Environmental Microbiology

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Environmental Microbiology

• Introduction
• Overview and History

2
Organisms Included

• Virus
• Bacteria
• Fungi
• Algae
• Protozoa

3
Importance of Microbiology

• Basic Science
• Applied Science and Engineering
• Public Health
• Nutrient Cycling
• Waste Treatment
• Biodegradation
• Industrial Microbiology/Fermentation
• Biotechnology

4
Perspective

• Time

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Relative Time
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Size
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Leeuwenhoek
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Leeuwenhoeks Microscopes
9
Pasteur
10
Swan-Neck Flask Experiments

• Spontaneous generation vs. biogenesis
• Broth in flasks remained sterile -- bacteria
  could not travel up the curved neck

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Winogradsky

• Nitrification
• Sulfur oxidation
• Concept of lithotrophy

12
The Delft School

• Metabolism as a unifying concept in microbiology
• Major figures
• Kluyver
• Van Neil
• Zobell
• Rittenberg