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Course Announcements Monday, May 20, 2012Every semester about this time I get inquiries (all very similar, like a form letter) about the possiblity of doing extra credit with the hopes of a higher grade resulting from that. I can never go along with that. For one thing, it would not be part of the grading scheme indicated in the syllabus. Also – to make things fair and ethical – I would have to make the opportunity known much earlier to everyone if I did agree with that idea. As it is, I do tend to ease up a little on the final grading scale, and AB's and B's are still very good, respectable grades. ---------------------------------- Wednesday, May 15, 2013 In grading the reports which took awhile and was somewhat subjective, I assigned a letter grade along with some comments on each report. The Bacillus reports got the most comments. I eased up on the "grading scale" (for the reports) and gave points as follows: A=60, AB=58, B=56, BC=54, C=52. When you check your report grade and see a blank or zero, that means I have not received it via the drop box or otherwise. (I assume everyone has their own copy of the report and can run off a copy if necessary.) I will still accept late stuff through early Friday afternoon. ------------------------------------------ Sunday May 12, 2013 In case you're worried about confidentiality of your evaluations, I don't ever get to associate any evaluation with any individual. I only get to see the overall summaries. However, I will be able to find out who filled out a report such that bonus points can be given. The Experiment 11 Reports are very slow-going, and I am still hoping to have them done by exam time Wednesday as I mentioned last week. As I had announced that doing a report on Exp. 15A was OK as an alternative (if any of the parts of Exp. 11 didn't turn out all that well), I've finished grading those but I'd like to go back and re-read them. Remember the definition of coliforms:
Also remember that coliforms are not the problem but rather an easily-detectable type of organism that is indicative of certain problems:
------------------------------------------ Thursday, May 9, 2013 If you are still not 100% certain what is ultimately being tested for in the three media in Experiment 17A, check the Lab Lecture Notes for Period 14 which are posted here. There is no reason why an organism cannot be able to have the ability to be positive for all three tests. For example, the enterics are all capable of aerobic respiration, anaerobic respiration and fermentation as shown on the Experiment 14 Handout. Remember how bacteriologists define strict aerobes and facultative anaerobes in Experiment 5A, and this carried over into Exp. 7A and 11C. The only catabolic processes that are relevant in "oxygen relationships" are aerobic respiration and fermentation. See the table on page 24. If a strict aerobe is also able to use nitrate as an electron acceptor in place of oxygen, this is anaerobic respiration, and the organism is thus able to grow anaerobically if nitrate is present. The organism is still a strict aerobe! Anaerobic respiration and also phototrophy are "special" catabolic processes and do not affect an organism's oxygen relationship designation. If you see something like this in Glucose Fermentation Broth, remember that any yellow color means acid is produced from fermentation. (And a fermenter does not have to produce gas!) That purple color on top is just an alkaline reaction from aerobic amino acid deamination that has not been overneutralized by acid from the fermentation of glucose; if it were overneutralized by the acid, then we would have a completely yellow tube. This was gone over in Exp. 7A, and the influence of the alkaline reaction from amino acid deamination is critical in how KIA works (Exp. 14A). ------------------------------------------ Tuesday, May 7, 2013 I have posted the scores at Learn@UW for everything except the Experiment 17 checklist, reports and final exam. Please let me know if anything is missing or wrongly recorded on my part. A reminder that I will be gone Thursday evening until Sunday evening, and I will still be emailable during that time. Reports will take awhile to go through and they should be ready to pick up by the officially scheduled final exam time. I'm following a checklist which includes a lot of items on page 128. ------------------------------------------ Tuesday, May 7, 2013
------------------------------------------ Friday, May 3, 2013 If you're in a pinch and can't drop off the report, I'll accept it via e-mail. (As mentioned below, what I don't like is reviewing rough drafts by e-mail as I must do such a thing personally.) I can't start grading them until late Sunday or Monday. Following is a list of hints that can help in reviewing for the final (not necessarily in any particular order):
