Universität Wien

300027 PP Extremophilic and thiotrophic Microorganisms (2019S)

10.00 ECTS (6.00 SWS), SPL 30 - Biologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 12 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine

2-week practicle, probably mid or end of September. Date and place to be announced in a meeting on March 11th at 10 am in the Division of Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics (Althanstr. 14). Only students who attend this meeting on march 11th will be able to reserve a place in the practical.
Practicle: 1 week of sampling (either Southern Italy or Greece), 1 week of lab work in Vienna.


Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This is a two-week practical. In the first week participants will take samples from terrestrial hot springs and marine shallow waters, and will perform initial microscopical and physical analyses of the samples and will set up enrichment cultures for moderate and hyperthermophilic chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms. In the second week, these samples and the enrichment cultures will be analysed for the presence and diversity of specific microorganisms with standardar molecular biological techniques. In particular, we will focus on thermophilic archaea and thiotrophic marine symbiotic bacteria. Students will become familiar with basic molecular and microscopic techniques that are routinely employed in microbial ecology (e.g. DNA preparation from environmental samples, PCR, cloning, sequence analysis, fluorescent microscopy) and will get to know the physiology and growth requirements of some extremophilic and chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms. They will also learn to design experiments and to communicate about experimental setups.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Protocol needs to be written within 3 weeks after practical.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

full participation in 2-week-course, protocol, final presentation

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur


Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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