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Conceptual Development
Throughout the course we have a series of assignments that are designed to provide you with opportunities to read, analyze, think and write like a microbial ecologist.
And here are pages with some background and useful links that we hope will help you gain those skills efficiently:
Technical Development
Each week you will gain hands on experience with new molecular techniques that allow you to “see” what microbes are doing. Here are the specific technical skills we expect you to gain competency with along with some helpful background information.
- Field collection of microbial samples
- DNA extraction and purification
- Pyrosequencing
- Culturing microbes
- Cloning microbes
- Bioinformatics with molecular data
- Phylogenetic Analysis
- Functional Gene Analysis
- Physiological and Enzyme Assays
- Accumulation of microbial products
- Environmental sample analysis