Finally, we are required to provide the opportunity for you to evaluate the course on-line. Bonus points will be added to your total points score for doing so. Details soon. ------------------------------------------ Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Official: Wednesday, May 15 at 12:25 PM in 1125 Biochemistry. There is a sign-up sheet in the lab for the alternate times which you are not required to sign. I understand you have a good reason for taking the exam at the alternate time, so I need not keep a record of such a thing. You don't have to e-mail me about this, and you can switch times as necessary. ------------------------------------------ Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Despite the fact we were signing our names to put the answers in our own words on the third take-home exercise, I saw all-too-many repetitions of the same phrase when it came to the definition of isolate (as a noun). Repeated, copied statements stand out like a sore thumb to a seasoned instructor – especially when reading reports – and most often they are too general or naive to apply to what we are doing in lab. So, when googling the phrase "individual, population, strain, or culture," Google informed me of "about 76 results" – right down to the unusual indication of a comma before "or." And it was generally followed by "obtained by or resulting from selection or separation." Just putting these quotes for the definition is not enough for a microbiology lab course. An isolate is simply a pure culture derived from a sample containing a mixed population of microorganisms, and this can be accomplished by streak-plating and dilution plating (which includes the use of spread and pour plates). You could probably come up with a better definition. An "A" report would not resort to such repetition without an express reference to the source which can then be evaluated according to relevance to the course. By the way, when I read reports, I often check on the references and happily find out things (from reputable sources) that I never knew before. [insert smiley face here] ------------------------------------------ Monday, April 29, 2013 Questions from an old final exam are posted here. Answers will be provided later such that you can compare your answers with them. Regarding the characteristics of the organisms we were isolating in Experiments 11(A, B and C) and 15A which we made use of in the isolation process: Keep in mind that the lab report guidelines (Appendix I) require that these characteristics be included in the introduction to the report. As a reminder, there is a good summary here, based on the introductions to the specific experiments. Gram reaction is not always relevant, and we did not need to do gram stains when isolating Bacillus, Streptomyces, or the photosynthetic bacteria. (Exp. 14A is included in this summary, although that experiment is not considered for a report.) ------------------------------------------ Thursday, April 25, 2013 About referencing the lab manual: For that, as well as other things in book form, you would want to indicate author (or editor), title, year and publisher. Depending on the style of referencing, you would need to put these items in the appropriate order. One way of referencing the manual could be like this: By all means, do not have the manual as your only reference! Altogether, at least three would be nice, but two should be the minimum. Also, feel free to use the table formatting that is in the manual. There is no restriction on that. In fact, if you can improve on it, please do so. Don't forget that the footnotes (under the tables) in the manual are part of the tables. In case you discarded the lab handout for Period 11, here are the four test organisms (in no particular order): If you would like to have me briefly look over a rough draft, I can do so but not by e-mail. It would be a lot more instructive and less time-consuming to do that personally. ------------------------------------------ Thursday, April 25, 2013 Answers to some frequently-asked questions follow. Most have already been mentioned in lab, and remember to follow the Guidelines in Appendix I.
------------------------------------------ Monday, April 22, 2013 I'll be in very late today – probably after 5PM or so. (That means a late-nighter for me!) Presently I'm up north, having finished some blizzard-related chores and will be hitting the road soon. Read that box under your name on the Take-Home No. 3 – especially regarding the due date and where to submit it. The bonus question is meant as a thought question, solved through the process of elimination. Should be fun and/or easy. ------------------------------------------ Friday, April 19, 2013 I will soon be posting the scores of the various quizzes, unknowns, etc. we've done so far this semester, such that you can compare your records to mine and I can make any corrections accordingly. The question often comes up regarding how are we doing grade-wise so far. If you're interested in what letter grade corresponds to your overall score so far, simply add up your scores and divide them by the total number of points those items were worth. These items are all listed on the bottom of the 2nd page of the Syllabus along with the percentage ranges associated with the letter grades. ------------------------------------------ Thursday, April 18, 2013 The Take-Home Exercise No. 3 is now posted here. Note that it can be handed in any time next week, and it should be put in the Microbiology 102 drop box which is the top hallway locker, right next to the front door of the lab. It is labeled as such, and you can't miss it! ------------------------------------------ Monday, April 15, 2013 The solutions to the plating and MPN problems in Virtual Experiment 15B are posted here. ------------------------------------------ Thursday, April 11, 2013 The Lab Report is due in three weeks and it can be handed in any time that week (through 5 PM Friday, May 3) to the drop box in the hallway.
