Muse’s Micro

1. Muse’s Micro • Website http://www-personal.umich.edu/~muse/Biol243.html • 4 exams • read-ask questions • email • don’t fall behind • Textbook resources

2. SCOPE AND HISTORY OF MICROBIOLOGY CHAPTER 1

3. Why Study Microbiology? • Ubiquity

4. Microbes in Our Lives Microorganisms are organisms that are too small to be seen with the unaided eye. “Germ” refers to a rapidly growing cell.

5. Why Study Microbiology? • Biological roles- decomposers, recyclers, symbionts • Animal digestion - ruminants, methane • Food Microbiology - yogurt, sauerkraut, Kim Chee, cheese, beer, bread etc. • Food safety - prevent putrefication, disease etc.

6. Why Study Microbiology? • Pharmaceuticals- produce complex drug molecules. (ex. insulin ) • Bioremediation- using microbes to clean pollution • Pathogenicity - bacteria and viruses that make us sick • Fundamental Biology most biochemical pathways worked out with microbes

7. Microbes in Research • Simple structure- many are prokaryotic • Large populations - up to billions/ml • Rapid growth rates • Vibrio harveyii = fastest grower known • 1 gen/15 mins

8. Scale of Microbes

9. Three domains Bacteria Archaea Eukarya Protists Fungi Plants Animals Classification of Microorganisms

10. Microbe Types • Bacteria prokaryotes Eubacteria Archaebacteria

11. Prokaryotes Peptidoglycan cell walls Binary fission For energy, use organic chemicals, inorganic chemicals, or photosynthesis Bacteria Figure 1.1a

12. Prokaryotic Lack peptidoglycan Live in extreme environments Include: Methanogens Extreme halophiles Extreme thermophiles Archaea: Figure 4.5b

13. Microbe Types • Algae • Fungi Protista, Planta Eukaryotes

14. Eukaryotes Cellulose cell walls Use photosynthesis for energy Produce molecular oxygen and organic compounds Algae Volvox Figure 1.1d

15. Eukaryotes Chitin cell walls Use organic chemicals for energy Molds and mushrooms are multicellular consisting of masses of mycelia, which are composed of filaments called hyphae Yeasts are unicellular Fungi Figure 1.1b

16. Microbe Types • Viruses Living?

17. Microbe Types • Protozoa eukaryotes

18. Eukaryotes Absorb or ingest organic chemicals May be motile via pseudopods, cilia, or flagella Protozoa Amoeba Figure 1.1c

19. Microbe Types • Helminths/Arthropods Eukaryotes (multicellular)

20. Eukaryote Multicellular animals Parasitic flatworms and round worms are called helminths. Microscopic stages in life cycles. Multicellular Animal Parasites tapeworm Figure 12.28

21. Microorganisms: Figure 1.1

22. Roles of Microbiologists • Biological • Pharmaceutical/Vaccines • Agricultural- Rumen microbiology

23. Microbiology Settings • Universities • Commercial laboratories • food prep & cosmetics

24. Microbiology Settings • Legal • Clinical

25. Microbiology Settings • Public Health • Epidemiology

26. Microbiology History • Plagues in History http://www.oddee.com/item_90608.aspx

27. The Black Plaque-Bubonic plaque 1348 and 1350 (1340 - 1771) Killed 75 million people worldwide Yersinia pestis Flea vector.

28. Smallpox (430 BC? - 1979): Killed more than 300 million people worldwide in the 20th century alone, and most of the native inhabitants of the Americas. Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a contagious disease unique to humans. Smallpox is caused by either of two virus variants named Variola major and Variola minor. The deadlier form, V. major, has a mortality rate of 30–35%, while V. minor causes a milder form of disease called alastrim and kills ~1% of its victims. Long-term side-effects for survivors include the characteristic skin scars. Occasional side effects include blindness due to corneal ulcerations and infertility in male survivors. Smallpox killed an estimated 60 million Europeans, including five reigning European monarchs, in the 18th century alone. Up to 30% of those infected, including 80% of the children under 5 years of age, died from the disease, and one third of the survivors became blind.

