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Prescott's Principles of Microbiology https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/126025903X.jpeg 2 2021 9781260259032 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.
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Prescott's Principles of Microbiology
Prescott's Principles of Microbiology

Prescott's Principles of Microbiology, 2nd Edition

ISBN10: 126025903X | ISBN13: 9781260259032
By Joanne Willey, Kathleen Sandman, Christopher J. Woolverton and Linda Sherwood
© 2021

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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.

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

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About the Author

Joanne Willey

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.


Kathleen Sandman

Kathleen M. Sandman received her B.A. in Biology from La Salle University and her Ph.D. in Cellular and Developmental Biology from Harvard University. She was inspired to a career in science by her older brother’s experience as an organic chemist and by the developing technology in recombinant DNA in the 1970s. Her graduate work used a transposable element as a mutagen in Bacillus subtilis to study gene expression during endospore formation. She continued in the genetics of Gram-positive bacteria with a postdoctoral year studying Bacillus thuringiensis at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Another postdoctoral opportunity at The Ohio State University provided an introduction to the emerging field of archaeal molecular biology, where Dr. Sandman discovered archaeal histones and continued research in the structural biology of archaeal chromatin for about 20 years. She served the National Science Foundation as a research grant reviewer and panelist for the Life in Extreme Environments program, and has organized conference sessions on archaeal molecular biology and proteins from extremophiles. Dr. Sandman has taught microbiology to hundreds of students, at both the introductory level and in an advanced molecular microbiology laboratory.


 Dr. Sandman has worked as a consultant in a variety of industries, including industrial microbiology, environmental geomicrobiology, and technical publishing. She lives with her husband in Columbus, Ohio, and has two grown daughters. She enjoys biking, fabric arts, reading, and genealogy, and can be reached at kathleenmsandman@gmail.com.


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