Proposed Lab Schedule

Lab 

Week of ...                

Topic

Due to the 3 hour format, "open lab" time is built into the schedule. There will be no additional open lab hours outside of class time. Use your time wisely!!!

 1

June 28-29

• Safety
• Specimen Collection
• Bacterial Media
• Aseptic techniques
• Use of the Microscope
• Smear preparation/Gram Stain
• Special Staining Procedures

 2

June 30-July 1

• Special Staining Procedures
• ID of medically relevant Gram (+) cocci
  • Staphylococci
  • Streptococci

July 5

• July 5 is an academic holiday
• All students should attend lab July 6

  3

July 6

• ID of medically significant Gram (-) cocci, bacilli
  • Neisseriae
  • Enterobacteriaceae

  4

July 7-8 

• Quiz
• Discussion of results 
• Open Lab review 

  5

July 12-13  

      LAB EXAM #1 (Labs 1-4)

  6

July 14-15

•  Quiz
•  ID of medically significant  eucaryotes, I, II
• Fungi 
• Protozoa
• Arthropod vectors
• Helminths

July 15

last day to withdraw from this class   

  7

July 19-20

• Quiz
• ID of medically relevant eucaryotes, III
  • Fungi
  • Protozoa
  • Arthropod vectors
  • Helminths

  8

July 21-22

    LAB EXAM #2 (Labs 6-7)

  9

July 26-27

• Antibiotic/Kirby-Bauer Susceptibility test
• Antiseptic Disk Diffusion
• Chemical Antiseptics
• Ultraviolet Irradiation

 10

July 28-29

• Quiz
• Discussion of the Kirby-Bauer, antiseptic disk diffusion, and UV irradiation test results
• Diagnostic Immunology
• Discussion of Immunology test results
• Open Lab Review

 11

August 2-3

     LAB EXAM #3 (Labs 9-10)