MICROBIOLOGY-- CLAIRE CARPENTER, INSTRUCTOR

Welcome to Claire Carpenter's BIO 232 web page. On this site you can find copies of the syllabus and the course objectives, assignments, important dates, and links to other sites containing useful information.

You can email me with questions at ccarpenter@yvcc.edu

HANDOUTS AVAILABLE ON THIS SITE

• BIO232 Syllabus (Winter 2009)
  • Microbiology Syllabus
• Course objectives
  • Introduction
  • A Review of Chemistry
  • Prokaryotes
  • Microbial Metabolism
  • Growth and Control of Growth
  • Genetics
  • Viruses
  • Eukaryotes
  • Genetic Engineering
  • Host Defenses
  • Infection and Disease
• Seminar Questions for Medical Detectives
  • A Game of Wild Indians
  • A Man Named Hofmann and A Rainy Day in the Vineyard
  • Three Sick Babies
  • A Pig From Jersey and A Swim in the Nile
  • The Incurable Wound
  • The Foulest and Nastiest Creatures that Be and West Branch Study
• Microbiology Presentations
  • Presentation Information
• Lab Manual
  • Microbiology Lab Manual 2009
• Guides to Unknown Identification
  • Unknown Identification Report
  • Worksheet For Unknown Identification (requires printing on legal-sized paper)

USEFUL LINKS

• Center for Disease Control. Good information on a variety of diseases.
• Medical Microbiology Online Textbook . General Microbiology information.
• Universal Virus Database. Taxonomy and information on virus families, genera, and species.
• Karolinska Institute Diseases and Disorders. Allows you to search for information on any disease.
• Virus Ultrastructure. Images of viruses.
• Photo Gallery of Bacterial Pathogens. Images of Bacteria.
• USDA Foodborne Pathogens. Called the "bad bug book", it has lots of information on foodborne bacteria, viruses, eukaryotes, and toxins.
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Animations and information on infectious diseases.
• PCR, Sequencing, and Identification Animation. Use this site during the Recombinant DNA chapter to see how these techniques are used to idnetify microbes.
• The Big Picture Book of Viruses. This site has photographs and lots of information about just about any virus family.
• Textbook of Bacteriology. An online textbook.
• Prion Diseases.

GENERAL INFORMATION