微生物学家处于解决人类面临的微生物问题的最前沿。在诺丁汉，您将学习各种实用技术，发展研究知识并获得行业知名度。微生物学是一门基于实验室的科学，研究影响人类，动物和植物健康的微生物。微生物学家在解决人类面临的微生物问题方面处于最前沿，并在食品，医疗保健，化学药品和废物处理等众多领域中工作。转基因微生物用于防治农作物中的病虫害，而无需化学喷雾。改良的微生物可以廉价而有效地生产出有价值的产品，例如用于糖尿病的胰岛素和抗疾病的疫苗。可选的基础年度，可选的三明治年度，可选的国外年度，可用的行业年份。
This course is accredited by the Royal Society of Biology. You will spend a lot of time in our 5 million Super Lab gaining hands-on lab experience. Practical learning and laboratory experience starts early in semester one of the first year. Your lab skills will improve throughout the first and second years. In your final year, you will become a member of a research laboratory and carry out your own year-long research project. Some students have even had their work published in scientific journals.<br>Microbiologists play an important role in helping to prevent disease, develop new treatments, clean up the environment, and keep food safe. You will study the micro-organisms which affect the environment, human, animal and plant health, and find out how to use microbes to make medicines and vaccines.<br><br>You will explore the use of good and bad bacteria, viruses and eukaryotic microbes, and learn different methods needed for the safe handling of level 2 pathogens. These are biological agents that can cause disease, including Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria and Salmonella. Our range of optional modules in the second and third years allows you to tailor your study to your interests.<br><br>When you graduate you will be qualified to work with microbial pathogens. This means you can work in a laboratory in research or a pharmaceutical company.<br><br>You will learn:<br><br>sterile technique<br>how to identify bacteria (including pathogenic bacteria)<br>how to grow and characterise bacteria in the laboratory<br>the mechanisms of anti-microbial resistance<br>how to detect and count virusesgene analysis and cloning<br>All microbiology teaching staff are actively involved in research. This ensures that you are learning up-to-date topics and ideas. We aim to produce graduates who are ready to go out and help tackle some of the biggest problems facing our world today.