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Prescott's Principles of Microbiology provides a balanced, comprehensive introduction to all major areas of microbiology. Because of this balance, Prescott's Principles of Microbiology is appropriate for microbiology majors and mixed majors courses. The authors have focused on readability, artwork, and the integration of several key themes, including evolution, ecology and diversity, throughout the text, making an already superior text even better.
List of contents
Part One Introduction to Microbiology
1 The Evolution of Microorganisms and Microbiology
2 Microscopy
3 Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Structure
4 Eukaryotic Cell Structure
5 Bacterial and Archaeal Growth
Part Two Microbial Metabolism
6 Introduction to Metabolism
7 Catabolism: Energy Release and Conservation
8 Anabolism: The Use of Energy in Biosynthesis
Part Three Microbial Molecular Biology and Genetics
9 Genome Replication
10 Gene Expression
11 Regulation of Cellular Processes
12 Mechanisms of Genetic Variation
Part Four The Diversity of the Microbial World
13 Gram-Positive Bacteria
14 Proteobacteria
15 Nonproteobacterial Gram-Negative Bacteria
16 Archaea
17 Eukaryotic Microbes
18 Viruses and Other Acellular Infectious Agents
Part Six Host Defense and Pathogenicity
22 Innate Host Resistance
23 Adaptive Immunity
24 The Human Microbiome and Host Interactions
25 Infection and Pathogenicity
Part Seven Applied Microbiology
26 Epidemiology and Public Health Microbiology
27 Control of Microorganisms in the Environment
28 Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
29 Microbiology of Food
30 Industrial and Environmental Microbiology
Part Eight Methods in Microbiology
31 Microbial DNA Technologies
32 Microbial Genomics
33 Methods in Microbial Biology
34 Clinical Microbiology and Immunology
About the author
Joanne M. Willey has been a professor at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, since 1993, where she is the Leo A. Guthart Professor of Biomedical Science and Chair of the Department of Science Education at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
Dr. Willey received her B.A. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, where her interest in microbiology began with work on cyanobacterial growth in eutrophic streams. She earned her Ph.D. in biological oceanography (specializing
in marine microbiology) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology–Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in 1987. She then went to Harvard University, where she spent her postdoctoral fellowship studying the filamentous soil bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor. Dr. Willey has coauthored a number of publications that focus on its complex developmental cycle. She is an active member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and served on the editorial board of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology for nine years and as Chair of the Division of General Microbiology. Dr. Willey taught microbiology to biology majors for 20 years and now teaches microbiology and infectious disease to medical students. She has taught courses in cell biology, marine microbiology, and laboratory techniques in molecular genetics.
Dr. Willey lives on the north shore of Long Island and has two grown sons. She is an avid runner and enjoys skiing, hiking, sailing, and reading. She can be reached at joanne.m.willey@ hofstra.edu.
Christopher J. Woolverton is Professor of Biological Sciences at Kent State University, Ohio.
Linda M. Sherwood is a member of the Department of Microbiology at the Montana State University.
