Mateo County Community College: Christine L. Case's "Industrial Microbiology"
Chris Reuter's "Industrial Microbiology"
Cornell University: Nancy Trautmann and Elaina Olynciw's "Compost Microorganisms"
Paul A. Olivier's "The Bio-Conversion of Putrescent Wastes"
National Renewable Energy Laboratory: "Biofuel”
BIO307: Certificate Final Exam
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