The Hopkins Microbiology Course

智力上的功绩。霍普金斯微生物学课程(http://hmc.stanford.edu))是一门为期4周的强化课程，面向微生物学学生，他们试图获得对微生物生命的综合看法。该课程还吸引了非微生物学家，如物理学家或工程师，他们希望了解微生物生物学，以便开始分子和种群水平的研究。霍普金斯大学的微生物学课程是一门“宏大的”课程，要求学生已经掌握了重要的微生物学背景。虽然细节很重要，并根据需要得到充分强调，但重点是提供智力框架，将多个学科编织成一个综合的视角。通过向学生介绍和实践使用生物计算工具和方法来利用大型生物数据集来获得新的生物学理解，进一步加强了这种整合。这种广阔的视野不仅对进入学术环境的学生很重要，对进入涉及微生物(化学、制药或环境和水行业)的专业领域的学生也很重要。更广泛的影响。这门高级暑期课程旨在为学生提供一个完整的概念框架和必要的实验工具，以了解和研究生理学、生态学、进化论和种群遗传学的相互作用如何导致并维持不同环境中微生物的多样性。本课程强调对所学知识和所学实验技能进行批判性、跨学科的整合和应用。

Intellectual Merit. The Hopkins Microbiology Course (http://hmc.stanford.edu) is an intensive, 4-week course, targeting microbiology students, who seek to obtain an integrated view of microbial life. The course also attracts non-microbiologists, such as physicists or engineers who want to understand microbial biology in order to begin molecular and population level studies. As a "big picture" course, the Hopkins Microbiology Course requires students to have already acquired a significant background in microbiology. While details are important and stressed abundantly as required, the emphasis is on providing the intellectual framework to weave together multiple disciplines into an integrated perspective. This integration is further intensified by providing students with an introduction and hands-on use of biocomputational tools and methods to exploit large biological data sets in order to obtain new biological understandings. Such a broad view is important for students entering not only the academic environment, but also professional fields that involve microbes (chemical, pharmaceutical, or environmental and water industry). Broader Impacts. This advanced level summer course seeks to provide students with an integrated conceptual framework and experimental tools necessary to understand and study how the interplay of physiology, ecology, evolution, and population genetics causes and maintains diversity of microbes in diverse environments. The course emphasizes a critical, cross-disciplinary integration and application of the knowledge gained and experimental skills learned.