Distance Education: Challenges, Paradigms, and Pathways for Success
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/2002 by Tracy Russo, Spencer Benson
The technology revolution in communication has reshaped and transformed
our lives and professions in ways few envisioned. |
Creating a Website of Reusable Learning Objects for Use
in Teaching Microbiology Lecture to both Traditional
and Web-Based Students
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/2002 by Gary Kaiser
I would like to share with you the evolution of my website, The
Grapes of Staph (http://www.cat.cc.md.us/~gkaiser/goshp.html),
that I use both in a smart classroom to instruct |
Virtual Laboratory Instruction Online: Interview with a Traitor
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/2002 by Michael Dennis
The following is a fictionalized interview conducted with Michael Dennis by a fellow microbiology educator (FME) for the Focus on Microbiology Education newsletter. |
The Education Conference Remains a Valuable Tool for Microbiologists
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/2002 by Indiren Pillay, Frances Hite
Against the beautiful backdrop of snow-capped mountains and the Great Salt Lake, the 2002 Undergraduate Microbiology Education Conference was held on the University of Utah campus from May 17 to May 19. |
"Best Practices"—a Perennial Favorite
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/2002 by Bruce Alexander
Each year when I return to Chapel Hill from my annual pilgrimage to the combined ASM Undergraduate Education and General Meetings, colleagues ask about the different sessions I attended. |
Summary of Bioterrorism Curriculum Recommendations from the Ninth ASM Undergraduate Education Conference in Salt Lake City
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/2002 by Neil Baker
One of the outcomes of the Ninth ASM Undergraduate Education Conference held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in May, 2002, was a set of curriculum recommendations for teaching bioterrorism. |
Web Watch - Fall 2002
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/2002 by Indiren Pillay
The internet is a wonderful resource – and a vast pool of information. Some of this information is good and some is not. |
Focus on Microbiology Education Newsmagazine - Fall 2002
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/2002 by Multiple Authors
Features articles on teaching undergraduate microbiology. The issue's theme is "On-Line Learning & 2002 Undergraduate Microbiology Education Conference Highlights." |
Do-It-Yourself Immunoglobulin Gene Rearrangement
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum: Classroom
9/30/2002 by Wendy Gorman
This exercise provides students hands-on experience in rearranging immunoglobulin gene segments, starting with germ line DNA, forming rearranged DNA, transcribing primary and mRNA, translating the final heavy chain protein, and switching isotypes. |
Cholera Toxin Mechanism of Action
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
8/29/2002 by Todd Primm
This single image file shows the steps of action of cholera toxin, beginning at protein synthesis in the bacteria and proceeding through all of the major known steps of interaction with the host cell. |
Giemsa-Stained Bovine Adenovirus (Adenoviridae)-Infected Bovine Fetal Spleen Cells Showing Inclusions
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
8/29/2002 by Erica Suchman, Carol Blair
This micrograph shows Giemsa-stained bovine adenovirus-infected bovine fetal spleen cells 96
hours post infection at a magnification of 200x.
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Giemsa-Stained Bovine Enterovirus (Picornaviridae)-Infected Bovine Fetal Spleen Cells Showing Cytopathic Effects
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
8/29/2002 by Erica Suchman, Carol Blair
This micrograph shows Giemsa-stained bovine enterovirus-infected bovine fetal spleen cells 24
hours post infection at a magnification of 200x.
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Biochemical Test Media for Lab Unknown Identification—Part 1
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
8/29/2002 by Jackie Reynolds
Different agar plate and tube media reactions are included in this group of images. |
Biochemical Test Media for Lab Unknown Identification—Part 3
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
8/29/2002 by Jackie Reynolds
Different agar plate and tube media reactions are included in this group of images. |
Biochemical Test Media for Lab Unknown Identification—Part 2
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
8/29/2002 by Jackie Reynolds
Different agar plate and tube media reactions are included in this group of images. |
Direct Smear Atlas
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
8/1/2002 by Jerry Laurich
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Introduction to Risk Comparisons
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum: Classroom
7/11/2002 by Daryle Waechter-Brulla
Students compare risks, which they convert from different formats
(typically fractions) into decimal then exponential numbers, and
plot them on a logarithmic scale. |
Blood-borne Pathogen Training, Practice, and
Critique of Cinematic Misportrayals
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum: Classroom
7/11/2002 by Daryle Waechter-Brulla
Three activities are described: an abbreviated blood-borne pathogen (BBP) training session,
a BBP spill cleanup, and a critique of BBP mishaps in the movie
Outbreak. |
Kinetic of Listeria monocytogenes growth on PTFE and stainless steel according to the temperature
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
6/27/2002 by Patrick Chavant, Michel Hebraud, Brigitte Martinie
SEMs of L. monocytogenes biofilm formation at 37°C, 20°C, and 8°C on stainless steel and PTFE. |
Bacillus sp. isolated from compost at 55°C
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
5/7/2002 by Frederick Michel
This is a scanning electron micrograph of a Bacillus strain isolated from hot compost (60°C). |
