MODULE OVERVIEW Flashcards
1
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“How do microbes impact world around us”
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- happens on all sorts of scales
- microbes colonise earth
- microbes created environments & habitats we live in
- drive major elemental cycles
2
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Lectures 1-6: Building Blocks of Life
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- evolution of early life
- microbial diversity
- intro to microbial metabolism & biochemisty
> energy sources & efficiency for growth
> metabolism based on organic, inorganic & light energy
3
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Lectures 7-9: Specific background groups
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- extreme environments & Archaea
- eukaryotic microbes
- microbial interactions
4
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Lectures 10-14: The Cycles of life
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- intro to microbial ecology
- the carbon cycle
- saprotrophy
- nitrogen cycle
- sulphur, iron & phosphorus cycles
5
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Lectures 15-18: interactions of the micro & macro
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- microbe: plant interactions
> beneficial / mutualists
> disease & pathogens - microbe: animal interactions
> the human body microbiome & health
6
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Lecture 1: evolution of early life
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Understanding how life began, helps us to understand how ecosystems function today
