Course Syllabus
| Week | Date | Lecture | Readings |
| I. Microbial Cell Biology | |||
| 1 | 1-27 | It's a Microbial World! | Prescott Ch. 1 |
| 1-29 | Microbial Growth | Prescott Ch. 7 | |
| 1-31 | Control of Microbial Growth | Prescott Ch. 8 | |
| 2 | 2-3 | Nutrition | Prescott Ch. 6 |
| 2-5 | Cell Structure and Function I | Prescott Ch. 3 | |
| 2-7 | Cell Structure and Function II | Prescott Ch. 3 | |
| 3 | 2-10 | Flagellar Motility as a Paradigm | Macnab (1999) |
| 2-12 | Metabolism I | Prescott Ch. 9 pages 208-222. Prescott Ch. 10 pages 228-254. |
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| 2-14 | Metabolism II | Schultz et al. (1999) | |
| 4 | 2-17 | Microbial Diversity | Prescott Ch. 17. Kroes et al. (1999) |
| II. Microbial Genetics | |||
| 2-19 | DNA Replication | Prescott Ch. 12 pp. 297-305 | |
| 2-21 | EXAM I | ||
| 5 | 2-24 | Horizontal Gene Transfer I | Prescott Ch. 14 pp. 363-376 |
| 2-26 | Horizontal Gene Transfer II | ||
| 2-28 | Horizontal Gene Transfer III | Lawrence et al. (1998) | |
| 6 | 3-2 | DNA Repair / Mutation | Prescott Ch. 14 pp. 363-376 Oliver et al. (2000) |
| 3-4 | Transcription | Prescott Ch. 13 pages 331-342 | |
| 3-6 | Regulation of Transcription | Haack et al. (2003) | |
| 7 | 3-9 | Two-Component Systems I | Prescott Ch. 13 pp. 346-354 |
| 3-11 | Two-Component Systems II | Shukla et al. (1998) | |
| 3-13 | Recombinant DNA(log in with your Reed credentials) | Prescott Ch. 15 | |
| 8 | 3-16 | Quorum Sensing | Prescott Ch. 13 pp. 355-356 Bassler (1999) |
| III. Interactions of Microbes and Hosts | |||
| 3-18 | Introduction to Infectious Disease | Prescott Ch. 31 | |
| 3-20 | EXAM II | ||
| SPRING BREAK | |||
| 9 | 3-30 | Brazilian Purpuric Fever- Case Study | Li et al. (2003) |
| 4-1 | Biofilms | Prescott Ch. 7 pp. 183-18 Flemming et al. (2016) |
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| 4-3 | Secretion I | Galán and Wolf-Watz (2006) | |
| 10 | 4-6 | Secretion II | Feldman et al. (2002) |
| 4-8 | E. coli O157 | Lim et al. (2013) | |
| 4-10 | Multi-Drug Resistance | Prescott Ch. 34 pp. 843-847 Ling et al. (2014) |
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| 11 | 4-13 | The Microbiome I | Prescott Ch. 30 pp. 731-736 |
| 4-15 | The Microbiome II | Cho et al. (2012) | |
| 4-18 | Viruses: Introduction | Prescott Ch. 5 | |
| 12 | 4-20 | Bacteriophage I | Prescott Ch. 5 |
| 4-22 | Bacteriophage II | ||
| 4-24 | FILM: The Virus That Cures | ||
| 13 | 4-27 | Influenza I | Prescott Ch. 37 pages 899-903. |
| 4-29 | Influenza II | Webby and Webster (2003) | |
| 5-1 | Vaccinology | Reading TBD | |
| 5-11 | FINAL EXAM 6-9 pm B-19 | ||