CALS Farm and Industry Short Course Program

The Archived
 FARM MICROBIOLOGY 
WEBSITE

This course website was retired with the Spring Term of 2008, and some of the material utilized throughout my tenure in teaching the lecture part of this course is archived here. Of late, the Learn@UW website became the web portal for students to go for course announcements, downloads, links to resources, and other useful things such as grade summaries.


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

Sample Mid-Term Quiz Questions (PDF File).

PDF File of Lab Manual:

  • Lab Exercises. This manual has been in continuous development. If the course is taught again, the following will be included: coliform detection, the sauerkraut fermentation, lithotrophic processes in the soil, and isolation of purple non-sulfur photosynthetic bacteria with an assessment of their ability to produce hydrogen (H2).
  • Appendix I – Aseptic Technique Procedures.
  • Appendix II – Staining Procedures.
  • Appendix III – The Microscope.

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

HTML Files of Lecture Notes developed 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.
 CALS Farm and Industry Short Course Home Page.
 Bacteriology Department Web Site.
 An interesting slice of Ag History.

Content of site last modified on
9/2/10 at 9:30 AM, CDT.
John Lindquist: homepage, site outline.