Faculty of Science

Objectives

To describe environmental pollution and its effects to man and to discuss beneficial and pathogenic microbes in the environment as well as environmental risk assessment.

Contents

Types of pollution; pollutants; aero microbiology, terrestrial and aquatic microbiology; microbial transport; biogeochemical cycling and its consequences aquatic microbiology in relation to public health; microbiology of extreme environments; methods for analysis of environmental samples-(cultural, physiological, immunological and nucleic acid-based) environmental risk assessment.