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History of Microbiology Lecture Materials
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are the History of Microbiology Lecture materials of the Virtual Microbiology Classroom. The resources below are used to supplement an actual
college microbiology course. Anyone taking, teaching or interested in
biology may find these materials helpful and is welcome to use them.
The History of Microbiology Lecture materials include:
- a list of learning objectives a list of learning objectives
- a PowerPoint lecture
- "class note" articles
- practice test questions
- review questions
- links to additional educational resources
HISTORY OF MICROBIOLOGY LECTURE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
These lecture learning objectives are a study guide based on the VMC History of Microbiology Lecture PowerPoint:
- Know what the Spontaneous Generation Debate was, which scientists played a part, and how each contributed to settling the debate.
- Understand the Germ Theory of Disease (see Early Germ Theory & Later Germ Theory) and the relevant contributions of the scientists we discussed.
- Who were the key players in the early history of immunology, and what information did each contribute to our understanding of immunology?
- What was the significance of Christian Gram's contribution to microbiology?
- What is the difference between a vegetative cell and an endospore? Who discovered this?
- What does it mean when a microbe is "attenuated"?
- Know the antimicrobial agents that we discussed and who discovered them.
- Know the microbes that we met in this lecture, the diseases they cause and their relevance to the topics discussed:
- Streptococcus pyogenes and Germ Theory (Semmelweis, Holmes, Lister)
- Clostridium perfringens and Germ Theory (Lister)
- Vibrio cholerae and Germ Theory (Snow)
- Bacillus anthracis and Germ Theory (Koch)
- Cowpox / Smallpox and Immunology (Jenner)
HISTORY OF MICROBIOLOGY LECTURE POWERPOINT
All of the lecture PowerPoints used in the Virtual Microbiology Classroom have fill-in-the-blanks on many of the slides to encourage students to pay attention and follow along during the presentation. Instructors, contact us for the information that goes in the blanks.
HELPFUL TIPS: Some of the PowerPoint presentations are large files and may take a few moments to download, depending on the speed of your internet connection. If you are printing a hard copy of the PowerPoint, you can save paper by selecting Handouts (rather than Slides) in the "Print What:" drop down menu of the PPT print screen. Then you can choose the number of slides you want to have on each printed page. If the printed PPT presentation is to be used as student notes, it is best to choose handouts with 2 or 3 slides per page.
HISTORY OF MICROBIOLOGY CLASS NOTES
Here are brief summaries of some of the various subtopics and concepts introduced in this lecture, kind of like really good class notes.
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: Pioneer of Microbiology
- Early Germ Theory: Contributions of Leeuwenhoek, Semmelweis & Snow
- Late Germ Theory: Contributions of Pasteur, Lister, Koch, Domagk & Fleming
- Early History of Human Immunology: Discoveries of Edward Jenner & Louis Pasteur
Practice test questions designed to help you better understand the material from this lecture. They are based on information in the History of Microbiology PowerPoint Lecture.
HISTORY OF MICROBIOLOGY REVIEW QUESTIONS
Questions designed to help you review the material in the History of Microbiology Lecture.
MORE HISTORY OF MICROBIOLOGY LINKS
- Koch's Postulates: Scientific Method Linking Microbe to Disease, May 29, 2011.
- Pasteur’s Experiment testing spontaneous generation, animation and quiz from WH Freeman.
- The Dress Lodger, a historical novel about cholera, prostitution and body snatching set in Sunderland England 1831.
- Wickett's Remedy, historical novel about Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918.
- Brief History of Microbiology online flashcards from Quizlet.
- Microbe Hunters, a classic by Paul De Kruif, Harvest Books.
- Play “Fling The Teacher”, an interactive “Medicine: Infectious Disease” Quiz in which you get to build a teacher (victim), then fling them with a trebuchet if you correctly answer the quiz questions.
- History of Microbiology interactive timeline from Microbe World.
- Play Disease Defenders educational video game, Rice University.
- Got the Time, song by Anthrax
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Page last updated: 5/2012
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