Reading Assignments

Lecture 01a: Intro to Micro
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Louis_Pasteur.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Koch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_van_Leeuwenhoek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister
http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/edwardjenner.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich

Lecture 01b    About Small
Readings: Review of Chemistry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_microscope
http://www.life.umd.edu/CBMG/faculty/wolniak/wolniakmicro.html
    look specifically at phase contrast, fluorescence, and laser confocal microscopy.

Lecture 02b:  Bacterial Structure and Function
Readings: Review of osmosis
http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Microtextbook/index.php?module=Book&func=displayarticle&art_id=60

Lecture 03a: Bacterial Structure and Function - 2
Readings: http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2340.htm (first few paragraphs)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopeptidoglycan
http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/endotoxin.html especially The Role of LPS in the Outer Membrane of Gram-negative Bacteria and Chemical Nature of Endotoxin.

Lectures 04a and 04b:  Metabolism
Readings: text outline for lecture slides 
http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/metabolism.html

Lecture 05a: Transport
No specific readings.

Lecture 05b: Nutrition and Physical Conditions
Readings: Nutrition and Growth of Bacteria

Lecture 06a: Bacterial growth
Readings: http://textbookofbacteriology.net/growth.html

Lecture 06b: Bacterial genetics
General review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
DNA review slides
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=genomes.section.5517

Lectures 07a & 07b: Gene regulation and exchange, Response to Environment
no additional readings

Lecture 08a: Microbial Ecology
no readings

Lecture 08b: Bacterial Taxonomy
Readings: http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/bacteriology.html you may skip over the parts on cell structure that we have discussed. The focus here is taxonomy and methods for classifying and identifying bacteria.

Lecture 09ab:  Eukaryotic microbes
Readings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/slimemolds.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tide