Following are a few notes about on-line demonstrations associated with Experiments 14A and 15A:
Finally, you might like to bring in a sample to plate out for Experiment 17A which starts next week. Check Period 1. ------------------------------------------ Thursday, April 4, 2013 Virtual Experiment 10 (which is to be viewed along with the handout passed out in lab): A helpful diagram related to our discussion of the Antibiotic Disk Sensitivity Test can be found here. If the culture contained some cells that had gained resistance to Antibiotic A by mutation, those cells are indicated in red, and their colonies would show up in the "zone of inhibition" around the Antibiotic A disk. Clearly, Antibiotic D would be the antibiotic of choice if the diameter of the zone of inhibition around that disk is a certain minimum size (according to a table such as what is found on the handout). Experiment 11C: Remember the importance of the catalase test and Glucose Fermentation Broth when determining if any of our Bacillus isolates are strict aerobes or facultative anaerobes.
------------------------------------------ Thursday, April 4, 2013 Going along with the two lab lectures prior to Spring Break, what may not show up completely in the posted notes is a summary of characteristics of the various bacteria which we take advantage of when considering such things as media and incubation conditions for their isolation. On our old and "retired" Bacteriology 102 website are some pages dealing with subject matter that are still kept reasonably up-to-date. Specific items that may be relevant and applicable to us these days are:
If you choose to do your lab report on Streptomyces (Experiment 11A) and are looking for references, there is one at Microbiology Bytes that is very popular but not well-written. It mentions that extracellular enzymes are commonly produced by Streptomyces which is correct. However, these enzymes are for breaking down molecules much larger than the compounds that are listed! Streptomyces uses extracellular enzymes to break down large macromolecules like cellulose, starch, chitin, complex proteins, and other such compounds in the process of biodegradation. Recall the concept of amylase in Experiment 7 and how an organism cannot utilize starch (as an energy source or for biosynthesis) unless it is broken down outside of the cell by extracellular enzymes. You can find much better Streptomyces references elsewhere. Use Wikipedia and encyclopedias with extreme caution. They are most valuable in indicating references that are most likely very reliable. ------------------------------------------ Wednesday, April 3, 2013 I erred below and in lab yesterday about what experiments are going to be on the quiz. Experiment 9 will not be included. In correcting the Take-Home No. 2, I see a significant amount of misunderstanding about "oxygen relationships." At your convenience, you should review pages 20-23 in the manual – specifically Parts I, II, III and IV. It's all important stuff throughout the semester as it was when Virtual Experiment 5A was current.
------------------------------------------ Tuesday, April 2, 2013 The revised schedule (indicating the postponed experiments and the official final exam time) is posted here, and a hard copy (to supercede the old one) will be passed out in lab this week. About the samples utilized in Experiments 11 and 15A:
------------------------------------------ Monday, April 1, 2013 I have just posted a "rough draft" of this week's lab lecture here. I will also briefly go over the take-home assignment (handed back this week) and say a few words about Virtual Experiments 10 and 11D. We will be starting another unknown this week with Experiment 14A; the associated handout is posted here, and there will be better time to go over this experiment later. Remember that unknowns are not done in pairs or teams, and each persion is given a particular one to work with. This exercise will be hassle-free if you streak well today to achieve isolated colonies from which you can pick pure cultures next week! The three-phase method is always preferred; see Appendix B. ------------------------------------------ Monday, April 1, 2013 A note about the first video: This is the monitor of the demonstration microscope in the back of the lab which we have all seen already. The cells are constantly drifting in and out of focus, but the movement of the cells (especially the big one which is usually in the very center) can be seen reasonably well. This organism is our first view of the "spirillum" type of morphology this semester. Note that the video may take a little while to load completely. In case our in-lab demonstration on phototaxis doesn't work out this semester (and even if it does), here is a video of what happens to the purple non-sulfur bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum when its light source is cut off for a half-second. The cells respond by reversing the direction of their movement, as if they think they're getting into a dark environment and need to get back into the light. Remember the organisms we are after in Experiment 11B are anoxygenic phototrophs (as discussed before break) which is how they obtain electrons (and energy) when growing anaerobically in the light. They are actually "hard-wired" to be phototactic even when they are growing as aerobic respirers and do not require light! (Recall that respiration is a chemotrophic process.) A short video I made a few semesters ago is posted here. It shows gas escaping out of a tube which contains a culture of purple non-sulfur photosynthetic bacteria that had been incubated in the light for 8-10 days. Hear the "pop" when the gas hits the Bunsen burner flame? That's how one can confirm hydrogen production in such tubes. Hopefully the tubes we inoculated today and put in the light will show such H2 production. As you may learn elsewhere, these organisms are of interest in the field of alternative energy production. ------------------------------------------ Friday, March 29, 2013 The upcoming quiz will only cover Experiments 8, 9, 10, 11 and 15 (up through the week after Spring Break). The answers to the remaining old quiz questions (posted earlier) are