Announcements

Readings

• Reading 1: Schulz and Jorgensen 2001 "Big Bacteria"
• Reading 2 (Fri lecture): Amann 2001
• Reading 3 (Fri. in class discussion): Koeppel_PNAS_2008
• Reading 4: Sogin et al. 2006_PNAS
• Reading 5: Neufeld et al. 2007 (Friday 4-18-08)
• Supplemental Reading: Horizontal Gene Transfer
• Reading 6: chapter 3. Atlas and Barta. Copy provided in class.
• Reading 7: Suttle, C (2007) Viruses and Pernthaler, J. (2005) Grazers (Week 5) Textbook: Canfield (Chapter 5) details below.

Assignments

• Assignment 1: Microbe Personal Ad
• Assignment 2: See Anne. Due date for part 2 of assignment is due on Monday 4/28
• Midterm Quiz due Friday May 9th by 5PM.
• Lab next week (May 13-16)

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1 (3/31) Monday
• Lecture 2 (4/2)
• Lecture 3 (4/4)
• Lecture 4 (4/7) Monday
• Lecture 5 (4/9)
• Lecture 6 (4/11) in class reading Koeppel
• Lecture 7 (4/14)
• Lecture 8 (4/16)
• Lecture 9 (4/18)
• Lecture 10 (4/21)
• Lecure 11 (4/23)
• Lecture 12 (4/25) in class reading Raghoebarsing (2006)
• Lecture 13 (4/28)
• Lecture 14 (4/30)
• Lecture 15 (5/2)
• Lecture 16 (postponed)
• Lecture 17 (5/7)
• Lecture 18 (5/9)

Lecture 3: Microbial Ecology (J.V. McArthur) Chapter 3 pp. 36-53. Recommended, not required.

Lecture 5: Ecology of Microbial Sex-horizontal gene transfer (J.V. McArthur) Chapter 6 pp. 107-127. Recommended, not required

Lecture 13, 14: Chapter 5 Heterotrophic Carbon Metabolism. pp. 129-162. Aquatic Geomicrobiology (Canfield). Required.

-Extremophiles 1 (hot, acidic, and alkaline)

-Extremophiles 2 (cold and dry)

- Metal cycling (example Fe, Mn others?)

-Syntrophy (Abbie) May 9th

- Microbial ecology of the human gut (Alex) May 26th

- H2 control of microbial ecosystems (Maggie) May 5th

- Industrial microbiology