Marine Environment. In the first lecture, we cover the basic biology of prokaryotes, and the history of the development of the science of microbial ecology and marine microbiology.
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Evolution, Phylogeny & Taxonomy of Microorganisms . Eukaryotes, prokaryotes, taxonomy vs. phylogeny, archaea, proteobacteria, cyanobacteria, planctomyces, spirochaetes, hyperthermophiles.
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Microbial Diversity. Cultivation, ocean microbes, SAR, actinobacteria, roseobacter, cyanobacteria, archaea, genomics, FISH., catabolism, biosynthesis, energy, redox, respiration, chemoheterotrophs, heterotrophic prokaryotes, chemolithotrophy, photosynthesis.
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Microbial Metabolism. Reactions, catbolism biosynthesis, energy, redoc, respiration, chemoheterotrophs, heterotrophic prokaryotes, chemolithotrophy, photosynthesis.
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Methods: Numbers, Biomass & Activity . Enumeration, cultivation, and rate measurements. Biomass, biochemical markers.
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Methods: Molecular & Genomic; in situ instrumentation (ESP)
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Grazing and the Microbial Loop, Viruses
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Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) . Dissolved Organic Matter, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus; sources, nmr, composition, interactions, phytoplankton release, chromophoric, profile, labile; mechanisms, recalcitrant.
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Photosynthesis. Photosynthesis and phototrophs, photosynthetic apparatus, light absorption and photoacclimation, dark reaction and carbon fixation, primary producers in the sea.
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Phytoplankton Taxonomy & Ecology.
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The Carbon & Nitrogen Cycles. Habitat, respiration, methanogenesis, acetogenesis, water column cycling. Marine, pools, biosynthesis, denitrifiers, annamoxosomes, cyanobacteria, heterocyst, gas vacuoles.
Carbon lecture
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Nitrogen lecture
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Nitrogen Fixation. Nitrogenase as example, Trichodesmium, Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus, Universal nif primers, quantitative PCR.
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Marine Symbioses. Commensulism, mutualism, parasitism; symbiotic N2 fixation, symbiosis with cyanobacteria; specificity; coral-bacteria symbiosis.
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Sulfur Cycle and Sediment; Biogeochemistry; Deep Sea Beds. Sulfur reduction, assimilatory S reduction, sulfolipids, dimethylsulfide, dimethylsulphoniopropionate, sediment biogeochemistry, Fe oxidizers, Fe accumulators, sediments, vertical stratification, fermentors, carbon metabolism.
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Other Biogeochemical Cycles: Fe & P; Geomicrobiology, Climate & Microbes. Microbes, calcification, precipitation, processes, geology, elements, population diversity.
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Marine Pathogens & Public Health Microbiology . Biological pollution, sources, toxic algae, bacteria, viruses, vibrio cholerae, campylobacter jejuni, salmonella, detection, mammals and fish, toxins, harmful algal blooms, antibiotics, GEMS.
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Ocean Ecosystems & Change
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