now here. Not all of the questions will be relevant for the quiz, but they can be helpful for the final and also in thinking about the Formal Lab Report (summarized in Appendix I). We can review Virtual Experiment 10 this coming week in lab. ------------------------------------------ Monday, March 18, 2013 To clarify what we mean by "even-numbered dilutions": We mean even-numbered exponents. So, what dilution do we make when we add 1 ml to 99 ml? Also, are you limited to only inoculating 1 ml or 0.1 ml into any plate? OK – enough hints! :-) ------------------------------------------ Monday, March 18, 2013A reminder that take-home assignments are not to be handed in as a group project, and this includes the Growth Curve as well as Unknowns and other items. Growth curves handed in with two or more names cannot be graded as those of others who handed theirs in individually, and you can still hand in an individual growth curve (with calculations) on your own as soon as you can. I'll post Lab Lecture Notes for this week (no. 9) as soon as I can. This week I plan on finally discussing the Lab Report which is due near the end of the semester as well as clarifying some further general points about catabolism as we get more deeply into the experiment on the enrichment and isolation of the purple non-sulfur photosynthetic bacteria. Our basic summaries of catabolic processes are on-line: general overview (which you have seen before) and chemotrophy vs. phototrophy. ------------------------------------------ Thursday, March 14, 2013 SURPRISE! The Department's web server is up and running again, and the format of the virtual experiments looks better than ever. The old links are restored in the links box, and I don't have to reconstruct any of the experiments as was my plan. I will have to make copies of each one for future emergencies and revisions. A big thank you to those who have been expressing great interest in the virtual lab experiments. I'm expecting all the items on the 2nd page of our Syllabus will be fulfilled successfully. ------------------------------------------ Wednesday, March 13, 2013 The Take-Home Exercise No. 2 will be put on-line about mid-afternoon tomorrow – Thursday, March 14. The link will be in the box on the right. Like No. 1, it will be due at the beginning of lab next week. I will be here all day Friday and Monday (at least from 9 to 4) if downloading is difficult and you would like to obtain a hard copy. My office is 2521 on the Linden Drive side of the second floor. ------------------------------------------ Monday, March 11, 2013 I will post a revised schedule soon, but here's some information about this week:
------------------------------------------ Monday, March 11, 2013Be sure to check over your Growth Curve assignment before handing it in this week. For full credit you must indicate the units for your growth curve calculations (round off to just one decimal place) and other things noted in the box on page 24B. Again, notice the example on page 24 (lower right) and example calculations on the next page, but remember those example figures do not apply to our experiment! There are also additional reminders on the data sheet which we have on-line if you don't have yours. I will have this week's lab lecture notes (period 8; at least in rough form) on-line later today. There are a number of things to consider for Exp. 11 and the associated report which isn't due until March 3. I will pass back the graded quiz this week at the beginning of lab. Remember the definition of strain which we went over in each lab section, as it is an important concept in bacteriology and also biology in general. We used the orange strain of E. coli (from Exp. 5C) as an example of a strain showing a different set of characteristics from "normal" strains. The definition of "strain" was also part of the required reading (Appendix H). At least we can define "strain" as a pure culture that we know something about, and it doesn't even have to be identified to genus or species. A lot of times we hear people mention the "O157:H7 strain" of E. coli. That is not a strain designation but rather a taxonomic subdivision of E. coli known as a serotype (or serovar), and we will learn more about that in Experiment 14. ------------------------------------------ Thursday, March 7, 2013Notes for this week's very short "lab lecture" are posted here. For when you get to them and work them through, the solutions to the problems in Virtual Experiment 8B are on-line here. Just a couple examples are given to help to explain the concepts and calculations of mutation frequency and recombination frequency. Our old Experiment 8 handout gives a lab-lecture's worth of explanatory material for what we are doing in both 8A and 8B. Regarding the growth curve which is due next week: If you go here and click on the graph in the upper right, you can download a sheet of 3-cycle semilog paper (if you didn't pick up any paper in lab). You would need two sheets, as our data requires at least four cycles. That web page also discusses semilog paper in general. Our graph is formatted like the example on page 24 in the manual (the one on the bottom right), and the formulas to use are on the following page. Take a look at Experiment 11 for next week. Note that you will be writing a report on your work in one of the three parts of Experiment 11 – namely 11A, 11B and 11C. More about this next week! ------------------------------------------ Tuesday, March 5, 2013A reminder about our general "weather advisory": Click here. We also have the forecast and current conditions on the bottom of this page. According to the schedule, we have a bit of lab work to do today as well as the quiz. However, we are delaying Experiment 9A (Quantitation of Bacteriophages) until some time after Spring Break. Remember that the Growth Curve assignment isn't due until next week. Examples and formulas are given in Exp. 5C, and guidelines are in the box on the bottom of page 24B. Also, the handout providing the class data (and some additional reminders) is reproduced here. ------------------------------------------ Thursday, February 28, 2013A key for checking your Exp. 7A results page (page 34) is posted here.
