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Course Name	Turkish	Çevre Mühendisliğinde Mikrobiyal Genetik
	English	Microbial Genetics in Environmental Engineering
Course Code	ENB 602E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	8	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Orhan İnce Ebru Dülekgürgen
Course Objectives		Transfer of the scientific knowledge on the basis and application of modern scientific tools for identification, quantification and functional analyses of microbial populations/ communities significant in environmental science and engineering applications
Course Description		Nucleic Acid-based In-situ Analyses of Microbial Diversity and Physiology. Bacterial Community Profiling Using DGGE or TGGE. Fluorescent rDNA Probes for In-situ Bacterial Identification. Quantification of Nitrifiers, Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidizers (Anammox) and Denitrifiers in Biological Treatment Processes Using FISH. Microbial Population Dynamics in EBPR Systems Using Hybridization Techniques. Diversity and Function of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria. Characterization of Acetogens and Methanogens Using 16S rDNA Analyses, FISH, DGGE. Quantification of Actinomycetes Associated with Bulking and Foaming in AS Plants Using FISH. In-situ Identification of Bioremediative Microbial Communities by Molecular Tools.
Course Outcomes
Pre-requisite(s)
Required Facilities		Laptop Data Projector Access to Main Library
Other
Textbook		1. Lecture Notes and Protocols (to be distributed during the course)
Other References		2.Alberts B, et al. (2008). “Molecular Biology of the Cell”, 5th edn., Garland Science, NY, USA, ISBN: 9780815341116 [Mustafa Inan Main Library: QH581.2 .M65 2008, QH581.2 .M65 2002] 3.Madigan M.T., Martinko J.M., Dunlap P.V. and Clark D.P. (2009). “Brock Biology of Microorganisms”, 12th edn., Pearson Education Inc., Glenview IL, USA, ISBN: 978-0321-53615-0. [Mustafa Inan Main Library: QR41.2 .B76 2009] 4.Environmental Molecular Microbiology: Protocols and Applications (2001). Paul A. Rochelle (ed), Horizon Scientific Press, ISBN-1-898486-29-8. 5.Selected Papers from; •Applied Environmental Microbiology (http://aem.asm.org/) •Systematic and Applied Microbiology (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07232020) •Environmental Microbiology (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1462-2920)

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