Microbiology 1 - Introduction (Ch 1)
© copyright 2012 Marta D. de Jesus
I. Introduction
A. this class is General Microbiology
B. Nuts & bolts
1. Roll
2. Student info form (last page)
check your info on-line
3. Syllabus
a. who am I?
b. About the class
Pre-reqs
c. Textbook
d. for lab: lab manual
required lab supplies
Note: Safety
e. Supplemental
f. Grading
g. Schedule
h. Academic dishonesty/misconduct
C. Helps & hints
1. learn how to learn better
SQ3RP method
take time
2. Using the book & additional materials
**Any content from an assigned Chapter or Lecture is “fair game” unless I say otherwise.
3. Other Comments/Suggestions
II. What is Microbiology?
A. characteristics of microbes
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B. study of microbes
1. research field
- taxonomic
- process-centered
2. application, including
a. medical microbiology
b. applied environmental
c. industrial microbiology
III. What is Science?
A. investigating the natural world
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B. Scientific method
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C. What is a theory?
1. lay definition
2. actual, scientific definition
3. All of our current “big” theories in science
D. controls
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IV. Big Moments in the History of Microbiology
A. Diseases & problems
1. ancient diseases & microbes
2. foods
3. some famous diseases in history
a. Plague of Athens
b. Black Plague
c. great Pox
d. influenza
e. HIV - AIDS
B. Golden Age of Microbiology (1857~1914)
(bold = from lecture; underlined in text of Chapter 1)
1. Robert Hooke
2. Anton von Leeuwenhoek (1673)
3. Francesco Redi (1668
4. Carolus Linnaeus (= Carl von Linne)
5. John Needham (1745)
6. Lazzaro Spallanzani (1765)
7. Edward Jenner (1796)
8. Theodor Schwann & Matthei Schleiden (1839)
9. Ignaz Semmelweiss (1844)
10. Florence Nightingale (1854-6)
11. John Snow (1854)
12. Rudolf Virchow (1858)
13. Louis Pasteur (1861)
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14. Eduard Buchner (1897)
15. Joseph Lister (1865)
16. Robert Koch (1876): Koch’s Postulates
(1881)
17. Walter & Fanny Angelina Hess
18. Charles Laveran (1880)
19. Elie Metchnikoff (1880s)
20. Christian Gram (1884)
21. Julius R Petri (1887)
22. Dmitri Iwanoski (1892): virology
23. Martinus Beijerink (1898): virology
24. Walter Reed (1900): virus for yellow fever
25. Paul Ehrlich (1908):
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26. Emil von Behring & Shibasaburo Kitasato
27. Albert Kluyver & C. B. van Niel
28. Alexander Fleming (1928)
29. Gerhard Domagk (1935)
30. Oswald Avery/Colin MacLeod/Maclyn McCarty (1944)
31. George Beadle & Edward Tatum (1958)
32. Linus Pauling (1965)
33. Carl Woese (1977)
C. Modern Microbiology: very dynamic field -> “2nd Golden Age?”
1. electron microscopy
2. microbes in the environment
3. infectious disease
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/emerging/pages/list.aspx