GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY
MICROBIOLOGIA GENERALE
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| 2020/2021 | 8 |
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| Giulia Amagliani |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide the fundamental knowledge of General Microbiology allowing students to understand the main role of microorganisms in different fields of human activities, including biotechnology.
Program
1- Introduction to Microbiology
2- Organism kingdoms
3- Principles of microbial taxonomy
4- Structure and functions of prokaryotic cell
4.1 – Bacterial multiplication
5- Fungi: morphology and reproduction
6- Basics of protozoa
7- Virus
7.1- Eukaryotic viruses and bacteriophages
8- Bacterial nutrition and metabolism
8.1- Culture media
8.2- Tecniques for assessment of microbial growth
9- Enrironmental conditions for microbial growth
10- Control and inhibition of microbial growth
10.1- Antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance
11- Energetic metabolism: aerobia and anaerobic respiration, fermentation
12- Rensponse to environmental stress: endospores and Viable But Not Culturable forms
13- Quorum sensing and microbial biofilms
14- Bacterial genetics
14.1- Bacterial genetic recombination: transformation, transduction and conjugation
15- Symbiosis: commensalism, mutualism, parasitism
16- Fundamentals of immunology: aspecific and specific immunity.
Laboratory sessions of microscopy, culture media preparation, microbial identification, bacterial cell count.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
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