1. Bacteria PowerPoint Expectations
DUE: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at the beginning of class

2. Slide Requirements 10 slides (1 slide of each criteria) Mugshot
Description (including Gram stain reaction)
How the organism attacks and spreads
Most common victims upon which they prey
Hide out of the culprit
Most common injury
Is it considered dangerous? Rate the degree of damage
# of victims
Most effective weapons against the microbe
Other identifying characteristics

3. Presentation Guidelines
Must be at least 3 minutes long
Minimum of 10 slides (add 1 for title, add 1 for sources (optional), etc.)
Accurate, interesting, and informative
Each slide must contain a visual
DO NOT read from the PowerPoint, notecards, or paper
Font must be large enough to read from the back row
Be familiar with vocabulary and information so you can answer questions

4. Audience Criteria Will take notes on the presentations
Absent must get missed bacteria info from another student
Will turn in for a grade
Be involved and ask questions! You should be experts on your bacteria!

5. Correct Way to Write the Species Name
Binominal Nomenclature
TWO NAMES
Genus begins with capital letter
Species begins with lowercase letter
The entire name is italized
Examples: Corynebacterium diphtheria OR Clostridium botulinum
INCORRECT: CORYNEBACTERIUM diphtheria OR Corynebacterium Diphtheria
If handwriting  entire name must be underlined

6. GOOD EXAMPLE

7. Yersinia pestis
By: Mrs. Spoonamore

8. Organism’s Description
Gram-Negative
Rod-shaped coccobacillus
Non-mobile with no spores
Facultative anaerobic organism
Member of the Enterobacteriaceae family

9. BAD EXAMPLE

10. Organism’s Description
Yersinia pestis produces a gram-negative stain meaning that it will be pink.
The shape of the bacterium is rod-shaped coccobacillus, a combination of bother coccus and bacillus
Non-mobile with no spores
Facultative anaerobic organism, meaning that the organism is capable of performing both aerobic and anaerobic respiration (So, oxidizes carbohydrates into water and CO2 but also ferments carbohydrates into fermentation products.)
Member of the Enterobacteriaceae family
Includes a variety of species, many are found in the normal part of the gut flora in the intestines of humans and other animals, found in water or soil, or parasities on a variety of different animals and plants

11. BAD EXAMPLE

12. Organism’s Description
Yersinia pestis is a Gram-negative, bipolar-staining coccobacillus member of the Enterobacteriaceae family, and is an obligate intracellular pathogen that must be contained within the blood to survive. It is also a fermentative, motile organism that produces a thick anti-phagocytic slime layer in its path.
Y pestis is a nonmotile, pleomorphic, gram-negative coccobacillus that is nonsporulating. The bacteria elaborate a lipopolysaccharide endotoxin, coagulase, and a fibrinolysin, which are the principal factors in the pathogenesis of plague. The pathophysiology of plague basically involves two phases—a cycle within the fleas and a cycle within humans.
Yersinia pestis is a Gram-negative bacillus bacterium that belongs to the Enterobacteriaceae family.  This particular bacterium is a facultative anaerobe, meaning that it prefers to be in the presence of oxygen, however is capable of surviving with out oxygen. The optimal temperature for this particular bacterium is 28 degrees Celsius.  Since this particular bacterium’s natural reservoirs are in rodents and insects, it is a zoonose, which means that it is a disease that is passed from animals to humans through direct or indirect contact.