Journal Watch - Winter 2006
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/6/2006 by Jennifer Herzog
Journal articles of interest to microbiology educators. |
Web Watch - Winter 2006
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/6/2006 by Gary Kaiser
Websites of interest to microbiology educators. |
Focus on Microbiology Education Newsmagazine - Winter 2006
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/6/2006 by Multiple Authors
Features of articles on teaching undergraduate microbiology. The issue's theme is 'Teaching Students who want to be Nurses'. |
The Gram Stain: An Animated Approach
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Animation
12/16/2005 by Daniel Cavanaugh, Mark Keen
This animation demonstrates at a molecular level the interaction of the Gram's stain reagents in a step-by-step process with both the gram-negative and gram-positive cell envelope. |
Flu Shot Game
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Animation
11/17/2005 by Sanja Saftic, Matthias Amberg, Renzo Haettenschwieler, Bastiaan Van Rooden
Flu Shot is a colorful cartoon-style game that treats a serious issue, influenza, in a cheerful way and demonstrates the basic principles of infection and prevention by vaccination. |
Poxvirus Replication Cycle
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
11/17/2005 by M. Shannon Keckler
This annotated image illustrates the basic poxvirus replication cycle from entry of different virion types to release. |
Scanning Electron Microscopy of the Basidiomycetous Yeast Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous Teleomorphic Form
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
11/17/2005 by Carlos Echavarri-Erasun, Eric Johnson
A gallery of scanning electron microscopy images of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous strain UCD67-385 growing sexually in special agar under hydric, temperature, and nitrogen starvation stresses were taken at different magnifications. |
Multibudding in Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous Cells Under Hydric and Nitrogen Stress
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
11/17/2005 by Carlos Echavarri-Erasun
A gallery of scanning electron microscopy images of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous strain UCD67-385 growing in sporulation agar (except image "d") taken at different augments.
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Scanning Electron Microscopy of Phaffia rhodozyma Cells (Sexual State Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous)
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
11/17/2005 by Carlos Echavarri-Erasun, Eric Johnson
A gallery of scanning electron microscopy images of Phaffia rhodozyma strain UCD67-385 growing asexually taken at different magnifications: 1,000x, 4,000x, 5,000x, 10,000x, 8,000x, and 25,000x. |
Aspergillus spp.
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
11/17/2005 by David Treves, Candace Martens
Aspergillus niger images illustrating morphology of conidiophores. |
Penicillium spp.
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
11/17/2005 by Candace Martens, David Treves
Penicillium spp. prepared by slide culture and stained with lactophenol cotton blue. |
A Laboratory Class Exploring and Classifying Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria Using Culture-Based Approaches, Microscopy, and Pigment Analysis
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum: Laboratory
11/17/2005 by Sarah Boomer, Kelly Shipley
Students enrich for and identify anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria from local river and mud habitats using pigment absorption data, cell shape and organization, and growth conditions such as the presence or absence of sulfur. |
A Laboratory Class Exploring Microbial Diversity and Evolution Using Online Databases, the Biology Workbench, and Phylogenetics Software
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum: Laboratory
11/17/2005 by Sarah Boomer, Kelly Shipley, Bryan Dutton, Daniel Lodge
Students use 16S sequences and computational resources to obtain phylogenetic trees, enabling them to make predictions about unknown environmental sequences and enhancing their understanding of bacterial diversity and the large body of research about |
Exploring Microbial Diversity through a Microbe Collection
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum: Laboratory
11/17/2005 by Debra Wohl, Michael Lemke, Thomas Gorrell, Michael Levandowsky
Students learn about microbial diversity by building a microbe collection. This workbook provides a framework for students to collect diverse microorganisms from the environment. |
Trichuris trichiura Egg (phase-contrast microscopy)
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
11/17/2005 by Gustavo Gini
Trichuris trichura egg observed with a phase-contrast microscope. |
Yersinia enterocolitica Colony on MacConkey Agar
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
11/17/2005 by Gustavo Gini
Yersinia enterocolitica on MacConkey agar generates very tiny lactose negative colonies (0.5 to 0.7 mm); therefore the use of a stereoscopic microscope is mandatory in order to find this pathogen. |
Problem-Based Learning: A Patient Returning from Africa
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum: Classroom
11/17/2005 by Jan Jacobs, Astrid Visschers-Pleijers
Classroom activity for a tutorial group of 7 to 10 students and an instructor (tutor).
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Focus on Microbiology Education Newsmagazine - Fall 2005
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/13/2005 by Multiple Authors
Features articles on teaching undergraduate microbiology. The issue's theme is "how our students learn." |
Implications from a Study on Critical Thinking
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/13/2005 by Christopher Dobson
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Role-Playing for Active Learning about Extremophiles
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/13/2005 by Luti Erbežnik
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