Major Events in The Development of Microbial Ecology

Major Events in The Development of Microbial Ecology

Major Events in The Development of Microbial Ecology

Microbial Ecology is the science of the relationships between biotic and abiotic environments.

This term came into frequently use in the early 1960s.

Some major events of Microbial ecology :

1676 -  Leeuwenhoek described  microbes including bacteria.

1799 - Spallanzani disproved  the spontaneous generation of microorganisms.

1861 - Pasteur demolished  the spontaneous generation theory of microorganisms.

1866 - Haeckel introduced  the term ecology.

1879 - Scholesing and Muntz described  microbial nitrification.

1883 - Koch used solid media for isolation and culture of bacteria.

1887 - Wingradsky developed the concept of chemotherapy.

1905 - Beijerinck characterised his work as the study of microbial ecology.

1929 - Discovery of penicillin by Fleming.

1957 - Symposium on microbial ecology in London.

1980 - Woese described archaea as a separate domain.

1985 - Invention of polymerase chain reaction.

Major Events in The Development of Microbial Ecology

Written By

Sadia Akhtar
Student of Department of Microbiology
Jagannath University.
Email- sadiabd810@yahoo.com