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BIO-372: Microbiology

Summary

This course will provide an introduction to fundamental concepts in microbiology. Special emphasis will be given to the surprising and often counter-intuitive physical world inhabited by microorganisms.

Lectures

Instructor

John McKinney

Professor John McKinney received his Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University (New York, NY) in 1994 for studies on cell cycle regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the laboratory of Fred Cross. From 1995 to 1998, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of William Jacobs at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY), where he studied mechanisms of persistence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis . In 1999, he returned to Rockefeller University to establish his own laboratory as an Assistant (1999-2004) and then Associate (2004-2007) Professor. In July 2007, the lab relocated to the Global Health Institute in the School of Life Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where McKinney is Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Microsystems (LMIC). Our research focuses on understanding the mechanistic basis of bacterial persistence in the context of host immunity and antimicrobial therapy, using M. tuberculosis as a "model" system.

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/microbiology-BIO-372

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/BIO-372

Summary

Lectures

Instructor

John McKinney

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/microbiology-BIO-372

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/BIO-372

Ontological neighbourhood

Biology

Cell biology: Microorganisms, Organism, Cell metabolism

Ecology: Ecosystems

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