Microscopic Animals

Go to the Rotifers: the microscopic animals:
http://ridge.icu.ac.jp/biobk/BioBookDiversity_7.html

Physical and Chemical Control of Microbes

To download handout, click here.

Mid term Exam: Fall 2011

Dear Students

Your Mid-Term Examination will be conducted on Thursday December 15, 2011 during Lab timings.

Timings & Place: 11:00 am in S-321

Total Marks: 50, Weight-age: 25%, Time allowed: 1.5 hours

Pattern:
MCQs 20 Marks

Short questions and Diagrams 10+10 Marks

Long questions 5+5 Marks

Course Topics: Introductory topics, History of microbiology, classification of microorganisms, ultrastructure of a bacterial cell, environmental microbiology, physical and chemical control of microorganisms.

Please be on time, no extra time will be given if you are late.

Good luck.

Environmental Microbiology

To download handouts click here.

Projects assigned for the Fall 2011

Dear Students

Below are the topics of projects for your Microbiology course:

1. Isolation, purification and identification of bacteria from different soil samples.
2. Isolation, purification and identification of bacteria from different food samples (types will be assigned).
3. Isolation, purification and identification of bacteria from different water samples.
4. Isolation, purification and identification of fungi from different sources (sources will be assigned).
5. Isolation, purification and identification of algae from different sources.

Select any of the topics and discuss during class or come to see me during my office hours.

Date & Information for Quiz 1

Dear Students

Your first quiz will be conducted on Monday November 14, 2011 during your class time. Please be on time.

Format, topics and weight-age of the quiz
Weight-age: 5%
Marks: 15
Format: MCQs and short questions including diagrams.
Topics: History and scope of microbiology, classification of microorganisms.

Good luck

Handouts of ultrastructure of bacteria

To download click here.

Handouts of Lecture 3

Two powerpoint presentations were used for the lecture, below are their links:
Presentation 1 (slides 2-4) click here.
Presentation 2 (slides 4-onward) click here.

APA Style Help

Dear Students,

You have to follow the APA style while writing your assignments in both theory and lab. Here are some links that describe the styles of "in-text citations" and "citations list" at the end.

Link 1: click here

Link 2: click here
For a tutorial (Slides 15-25): click here

Fall 2011 Class: Welcome to the Course & Course Outline

Dear Students
Welcome to the course. This course is designed to give you an introductory knowledge of microbiology as this is required in biology and specifically biotechnology. Biotechnology depends a lot upon the use of microorganisms for developing technologies in industry, environment, health, agriculture, animal-based industry and many more. This course is designed to prepare you to study advanced courses in microbiology.
Good Luck.
For downloading course outline: click here.

Microbial genetics

Click below to download
Microbial Genetics

Link to download Medically Important Bacteria Handouts

Link below:
Medically Important Bacteria

Link to download Applied Microbiology Handouts

Applied Microbiology Handouts, below.
Click here

Summer 2011: Final Examination

Dear Students

Your final examination of BIOL 315 will be conducted on Tuesday Aug 09, 2011 in the Lab S-329 at 08.00 am. The pattern of exam is MCQs, short questions and a long question, weightage is 30%.
Please be on time.

Structure of viruses

Link below to download:

http://www.microbiologybytes.com/introduction/structure.html

Introduction to virus

An Introduction to the Viruses

View more presentations from DominicDR

Microbial metabolism - an online book

Microbial metabolism

microbial metabolism

Physical and Chemical Control of Microbes

Physical and Chemical Control of Microbes transparencies

Bacterial Growth 2

Bacterial Growth

Course Topics and Paper Pattern for the Mid-term Exam

Introduction and history of microbiology, classification of microorganisms, ultrastructure of bacteria, environmental microbiology / microbes in nature and bacterial growth.

Paper Pattern
Total Marks = 40
Weight-age = 20%
Marks distribution is 20 MCQs, 10 marks short questions and a long question of 10 marks.

Mid-term Examination of the Summer Course 2011

Dear Students
Your Mid-term Examination will be conducted on Monday, July 18, 2011 in S-329 at 09:45 am.
Please be on time.

Introduction and History of Microbio

BIOL 315 Intro and History of Micro

Ultrastructure of Bacteria b

ultrastructure bacterium b

Ultrastructure of Bacteria a

ultrastructure bacterium a

Classification of Microorganisms

classification of microorganisms

Microbes in nature

microbes in nature

Quiz 1

Dear Students
Your quiz 1 will be conducted on Monday, 11th July, 2011 during the class. Topic of the quiz is "ultrastructure of bacteria". You can get handout and reading material from the photocopier in S-Block.
Good luck

Welcome to The Summer 2011 Class

Dear Students
You are welcome to the course. This blog is created for the info-sharing for the BIOL 315 course. You can visit the blog to know about any updates.

