{"id":302,"date":"2010-10-18T19:53:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T19:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=302"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:30:00","slug":"microbiology-students-learn-techniques-to-identify-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/10\/18\/microbiology-students-learn-techniques-to-identify-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbiology Students Learn Techniques to Identify Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This semester 9 students taking Microbiology with Dr. Kristian Hargadon\u00a0have been learning diagnostic techniques for the identification of bacterial species.\u00a0 As part of a semester-long project, these students have recently been giving an unknown bacterium and are now applying the techniques they are learning in the laboratory to identify their organism at the species level.\u00a0 Techniques to be used include differential staining techniques to visualize their microorganism as well as biochemical testing to determine metabolic and enzymatic properties of their bacterium.\u00a0 Upon identifying their unknown organism, students will prepare a written report that describes their laboratory research as well as the significance of their bacterium.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_303\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/10\/dsc00117.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/10\/dsc00117-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Micro students learn techniques to identify bacteria\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now don&#039;t they look like they&#039;re having fun???<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semester 9 students taking Microbiology with Dr. Kristian Hargadon\u00a0have been learning diagnostic techniques for the identification of bacterial species.\u00a0 As part of a semester-long project, these students have recently been giving an unknown bacterium and are now applying the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/10\/18\/microbiology-students-learn-techniques-to-identify-bacteria\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}