| 1 | Introduction to bacterial stress response | |
| 2 | Bleaching in cyanobacteria | |
| 3 | Down in the deep blue: thriving in deep-sea vents | |
| 4 | Cleaning up the Earth: bacteria and toxic chromium pollutants | |
| 5 | Plants as pals in survival | Articles for assignment 1 handed out |
| 6 | What's for dinner? Stress responses and food | |
| 7 | Sticking together: biofilms | Assignment 1 due |
| 8 | Combating reactive oxygen species and establishing infection | |
| 9 | When viruses attack: phage shock response | |
| 10 | Tug-of-war for Iron: bacterial mechanisms for evading host innate immunity and other bacterial species in order to acquire iron | |
| 11 | Living well in freezing weather | Article selection for oral presentations due |
| 12 | Raman spectroscopy for evaluation of bacterial survival | |
| 13 | Various stress responses of Deinococcus | |
| 14 | Oral presentations | |