Lecture TWO (continued)

2. Some Golden Threads We'll Follow Through this Course

   1. Practical Level

      1. Awareness of the usually invisible microbial world (The story of the doctors and the farmers.)

      2. Infection Control

         1. Those in the medical professions MUST know this (contagion)

         2. Those in the research professions MUST know this (axenic methods)

      3. Most of the Basic Techniques

         1. Proving your skill to both the instructor and to yourself

         2. Job application list of skills

   2. Intellectual Level

      1. Taxonomy

      2. Production, manufacturing, refining, waste treatment, purification

      3. Pyramid of Life and ecology

      4. Bacteriology versus Microbiology

      5. Disease ("germs" versus microbes)

         1. Pathogens' strategies

         2. Host counter-strategies (immunology)

      6. Probiotics

      7. and hundreds of other aspects