Blackwell Microbiology Teaching Resources

Welcome to the Blackwell Microbiology Teaching Resources. Here you may sample some of our books' chapters and artwork, or view animations and games.

Sample Chapters

Fundamental Bacterial Genetics
Nancy Trun and Janine Trempy

Chapter 1: Introduction to the cell (.pdf)
"Living cells are formed from a small number of different types of molecules that make up the earth&"

For more information, sample chapters and artwork and downloads please visit: www.blackwellpublishing.com/trun

Basic Virology
Edward Wagner and Martinez Hewlett

Chapter 9: Working with Virus (.pdf)
"Most viruses are submicroscopic physical particles, and while the largest can be discerned in an ultraviolet (UV)-light microscope, detailed visualization requires other methods&"

For more information, sample chapters and artwork and downloads please visit: www.blackwellpublishing.com/wagner

Sample Artwork

Fundamental Bacterial Genetics
Nancy Trun and Janine Trempy

• Right-handed helical structure (.jpg - 42kb)
• The beginning steps of transcription (.jpg -46kb)
• Experiment  (.jpg -57kb)  

Basic Virology
Edward Wagner and Martinez Hewlett

• A montage of a gene chip which and an atomic force micrograph of HSV (.jpg -55kb)
  (The images from this plate were created by S. Larsen and A. McPherson, of University of California Irvine. Our thanks go to the authors and colleagues for the extensive use of this image on the Blackwell Microbiology site)
• Computer enhanced three-dimensional reconstruction of the HSV-1 capsid (.jpg -33kb)
• A schematic comparison of light and electron microscopes (.jpg -30kb)  

Animation and Games

• Clone DNA today Experiment - Created by Karin Christensen, from http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/trun/animations.htm
• Explore the Bacteria Cell - Created by Karin Christensen, from http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/trun/animations.htm
• Attach - Created by Karin Christensen, from http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/wagner/animation.asp 

Glossary

Click here for a glossary of Microbiology terms, combined from various Blackwell Microbiology books; available online and to download as a Portable Document File format (.pdf).

Other Microbiology Web Teaching Resources

http://www.sc.doe.gov/production/ober/bak2.html
DOE educational Site with resources and links for all ages. The Cells Alive link has great videos of many microbe related processes. Many of the other links are useful too.

http://www.microbeworld.org/
American Society for Microbiology site.

http://www.madsci.org/
MadSci Network; covers many areas of science.