The following schedule is tentative until each component is given.
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Week No.	General Topic(s)	Lab Topic	Test
1 May 20-21	General Intro to Prokaryotes, Bacteria and Viruses A Bacterial Family Tree	Beginning Project Honey (Print out that link!) Fundamental Bacteriological Methods Media making, sterilization, plating. Some types of Growth Media	For-credit Homework Assignment
2 May 27-28	Gram-Negative Bacteria Gram-Positive Bacteria Various methods for counting bacteria. Organic Chem Status-Chem Quiz	Project Honey - Next step Prep. for Project Neonatal Bacteriology (Print out that link!) More Fundamental Bacteriological Methods for showing the ubiquity and hardiness of microbes. Enumeration of live bacteria: determining cfu/ml; Making "plate counts"	Take-Home, Open-mouth, Open-Book Quiz
3 June 3-4	•Dr V is not here this week. Click for why. •DO ATTEND LECTURE! •To get you in the right mindset for the projects this summer: Watch "Medicine Man" (Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco.) •Homework assignment due the next lab period •Read the Syllabus - psych out Dr. V ! •Find your place on an Academic Family Tree	DO NOT ATTEND LAB!
4 June 10-11	Immunology: Pathogen Strategies, and Host Counter-Strategies	Beginning Microscopy General and Gram Staining (a mini-project) Beginning Project Two Solutions Quiz (retake)	ML Quiz #1
5 June 17-18	Microbial genetics, mutants, drug resistance, nutritional markers, "sexduction" Public Health Microbiology: drinking water; sewage treatment; landfills; foods (natural preservation, canning)	The Bacterial Growth Curve Analysis of Project #1 data Project #2's next step.	Mary Lou Quiz #2 Solutions Quiz (retake)
6 June 24-25	The Growth Curve and the Graphing thereof; Semi-log graph paper	Microscopy and differential plating of the baby bacteria	ML #3 Solutions Quiz (retake)
7 July 1-2	Microbial Genomes and Genome Replication The Lac-Operon & CHEMICAL ANALOGS ML-quiz: DNA is the genetic material	The Growth Curve of E. coli Induction of the Lac-Operon Final Characterization of the baby bacteria   Protease and Amylase production   G(+) or G(-)?	ML #4 Solutions Quiz (retake)
8 July 8-9	Enumeration of Bacteria:   MPN method ML quiz #5	Running the MPN method on surface waters collected locally	ML #5 Solutions Quiz (retake)
9 July 15-16	Waste Water Treatment ML quiz #6	Results of the MPN analysis Writing session	Last ML Quiz Solutions Quiz (retake)
10 July 22-23	Write Up Final Reports Evening	FINAL EXAM