Molecular Microbiology

Course content

Genome properties in Bacteria and Archaea. Comparison of genomic elements between Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryotic microbes. Mutations and adaptation in Bacteria and Archaea in environmental context. Mobile genetic elements and horizontal gene transfer in the environment. Microbial regulatory systems, new findings from metagenomes and transcriptomes. Diversity of small noncoding RNAs in prokaryotes. CRISPR in environmental context. (Meta)genome and transcriptome analysis techniques and approaches.