Microbial Physiology and Biochemistry
Credit Hour(s): 3 Units
Instructor(s): North
Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing
Lecture Topics:
- The diversity of microbes: phylogenetics, habitats, and metabolic diversity
- Experimental approaches: biochemical, genetic and global analysis (-omics) methods
- The microbial cell: cell structure, cell cycle and division, and growth rate control
- Sugar catabolism in Bacteria and Archaea, fermentations, anaplerotic reactions, and metabolic control mechanisms
- Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, electron transport systems and the diversity of respiratory systems
- Amino acid biosynthesis and nitrogen regulation
- Carbon fixation
- membrane biogenesis, lipid metabolism and protein secretion
- Developmental programs in microbial systems