Exploring Symbiotic Microbial Diversity in Marine Sponges
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum: Laboratory
9/12/2000 by Malcolm Hill, April Hill, Olivia Harriott
The purpose of this laboratory activity is for students to examine
bacterial symbiont
communities harbored by marine sponges using molecular protocols.
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A Start-up Manual for Undergraduate Research Students in Microbiology:
Active Learning from the Very Beginning
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum: Laboratory
5/1/2000 by Keri Law, Min-Ken Liao, Rachel Lamb
This start-up manual accomplishes two main goals: time effectiveness and education
through active learning. |
Undergraduate Epidemiology and Case Studies
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by M. M. (Kelly) Cowan
How can you teach epidemiology without problems and case studies? But before I respond to that question, let me describe the course in question, its goals, and the target student population.
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Case/Problem-Based Approach to Teaching Microbiology
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Kim Finer
Case-based or problem-based learning offers an attractive alternative to the lecture format. Strengths of this approach include the fact that students can apply their own experiences and previous knowledge. |
Problem-Based Learning Groups in Large Classes:
What I Have Learned the Hard Way
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Florence Schmieg
The above two scenarios suggest different potential difficulties when using groups to solve problems in a large class. In part, this is true. Yet I have found more similarities than differences. |
Building Teams of Diverse Students to Cooperatively
Solve Problems of Microbial Origin
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Janine Trempy
The most effective method, however, was cooperative learning where students taught each other and were involved in using the material. This method had a greater than 90% retention rate. |
A Diversity of Strategies for a Diversity of Learning Styles:
A Recipe for Success
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Beverly Smith
In this article I will further examine learning styles, as defined by Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory (LSI), and provide examples of activities best suited for each type of learner. |
Microbiology Education:
A New Venue for Scholarship in Microbiology Education
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Spencer Benson, Amy Vollmer
We are pleased to announce a new venue, a peer-reviewed publication, Microbiology Education. |
Focus on Microbiology Education Newsmagazine - Spring 2000
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/2000 by Multiple Authors
Features articles on teaching undergraduate microbiology. The issue's theme is "Teaching Techniques." |
Microbial Revolution
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Linda Sherwood
Taxonomists were not the only ones impacted by Woese’s discoveries. Every teacher of microbiology faced the same dilemma: what to teach and how to teach it. |
To Three or Not to Three, That is the Question
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Leslie Lichtenstein
Teaching classification seemed to be on lots of minds last winter. Whether to teach Whittaker’s Five Kingdoms, Woese’s Three Domains, or some combination of both generated lots of responses on two listservs. |
Molecular Phylogeny in the Undergraduate Microbiology Laboratory
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Jeffrey Newman
Using of molecular data to have students to solve a real laboratory problem, the identification of their unknown microbe. |
Bacterial Taxonomy: Melding Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Janet Siefert
In 1977, Carl Woese and George Fox at the Univ. of Illinois proposed a radical idea in taxonomy. One of the most striking implications of this research, and the subsequent technical advances of genetic sequencing, was its impact on bacterial taxonomy. |
Learning Styles and Microbiology Education:
a New Emphasis in a New Millennium
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Beverly Smith
As educators, we are continually trying to understand the natures of our students and to define what we must do for them if they are to learn our subject. |
You are not Alone!
Report from the UK
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Joanna Verran
Having attended a couple of the ASM Undergraduate Microbiology Education conferences and the recent Gordon Conference, I thought members might like to know a little about how other microbiologists active in education disseminate some of their work. |
Focus on Microbiology Education Newsmagazine - Winter 2000
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/2000 by Multiple Authors
Features articles on teaching undergraduate microbiology. The issue's theme is "Microbial Revolution." |
Diversity and Strategies of Viral Genomes
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum: Classroom
1/6/2000 by Laura Kingsford, Daryle Waechter-Brulla
Students work in small groups to sequentially examine the variety of modes by
which the genomes are replicated and the dependence of mechanism upon the form of nucleic
acid. |
Nematophagous Fungi - Catenaria anguillulae Endoparasite
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
1/1/2000 by Birgit Nordbring-Hertz, Hans-Börje Jansson, Trude Hard
Figure 1. Catenaria anguillulae zoospores. Figure 2. C. anguillulae aggregation of zoospores. Figure 3. C. anguillulae development of sporangia. Figure 4. C. anguillulae release of zoospores. |
Nematophagous Fungi - Arthrobotrys oligospora
Nematode-Trapping Fungus
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
1/1/2000 by Birgit Nordbring-Hertz
Figure 1. Arthrobotrys oligospora scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Figures 2 - 5 A. oligospora capture, penetration, and digestion. |
Nematophagous Fungi - Dactylaria brochopaga Nematode-Trapping Fungus
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
1/1/2000 by Birgit Nordbring-Hertz, Hans-Börje Jansson, Trude Hard
Figure 1. Dactylaria brochopaga closing of the ring trap. Figure 2. D. brochopaga captured nematode. Figure 3. D. brochopaga penetration. |
