Date

January

M,T - 9,10

Unit 1. Microbes Are Everywhere

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

W,R - 11,12

Finish Exercise 1. Start Exercise 2 - Making Media.

M,T - 16,17

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday – no labs

W,R - 18,19

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

M,T - 23,24

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

W,R - 25,26

Collect Exercise 4. Start Exercise 5 - The Gram Stain Technique.

M,T 30,31

Collect Exercise 5. Start and complete Exercise 6 - Acid-Fast and Structural Stains.

TAs ü Exercise 6 in class but will not collect.

All graded exercises will be returned.End Material For Test 1 (covers labs 1-6).

February W,R - 1,2

Unit 2. How Do Microbes Grow?

Start Exercise 7 - Culturing Bacteria.

M,T - 6,7

Complete and collect Exercise 7.

W,R - 8,9

Start Exercise 8 - Control of Microbial Growth.

M,T - 13,14

Complete and collect Exercise 8.

W,R - 15,16

Quiz 2 Labs 5 - 8. Start Exercise 9 - Enzyme Action and Carbohydrate Catabolism

M,T –20,21

Complete and collect Exercise 9. Start Exercise 10 - Using Metabolic End Products.

W,R – 22,23

 Complete and collect Exercise 10. Start Exercise 11 - Respiration.

M,T– 27,28

Complete and collect Exercise 11. End Material For Test 2 (covers labs 7-11)

March

W,R – 1,2

Start, complete, and collect Exercise 12 - Autotrophy.

M,T – 6,7 W,R – 8,9

Spring Break, no labs

M,T – 13,14

Unit 3. Microbial Genetics and Viruses

Start and complete Exercise 13 - Isolation of DNA.  Start Exercise 14 - Electrophoresis of DNA.

W,R – 15,16

Quiz 3 Labs 9-14. Collect Exercise 13. Complete Exercise 14.

M,T – 20,21

Collect Exercise 14. Start Exercise 15 - Transfer of Genetic Information.

W,R – 22,23

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

M,T – 27,28

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

W,R – 29,30

Unit 4. Survey of Microbes in Health and Disease

Start Exercise 17 - Microbiology and the Food Industry.

April

M,T – 3,4

Complete and collect Exercise 17 Part II.

Start Exercise 18 - Microbial Ecology and Environmental Microbiology.

W,R – 5,6

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

M,T – 10,11

Start and Complete Exercise 19 - Disease Transmission. Continue Exercise 18.

W,R – 12,13

Quiz 4 Labs 15-18. Complete and collect Exercise 18 Part II - Bacteriological Analysis of Water Quality.  Start Exercise 20 - Microbes of the Skin.

M,T – 17,18

Collect Ex.17 Part I. Complete/collect Exercise 20. Start Exercise 21 - Microbes of the Respiratory Tract. 

W,R – 19,20

Complete and collect Exercise 21. Start Exercise 22 - Urinalysis and Microbes of STDs.

M,T – 24,25

Quiz 5 labs 19-22. Collect Exercises 22. Laboratory checkout. All graded exercises can be picked up at your TAs office Friday April 29

 W,R 26,27

No scheduled laboratories