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Robert Hooke

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First to see microbes - saw fruiting structure of mold. Published in Micrographia in 1665

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Antony van Leeuwenhoek

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Saw “wee animalcules,” bacterial cells, in 1676. Used 300x magnification with Dark-Field.

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Francesco Redi

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Meat & Maggots experiment to disprove Spontaneous Generation in Macrobes

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Spontaneous Generation

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The first question of Microbiology. Can living matter arise from non-living matter?

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Louis Pasteur & Spontaneous Generation

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Gun-Cotton filters to show microbes were in the air. Swan-Neck flask trapped microbes while still allowing “good air” into the broth:::No Spontaneous Generation in microbes.

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Louis Pasteur & Diseases

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Worked in silkworm protozoans. Rabies Vaccine (Joseph Meister). Cholera. Pastuerization started with wine spoilage.

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Joseph Tyndall

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Tyndallization - Discontinuous heating lead to endospores - answered the “how long do you heat it for” question.

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Ferdinand Cohn

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Proved endospores existed at same time as Tyndall

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Agostino Bassi

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Proved a silkworm disease came from a fungus in 1835.

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Germ Theory of Diseases

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Question #2 - Can microbes cause diseases in animals? Bassi was the first to answer this fundamentally, others soon followed.

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Miles Berkeley

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Proved existence of Potato Blight Fungus. Got rich because it was important

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Joseph Lister

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Pushed for cleaner hospital practice which in turn lowered death rates - Listerine named in honor of him

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Robert Koch

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ID’d Anthrax & TB bacteria. Postulates for Germ Theory proved that it existed. Developed solid media - agar not gelatin

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Koch’s Postulate #1

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Suspected pathogen has to be present in 100% of cases of disease and 0% in healthy organisms.

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Koch’s Postulate #2

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Suspected Pathogen must be grown in pure culture (spurred agar media)

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Koch’s Postulate #3

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Cells from pure culture put into healthy animal must cause disease

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Koch’s Postulate #4

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Suspected Pathogen must be reisolated & same as original pure culture

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Fannie Hesse

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Koch’s lab: Wife of lab assistant who suggested Agar as the solid media over gelatin

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Richard Petri

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Koch’s lab assistant who developed Petri Dish

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Edward Jenner

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Noticed maids w/cowpox never got smallpox. Infected farmboy with cowpox, then smallpox; he didn’t get smallpox. First (attenuated) vaccine. 1798.

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Martinus Beijerinck

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Enrichment Culture technique - isolation done by selective nutrient growth. Also discovered TMV (Tobacco Mosaic Virus) which was beginning of Virology. Nitrogen Fixers.

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Sergei Winogradsky

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Microbial rxns in soil - without real media still occur. Chemolithotrophy. Autotrophy.

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Chemolithotrophy

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Bacteria that can gain energy from non-organics

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Autotrophy

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Taking fully oxidized carbon and converting them to reduced carbs

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Attenuated Vaccines

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Using live things to vaccinate against other diseases. Pasteur & Meister (Rabies); Jenner (Smallpox)

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Fermentation

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Microbial because spontaneous sometimes? Yeast & lactic acid

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Pasteurization

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Partial heating to prevent wine spoilage

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Microbial Ecology

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Showing microbial interaction w/environments
Beijerinck with Enrichment Cultures of soil/water & TMV.
Winogradsky with energy from non-organic sources.

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Types of Microscopes

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4 Light: Bright-Field, Phase-Contrast, Dark-Field, Flourescence.
2 Electron: Transmission (TEM), Scanning (SEM)

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Refraction

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Slowing & Bending of light

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Focus issues with no lenses

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Stuff gets blurry when you get close. Looking for shorter Focal Length.

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Compound Microscopes

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Microscopes with 2+ lenses - solves 1-lens problem (only 10-15x per lens).

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Focal Point

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The thing you’re focusing at

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Focal Length

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The distance between Focal Point and Lens

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Parfocal

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Picture being in focus for multiple lenses. Expen$ive

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Bright-Field Microscopes & Advantages

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Ocular with 10x lenses; multiple objective lenses on turret. Field is bright. Intermediate image between lenses.

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Resolution Description

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The ability to distinguish two objects from one another. How close can these two things be and I can tell the difference between them?

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Resolution Distance Formula

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d=(.5λ)/Numerical Aperture

d= minimum distance two objects can be apart to tell the difference.

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Numerical Aperture

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Measures light-gathering ability. Shows refractive Index. Works best at low λ.

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Staining

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Coloration of microbes to avoid the issue with light passing through clear microbes. Works great on Bright-Field.

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Heat Fixation

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Attaches microbes to slide using heat (&/or chemicals). Inactivates stray enzymes on the slide.

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Gram Staining Steps

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  1. Crystal Violet - All Cells Purple
  2. Iodine - Mordant for some cells
  3. Alcohol Decolorization - washes off purple from Gram Negs (where mordant failed)
  4. Safranin counterstain - makes now clear Gram Negs pink/red
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Chromophore Dyes

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Dyes that absorb light

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Charged Dyes

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Basic Dyes have + charges (more common)

Acidic Dyes have - charges

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Differential (i.e. Gram) Staining

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To differentiate between specific attributes of cells. Gram- peptidoglycan levels.

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Phase-Contrast Microscope & Advantages

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Uses Condenser to focus light. We only see the light reflected by the cell. Looks like dark-fieldish.

No Staining, fixation req’d. Useful for long, thin stuff.

(van Leeuwenhoek)

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3-D Image Microscopy

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3 Types:

  1. Differential Intereference Contrast
  2. Atomic Force
  3. Confocal Scanning Laser
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Transmission Electron Microscope

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Electron Beam passes directly through the specimen in a vacuum (to keep air/stuff out).
Lenses = magnets to focus beam
Electrons = Heated Tungsten Filament
Dark on light background. Detection comes from film, not your eyeball.

Works b/c λ is shorter than a photon’s; better resolution. Requires really thin sections of specimen.

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Staining in EM

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Aim to enhance electron density of specimen.
Heavy Metal Salts - Good at deflecting electrons (uranyl acetates)
+ Stains: can see internal structures b/c increased e- density
- Stains: if background is stained

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Platinum Shadowing

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Coat specimen in platinum - way better electron density for reflection

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Scanning EM

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Used for shapes & surfaces
Usually coat specimen with gold to get 3D fashion
Scan beam @ 45 degree angle->Software constructs image from input.

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Fluorescence Microscope

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Plays off of biological fluorescence. Microscope emits excitation wavelength of light=passes through to light tube. Used sparingly - sometimes in diagnostics b/c antibodies have specific dyes esp. in mixed

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