Microbiology

MMG433, Microbial Genomics
• Primarily undergraduate but available to graduate students taught every spring semester.
• Offers opportunity to explore evolutionary, ecological and functional aspects of microbial genomes.
• Lecture followed by direct analysis of genes and genomes in computer-based laboratory.
• Primary focus on genomes of prokaryotes.
• Goal is to provide students with the skills necessary to conduct thoughtful and quantitative analyses of the diversity of microbial communities.
•The course includes consideration of the generation and maintenance of microbial diversity as well as biological indices and contemporary statistical tools used to evaluate diversity.
•Students will participate in the annotation of a newly sequenced bacterial genome using state of the art annotation tools.
Course: 3 credits
Class Meets: Tu,Th 10:20-11:10am -- lab available 11:45-2:30
Taught by: Rob Britton, Tom Schmidt, and Pat Venta
Contact: Rob Britton rbritton@msu.edu

MMG803, Topics in Integrative Microbial Biology
• Graduate course available 2008 spring semester.
• Microbes will be the main organismal focus, the conceptual focus will be on formulating and testing a wide range of evolutionary hypotheses.
Course: 2 credits
Course Description
Taught by: Rich Lenski and two postdocs - Jeff Barrick and Carla Davidson
Contact: Rich Lenski lenski@msu.edu