Lec #

Date

Topic

Textbook Reading for 12 edition (additional reading to be assigned)

1

M Mar 31

Overview

2

W Apr 2

Review of metabolism

pp. 39-40 (section 2.8),

107-140 (Chapter 5)

3

F Apr 4

Phylogeny and classification.

pp. 374-397

4

M Apr 7

·             Origin of life, early evolution, “primitive” metabolisms

·             Archaea

pp. 487-515 (Chapter 17)

5

W Apr 9

Anaerobic respiration

·             Anaerobic lithotrophs

·             Methanogenic Archaea

·             Earliest CO₂ fixation (?)—the acetyl CoA pathway

pp. 367-374

pp. 624-641 (Chap. 21 sub-chapter II)

6

F Apr 11

Methanogens, cont.

Continued

7

M Apr 14

Anaerobic respiration, cont.

·             Anaerobic organotrophs--the sulfate reducers

·             Other anaerobic respirers—the iron reducers and nitrate reducers

Continued

8

W Apr 16

The fermenters--lactic acid bacteria, propionic acid bacteria, clostridia and acetogens

pp. 446-450 (section 16.1),

456-457 (section 16.4),

171-172 (section 6.18),
450-454 (section 16.2)

9

F Apr 18

Anaerobic ecosystems

pp. 622-624 (section 21.5),

695-699 (Chap. 24 Sub-chapter I),
640-641

M Apr 21

First Exam, lectures 1-9

10

W Apr 23

Methylotrophs (Miller)

pp. 410-412 (section 15.6),

643-644 (section 21.16)

11

F Apr 25

Phototrophs

·             Purple sulfur bacteria

·             Purple non-sulfur bacteris

·             Green sulfur bacteria

·             Green non-sulfur bacteria

·             Oxygenic phototrophs-the cyanobacteria and the chloroplasts

pp. 579-589 (sections 20.1-20.4),

400-403 (section 15.2),

474-476 (section 16.15),

481-482 (section 16.18)

pp. 589-591 (section 20.5),

463-468 (Chap. 16 sub-chapter III)

12

M Apr 28

Phototrophs, continued

Continued

13

W Apr 30

Aerobic organotrophs

The facultative aerobes

Bioremediation

pp. 413-423 (sections 15.7-15.11),

641-643 (sections 21.14-21.15),

709-713 (sections 24.8-24.9)

14

F May 2

Aerobic chemolithotrophs

·             The nitrifiers

·             The sulfur oxidizers

·             The iron oxidizers

pp. 595-604 (Chap. 20 sub-chapter III),

717-720 (section 24.11),

699-705 (Chap. 24 sub-chapter II), 705-708 (section 24.6),

430-431 (section 15.15)

15

M May 5

continued

continued

16

W May 7

Nitrogen fixation

pp. 604-609 (Chap. 20 sub-chapter IV),

416-418 (section 15.9),

465 (about heterocysts)

17

F May 9

Rhizobium-legume symbiosis

pp. 725-731 (section 24.15)

18

M May 12

Review of metabolic diversity

pp. 695-705 (Chap. 24 sub-chapters I and II)

W May 14

Second Exam, lectures 10-18

19

F May 16

Environmental genomics/systems ecology (Parsek)

20

M May 19

Biofilms (Parsek)

pp. 677-680

21

W May 21

Bdellovibrio (Gray)

pp. 428-429 (Bdellovibrio)

22

F May 23

Parasitism--Agrobacterium, rickettsias, chlamydias, nanoarchaea

p. 345 (Table 13.1)

pp. 501-502 (Nanoarchaeum)

pp. 724-725 (section 24.14)

pp. 775-777 (section 26.10)

M May 26

Holiday

23

W May 28

Multicellularity in the bacteria—myxobacteria and actinomycetes

pp. 436-438 (section 15.17), 459-463 (section 16.6)

24

F May 30

Special adaptations in bacterial cells--motility, taxis, positioning, appendages, spores

·             Spirochetes

·             Gliding motility

·             Magnetotaxis

·             Gas vacuoles

·             Prosthecate bacteria

·             Planctomyces

·             Endospore forming bacteria

pp. 477-480 (section 16.16)

pp. 428-429 (magnetotactic spirilla)

pp. 89-96 (sections 4.11-4.12)

pp. 100-102 (section 4.14)

pp. 431-435 (section 15.16)

pp. 450-454 (section 16.2)

pp. 470-472 (sections 16.10-16.11)

25

M Jun 2

Symbiosis (Gray)

pp. 714-724 (sections 24.10-24.13)

26

W Jun 4

Luminescent bacteria (Gray)

pp. 423-425 (section 15.12)

pp. 233-234 (section 9.6)

27

F Jun 6

Question-answer session

M Jun 9

Final Exam, lectures 19-27 and comprehensive, 2:30 - 4:20 p.m.