Date

M   6/23

Unit 1. Microbes Are Everywhere

Laboratory Check-in. Start Exercise 1 - Microbes Are All Around Us. Start Exercise 2 - Making Media

T   6/24

Finish Exercise 1&2 and collect.  Start and complete Exercise 3 - Observing Microbes

W   6/25

Quiz 1 Labs 1-4. Collect Exercise 3. Start/complete/collect Exercise 4 - Aseptic Technique and Simple Staining.

R   6/26

Start, complete and Collect Exercise 5 - The Gram Stain Technique, collect resolving power extra credit, End Material For Test 1 (labs 1-5). Skipping lab 6

M   6/30

Unit 2. How Do Microbes Grow? Bring in a antimicrobial product for extra credit!

Start Exercise 7 - Culturing Bacteria. Start Exercise 8 - Control of Microbial Growth.

T    7/1

Complete and collect Exercise 7 & 8

W   7/2

Quiz 2 Labs 5,7, 8. Start Exercise 9 - Enzyme Action and Carbohydrate Catabolism Start Exercise 10 - Using Metabolic End Products. End Material For Test 2 (covers labs 7-11) Skipping lab 12

R   7/3

Complete and collect Exercise 9 & 10.  Set up Lab 11.

M  7/7

Finish Lab 11 and collect and Microscope extra credit opportunity.

T   7/8

Optional test review for Metabolism in BR201, No Lab.

W   7/9

Unit 3. Microbial Genetics and Viruses

Start and complete exercise 14- Isolation of DNA & Electrophoresis of DNA.

R   7/10

Quiz 3 Labs 9-14  Start/complete Exercise 13, Collect exercise 13 & 14.  

M   7/14

Start Exercise 15 - Transfer of Genetic Information. Extra Credit movie

T   7/15

Complete and collect Exercise 15. Start Exercise 16 - Bacteriophages.

W  7/16

Complete and collect Exercise 16  End Material for Test 3 (covers Labs 13-16).

R   7/17

Unit 4. Survey of Microbes in Health and Disease

Start Exercise 17 - Microbiology and the Food Industry.

M   7/21

Complete and collect Exercise 17 Part II. Bring in a soil and water sample for extra credit

Start Exercise 18 - Microbial Ecology and Environmental Microbiology.

T   7/22

Continue Exercise 18. Complete and Collect Part I - Microbes in the Soil.

W   7/23

Complete and collect Exercise 18 Part II - Bacteriological Analysis of Water Quality.

R   7/24

Quiz 4 Labs 15-18. Start and Complete Exercise 19 - Disease Transmission.

M   7/28

Start Exercise 20 - Microbes of the Skin. Start Exercise 21 - Microbes of the Respiratory Tract. 

T    7/29

Complete/collect Exercise 20 & 21. Lab technique Extra credit opportunity

W  7/30

Quiz 5 Labs 19-22 Collect Ex.17 Part I.  Urinalysis and Microbes of STDs.

R   7/31

 FINAL EXAM  No lab sessions