Contents of Student Guide

  • Acknowledgments. 2

  • Introduction. 3

  • How to Use This Student Research Guide. 5

  • Laboratory Etiquette and Safety. 7

  • Lab Safety. 7

  • Best Practices in the Microbiology Laboratory. 9

  • Working with Unknown Microbes. 10

  • Recordkeeping. 11

  • Labeling. 12

  • Section 1:  Living in a Bacterial Planet. 13

  • Section 2:  More Than Just “Dirt”. 18

  • Section 3:  Redefining “Growth”  and “Culture”. 26

  • Section 4:  Bacteria Are What  They Eat, Too. 36

  • Section 5:  Solid Versus Liquid Cultures. 42

  • Section 6:  Meet the ESKAPE Pathogens. 50

  • Section 7:  Antibiotics’ Discovery, Structure & Targets. 58

  • Section 8: Getting to Know Your Isolates. 72

  • Section 9: It All Comes Down to Chemistry. 81

  • Section 10:  Resisting Antibiotics. 90

  • Section 11:  “Classic” versus “Modern”. 98

  • Section 12:  Bacteria in Context. 104