Lab Exercise

Date

Topic

8/23

Class Overview

Video Show : "Fungi: The Rotten World About Us"

1

8/25

Techniques I - Microscopy and Slide Observation

Adjusting your microscope- Kohler illumination

2

9/9

Techniques II - Isolation of Pure Cultures, Dilution Series and Spore Counting

9/11

Field Trip to Mount Lemmon

3 & 4

9/16

Techniques III - Baiting, Genetic Systems

5

9/23

Slime Molds

6

9/30

Flagellate Fungi

Project Outline Due

10/2

First Exam

7

10/7

Zygomycota

8

10/14

Ascomycota

9

10/21

Ascomycota and Sordaria Genetics

10

10/28

Basidiomycota: Rusts, Smuts, and Auriculariales

11

11/4

Basidiomycota: Agarics, Polypores, etc.

12

11/11

Deuteromycota

13

11/18

Deuteromycota : Aspergillus, Penicillium, Nematophagous fungi

11/20

Second Exam

11/25

Project Report Due

12/2

Final Exam Review