Description: (Same as Environmental Health Sciences M166L.) Lecture, one hour; laboratory, two hours; outside study, two hours. Requisite: course M166 (may be taken concurrently). General laboratory practice within environmental microbiology, sampling of environmental samples, classical and modern molecular techniques for enumeration of microbes from environmental samples, techniques for determination of microbial activity in environmental samples, laboratory setups for studying environmental biotechnology. Letter grading.

Units: 2.0