Advanced Microbiology

Life has an enormous impact on the Earth’s crust movement of many inorganic compounds, which shapes and modifies the composition of the atmosphere, the oceans and the mainland. There are many biogeochemical cycles which are important. Here we will have a look to some of them. The Carbon and the Nitrogen cycle because they are the most important from the quantitative point of view. The Sulphur cycle will be also re-visited and that of the Iron, because iron is a key component of biological sys...

So far, your approach to science has mainly been that of the people which get access to the conclusions of the scientific endeavour. From now on, you should not look at the end of the scientific process, but from the beginning of the inquiry process. Science is always inquiry and,experimentation starts after a question is formulated . Experimentation is at the heart of science and it is intimately linked to instrumental techniques. We will start the course by reviewing the main techniques in m...