Abiotic
non-living
Actinomyces
In mouth and intestines
Adineta
Crowned ditch resident
Aerobic
Needing oxygen
Agar
Gelatine to grow in
Alcohol
Far more than a drunk’s tipple
Alexander Fleming
The birth of antibiotics
Algae
The green engine
Alice Catherine Evans
Discovered that raw milk contains pathogenic bacteria
Amoeba
Shapeshifter
Anaerobic
Life without oxygen
Antibiotics
Wonder drug for infections?
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Founder of microbiology
Archaea
Discovered in very hot water
Armillaria ostoyae
Giant fungus
Arthrospira maxima
watery inhabitant
Aspergillus
Extremely divers and useful fungi
Autoclave
Cleaning under pressure
Autotrophic
Independent life
Bacillus subtilis
Best researched bacterium
Bacteria
They are everywhere
Bacteriophage
Friendly virus
Baudoinia compniacensis
Angel’s share fungus
Beatrix Potter
Celebrated writer, but ignored scientist
Belgian brewer’s yeast
unique flavours
Binary fission
Quick reproduction
Biodiversity
Look for the difference
Biofilm
a community of microbes
Bioluminescence
Natural night lights
Biotechnology
Around for thousands of years
Biotic
Living things
Bitter oyster
flashy forest fungus
Blepharisma japonicum
Shy protist
Botryococcus braunii
Fuel factory
Botrytis cinerea
Noble rot
Brachionus plicatilis
Self-cultivated food for the ARTIS-sea horses
Cable bacteria
Microbial electricity
Caenorhabditis elegans
Roundworm important to research
Cell
Earth’s smallest life form
Cell membrane
Where the cell stops
Cell nucleus
The DNA’s residence
Cell wall
Prevents bursting
Chaetomium globosum
Wood rot fungus full of useful substances
Charles Darwin
Father of the theory of evolution
Chlamydomonas nivalis
red-coloured green algae in white
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Micro cyclops
Chlorella vulgaris
common small cell with great potential
Chloroplast
Energetic sunlight absorber
Chromosome
Colourful body
Chroococcus turgidus
Slimy bunch of bacteria
Ciliates
Crawling, swimming and eating with cilia
Cladosporium cladosporioides
Plastic eater in your own backyard
Cladosporium sp.
Gut fungus
Clostridium difficile
The black sheep of the class
Clostridium perfringens
Rapidly dividing fat lover
Colony
Two's a crowd
Colpidium striatum
shaggy swimmer
Conjugation
Horizontal gene transfer
Conservation
The battle against decay
Culture
The art of multiplying
Cyanobacteria
Bacteria or algae?
Cyclops strenuus
Microscopic little lobsters
Cytoplasm
The fluid cell
DNA
Key to the organism
Deinococcus radiodurans
Toughest bacteria on earth
Diatom
Armour of glass
Dinoflagellate
Diverse plankton group
Ecosystem
An organic unit
Edward Jenner
Developer of the first vaccine
Elizabeth Bugie
Invisible discoverer of streptomycin
Endosymbiosis
Linked lives
Enterobacteriaceae
Sometimes infamous, often indispensable
Enterococcus faecalis
member of man’s microbiome
Enzymes
Reaction accelerators
Ernst Boris Chain
Made penicillin into the drug we know and love
Escherichia coli
Not really that bad
Escherichia virus T4
commandeer and copy
Eukaryote
In possession of a cell nucleus
Evolution
From microbe to mankind
Exidiopsis effusa
Frost bearded fungus
Extremophile
Organisms from extremes
Fanny Hesse
Unexpected and unacclaimed creator of agar
Fermentation
Energy supplier
Firmicutes
abundant gut inhabitants
Flagellum
Zigzagging with a lash-like appendage
Foraminifera
Little chambers of calcium
Frederick Twort
discoverer of bacteriophages
Fungus
Up to 5 million species
Fusarium venenatum
The Quorn fungus
Gene
25,000 genes decide who you are
Generic modification
Genetics
What you inherit and from whom
Gonium
Groups of green algae
Haematococcus pluvialis
Pink like a flamingo
Haloferax volcanii
ancient salt lover
Heterotrophic
Second-hand energy
Hypholoma fasciculare
Sulphur tuft
Ignaz Semmelweis
discoverer of the antiseptic method
Ilja Iljitsj Metsjnikov
At the start of immunology and probiotics
Infection
Source of sickness and infection
Janthinobacterium lividum
Useful pigment
Johanna Westerdijk
First female professor
John Snow
Founder of epidemiology and infection theory
Jonas Salk
Developer of the polio vaccine
Laboratory
Workplace of the laboratory technician
Lactic acid bacteria
Present and future impact
Lactiplantibacillus plantarum
A fermenting bacterium
Lactobacillus brevis
a bit acidic
Lactobacillus casei
Indispensable for your health
Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG
Keeps our products well
Lactococcus lactis
Ingested microbe
Lichens
successful partnership between fungi and algae
Louis Pasteur
Father of microbiology
Magnetic stirrer
Stirring with a magnet
Martinus Willem Beijerinck
Father of virology
Metabolism
The body at work
Micrasterias thomasiana
star among algae
Micro-organism or microbe
100 million different species
Microbiology
The science of micro-organisms
Microbiome
All your microbes
Microbiota
Microbes in one place
Microscope
Progress of the magnifying glass
Mitochondrion
The cell’s power stations
Multicellular
Between two and three billion cells
Mushrooms
Smart spore spreaders
Mutation
Change in the genetic material
Mycelium
Network of fungal threads
Mycorrhiza
Plants and fungi interact
Navicula sp.
