Applied Microbiology

APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY TO COSMETOLOGY

Microbiological Quality control

Raw materials: pollution levels and controls.

Packaging and microbial tests

Water control, water activity:  microbial tests.

Final product:  microbial tests.

Challenge test

Analytical microbiological tests

Colony forming Units count, filtration systems, Most probable Number (MPN) test

Qualitative methods for the detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Candida albicans

Microbiology lab Practice

Microbiological control of a cosmetic product

APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY TO WATER ANALYSIS

Waterborne diseases transmission

Interaction between eukaryotic and prokaryotic marine organisms.

Physiological response of marine bacteria to stress condition.

Microbiological control of water quality.

Legislation.

Identification of marine bacteria by cultural and molecular methods.

Microbiology lab Practice

Microbiological analysis of seawater  sample by cultural methods

APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY TO FOOD INDUSTRY

Parameters affecting the microbial growth in foods (pH, aw, temperature, humidity, nutrients, atmosphere modifications).

Methods of food storage (temperature, radiations, chemicals).

Food infection/intoxication

Microbiology of fermented food: from milk to yogurt

Functional food: Probiotics, prebiotics, symbiontics.

Microbiology lab Practice

Isolation and characterization of  Streptococcus thermophilus and  Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus from a  yogurt sample