Assignment:
Microbiology - Pathogen Report
Goal - Become adept at gathering and presenting information in the field of microbiology
Project - Profile your assigned microbial pathogens or family of pathogens. Create informative power a written report. Report will be submitted over Canvas.
Profile should include
• Microbe identity -Genus and species, gram (+) or (-), growth patterns, etc.
• Microbe location - Geographical specifics (ex. Malaria is found in warm, wet regions near the equator), common places in environments (ex. Helicobacter pylori is found in the stomach)
• Pathogen mechanisms - Is this a pathogen? How?
• Medical treatment - How do we fight this pathogen?
• Anything else interesting? History? How can we study it? Does it grow on certain differential media? How would you stain it?
Report
• 2000 words (single space size 12 times new roman font) report profiling your microbe. Word count does not include bibliography. No quotations allowed.
• Report should contain all the info the talk does and more detail on what makes your microbe special.
• References must be incorporated into the text so that it is clear what each reference refers to
• References must be present for every sentence which is not common knowledge. This means most sentences.