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Integrative Biology 471 - General Mycology Syllabus for Fall 2008
No.	Day/Date	Format	Topic: click to download Word document	Slides: click to download Powerpoint presentation	Web Image Gallery
1	Tuesday 08/26/08	Lecture	Introduction to the fungi	Lecture 1
2	Thursday 08/28/08	Lecture Laboratory	Introduction to the Kingdom Fungi Use and care of the microscope	Lecture 2
3	Tuesday 09/02/08	Lecture Laboratory	Introduction to the Basidiomycota Hyphae Culture Techniques	Lecture 3
4	Thursday 09/04/08	Lecture Laboratory	Agaricomycetidae Agaricales Presentations	Lecture 4
5	Tuesday 09/09/08	Lecture Laboratory	Aphyllophorales Aphyllophorales	Lecture 5
6	Thursday 09/11/08	Lecture Laboratory	Agaricales presentations	Agaricales presentations
7	Tuesday 09/16/08	Lecture Laboratory	FIELD TRIP	FIELD TRIP
8	Thursday 09/18/08	Lecture Laboratory	Smuts Smuts	Lecture 8
9	Tuesday 09/23/08	Lecture Laboratory	Rusts Rusts	Lecture 9
10	Thursday 09/25/08	Lecture Laboratory	EXAM 1
11	Tuesday 09/30/08	Lecture Laboratory	Introduction to the Ascomycota Ascomycota specimens	Lecture 11
12	Thursday 10/02/08	Lecture Laboratory	Chytridiomycetes (continued) Hormones and sexual reproduction in Allomyces	Lecture 12 (9.2 MB)
13	Tuesday 10/07/08	Lecture Laboratory	Oomycetes – are they fungi? Morphology & reproduction in the Saprolegniales	Lecture 13 (5 MB)
14	Thursday 10/09/08	Lecture Laboratory	Oomycetes – The plant destroyers - I Zoospore discharge in Pythium & Phytopthora	Lecture 14 (6 MB)
15	Tuesday 10/14/08	Lecture Laboratory	Oomycetes – The plant destroyers – II. Sexual reproduction; the haustorium	Lecture 15 (15 MB)
16	Thursday 10/16/08	Lecture Laboratory	The Ascomycetes, an introduction The Yeasts Fungi Imperfect: Saccardoan Spore Classification System culture of unknown Human pathogen	Lecture 16 (7 MB)
17	Tuesday 10/21/08	Lecture Laboratory	Guest lecture Candida albicans Reproduction & fermentation in yeasts	Lecture 17 (18 MB)
18	Thursday 10/23/08	Lecture Laboratory	Mitosporic Fungi Conidial development & morphology Conidial ontogeny Identification of Unknown	Lecture 18 (19 MB)
19	Tuesday 10/28/08	Lecture Laboratory	Mitosporic Fungi - Special Groups Fungi near and dear to you – a virtual lab Fungi Imperfectii II	Lecture 19 (4 MB)
20	Thursday 10/30/08	Lecture Laboratory	EXAM Identification of unknowns
21	Tuesday 11/04/08	Lecture Laboratory	Eurotiales, Onygenales Eurotiales, Onygenales morphology	Lecture 21 (8,5MB)
22	Thursday 11/06/09	Lecture Laboratory	The Erysiphales, obligate plant pathogens Erysiphales lab Charts for CAS	Lecture 22 (8.2 MB)
23	Tuesday 11/11/08	Lecture Laboratory	The Discomycetes Fruit body morphology & spore dispersal	Lecture 23
24	Thursday 11/13/08	Lecture Laboratory	Pyrenomycetes Dead-man’s fingers, the bakery fungus, the sand grain fungus; genetics experiment	Lecture 24 (3.4MB)
25	Tuesday 11/18/08	Lecture Laboratory	The Loculoascomycetes Stromatic ascomata & the fissitunicate ascus	Lecture 25 (2.9MB)
26	Thursday 11/20/08	Lecture Laboratory	The biology & ecology of lichens How to identify a lichen	Lecture 26 (4.4 MB)
	Tuesday 11/25/08	Lecture Laboratory	BREAK – collect herbivore dung
	Thursday 11/27/08	Lecture Laboratory	BREAK – collect herbivore dung
27	Tuesday 12/02/08	Lecture Laboratory	The Zygomycota I Light and spore discharge; set up mating experiment & dung dishes Sexual reproduction Asexual reporduction	Lecture 27 (12 MB)
28	Thursday 12/04/08	Lecture Laboratory	The Zygomycota II Zygospore and zygosporangium scavenger hunt	Lecture 28 (28 MB)
29	Tuesday 12/09/08	Lecture Laboratory	Fungal succession on decomposing substrates Dung fungi identification contest	See slides for Lecture 23B
	? 12/?/08	?	FINAL EXAM