tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316706872011-12-08T07:46:36.933+08:00David Tribehttps://profiles.google.com/107650585863836196372noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670687.post-1154229310238161522006-07-30T11:11:00.000+08:002006-09-02T08:53:46.756+08:00Microbe Pundit is developing a series of posts that relate to technology topics in a course on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Microbial Biotechnology</span>. This index page provides access to these posts, grouped under the technology topic units in this course.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Microbial Biotechnology </span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Natural product discovery</span><br /><ol> <li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-find-microbes-that-make-gold.html">How to find microbes that make gold</a>.</li><li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/synergistic-substances-and-several.html">Siderophore compounds from Streptomycetes</a>.</li><li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-do-streptomycetes-have-ability-to.html">Why do Streptomyces produce so many different compounds?</a></li><li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/where-wild-things-are-and-where.html">Where Avermectin com</a><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/where-wild-things-are-and-where.html">es from</a>.</li><li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/assays-for-compounds-that-make.html">Assays for compounds that make existing antibiotics effective against antibiotic resistant bacteria</a>.<br /><br /></li> </ol><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Fundamentals of cell culture and nutrition</span><br /></span> <ol> <li>...<br /></li> </ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Process Scale-Up and Intensification</span><br /></span> <ol> <li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/08/entry-of-dyes-can-be-sensitive-to.html">Using dyes and flow cytometry to assess membrane voltages (PMF), stress and cell viability - useful for scale up research on bacterial fermentations</a>.<br /></li> </ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Conversion of material using metabolism, improvement of processes</span><br /><ol> <li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/process-improvement-in-antibiotic.html">Process improvement in the antibiotic industry</a>.</li><li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/technological-learning-curves.html">Technological learning curves in the ethanol biofuel industry</a>.</li> </ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Biotech business innovation</span><br /><ol> <li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/technological-learning-curves.html">Technological learning curves in the ethanol biofuel industry</a>.</li><li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/process-improvement-in-antibiotic.html">Process improvement in the antibiotic industry</a>.</li> </ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Enzyme technology</span><br /></span> <ol> <li>...</li> </ol> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Environmental technology</span><br /><ol> <li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/using-microbes-to-mine-copper.html">Using microbes to mine copper</a>.<br /></li> </ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31670687-115422931023816152?l=indexes-to-microbe-pundit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>David Tribehttps://profiles.google.com/107650585863836196372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670687.post-1154227720981216732006-07-30T10:23:00.000+08:002006-09-02T08:46:19.600+08:00The following set of links relates to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/">Microbe Pundit</a> posts connected to a course on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bacterial Cell Biology</span>.<br /><br />The course is closely based on a book<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://estore.asm.org/AdditionalItemInfo.asp?ItemID=513&bid=1702">Microbe</a>, by Moselio Schaecher and colleagues 2006 which has a rich and modern set of teaching resources, including a useful <a href="http://www.microbebook.org/index.html">book website</a>.<br /><br />The Pundit has organised the bacterial cell biology topics and links below around the chapter headings in <span style="font-style: italic;">Microbe</span>, and also included links to additional material provided at the book's website within this framework.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Bacterial Cell Biology.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Microbe</span></span><br />Author: Moselio Schaechter, San Diego State University and University of California, San Diego; John L. Ingraham, University of California, Davis; Frederick C. Neidhardt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006 ASM Press.<br />Book ISBN or Item Number: 1-55581-320-8<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Section I. Microbial Activity</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. The World of Microbes</span><br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/microbe-world-of-microbes.html">Microbe. The World of Microbes</a>. (Microbe Pundit)<br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/world-of-microbes-question-2.html">The World of Microbes . Question 2</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.microbebook.org/id67.html">Schaechter 2006 Chapter 1 Additional material on The World of Microbes</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Section II. Structure and Function</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 2. Prokaryotic Cell Structure and Function: Envelopes and Appendages</span><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/prokaryotic-cell-envelopes-and.html">Prokaryotic cell envelopes and appendages</a>.<br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/proposal-for-how-tolc-channel-passes.html">Proposal for how the TolC channel passes through murein layer</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/09/twisted-news-item-for-students-of.html">How a bacterial transport protein works. An ABC-transporter structure is elucidated</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/protection-of-cell-membrane.html">Protection of the cell membrane</a>.<br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/operation-and-assembly-of-bacterial.html"><br />Operation and assembly of the bacterial flagellum</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.microbebook.org/id68.html">Schaechter 2006 Chapter 2 Additional material on Prokaryotic Cell Structure and Function: Envelopes and Appendages</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Prokaryotic Cell Structure and Function: the Cell Interior<br /><br /></span><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/bacterial-cell-interior.html">The Bacterial Cell Interior.