Course Description
This course provides an overview of the diversity of microorganisms and their metabolic activities, such as the microbial products of major social, economic, and environmental importance. Dynamics of the microbial ecosystem - study of the interrelationship between microbes and the environment in which they occur - changes in microorganisms (water, dairy, sewage, food, industry), with reference to the role of microorganisms in the medical field and how diseases occur and prevent them.
Practical content
The laboratory practicum in this course complements the theoretical content through the testing of microbial compounds, their effects on pathogens, and their hydrolytic and degradative effects. Study microbial enzymes, determine microbial counts, study the antimicrobial effect, and analyze the microbiological quality of different environments and how to cultivate bacteria under anaerobic conditions.Developing laboratory skills is an essential component of the course, along with gaining an understanding of the theory behind each experiment.
Course Objectives & Outcomes
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- Study screening techniques for industrial important microorganisms.
- Detect and assay of fermentation products.
- Know strain improvements by mutation, protoplast fusion and rDNA techniques.
- Learn the types of microbial metabolites and principles of fermentation.
- Study fermenter structure.
- Learn large scale production and the application of microbial products in an industrial context.
- Estimate microbial growth kinetics.
- Study industrial important microbial products (amino acids, organic acids, vitamins and polysaccharids).
- Study its branches: pharmaceutical, agricultural and environmental microbiology
- Study the role of microbes as bioremediation, toxicant indicators and bioenergy.
- Analyse data generated by isolating and testing microbial compounds to determine their beneficial and detrimental effects.
References
- Saxena, Sanjai Applied Microbiology 2015, ISBN 9788132222583, ISBN 9788132222590 (online), IMPRINT Springer India
Course ID: MICRO 428
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 2 | - | - |
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