Boat-shaped oxygen factory
Nematode
Successful string
Neocallimastix frontalis
Helping with fermentation
Organelle
The cell’s organs
Organism
All living things
PCR
Smart chain reaction
Parasite
Living off a host
Pasteurization
Food sterilization with low heat
Pathogen
Driving force of diseases
Pediastrum boryanum
Green algae
Penicillium roqueforti
A famous cheesemaker
Penicillium vanoranjei
Orange pride
Petri dish
A container for microbes
Philodina roseola
Feeds with the flow
Phormidium animale
Bright green
Photobacterium phosphoreum
Luminous bacterium
Photosynthesis
Providing our oxygen
Pichia barkeri
Micropia yeast
Pilobolus
Dung fungus
Pinnularia nobilis
Handy water pollution indicator
Pipette
Very accurate suspension
Plankton
Foundation of the food web
Plasmid
Pieces of DNA with convenient properties
Prebiotics
Food for your microbes
Probiotics
Helpful microorganisms
Prokaryote
Organism with no cell nucleus
Propionibacterium acnes
Helpful skin resident
Protists
Eukaryotic microbes
Psilocybe cubensis
A magic mushroom
Pyrocystis noctiluca
flashing algae
Quorum sensing
Crowd control
RNA
Help in copying
Radiolaria
Crystal clear creatures
Rasamsonia emersonii
The thermophilic fungus
Reproduction
From one, comes another
Resistance
Insensitive due to super-fast evolution
Rhizobium
Root nodules
Rhizopus oligosporus
Tasteful, sustainable and healthy
Rhodotorula mucilaginosa
Gut yeast
Ribosome
Indispensable protein factories
Robert Koch
Father of modern bacteriology
Rot
Decay after death
Rotifer
Catching food with a vortex
SCOBY
Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeasts
STI
Sick from sex
Saccharomyces boulardii
Beneficial effects
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
life in beer, bread and wine
Sea sparkle
Noctiluca scintillans
Selenastrum gracile
Green crescent moon
Selman Waksman
Controversial discoverer of antibiotics
Sergei Winogradsky
Microbial ecology and the Winogradsky column
Slide
the micro-world in between glass
Slime mould
The brainless clever clogs
Slipper animalcule
Single-cell organism with a tiny mouth
Spore
Tough reproductive cells
Staphylococcus aureus
not always too nice
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Lives in sweaty places
Starter culture
Microbes in your food
Sterilization
Removal of microbes
Streptococcus
At home everywhere
Streptomycetes
From antibiotics to earthy forest scent
Symbiosis
In between co-operation and merger
Synechococcus sp.
Photosynthesizing blue-green algae
Synechocystis sp. PCC6803
Sustainable cyanobacterium
Telomere
Repeating end bits
Tetraselmis suecica
The swimming algae
Theodor Escherich
discoverer of Escherichia coli
Tolypothrix distorta
Hairy ball
Tree of life
Soo many branches
Trichophyton rubrum
Home between the toes
Ulothrix zonata
Living camouflage
Unicellular
From algae to amoebas
Vaccination
Injecting weakened pathogens
Vibrio fischeri
The light inside the squid
Virus
The very smallest are the most numerous
Volvox
Floating inside the mother sphere
Water bears or moss piglets
Little survivors all over the place
Water flea
Bouncing crustaceans
Xanthoria parietina
a lichen consisting of fungus and algae
Xylaria polymorpha
Dead man’s fingers
Yarrowia lipolytica
Desired yeast in the industry
Yeast
A fungus in a hundred