29. Microbiology History • Early Studies • Hooke Cork Slices- 1st Scope (cell) • Van Leeuwenhoek microscope • Linnaeus classification • Schwann cell theory

30. Fig. 1-9

31. Fig. 1-10

32. Germ Theory vs. Spontaneous Generation • Redi - maggots • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Redi • Spallanzani - boiling • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazzaro_Spallanzani

33. Germ Theory vs. Spontaneous Generation • Pasteur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

34. Understanding Disease • Robert Koch • Koch’s postulates • Lister/ Semmelweiss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Koch disinfection handwashing

35. Koch’s postulates 1. The suspected causal organism must be constantly associated with the disease. 2. The suspected causal organism must be isolated from an infected plant (or animals) and grown in pure culture. 3. When a healthy susceptible host is inoculated with the pathogen from pure culture, symptoms of the original disease must develop. 4. The same pathogen must be re-isolated from plants (animals) infected under experimental conditions.

36. Special Fields of Study • Immunology • Virology Immune system and it’s interaction with microbes Study of very small ?living? Viral particles

37. Special Fields of Study • Chemotherapy • Antibiotics • Synthetics Natural products penicillin Man-made Erhlich Alexander Fleming Penicillin doxycycline

38. Special fields of Study • Genetics/Molecular Biology • genes and how they are expressed • Recombinant DNA technology • Genomics decyphering genomes and expression • Proteomics decyphering protein structure/function

39. Microbes I know and Love? • Bacillus megaterium • Klebsiella aerogenes • Escherichia coli • Klebsiella pneumoniae • Mycobacterium smegmatis • Mycobacterium marinum

40. A Brief History of Microbiology Ancestors of bacteria were the first life on Earth. The first microbes were observed in 1673. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek

41. In 1665, Robert Hooke reported that living things were composed of little boxes or cells. In 1858, Rudolf Virchow said cells arise from preexisting cells. Cell Theory. All living things are composed of cells and come from preexisting cells The First Observations

42. The Golden Age of Microbiology 1857-1914 Beginning with Pasteur’s work, discoveries included the relationship between microbes and disease, immunity, and antimicrobial drugs

43. Pasteur showed that microbes are responsible for fermentation. Fermentation is the conversation of sugar to alcohol to make beer and wine. Microbial growth is also responsible for spoilage of food. Bacteria that use alcohol and produce acetic acid spoil wine by turning it to vinegar (acetic acid). Fermentation and Pasteurization

44. Pasteur demonstrated that these spoilage bacteria could be killed by heat that was not hot enough to evaporate the alcohol in wine. This application of a high heat for a short time is called pasteurization. Fermentation and Pasteurization Figure 1.4

45. 1835: Agostino Bassi showed a silkworm disease was caused by a fungus. 1865: Pasteur believed that another silkworm disease was caused by a protozoan. 1840s: Ignaz Semmelweiss advocated handwashing to prevent transmission of puerperal fever from one OB patient to another. The Germ Theory of Disease

46. 1860s: Joseph Lister used a chemical disinfectant to prevent surgical wound infections after looking at Pasteur’s work showing microbes are in the air, can spoil food, and cause animal diseases. 1876: Robert Koch provided proof that a bacterium causes anthrax and provided the experimental steps, Koch’s postulates, used to prove that a specific microbe causes a specific disease. The Germ Theory of Disease

47. 1796: Edward Jenner inoculated a person with cowpox virus. The person was then protected from smallpox. Called vaccination from vacca for cow The protection is called immunity Vaccination

48. Treatment with chemicals is chemotherapy. Chemotherapeutic agents used to treat infectious disease can be synthetic drugs or antibiotics. Antibiotics are chemicals produced by bacteria and fungi that inhibit or kill other microbes. Quinine from tree bark was long used to treat malaria. 1910: Paul Ehrlich developed a synthetic arsenic drug, salvarsan, to treat syphilis. 1930s: Sulfonamides were synthesized. The Birth of Modern Chemotherapy

49. 1928: Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic. He observed that Penicillium fungus made an antibiotic, penicillin, that killed S. aureus. 1940s: Penicillin was tested clinically and mass produced. The Birth of Modern Chemotherapy Figure 1.5

50. Bacteriology is the study of bacteria. Mycology is the study of fungi. Parasitology is the study of protozoa and parasitic worms. Recent advances in genomics, the study of an organism’s genes, have provided new tools for classifying microorganisms. Modern Developments in Microbiology