Date

Topics

Reading

1/14

Cell Structure and Growth

1/16

Prokaryotic Phylogeny

  • Ch 15

1/18

NO SECTION

1/21

No Class MLK Day

 

1/23

Metabolism, Energy generation

Ch 6-7

1/25

Tutorial

1/28

Genetics

1/30

Cell cycle

  • Ch 8 (pp131-141), Ch 9

2/1

Tutorial

2/4

Transport and secretion

2/6

Sequencing: Genes to Genomics

2/8

Tutorial

2/11

Guest Lecture on Genome Annotation
Dr. Barry Goldman, Monsanto

  • Dr. Goldman’s handouts
  • X Prize article

2/13

A not so random walk through environmental sensing and signaling

2/15

EXAM I

 

2/18

Transcription and Transcriptional Regulation

  • Ch 12

2/20

Bacterial development

  • Ch 14

2/22

Tutorial

2/25

Bacteriophage and Bdellovibrio

  • Ch 17

2/27

Mutualism and Biofilms

2/29

Special Leap Year Tutorial

3/3

Microbial Ecology
Dr. Ruth Ley, Center for Genome Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine

3/5

Archaea and Metabolic Diversity

3/7

Tutorial

3/17

Bioremediation

3/19

Genetic Engineering

3/21

TUTORIAL

3/24

 

Exam II

 

 

3/26

Overview of Pathogenesis

3/28

Tutorial

3/31

The immune system in a nutshell

4/2

Extracellular Pathogens

4/4

Tutorial

4/7

Intracellular Pathogens

4/9

Guest Lecture on Microbial Pathogenesis
Dr. Joe Vogel,
Department of Molecular Microbiology,
Washington University

  • Dr. Vogel’s handouts

4/11

Tutorial

4/14

Eukaryotic Viruses-Bird Flu

4/16

VIDEO

INFLUENZA 1918

4/18

Guest Lecture on Parasitology
Dr. Steve BeverleyChairman
Department of Molecular Microbiology Washington University School of Medicine

4/21

Antibiotics and Vaccines

 

4/23

Microbes from a world health perspective

4/25

VIDEO

Frontline AIDS series

5/5

FINAL EXAM

10:30 am to 12:30 pm

Location TBA


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Washington University - Biology
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