------------------------------------------ Monday, February 25, 2013 I plan on passing back the take-home exercise this week in lab. If for some reason yours was not turned in, please do so as soon as you get to lab. I need to go over them briefly before I get on with the lab lecture which I hope will be brief. (See the posted lab lecture notes for Period 6 in the box on the right.) I wound up not grading the second question which reads as follows: "Does the term colony-forming unit only apply to bacterial quantitation? Briefly explain why or why not." I should have left the word "bacterial" out altogether. Colony-forming unit is not a quantitative term. Any colony you see on your plates arose initially from a colony-forming unit which was composed of one or more cells from the sample that had landed on that spot of the medium initially. Whether or not a colony is counted, it still arose from a CFU! If you haven't done so already, please read this. The same information is in the opening paragraphs of Experiment 1 which also indicates that endospores and reproductive spores are also bacterial cells and can qualify as contributing to (or being) a colony-forming unit. I saw an awful lot of replicated mention of other single-celled organisms which are not relevant to the course and sometimes far off-base. ------------------------------------------ Monday, February 25, 2013The finalized lab lecture notes for last week are posted, as is the "draft" of this week's lab lecture notes. Note (in the box on the right) that the answers to the old, sample quiz questions are already on-line. About the upcoming quiz:
About Experiment 7A this week in lab:
------------------------------------------ Tuesday, February 19, 2013The Virtual Lab Manual Website (where most of our Virtual Experiments reside) appears to be down tonight. Dr. Tim Paustian – the editor and webmaster of the Virtual Lab Manual – will hopefully get it going again tomorrow morning. Stay tuned. ------------------------------------------ Thursday, February 14, 2013The first "Take-Home Exercise" is now on-line here and ready to print out. Be sure to read the box just under your name. It's due first thing in lab next week. ------------------------------------------ Tuesday, February 12, 2013The first "Take-Home Exercise" (worth 25 points according to the Syllabus) will be put on-line for downloading on Thursday afternoon. This is to be worked on outside of lab and turned in first thing at the next lab session. Do note the introductory directions at the top. Having done the practice problems in "Virtual Experiment 4B" will help considerably in doing the dilution problems which are a part of the exercise. Looking ahead to next week: A draft of the Lab Lecture Notes for Period 5 is posted here. Under the heading "Some General Things about Catabolism," the material on the indicated handout is found on-line here. We try to make catabolism simple and relevant to the organisms we are working on, and there will be no pathways to memorize as you might find in other courses, notably biochemistry. Also looking ahead to next week: Virtual Experiments 5A and 5B will make a lot more sense after you have read through Appendix D. We will apply the concept of "oxygen relationships" in several lab experiments to come.
