Unit MICROBIOLOGY
- Course
- Biological sciences
- Study-unit Code
- 55037308
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Ermanno Federici
- Teachers
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- Ermanno Federici
- Hours
- 56 ore - Ermanno Federici
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline biologiche
- Academic discipline
- BIO/19
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course is divided into three integrated and functional parts: Part A: The Structures of the Bacterial Cell. Part B: The Functional Properties of Bacteria. Part C: Methods for Studying Bacteria in the Laboratory.
- Reference texts
- Madigan e Martinko - "Brock, Biologia dei microrganismi" Willey, Sherwood e Woolverton - "Prescott, Microbiologia generale"
- Educational objectives
- Knowledge of general microbiology, with particular reference to the structural and functional characteristics of bacteria, and methodological skills for studying microorganisms in the laboratory.
- Prerequisites
- The foreground developed by the students in Cytology is essential to the learning and understanding of Microbiology
- Teaching methods
- Lessons
- Other information
- Course venue and time: see Department website (http://www.dcbb.unipg.it) Contact the Professor for a meeting
- Learning verification modality
- Colloquium
- Extended program
- Introduction to the course: The microbial world and microbial diversity; History of microbiology; Part A: The structures of the bacterial cell. Fundamentals of microbial biology. Prokaryotic cell (shape, size, and aggregation); the cytoplasm, the genome, the membrane; the bacterial cell wall of Gram-positive and negative bacteria, endospores, and external structures. Part B: The functional properties of bacteria. Metabolic diversity and the basic principles of metabolism; Aerobic and anaerobic respiration; Fermentation; Chemolithotrophy and autotrophy. Bacterial growth: binary fission; growth curve; influence of nutritional and environmental factors. Genetic information of prokaryotes. Variability and recombination phenomena (conjugation, transformation, transduction). Part C: Methods for studying bacteria in the laboratory. Culture media and culture methods. Cultivation, isolation, and enumeration. Microbial inactivation by physical and chemical agents. Heat sterilization (autoclave and oven)