Environmental Microbiology
Credit Hour(s): 3 Units
Instructor(s): Rich
Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Micro 4000 or Micro 4100
Role in Microbiology Major: Group 1 Elective
Lecture Topics:
- Composting
- Landfill microbiology
- Bioremediation principles
- Biodegradation
- Pesticide microbiology
- Molecular tools for environmental microbiology
- Microbial phylogeny
- Microbial biomass
- Environmental monitoring
- Disease transmission in the environment and emergence of antibiotic resistance
- Horizontal gene transfer
- Wastewater microbiology
- Microbiology of drinking water, groundwater, and water wells
- Extreme environments
- Astrobiology: life on Mars?
- Microbes for sustainable bioenergy