------------------------------------------ Friday, February 8, 2013I have posted this week's finalized Lab Lecture Notes; see the box on the right for Period 3. You can also click on no. 4 for what is coming up next week. Here's a hint that may help with the use of the microscope: With your marker, put a mark near the smear that you are going to be looking at. This mark should be easy to focus on, and the cells will be nearby. When you switch to the oil immersion lens, you only need to move it up or down (with the fine adjustment) no more than 1/3 turn. Also, make sure that the 10X lens is clean; a good rub with oil-free lens paper works best. If the concepts of colony-forming units and scientific notation are troublesome, click here for CFUs and here for scientific notation. Do not use Wikipedia for CFU as we explained in lab. According to the schedule, Appendix H will be required reading soon, and it should be helpful regarding terminology (including scientific names). ------------------------------------------ Thursday, February 7, 2013In the box on the right, I have posted links to some review questions (mostly taken from quizzes in previous semesters) to give you an idea of the kinds of questions we may ask in the in-lab quizzes and also occasionally in the "Take-Home Exercises." The numbers refer to the experiment numbers in the manual and go all the way to Experiment 17. The first in-lab quiz will cover Experiments 1 through 7 plus the relevant material in the Appendices. On a Take-Home Exercise given last semester, I asked for definitions of bacteria and colony-forming unit – a couple terms we have gone over already in lab. Unfortunately the common answer for colony-forming unit was the first sentence one comes to in the Wikipedia article on the subject. Wrong! That sentence obviously defines nothing, and later on in the article we get a better idea as to what the term is about. However, the term is not necessarily restricted to counting bacteria! Stick with the manual and the material we are learning in lab – not something written by a relative amateur on Wikipedia. ------------------------------------------ Wednesday, February 6, 2013We have finally gotten the set date and time for the scheduled final for Microbiology 102, and it's a little earlier than what was mentioned in one or more sections last week. It is Wednesday, May 15 from 12:25 PM to 2:25 PM. If you were planning on taking the final according to on-line information which you may have previously picked up from the Registrar's Office, we can indeed honor that time. Also, as mentioned in the lab, we will have alternate times available for those who have exam time conflicts, too many exams in a short amount of time, etc. So, let's not worry about this till late April or so. Also, I presently plan on being away from Friday night through Sunday night. If the weather up north is bad, I actually may not make it back here until Monday night. As mentioned many times already, I am e-mailable. Keep an eye on these updates anyway. ------------------------------------------ Tuesday, February 5, 2013We now have a lost and found cabinet in the lab. It's the top cabinet (with glass door) that is closest to the front door of the lab. I have just been informed that the Friday Clean-up Crew found an Epi-Pen. If it's yours, please claim it soon. If you find you must miss a lab (due to sickness, interview, participation in an out-of-town athletic event, etc.), please note what we've written below about our attendance policy. Beyond that, you can e-mail me to let me know you'll be absent plus anything else. ------------------------------------------ Monday, February 4, 2013For the upcoming lab periods, always be sure to check the schedule well ahead of time for which lab experiments are coming up and also the things in the "items due" column. From time to time in these updates, I'll make note of certain associated items that need attention, but I won't always repeat what is happening or "due" on the schedule. Regarding this week in lab:
I am sure that going through the videos again will make a lot more sense, considering how we did these techniques this week in lab. Two things to especially keep in mind: (1) not to let the caps and plugs lay on the table during the transfer of cultures and (2) never to have any tube open and upright in the test tube rack while making transfers. If the diagram on page 92 cannot be followed, it is perfectly OK to handle one tube at a time. ------------------------------------------ Monday, February 4, 2013A special announcement: The Kick-Off Meeting for VIDA (Volunteers for Intercultural and Definitive Adventures) meets Tuesday this week. Click on this. ------------------------------------------ Tuesday, January 29, 2013For most lab sessions throughout the semester, I will be passing out a handout showing a list of the materials (media, cultures, samples) with their color key as we can't mark each item individually as to what it is. The one for this week is here. ------------------------------------------ Monday, January 28, 2013As pointed out in our first lab meeting, there are a number of things to read over for this week's lab:
If you were unable to get the lab manual in time for this week's lab, the relevant pages are here. There are eight downloadable pages. Looking ahead to Experiment 3B – our first virtual lab – it would help to first go through our "Introduction to the Virtual Lab Experience" which is here. Then, for Exp. 3B, click here and scroll down to Period 4 in the experiment which is part of the Department's on-line general lab manual. In Period 4, there is a misprint regarding the directions for the acid-fast stain; it's actually on page 119. For virtual experiments in general, assume that the procedures have been done, and you are recording the results for which there is space in the manual. There will be nothing to hand in, although the material can show up on quizzes and the final. These days I tend to be at work here Sunday thru Thursday rather than Monday thru Friday. Except for brief periods on Fridays and Saturdays when I am in the land of limited internet access, I can access emails OK. ------------------------------------------ Tuesday, January 15, 2013Welcome to the Microbiology 102 Website where we find it easy to post course announcements and links to relevant material on the web. These things are equivalent to Course News and Content found on Learn@UW. Eventually we will utilize Learn@UW for posting grades. Information on obtaining the Lab Manual and other supplies for the semester is on our course syllabus which is posted here. On our first day in lab, we will be passing out the hard copies of the Syllabus and Schedule. If you have not obtained the manual for doing the lab work on the first or second period, we will supply a handout with the necessary information. This material is already on-line and linked from the box on the right so that you can look it over early. You will find that the Lab Manual (which is usually updated for each semester) will be our primary source of essential information for Microbiology 102. Going along with the Syllabus, here are some good things to know:
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