In the Company of Microbes - Ten Years of Small Things Considered

Zusatztext "Since Elio Schaechter's blog! Small Things Considered! first appeared 10 years ago! I have looked forward to each edition. I have read! smiled! laughed! and always learned something new about the microbial world. Elio's style is uniquely engaging and makes microbiology come alive. This new book! In the Company of Microbes! captures all the best of Elio's magic. It is a must-read for students of microbiology of any age." ? Lynn W. Enquist! Henry L. Hillman Professor in Molecular Biology and Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute! Princeton University Klappentext A look at the amazing, groovy world of microbesWith more than 1,000 posts and 2 million views, the esteemed blog Small Things Considered has been sparking the imagination of microbiologists for an entire decade. Throughout the years, Elio Schaechter and his team of dedicated bloggers have shared exciting, unexpected, and unusual stories from the microbial world.In the Company of Microbes is a carefully selected treasure chest of wise, amusing, and even profound statements about the ubiquity and relevance of the microbial world. Schaechter, past ASM Presidents, and distinguished microbiologists from around the globe reflect on personal, sometimes historic interactions with microbes and unexpected discoveries, each essay conveying the excitement and sense of surprise that microbiology holds for them. This is the reason that Small Things Considered is a scientific and social media phenomenon that has impacted scientists at every stage of their careers and shared the magical of microbes with world.Join Schaechter in discovering a never-ending pageant of astounding variations on the theme of microbial life. Enjoy! Zusammenfassung A look at the amazing, groovy world of microbesWith more than 1,000 posts and 2 million views, the esteemed blog Small Things Considered has been sparking the imagination of microbiologists for an entire decade. Throughout the years, Elio Schaechter and his team of dedicated bloggers have shared exciting, unexpected, and unusual stories from the microbial world.In the Company of Microbes is a carefully selected treasure chest of wise, amusing, and even profound statements about the ubiquity and relevance of the microbial world. Schaechter, past ASM Presidents, and distinguished microbiologists from around the globe reflect on personal, sometimes historic interactions with microbes and unexpected discoveries, each essay conveying the excitement and sense of surprise that microbiology holds for them. This is the reason that Small Things Considered is a scientific and social media phenomenon that has impacted scientists at every stage of their careers and shared the magical of microbes with world.Join Schaechter in discovering a never-ending pageant of astounding variations on the theme of microbial life. Enjoy! Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors x Introduction xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv What Do We Mean by a Talmudic Question? xvi Part 1: The View from Here 1 Of Ancient Curses, Microbes, and the ASM 3 Bonnie L. Bassler 2 On the Evolution of the Genetic Code 6 Charles Yanofsky 3 Microbes Touch Everything 8 Tim Donohue 4 Getting a Handle on Cell Organization 11 Franklin M. Harold 5 The Age of Imaging 16 Elio 6 Bacillus subtilis: Wild and Tame 19 Richard Losick 7 The Tyranny of Phylogeny: An Exhortation 22 Elio 8 Virus in the Room 24 Welkin Johnson 9 Feynman Said "Just Look at the Thing!" 27 Jan Spitzer 10 Self-Assembly For Me 34 Elio 11 On the Definition of Prokaryotes 37 Nanne Nanninga 12 The Microbial Nature of Humans 42 Maureen O'Malley 13 Good Writing Beats Bad Writing, Most Any Day 47 Elio

