BIOL447 Lecture 1: Biol 447 notes -- lecture 1 -- freshwater 2
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Environmental microbiology: aim: how can understanding of microbes be used to benefit society and our habitat. Fixing damage to the planet by understanding microbes. John snow: contaminated water is the source of illness cholera, typhoid fever were eliminated b/c of filtration and disinfection. Water treatment and pathogen detection techniques: foodborne pathogens like cyclopora from imported raspberries. Regulatory approaches to ensure food is safe: rachel carson: silent spring recognition of chemical pollution in soil and water. Madsen"s 5 core concepts: environmental micro house composed of ecology, physiology, thermodynamics, evo, habitat diversity, prime directive for microbial life: survival, maintenance, generation of atp, sporadic growth, linkages b/w habitat diversity and genomes of microbes. Microbes have exploited and changed habitats: advancements depend on convergent lines of independent evidence using many measurement procedures biomarkers, microscopy, model organisms, molecular bio, geneomic techniques, field is dynamic and methods driven.