Microbiology-related Web Sites
1.
Waksman Foundation:
http://www.waksmanfoundation.org/
The
Waksman Foundation is funding this workshop and has supported many other
workshops and microbiology education projects in the past. On their web site are links to a number
of previous projects with good ideas for using microorganisms in the
classroom. Under K-12
School Teacher Enhancement click on Hands
on Activities for Students.
2. American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Click
on MicrobeLibrary
in sidebar
Click
on Visual Resources. (This is not
working today 1-16-04)
Click on MicrobeWorld in the sidebar. This
will take you to a site with a number of other links.
3.
American Type Culture Collection
The
American Type Culture Collection is a source of bacterial, fungal and viral
cultures. They also carry
protozoan, and algal cultures and some plant and animal tissue cultures.
4. Access
Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/
This
site contains a wealth of material.
Look particularly at the links under Resource Center.
5. All the Virology of the WWW
This site has links to a number of other virology-related
sites. Click on Table of
Contents to browse through the resources that can be reached from this
site.
6. Society for General Microbiology
http://www.socgenmicrobiol.org.uk
This site has an assortment of interesting features. Click on Micro-Encyclopedia for a list of pages,
including Microbes in Normal and Extreme Environments, Microbes in Industry,
Microbes in Food and Drink and Microbes in History and the Future.
7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web site:
The CDC web site contains a wide variety of health-related
information, including microbial pathogens. This site will include topics of national interest, such as
Mad Cow Disease ands SARS.
8.
The Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/default.asp
PHIL is not easily found from the CDC home page but is a valuable
source of images, most of them in the public domain and available for use.
9.
Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH)
The
IDPH web site has current information on health issues of interest in
Illinois. News items often relate
to bacterial or viral diseases, presently influenza. At the bottom is a section entitled Feature Links. At this time six sites are linked here
including Bioterrorism Preparedness, Influenza and The West Nile Virus is No
Match for Common Sense. The Weathering Winter site includes a section on Holiday
Cooking, where safe food handling and food poisoning are discussed.
There
are some links to CDC sites.
10.
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Bad
Bug Book
At
the Select a Topic pull down menu select Bad Bug Book
The
site contains information on foodborne pathogenic bacteria, viruses, prions,
parasitic protozoa and worms, natural toxins
11. The University of California Berkley Museum of Paleontology
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/threedomains.html
This site has a nice discussion and illustrations of
classification of organisms into three domains.
12. ArchaeaWeb, claims to be "the web's premier archaea and
extremophile information resource" and probably it is.
http://www.archaea.unsw.edu.au/
Lab
Safety:
13.
The Illinois State Board of Education Guidebook for Science Safety in Illinois,
A Safety Manual for Illinois Elementary and Secondary Schools
http://www.isbe.net/secondaryed
Scroll
to the bottom of the page and in the Science box click on Guidebook for
Science Safety in Illinois. See
especially Chapter 13 The Biology Classroom.
14.
For a discussion of safety in a microbiology teaching laboratory see the
American Society for Microbiology site: http://www.asmusa.org/edusrc/labcore.htm
For
fun (and it is possible to learn a few things too):
15.
illustration of powers of ten
Molecular
Expressions, Science Optics and
You
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
16.
From the University of Leicester
http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/Tutorials/Time/Machine.html
This
is too much fun to miss.
The University's Microbiology and Immunology home page can be reached by clicking in the upper left on Microbiology and Immunology.