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.microbebook.org/id69.html">Schaechter 2006 Chapter 3 Additional material on Prokaryotic Cell Structure and Function: the Cell Interior</a><br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/using-atomic-force-microscopy.html">Using Atomic Force Microscopy</a>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Section III. Growth</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. Growth of Microbial Populations<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.microbebook.org/id70.html">Schaechter 2006 Chapter 4 Additional material on Growth of Microbial Populations</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Making a Cell<br /><br /></span><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/making-cell.html">Making a cell</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/making-cell-part-2.html">Making a cell Part 2</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.microbebook.org/id81.html">Schaechter 2006 Chapter 5 Additional material on Making a Cell</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6. Fueling</span><br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/08/entry-of-dyes-can-be-sensitive-to.html">Flow cytometry of cells stained with voltage sensitive dyes can reveal whether the PMF is active</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. Biosynthesis<br /><br /></span><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/04/biosynthesis-stage-of-growth.html">Biosynthesis Stage of Growth Metabolism</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/04/ammonia-assimilation-is-important-part.html">Ammonia assimilation is an important part of the biosynthesis stage of growth metabolism</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ecocyc.org/">Encyclopedia of <span style="font-style: italic;">Escherichia coli</span> K-12 Genes and Metabolism</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">8. Building Macromolecules<br /><br /></span><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/replication-mechanisms-of-bacterial.html">Replication mechanisms of the bacterial chromosome</a>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">9. The Cell Division Cycle</span><br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/using-flow-cytometry-to-study.html">Using flow cytometry to study the bacterial cell cycle</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.microbebook.org/id71.html">Schaechter 2006 Chapter 9 Additional material on The Cell Division Cycle</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Section IV. Inheritance</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">10. Genetics<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.microbebook.org/id83.html">Schaechter 2006 Chapter 10 Additional material on Genetics</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">11. Evolution<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.microbebook.org/id84.html">Schaechter 2006 Chapter 11 Additional material on Evolution</a>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Section V. Physiology</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">12. Coordination and Regulation</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">13. Succeeding in the Environment<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.microbebook.org/id85.html">Schaechter 2006 Chapter 13 Additional material on Succeeding in the Environment</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">14. Differentiation and Development</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Written assignment related posts:</span></span><br />(Relating to essays set on either cell division, differentiation or secretion.)<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/04/best-way-to-find-information-about.html">The best way to find information about bacteria is through effective use of both publication and gene databases</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/discussion-thread-on-cell-division-in.html">Discussion thread on Cell Division in Bacillus and Caulobacter</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/signal-challenge-for-mother-cell.html">A signal from the spore cell facilitates the expression of late genes in the mother cell of Bacillus subtilis during sporulation</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/discussion-thread-on-compound.html">Discussion thread on compound secretion by Pseudomonas</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/quorum-sensing-in-pathogenicity-of.html">Quorum Sensing in the pathogenicity of <span style="font-style: italic;">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/signals-red-amber-and-green.html">Signals - Red, Amber, and Green</a>.<br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-do-streptomycetes-have-ability-to.html"><br />Why do Streptomycetes have ability to produce so many specialised molecules</a>?<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/synergistic-substances-and-several.html">Synergistic Substances and Several Siderophores Synthesised by Sessile Soil Saphrophytes</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/discussion-thread-on-molecules.html">Discussion thread on molecules secreted by Streptomyces</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31670687-115422772098121673?l=indexes-to-microbe-pundit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>David Tribehttps://profiles.google.com/107650585863836196372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670687.post-1153885230255649582006-07-26T11:32:00.000+08:002006-09-02T08:49:33.226+08:00This is a stack of hyper-links to Microbe Pundit Posts on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Microbial Biotechnology</span>.<br /><br />More recent posts are at the top. Introductory or highly recommended starting points are in <span style="font-weight: bold;">bold</span>.<br /><br /><ol> <li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/08/entry-of-dyes-can-be-sensitive-to.html">Using dyes and flow cytometry to detect changes in bacteria cytoplasmic membrane voltage gradients (PMF)</a>.<br /></li><li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/assays-for-compounds-that-make.html">Assays for compounds that make existing antibiotics effective against antibiotic resistant bacteria</a>.<br /></li><li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/using-microbes-to-mine-copper.html">Using microbes to mine copper</a>.<br /></li> <li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-find-microbes-that-make-gold.html">How to find microbes that make gold</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/process-improvement-in-antibiotic.html">Process improvement in the antibiotic industry</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/07/technological-learning-curves.html">Technological learning curves in the ethanol biofuel industry</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/where-wild-things-are-and-where.html">Where Avermectin comes from</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/synergistic-substances-and-several.html">Siderophore compounds from Streptomycetes</a>.</li><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://microbepundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-do-streptomycetes-have-ability-to.html">Why do Streptomyces produce so many different compounds?</a><br /></li> </ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31670687-115388523025564958?l=indexes-to-microbe-pundit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>David Tribehttps://profiles.google.com/107650585863836196372noreply@blogger.com0