MI2031 - Marine Microbiology

The ecological role of microbes in the marine and estuarine environments; their role in nutrient cycles including chemotropism, symbiosis, fouling, degradation of pollutants and maricultural ecology; bacteria, cyanobacteria, fungi, viruses and picoplankton in the marine environment; introduction to disease-causing microbes.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate the role of microbes in marine symbioses;
• instil in students the importance of marine microbes to the biosphere;
• introduce how marine microbes impact on human activities;
• introduce the students to the culture methods for the major ecological groups of marine bacteria.

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