BIOL 403. Prerequisites: BIOL 213, 305, 306L CHEM 211, 212. Prerequisite or corequisite BIOL 402 or permission of the instructor.

These laboratory exercises illustrate the basic principles described in BIOL 402: isolation of commercially useful strains, biocide evaluation, determination of biodeterioration of various substances, microbiology of food and cosmetics, industrially relevant detection and identification procedures for microbial contamination.