Vaccine strategies

http://www.susanahalpine.com/anim/KubyHTML/vaccine.htm

Mid-term Examination

Dear Students

Your Mid-term Examination for BIOL 315 will be conducted on Fri 8th April, 2011 at 2.00 pm in Room No. S-331.

Please be on time.

Assignment/Project Submission Deadline

Dear Students

Last date for submission of your assignment/project is Wed 18th May, 2011. Late submission will lead to deduction of marks.

Biol 315 Project Topics (Spring 2011)

Biol 315 Project Topics Spring 2011

Rubric for Assignment

Rubric for making Assignment

	Criteria	Weight-age %	Outstanding (10 points)	Good (8 points)	Fair (6 points)
1	Knowledge on the subject / concept	20	Excellent, clear	Clear, drops concepts somewhere	Concept not very clear
2	Recent and Relevant Literature cited	20	Most recent Literature & Relevant Literature	1. Recent not relevant 2. Relevant not recent*	Not recent Less relevant
3	Organization of material / concepts	20	Very well organized	Organized but have some lapses	Not organized in a logical sequence
4	Clearly described subject in text	10	Concept described clearly, concept-wise	- Clear but confused somewhere - Clear but out of sequence somewhere	Not very clear
5	Use of diagrams / flowcharts	10	Excellent - Diagrams / flow charts used to explain concept	Good - few diagrams OR - few flow charts	Poor - No illustration (diagrams, flow charts)
6	Referencing Style	20	Correctly followed given format	Partially followed format	Not followed / No references

*If the field is not worked out in recent times, then acceptable

Dr Saba Butt

Assistant Professor

How to make Assignment?

How to Make Assignment?                                                              BIOL 315

You are expected to follow the instructions below:

Pattern

Your assignment should include:

-          Title page (well-organized)

-          Summary (about 250-300 words)

-          Introduction (including literature review)

-          Text

-          References (according to prescribed format)

Literature Review

Your assignment should include:

-          Relevant references from books, journals, periodicals and websites (from books and research-based journals are must)

-          Recent references should be included (preferably last 5 years review)

Reference Format

Your assignment should follow:

-          Pakistan Journal of Botany in references/citations in the text

-          Pakistan Journal of Botany in references/citations in the end (as end notes)

A copy of an article from the “Pakistan Journal of Botany” is available with the S-Block photocopier for you. 
OR
You can download any article from the Journal website through URL below:
http://www.pakbs.org

Plagiarism

The FCC policy for plagiarism will be strictly applied to all the assignments submitted. If you violated the policy, you may lose marks in part or may be all of your marks.

You can find the FCC plagiarism policy in the “student handbook”.

Dr Saba Butt

Assistant Professor

Reference Formatting

Dear Students

Below is the link that will lead you to the website of "Pakistan Journals of Botany". You can download any article and use its "Reference Style" as pattern for your assignment to be submitted.

http://www.pakbs.org/pjbot/pjhtmls/PJB.html

A Page of a Professor with Microbiology Images

http://biology.mcgill.ca/faculty/fussmann/pictureGallery.html

The Insulin "Vaccine" in Clinical Trials

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/10/2348.abstract

Physical state of water in bacterial spores

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19892742

What are Microbial Biofilms?

http://www.cs.montana.edu/ross/personal/intro-biofilms-s1.htm

Textbook of Bacteriology - Online

http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/

Microbiology Methods

http://www.microbiologyprocedure.com/microbiological-methods/microbiological-methods.htm

Biotechnology - Heritage Conservation

http://www.biotech-weblog.com/50226711/using_biotechnology_in_cultural_heritage_conservation.php

An Open Access Journal in Microbiology

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmb/

Microscopic Fungus which Speeds Rice Growth

http://en.mercopress.com/2010/06/11/swiss-researchers-uncover-microscopic-fungus-which-speeds-rice-growth

Movies on Bacterial Motility

http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/motility.html

Movies on Protists

http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/protists/exhibition.htm

Current Protocols

http://www.currentprotocols.com/

A Good Website for Videos on Microbiology Technique

http://www.tgw1916.net/movies.html

Journal: Trends in Microbiology

http://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/

A Lecture on New Trends in Microbiology

http://www.interacademies.net/File.aspx?id=7724

Zones of Inhibition

Microbiology Links

Find below are some very useful links for microbiology:

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/microbiology.php

Online Textbook of Bacteriology

http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/

Swiss researchers uncover microscopic fungus which speeds rice growth

http://en.mercopress.com/2010/06/11/swiss-researchers-uncover-microscopic-fungus-which-speeds-rice-growth