Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic discipline
BIO/19 (GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY "LAZZARO SPALLANZANI"
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (01/10/2021 - 14/01/2022)
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Principles of Genetics and Biochemistry.
Learning outcomes
To understand the role of microrganisms in the enviroment, in human health/diseses and in biotechnology.
Course contents
Microbiology as basic and applied science. The golden era of Microbiology. Fields of modern Microbiology. The scientific method. Prokaryotic cell: structure and function.
Differences between prokaryotic and eukaryiotic cells. Microbiological techniques: microscopy, staining and media. Methods of sterilization. Determination of bacterial growth. Energy production by bacteria: fermetation, aerobic and anaerobic respiration, oxygen and anoxygen photosynthesis.
Examples of bacteria with different metabolism. The control of metabolic activity: feed-back, transcriptional and post-transcriptionalregulation.
The origin of life and the experiment of S. Miller.
Principles of taxonomy.
Archaea and principal gropus of bacteria.
Antibiotics: mechanism of action and of resistance.
Phages and genetic recombination. Phages as new tool to combact the multidrug resistan strains.
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Reccomended or required readings
MICROBIOLOGIA
(Autori Wessner et al.) (Casa Editrice Ambrosiana)
Assessment methods
The student can choose between oral or written exam.
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030
Università di Pavia - Offerta formativa