Microbiology: An Evolving Science

Author:   John W Foster ,  Joan L Slonczewski (University of South Alabama)
Publisher:   W. W. Norton & Company
Edition:   4th ed.
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9780393615098


Pages:   1376
Publication Date:   03 July 2017
Format:   Mixed media product
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Microbiology: An Evolving Science provides clear, accessible explanations, smart pedagogy, and stunning art with a contemporary framework that emphasizes the field's cutting-edge research. With the Fourth Edition, the book's value as a superior learning tool is enhanced by two new themes--the gut microbiome and Antarctic microbiology--tightened chapters, and a new online homework course.

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Author:   John W Foster ,  Joan L Slonczewski (University of South Alabama)
Publisher:   W. W. Norton & Company
Imprint:   W. W. Norton & Company
Edition:   4th ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 22.60cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 27.70cm
Weight:   2.585kg
ISBN:  

9780393615098


ISBN 10:   039361509
Pages:   1376
Publication Date:   03 July 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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John W. Foster received his BS from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (now the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia) and his PhD from Hahnemann University (now Drexel University School of Medicine), also in Philadelphia, where he worked with Albert G. Moat. After postdoctoral work at Georgetown University, he joined the Marshall University School of Medicine in West Virginia. He is currently teaching in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama. Dr. Foster has coauthored three editions of the textbook Microbial Physiology and has published more than 100 journal articles describing the physiology and genetics of microbial stress responses. He has served as Chair of the Microbial Physiology and Metabolism division of the American Society for Microbiology and as a member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Molecular Microbiology Joan L. Slonczewski received her BA from Bryn Mawr College and her PhD in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University, where she studied bacterial motility with Robert M. Macnab. After postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania, she has since taught undergraduate microbiology in the Department of Biology at Kenyon College, where she earned a Silver Medal in the National Professor of the Year program of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. She has published numerous research articles with undergraduate coauthors on bacterial pH regulation and has published six science fiction novels, including A Door into Ocean and The Highest Frontier, both of which earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. She served as At-Large Member representing Divisions on the Council Policy Committee of the American Society for Microbiology and as a member of the editorial board of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology

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