Microbiology plays an important role in human daily life, and it is also the theoretical and technical foundation of modern biotechnology. Therefore, microbiology has always been one of the core courses for all majors in life science. With the rapid development of microbiology in recent years, the most advanced and most cutting-edge research results in this field are often recorded in English literature. English teaching of this course will lay a good foundation for students to closely follow the research frontier of this field. At the same time, the microbiology course has the following characteristics, such as a wide range of knowledge, numerous professional terms and memorization content, while less time for our students to learn, understand and memorize the critical points. To solve these existing problems, we design this course carefully and responsibly and we intend to achieve two goals through our course design. Firstly, to improve students' learning enthusiasm and to inspire their critical thinking. Secondly, to cultivate students' ability to utilize professional English. Considering the reality of students' knowledge levels, the curriculum structure and teaching types of this course will be designed in various perspectives, such as using the mixture of different teaching content, teaching mode and teaching resources, by which we aim to stimulate students' motivation, to arouse students' interest and to improve their ability. During the process of this course, students are recommended to read literature, which simultaneously promotes them to learn individually and to broaden their horizons. In addition, loads of realistic examples related to microbial life activities in daily life and scientific research activities are selected as cases in this course, thus we intend to stimulate students' interest in learning microbiology.
1.1 Microbes in Our Lives
Chapter 2：Methods of Studying Microorganiams
2.1 Microbial isolation and pure culture
2.2 Microscopy and microscopic techniques
2.3 Observing microorganisms through a microscope
Chapter 3：Survey of prokaryotic cells and Microorganisms
3.1 The overview of prokaryotic cells
3.2 Gram-positive cell walls
3.3 Gram-negative cell walls
3.4 Gram staining and Cell wall deficient bacteria
3.5 Cell membrane
3.6 Contents of the cell cytoplasm
3.7 Endospores
3.8 Structures external to the cell wall
3.9 Actinomycetes
3.10 Mycoplasma, Rickettsia and Chlamydia
3.11 Cyanobacteria
3.12 Archaea
Chapter 4：Survey of Eukaryotic Cells and Microorganisms
4.1 Overview of eukaryotic microorganisms
4.2 The eukaryotic cell structure
4.3 Fungi
Chapter 5：An introduction to Viruses
5.1 Are viruses alive?
5.2 Viral Structure
5.3 Viral Multiplication
5.4 Animal virus Replication
5.5 Prions
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Chapter 6：Microbial Nutrition
6.1 microbial nutrition and nutrition types(1)
6.2 microbial nutrition and nutrition types(2)
6.3 transport
6.4 cultural media
Chapter 7：Microbial Growth & The control of Microbial Growth
7.1 measurement of microbial population size
7.2 microbial growth
7.3 control of microbial growth-general concepts
7.4 control of microbial growth-physical method (1)
7.5 control of microbial growth-physical method (2)
7.6 control of microbial growth-chemical method (1)
7.7 control of microbial growth-chemical method (2)
Chapter 8：Microbial Genetics
8.1 Structure and Function of the Genetic Material
8.2 Replication
8.3 Transcription
8.4 Translation
8.5 The Regulation of Bacterial Gene Expression
8.6 Changes in Gnetic Material
8.7 Conjugation and transformation
8.8 Transduction
Chapter 9：Classification of Microorganisms
9.1 Microbial Taxonomy
9.2 Microbial Classification and Identification
Chapter 10：Infection and Immunity
10.1 What is infection?
10.2 What are microorganisms?
10.3 Microbial pathogenesis: How does a bacterium or virion cause disease?
10.4 Pathogen-associated molecular pattern and Pattern recognition receptors
10.5 First line of defense
10.6 Second line of defense
10.7 Organs of the immune system
10.8 The nature of antigens and antibodies
10.9 B cells and Humoral immunity B
10.10 T cells and cellular immunity T
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