lecture 14. Future directions. Hidden in plain sight -- disc 2. lecture 3. Seventeenth century microscopy and the discover of bacteria. lecture 4. A brief history of Bacteriology -- disc 3. lecture 5. The family tree of bacteria. lecture 6. The extremophiles -- disc 4. lecture 7. An enormous and diverse group : the proteobacteria. lecture 8. An enormous and diverse group : the gram positives -- disc 5. lecture 9. Gram positives in the soil community. lecture 10. Bacteria as pathogens -- disc 6. lecture 11. What about the viruses? lecture 12. Cyanobacteria : the original photosynthesizers -- disc 7. lecture 13. Diverse metabolisms. lecture 14. Future directions.
Summary:
An overview of bacteriology presented in fourteen lectures by Betsey Dexter Dyer, biology professor at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, covering: the role of bacteria as major player in Earth's biodiversity; the history of microbiology; the four billion year history of bacteria and archaea as the dominant organisms on Earth; the place of pathogens in the greater context of the bacterial world.
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