Course title
微生物学   [Microbiology]
Course category		Requirement		Credit	2
Department		Year	2～	Semester	1st
Course type	1st	Course code	01bo2003
Instructor(s)
豊田 剛己, 多羅尾 光徳, 仲井 まどか, 大松 勉, 大津 直子, 竹前 等, 大場 真己   [TOYODA Koki, TARAO Mitsunori, NAKAI Madoka, OMATSU Tsutomu, OTSU Naoko, TAKEMAE Hitoshi, OBA Mami]
Facility affiliation	Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering	Office		Email address

Course description

You will learn the basic biology of microbes (bacteria, fungi, virus) including ecology, metabolism, propagation and genetics. Furthermore, you will learn the relationships of microbes with agriculture, environment and veterinary medicine.

Expected Learning

You must understand relationships with agriculture, environment, medicine, veterinary medicine and the microbiology. https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/

Course schedule

[the microbiological basics, metabolism, genetics] 1) Introduction: Definition, the history, classification (Tarao) 2) Structure of bacteria (Oba) 3) Virus (Nakai) 4) Various bacteria, algae (Toyoda) 5) Technique: Culture, sterilization, sterilization, nutrient medium (Nakai) 6) Metabolism (Omatsu) 7) Respiration and energy production (Ohmatsu) 8) Population growth: fission, increase curve, count (Takemae) 9) Genetics (Takemae) 10) Influence of the environmental condition (Ohtsu) 11) Microbial ecology (Ohtsu) 12 ) Relationships with the agriculture: Fermentation, microbe material, plant disease (Toyoda) 13) Relationships with the environment: Cyclical change of materials, drainage processing, symbiosis (Tarao) 14) Relationships with medical science and veterinary medicine (Oba) 15) Summary, Examination

Prerequisites

Students take the lecture for 30 hrs, and are also recommend to prepare for and revise the lectures by using texts, references and handouts, spending the standard amount of time (60 hrs)as specified by the University.

Required Text(s) and Materials

References

Occasionally prepare the books in the special field Brock：Biology of Microorganisms（13 ed.）

Assessment/Grading

Attitude to study on subnects (30%), presentation and final examination (70%) To take final examination, attendance of classes more than 10 times is required.

Message from instructor(s)

You should read related reference books introduced by teachers, and study voluntarily, and use office hours actively.

Course keywords

microbiology

Office hours

You should take appointments of teachers.

Remarks 1

Please check google classroom about the change of the schedule due to COVID-19.

Remarks 2

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Lecture Language

Japanese

Language Subject

Last update

3/4/2022 9:41:42 AM