In the company of microbes : ten years of Small Things Considered /: ten years of Small Things Considered. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Small things considered (Blog)
• Further Information: Note: Elio Schaechter ; artwork by Judith Schaechter.
• Other Names: Schaechter, Moselio; Schaechter, Judith 1961- illustrator.
• Contents: What do we mean by a talmudic question? -- pt. 1. The view from here: Of ancient curses, microbes, and the ASM / Bonnie L. Bassler ; On the evolution of the genetic code / Charles Yanofsky ; Microbes touch everything / Tim Donohue ; Getting a handle on cell organization / Franklin M. Harold ; The age of imaging / Elio ; Bacillus subtilis: wild and tame / Richard Losick ; The tyranny of phylogeny: an exhortation / Elio ; Virus in the room / Welkin Johnson ; Feynman said "just look at the thing!" ; Jan spitzer ; Self-assembly for me / Elio ; On the definition of prokaryotes / Nanne Nanninga ; The microbial nature of humans / Maureen O'Malley ; Good writing beats bad writing, most any day / Elio ; Finally, farewell to "stamp collecting" / Christoph Weigel -- pt. 2. Accounts of the past: Esther Lederberg: pioneer of bacterial genetics / Mercé Piqueras ; How proteomics got started / Fred Neidhardt ; Did van Leeuwenhoek observe yeast cells in 1680? / Nanne Nanninga ; The louse and the vaccine / Elio ; The ten-minute Leeuwenhoek microscope / Patrick Keeling ; Microbiology in the Andes: ancient and unexpected / Elio ; Dr. Rous's prize-winning chicken / Welkin johnson ; The two quantitative steps in the biology growth curve / Elio ; A tale of centenarians / Claudio Schazzocchio ; A failed experiment / Elio ; "Microbe hunters" by Paul Dekruif: a major force in microbiological history / Elio ; Fecal transplants in the "good old days" / Stanley Falkow ; Requiem for a machine / Elio ; Mad dogs and microbiologists / William C. Summers ; Joshua Lederberg and the "cellularity" of bacteria / Elio -- pt. 3. Small wonders: Where art thou, o nucleoid? / Conrad Woldringh ; Teaching E. coli to endocytose / Elio ; The awesomest thing in biology / Elio ; Let's not forget acetabularia / Elio ; The fastest flights in nature / Elio ; Fungal alchemy: using radiation as a source of energy / Elio ; Arms and the fungus / Elio ; Bacterial hopanoids: the lipids that last forever / Elio ; A bacterium learns long division / Nanne Nanninga ; Commuting to work / Elio -- pt. 4. On being a microbiologist: Directed science, curiosity-driven science, and striking the balance / Jeff F. Miller ; The gender bias of science faculty / Vincent Racaniello ; The excitement of clinical microbiology / Elio ; The bacterial chromosome: a physical biologist's apology: a perspective / Suckjoon Jun ; Whose planet is it anyway? / Elio ; If microbes could tweet / Daniel p. Haeusser ; State microbes / Elio ; Recalling the good in the good old days / Elio ; The attendee's guide to scientific meetings / Julian Davies -- pt. 5. Personal notes: The encyclopedia and I / Elio ; The guild / Elio ; The magasanik paradox / Elio -- pt. 6. The ways of microbes: The parvome / Julian Davies ; The world is pleiotropic / Elio ; Constructing a synthetic mycoplasma / Shmuel Razin ; By chance and necessity: the role of the cytoskeleton in the genesis of eukaryotes / Daniel P. Haeusser ; The gram stain: its persistence and its quirks / Elio ; On the continuity of biological membranes / Franklin M. Harold ; Energetics of the eukaryotic edge / Franklin M. Harold ; The road to microbial endocrinology / Mark Lyte ; Begetting the eukarya: an unexpected light / Franklin M. Harold ; The Higgs Boson and biology / Elio ; The power of fungal genetics: cassava for food security and sustainability in Colombia / Chris Condayan, Peter Geoghan ; Why is it so hard to make an HIV vaccine? / John Coffin ; Measuring up / Jamie Henzy -- pt. 7. Teaching things: On teaching / Stanley Falkow ; Hello again, metabolism! / Amy Cheng Vollmer ; Why medical microbiology is not like stamp collecting / Elio ; Where mathematicians and biologists meet / Joe Mahaffy ; Short courses for long-term learning / Phoebe Lostroh ; Preaching to a prokaryotic choir / Mark Martin ; "The great plate count anomaly" that is no more / Gemma Reguera -- Talmudic question #73.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : ASM Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 576; Microbiology -- Blogs; Microorganisms -- Blogs; Microbiology; Microorganisms; Microbiological Phenomena; Blogs; Blogs; Collected Work; Popular Work
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781683673248
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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