Microbiomes Across Environments
Course Code
BIOS 27720 97
Course Description
Microbiomes Across Environments provides a comprehensive introduction to microbiome research, tools and approaches for investigation, and a lexicon for biological understanding of the role of microbial communities in environmental and host environments.
Microbiome science is an emerging field that bridges disciplines, merging microbiology with genomics, ecosystem science, computation, biogeochemistry, modeling, medicine and many others, including architecture, social science, chemistry and even economics.
In this course we will uncover the vast biochemical and metabolic diversity of the microbial world by examining life in coastal and marine systems, (including) host-associated contexts. Students will develop or strengthen biological field/lab techniques, analyze and compare data prepared from student-collected samples, and will integrate fundamental knowledge, modeling, and theory as it pertains to microbiome research.
Course Criteria
Course meets for three weeks at Marine Biological Laboratories, in Woods Hole Massachusetts.
Lab and lecture times to be coordinated on site.
For more information see http://college.uchicago.edu/academics/mbl-september-courses
This course is not open for visiting students.
Instructor(s)
Blair Paul, David Welch
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