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Hello, I'm Dr. Martin Goldberg.
I'm a Senior Lecturer in
Clinical Microbiology at
Birmingham City
University in the UK.
This lecture is part of
a series called Introduction
to Microbiology
and is really targeted at
first-year undergraduate
university students.
This is the second part of
the first lecture that is
really introducing the subject.
It is a very superficial
overview of many of
the aspects that are going
to be covered later on in
the actual lecture series.
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In the last lecture,
I very briefly introduced
different members of
the microbial world,
giving a very
superficial overview,
mentioning a few
examples from each of
those different
groups before I then
started looking in a
little bit more detail at
some of the structural
features of
particularly the bacterial cell.
We looked at the cell envelope.
We looked at the cell
wall structure and
how bacteria generate
ATP using respiration.
In this lecture, we're going
to carry on in that vein.
I will talk to you
a little bit about
what we call
lipopolysaccharide or LPS and
then look at some of
the different
bacterial appendages:
flagella, fimbriae, and pili.
Then just talk
very briefly about
different transport
systems—how bacteria are
able to transport
different substances from
the outside into the
cell and vice versa.
We will look at capsules and
some of their properties.
We will look at spores—the
role of spores and
then finish off with a view of
biofilms and their properties.
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