Environmental Microbiology
Credit: 3 units
Instructor: Rich/Sullivan
Offered: Autumn
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
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