POINT/COUNTERPOINT: Does Dilution a Microbiology Lab Make? and When Is A Dilution Not A Dilution? When The Students Don't Learn From It
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/1996 by Samuel Fan
What is dilution? A loaded question, with many potential answers. Dilution might be divided into two phases--calculation and execution. |
Life's Little Irritations
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/1996 by Ed Alcamo
Over the years I have experienced a number of irritations that seem to keep popping up in writings, presentations, and other media. I thought I would share a few with you (probably out of exasperation more that anything else) |
Anaerobic Bacteriology Simplified
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/1996 by Colleen Gannon
Anaerobic bacteria are important pathogens. They are involved in virtually any type of bacterial infection in humans, and they play a major role in most commonly encountered categories of infection. |
Protozoa
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/1996 by Sally Johnson
Poem about protozoa from the Student Corner. |
Focus on Microbiology Education Newsmagazine - Spring 1996
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/1996 by Multiple Authors
Features articles on teaching undergraduate microbiology. The issue's theme is "Assessment." |
Writing As A Way of Learning Microbiology
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/1996 by William Coleman, Barbara Emmel
Most microbiology instructors are familiar with writing as an activity which students engage in, at our request, to prove they have learned the subject. However, writing can do more than measure a student's knowledge. |
POINT/COUNTERPOINT: The Use of Animals in Microbiology Education
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/1996 by Samuel Fan, Jeffrey Sich
An argument for and against the use of animals in the microbiology classroom. |
Elemental Sulfur Reduction by Facultative Anaerobes as an Educational Tool
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/1996 by Duane Moser, Kenneth Nealson
Elemental sulfur-dependent growth in the facultative anaerobe Shewanella putrefaciens represents a unique model system for the demonstration of basic microbiological and ecological principles. |
Student Acquisition of the Concept of Virus
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/1996 by Charlotte Mulvihill
What does it take for a microbiology student to acquire the concept of "virus"? At the end of the microbiology course I have often been amazed and discouraged when some students are still saying virus when they mean bacterium, and vice versa. |
The 1995 Undergraduate Microbiology Education Conference
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/1996 by Sean Ervin
The Second Undergraduate Microbiology Education Conference was held 19 to 21 May 1995, at Marymount College in Arlington, Virginia. |
Focus on Microbiology Education Newsmagazine - Winter 1996
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
2/1/1996 by Multiple Authors
Features articles on teaching undergraduate microbiology. The issue's theme is "Writing as a Way of Learning Microbiology." |
Technology in a Teaching Environment
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/1995 by Gloria Delisle
This article is intended as an introduction to the world of technology in a teaching environment. |
POINT/COUNTERPOINT: The Laboratory: Is It an Essential Component of the Introductory Microbiology Course?
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/1995 by Judy Kandel, Rod Anderson
These two Point-Counterpoint articles discuss a controversial subject: Should a microbiology course contain a laboratory component? |
Aquatic Hyphomycetes
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/1995 by Dorothy May
Microorganisms play a central role in the return of organic matter to the soil. In temperate forests, a large portion of this organic matter is leaf litter. Aquatic hyphomycetes are adapted to decompose leaf litter at low temperatures in the freshwater st |
Focus on Microbiology Education Newsmagazine - Fall 1995
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
10/1/1995 by Multiple Authors
Features articles on teaching undergraduate microbiology. The issue's theme is "Technology in the Classroom." |
Microbiology Education: The Issues of Balance and Breadth
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/1995 by Michael Pelczar Jr.
In this brief commentary about academic programs for the education/training of microbiologists, I wish to reiterate some of the concerns that have been expressed about these programs. |
POINT / COUNTERPOINT: Microbiological Safety in the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/1995 by Christine Case, Jean Douthwright
Since the method of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus was uncovered, questions have arisen about the safety of standard microbiological experiments. |
Dry Slide Technology in the Teaching Laboratory
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/1995 by John Lennox
Attending conferences such as last year's American Society for Microbiology meeting in Las Vegas is a treat for even the most dedicated and conscientious teacher. |
Focus on Microbiology Education Newsmagazine - Spring 1995
MicrobeLibrary Article: Focus on Microbiology Education
5/1/1995 by Multiple Authors
The inaugural issue of FOME Newsmagazine featuring articles on teaching undergraduate microbiology. |
Cystic Fibrosis Series I
MicrobeLibrary Visual: Image
Prior to 1/1/2002 by Gloria Delisle
These bacteria produce a green pigment when grown on
agar plates in the laboratory (Fig. 1). A Gram stain of the bacterial colonies is
typical of these gram-negative pleomorphic bacilli (Fig. 2). |
