Hopkins Microbiology Course

该霍普金斯微生物学课程是一个新的，为期四周，密集的微生物学夏季课程，重点是生理，生态，进化和地球化学过程构成，原因和维持微生物多样性之间错综复杂的相互作用。该课程在加利福尼亚州太平洋格罗夫的霍普金斯海洋站授课，包括讲座和广泛的实验室组成部分。本课程建立在C。B。货车尼尔在他的霍普金斯微生物学课程教于20世纪50年代和60年代。该课程的目标是使学生（i）分离驱动海洋环境中生物和地球化学多样性的关键微生物，并进行和解释微生物物种及其活动的独立于培养的分子表征;（ii）评估，评估和识别生理和代谢多样性;（iii）评估和实验测试导致微生物多样化的生态和进化因素，以及（iv）了解和预测微生物多样性的原因以及生物和地球化学后果。这个霍普金斯微生物学课程的突出方面是微生物生理学，生态学，种群遗传学和实验进化的概念和实验在环境的凝聚力研究中的独特整合和应用。 这种教学活动的更广泛的影响是培养下一代学术和工业领导者对微生物生物学的综合，多层次的理解。

The Hopkins Microbiology Course is a new, four-week, intensive summer course in microbiology focusing on the intricate interplay between physiological, ecological, evolutionary and geochemical processes that constitute, cause, and maintain microbial diversity. The course is taught at the Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, and consists of lectures and an extensive laboratory component. This course builds on the inquiry-driven teaching tradition introduced by C. B. van Niel in his Hopkins Microbiology Course taught in the 1950s and 1960s. The objectives of the course are to enable students (i) to isolate key microorganisms driving the biological and geochemical diversity in marine environments, and to conduct and interpret culture-independent molecular characterization of microbial species and their activities; (ii) to assess, evaluate, and recognize physiological and metabolic diversity; (iii) to evaluate and experimentally test ecological and evolutionary factors causing microbial diversification, and (iv) to understand and predict the causes as well as the biological and geochemical consequences of microbial diversity. The distinguishing aspect of this Hopkins Microbiology Course is the unique integration and application of the concepts and experimentation of microbial physiology, ecology, population genetics and experimental evolution in a cohesive study of the environment. The broader impact of this teaching activity is the training of an integrated, multi-level understanding of microbial biology to the next generation of academic and industrial leaders.