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The Extremes of Life: Microbes and Their Diversity
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Evolution and the Diversity of Life
- Evolution is a result of diversification and selection
- How can we classify life?
- Phylogenetic analysis
- The three domains of life
Week 2: Life in Boiling Water
- Extreme environments
- Hyperthermophiles
- More hyperthermophiles
- Thermostable proteins from hyperthermophiles
Week 3: Diversity of Extremophiles
- Preparing for a hot reaction
- Watching a hot reaction
- Extremophiles
- More extremophiles
Week 4: Genome Sequences
- What they tell us
- How can we use them?
- Using the genome to find new metabolic pathways | Part 1 and Part 2
- Diversity of the microbial world
Prerequisite
Basic knowledge of biology equivalent to the junior high school level
Instructors
Haruyuki Atomi
Professor
Kyoto University
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