Pune University MSc Microbiology Syllabus

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Semester I:
Theory Course I - MB-501 Microbial Diversity and Taxonomy
Theory Course II - MB-502 Quantitative Biology
Theory Course III - MB-503 Cell Organization and Biochemistry
Practical Course I - MB-511 Microbial Diversity and Systematics
Practical Course II - MB-512 Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Semester II:
Theory Course I - MB-601 Instrumentation and Molecular Biophysics
Theory Course II - MB-602 Evolution, Ecology and Environmental Microbiology
Theory Course III - MB-603 Microbial Metabolism
Practical Course I - MB-611 Ecology and Environmental Microbiology
Practical Course II - MB-612 Enzymology and Microbial Metabolism

Semester III:
Theory Course I - MB-701 Immunology
Theory Course II - MB-702 Molecular Biology I
Theory Course III - MB-703 Virology
Practical Course I - MB-711 Microbial Technology
Practical Course II - MB-712 Molecular Biology and Immunology

Semester IV:
Theory Course I - MB-801 Pharmaceutical and Medical Microbiology
Theory Course II - MB-802 Molecular Biology II
Theory Course III - MB-803 Microbial Technology
Practical Course I - MB-811 Research Methodology I (Dissertation)
Practical Course II - MB-812 Research Methodology II (Dissertation)

SEMESTER – I
Theory Course I – MB-501: Microbial Diversity and Taxonomy
A. Taxonomy (22)
1. Methods in Taxonomy of Bacteria (including archaebacteria,) and Fungi:
1. Morphological Methods
2. Chemotaxonomy
3. Genetic Methods
4. Methodology of rRNA sequencing (teach as per practical / experimental
methods)
2. Methodology of identification of unknown pure cultures: Strategy and methods
B. Diversity (16)
The expanse of microbial diversity, estimates of total number of species, measures
and indices of diversity.
Newer approaches for exploring unculturable bacteria:
Culture independent molecular methods, Methods of extracting total bacterial DNA
from a habitat.
C. Bioinformatics (10)
Sequence alignment, scoring matrices, local and global alignment, dynamic methods,
Needleman and Wunsch algorithm, Smith-Waterman algorithm, database search for
homologous sequences, BLAST and FASTA versions.

References:
Taxonomy
1. Barnett, H. L. and Hunter, B. B. 1960. Illustrated Genera of Imperfect Fungi. Burgess
Publishing Co., Minnesota.
2. Breed and Buchanan. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. 8th Edition,
1974.
3. Breed and Buchanan. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. 9th Edition,
1982.
4. Breed and Buchanan. Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2nd Edition,
(Volumes. 1 – 5) (2001 – 2003).
5. Lodder J. (1974). The Yeasts: A Taxonomic Study, North Holland Publishing Co.
Amsterdam.
6. Sykes, G. and F. A. Skinner (Eds). Actinomycetales: Characteristics and Practical
Importance. Society for Applied Bacteriology Symposium Series No. 2, Academic
Press. 1973.


Pune University MSc Microbiology Syllabus





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