PROFESSOR: Dr. L.J. Albright (albright@sfu.ca)                               OFFICE: B8269 (Phone: 291-3193)

COURSE DESCRIPTION: An in-depth examination of topics and themes in Microbiology that are not fully covered and explored in BiSc 303.

Course topics will include:

1. New and emerging bacterial diseases
2. New and emerging viral/prion diseases
3. Antimicrobial chemotherapy-Newer antibiotics and antiviral treatments
4. B and T cells: activation and interaction
5. Immune disorders and hypersensitivities
6. Clinical Microbiology
7. Selected aspects of epidemiology
8. Microbiology of selected foods
9. Tour of winery or brewery
10. Environmental and sewage microbiology
11. Tour of sewage treatment plant
12. Microbiology of extreme environments
13. Gnotobiology
14. Beneficial microbe-plant associations
15. Toxic and harmful phytoplankton and cyanobacteria

REQUIRED TEXT: Microbiology, Third Edition Prescott, Harley and Klein, Wm. C. Brown , Toronto,1996, ISBN 0-697-29390-4

TENTATIVE MARK DISTRIBUTION:

Midterm examination: 20 %

Term paper or class presentation: 20 %

Final Examination: 60 %