List of contents

Contributors x
 
Introduction xi
 
Preface xiii
 
Acknowledgments xv
 
What Do We Mean by a Talmudic Question? xvi
 
Part 1: The View from Here
 
1 Of Ancient Curses, Microbes, and the ASM 3
Bonnie L. Bassler
 
2 On the Evolution of the Genetic Code 6
Charles Yanofsky
 
3 Microbes Touch Everything 8
Tim Donohue
 
4 Getting a Handle on Cell Organization 11
Franklin M. Harold
 
5 The Age of Imaging 16
Elio
 
6 Bacillus subtilis: Wild and Tame 19
Richard Losick
 
7 The Tyranny of Phylogeny: An Exhortation 22
Elio
 
8 Virus in the Room 24
Welkin Johnson
 
9 Feynman Said "Just Look at the Thing!" 27
Jan Spitzer
 
10 Self-Assembly For Me 34
Elio
 
11 On the Definition of Prokaryotes 37
Nanne Nanninga
 
12 The Microbial Nature of Humans 42
Maureen O'Malley
 
13 Good Writing Beats Bad Writing, Most Any Day 47
Elio
 
14 Finally, Farewell to "Stamp Collecting" 52
Christoph Weigel
 
Part 2: Accounts of the Past
 
15 Esther Lederberg: Pioneer of Bacterial Genetics 59
Mercé Piqueras
 
16 How Proteomics Got Started 66
Fred Neidhardt
 
17 Did van Leeuwenhoek Observe Yeast Cells in 1680? 72
Nanne Nanninga
 
18 The Louse and the Vaccine 76
Elio
 
19 The Ten-Minute Leeuwenhoek Microscope 80
Patrick Keeling
 
20 Microbiology in the Andes: Ancient and Unexpected 84
Elio
 
21 Dr. Rous's Prize-Winning Chicken 87
Welkin Johnson
 
22 The Two Quantitative Steps in the Biology Growth Curve 90
Elio
 
23 A Tale of Centenarians 93
Claudio Schazzocchio
 
24 A Failed Experiment 99
Elio
 
25 "Microbe Hunters" by Paul DeKruif: A Major Force in Microbiological History 104
Elio
 
26 Fecal Transplants in the "Good Old Days" 106
Stanley Falkow
 
27 Requiem for a Machine 110
Elio
 
28 Mad Dogs and Microbiologists 113
William C. Summers
 
29 Joshua Lederberg and the "Cellularity" of Bacteria 118
Elio
 
Part 3: Small Wonders
 
30 Where Art Thou, O Nucleoid? 123
Conrad Woldringh
 
31 Teaching E. coli to Endocytose 126
Elio
 
32 The Awesomest Thing in Biology 130
Elio
 
33 Let's Not Forget Acetabularia 134
Elio
 
34 The Fastest Flights in Nature 139
Elio
 
35 Fungal Alchemy: Using Radiation as a Source of Energy 141
Elio
 
36 Arms and the Fungus 143
Elio
 
37 Bacterial Hopanoids: The Lipids That Last Forever 146
Elio
 
38 A Bacterium Learns Long Division 150
Nanne Nanninga
 
39 Commuting to Work 153
Elio
 
Part 4: On Being a Microbiologist
 
40 Directed Science, Curiosity-Driven Science, and Striking the Balanc 159
Jeff F. Miller
 
41 The Gender Bias of Science Faculty 163
Vincent Racaniello
 
42 The Excitement of Clinical Microbiology 166
Elio
 
43 The Bacterial Chromosome: A Physical Biologist's Apology. A Perspective 171
Suckjoon Jun
 
44 Whose Planet is It Anyway? 177
Elio
 
45 If Microbes Could Tweet 181
Daniel P. Haeusser
 
46 State Microbes 183
Elio
 
47 Recalling the Good in the Good Old Days 187
Elio
 
48 The Attendee's Guide to Scientific Meetings 189
Julian Davies
 
Part 5: Personal Notes
 
49 The Encyclopedia and I 195
Elio
 
50 The Guild 198
Elio
 
51 The Magasanik Paradox 200
Elio
 
Part 6: The Ways of Microbes
 
52 The Parvome 205
Julian Davies
 
53 The World is Pleiotropic 208
Elio
 
54 Constructing a Synt

Product details

• Authors: Elio Schaechter, Judith Schaechter, M Schaechter, Moselio Schaechter, Moselio (San Diego State University) Schaechter
• Assisted by: Judith Schaechter (Illustration)
• Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781555819590
• ISBN: 978-1-55581-959-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: ASM Books; ASM
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Mikrobiologie, Medizin, Mikroorganismus, Mikroben, microbiology, Medical Science, Mikrobiologie u. Virologie