MAN AND MICROBES

DR. S.KARPAGAM
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY QUEEN MARYS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)
CHENNAI - 600 004

FASCINATING PARROT FLOWER

Life is nothing with out PLANTS.

Nothing exists in earth with out MICRO-ORGANISMS

EXTREME COLD CLIMATE

EXTREME CLIMATE OF HOT SPRINGS

BARREN ROCKS

EXTREME COLD CLIMATE OF ARCTIC REGION

CRUSTOSE LICHENS

FOLIOSE LICHENS

REINDEER MOSS

SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP OF ALGAE AND FUNGI

FATHER OF MICROSCOPES

MICROBES OBSERVED BY LEEUWENHOEK

MODERN RESEARCH MICROSCOPE

Milk and Milk products

Souring of milk by Lactobacillus

Pasteurization

White revolution
gave new hope to the farmers life

Agriculture
solely depends on Micro-organisms

MONOCULTURE OF PADDY

NITROGEN FIXATION IN ROOT NODULES OF GREEN GRAM

Vam fungi vesicular arbascular mycorrhiza

Nostoc nitrogen fixer

Azolla - biofertilizer

Spirulina tanks

SPIRULINA FOR HEALTH

MASS CULTIVATION OF SPIRULINA

Spirulina

CHLORELLA

CHLORELLA TABLETS

Wheat flour

CAKES AND BREADS ARE THE MARVELS FROM MICROBIAL FERMENTATION

Yeast culture

Yeast budding out to soften the bread

Small scale fermentor

MEDIUM SCALE BIOREACTOR

Large scale fermentor

Wine a form of food preservation

Penicillium

Penicillium with conidia

GIANT MUSHROOM FLOURSHING IN A FOREST

EDIBLE MUSHROOM

ROD SHAPED BACTERIA

SLIMY BACTERIA

Bacterial infectious diseases

Anthrax : Bacterial meningitis : Botulism : Brucellosis : Campylobacteriosis : Cat scratch disease : Diphtheria : Epidemic Typhus : Gonorrhea : Impetigo : Legionellosis Leprosy (Hansen's disease) : Leptospirosis Listeriosis : Lyme disease : Melioidosis : MRSA infection : Nocardiosis : Pertussis (Whooping cough) : Plague : Pneumococcal pneumonia : Psittacosis : Q fever

rickettsial illness Salmonellosis : Scarlet fever : Shigellosis : Syphilis : Tetanus : Trachoma : Tuberculosis : Tularemia : Typhoid fever : Typhus : Urinary tract infections :

Fungal infectious diseases Aspergillosis Blastomycosis Candidiasis Coccidioidomycosis Cryptococcosis Histoplasmosis Tinea pedis

PARASITIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

African trypanosomiasis Amebiasis Ascariasis Babesiosis Chagas disease Clonorchiasis Cryptosporidiosis Cysticercosis Diphyllobothriasis Dracunculiasis Echinococcosis Enterobiasis Fascioliasis

Pediculosis Scabies Schistosomiasis Taeniasis Toxocariasis Toxoplasmosis Trichinellosis Trichuriasis Trichomoniasis Trypanosomiasis

Fasciolopsiasis Filariasis amebic infection Giardiasis Gnathostomiasis Hymenolepiasis Isosporiasis Leishmaniasis Malaria Metagonimiasis Myiasis Onchocerciasis

Viral infections diseases

AIDS Chickenpox (Varicella) Common cold Cytomegalovirus infection Colorado tick fever Dengue fever Ebola haemorrhagic fever Hand, foot and mouth disease Hepatitis Herpes simplex Herpes zoster HPV Influenza (Flu)

Lassa fever Measles Marburg haemorrhagic fever Infectious mononucleosis Mumps Poliomyelitis leukencephalopathy Rabies Rubella SARS Smallpox (Variola) Viral encephalitis Viral gastroenteritis Viral meningitis Viral pneumonia West Nile disease Yellow fever

Prion infectious diseases

Alpers syndrome encephalopathy Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease insomnia Kuru encephalopathy

Bacteria as a Vector in Gene cloning

EDIBLE VACCINE

GOLDEN RICE

Thank You