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Fundamentals of Microbiology, Eleventh Edition Includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access Microbiology, continues to set the standard for microbiology textbooks and learning tools. No text better applies microbiology concepts to the learner and the real world and does so with higher quality art and illustrations. A new visually stunning design includes icons and language to identify where and how the text meets the ASM Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Microbiology as well as satisfies the AAAS recommendations in its 'Vision and Change' document, unlike any other text on the market. This award-winning text has been updated to include more information on careers and career application of the material, including health care and the sciences, as well as more non-human references for students who are not pursuing health care. The popular boxed features, including Investigating the Microbial World, MicroFocus, MicroInquiry, and Textbook Cases, have been retained and updated to reflect recent advances in biology. Enjoyable, lively, and challenging, Fundamentals of Microbiology is the easy choice for microbiology courses.

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Jeffrey Pommerville is Emeritus Professor of Biology and Microbiology at Glendale Community College (GCC) in Glendale, Arizona, where he taught microbiology and introductory biology. He also had served as the Course Assessment Coordinator for the Biology Department at GCC. Before coming to GCC, he was on the biology faculty at Texas A & M University. Dr. Pommerville received his BS and PhD from the University of California-Santa Barbara. While at GCC, Dr. Pommerville served as principal investigator on several NSF grants, including Systemic Reform in Science (SyRIS) that developed a strategy to reform and integrate the introductory sciences. He is the author of more than 50 research and education research papers and was the Perspectives Editor for the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Dr. Pommerville has received numerous professional honors, including: the 2008 Carski Foundation Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award from ASM, the Golden Microscope Award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the Ohaus Award for Innovations in Science Teaching from the National Science Teachers Association, and was one of the first recipients of a Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award from his home institution. He is a member of ASM and AAAS. Dr. Pommerville is a past co-chair for the ASM’s Conference for Undergraduate Educators as well as a past chair of Division W of ASM. Besides Microbes and Society, Fifth Edition, Dr. Pommerville is author of Fundamentals of Microbiology, 11 Edition (2018), Fundamentals of Microbiology: Body Systems Edition, Third Edition (2016), as well as Encounters in Microbiology, Vol. 1 and 2 (2009), and Guide to Infectious Diseases by Body System, Second Edition (2012). All are published by Jones & Bartlett Learning.

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