This course website has been retired and is archived here (as current for the Spring, 2008 term). Starting with the Spring term of 2008, the primary (and now exclusive) web portal for this course is the Learn@UW website where students go for course announcements, downloads and links to resources (and other useful things including grade summaries).
Topics addressed in the lab portion of the course generally have not been included on this website but have been part of a separate lab manual or set of handouts. As an example, click here for our yogurt protocol.

CALS Farm and Industry Short Course Program

The Archived
 FARM MICROBIOLOGY 
WEBSITE
FOR SPRING TERM, 2008

Welcome to our
Farm
Microbiology
Website.

E-mail the instructor at lindquis@bact.wisc.edu.

This website was developed for Farm Microbiology students in the Farm and Industry Short Course at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Much of the material in the archived lecture notes is based on that which was prepared by the previous instructor, Dr. Kenneth Todar.

Some of the images on this site are not ours. Credits are pending.

Course Syllabus for Spring Term, 2008 (PDF File).

Sample Mid-Term Quiz Questions (PDF File).

PDF Files of Lecture Outlines for Spring Term, 2008 (as posted at Learn@UW with notes inserted):

• Part 1: Introduction to Microbiology.
  
  
• Part 2: Basic Structure and Genetics of Bacteria.
  
  
• Part 3: Basic Metabolism and Nutrition of Bacteria.
  
  
• Part 4: Food Microbiology – General Principles.
  
  
• Part 5: Soil Microbiology, Cycling of Elements and Biodegradation.
  
  
• Part 6: Microbial Diseases of Humans, Animals and Plants.
  
  
• Part 7: Water and Wastewater Microbiology.
  

These notes may be helpful to clarify and expand on your own lecture notes. Not everything in these notes will be covered in any upcoming term, and additional material will be introduced. With quizzes and exams in mind – whether in-class or take-home – the lecture notes on our website cannot substitute for actual lecture attendance.

As an appendix, here are lecture notes accumulated and archived through Spring Term, 2006:

• Section 1 – Introduction to Microbiology.
  
• Section 2 – Basic Structure, Genetics, Habitats, Physiology, Nutrition and Growth of Bacteria.
  
• Section 3 – General Survey of Important Prokaryotes (Bacteria & Archae).
  
• Section 4 – Soil Microbiology, Cycling of Elements and Biodegradation.
  
• Section 5 – Food Microbiology – including the specialized areas of Dairy and Silage Microbiology.
  
• Section 6 – Microbial Diseases of Humans, Animals and Plants.
  
• Section 7 – Water and Wastewater Microbiology.

A growing list of relevant and interesting links:

• Some Ag History:  An overview written in 1862 concerning the state of American agriculture can be read here.
  

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