COURSE CONTENTS (Spring 2006)

• Course overview
• Student learning objectives
• Course syllabus (pdf)
• Tentative lecture schedule Spring 2006 (pdf)
• Useful links
  • Microbial Pathogenesis
  • Microbial Genetics
  • Online textbooks
  • Microbiology resources
  • Search engines
  • Glossaries
  • Career information

OTHER LINKS

• Medical Microbiology
• Microbiology and Immunology online
• Immunobiology
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (This is a very useful site but access requires you to enter via the SDSU library -- this link will take you to the proper library page, then simply double click on Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.)
• Ken Todar's online textbook - Bacteriology

• Microbe information
• Micro-Encyclopedia
• CDC list of health topics (includes bacteria and viral pathogens)
• CDC list of viral and rickettsial diseases
• Photos of pathogens
• Antibiotics
• Phage
• Virology

• American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has numerous resources for microbiologists, both professional microbiologists, graduate students, and undergraduates (and the membership fee is very cheap for students)

• PubMed - a good first place to search for information about a particular microbiology topic
• Google Microbiology - links to a variety of microbiology related sites

• Microbial Genetics Glossary
• Microbiology Glossary
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Glossary
• General Genetics Glossary
• Bioinformatics Glossary

What next?

• If you are interested in a career in microbiology, you might find the following sites useful:
  • American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Career resourcess includes information on a variety of career opportunities in microbiology and related fields.
  • Genetics Society of America (GSA) Career resources

• If you are interested in applying to graduate school, you may find the following resources useful:
  • Google University search
  • Google's list of academic Microbiology Departments

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