Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
In the company of microbes : ten years of Small Things Considered / Elio Schaechter ; artwork by Judith Schaechter.
Author
Schaechter, Moselio
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2016]
Description
xvi, 292 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Lewis Library - Stacks
QR56 .S33 2016
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Microbiology
—
Blogs
[Browse]
Microorganisms
—
Blogs
[Browse]
Illustrator
Schaechter, Judith, 1961-
[Browse]
Summary note
In the Company of Microbes is a carefully selected treasure chest of wise, amusing, and even profound statements about the ubiquity and relevance of the microbial world. Schaechter, past ASM Presidents, and distinguished microbiologists from around the globe reflect on personal, sometimes historic interactions with microbes and unexpected discoveries, each essay conveying the excitement and sense of surprise that microbiology holds for them. This is the reason that Small Things Considered is a scientific and social media phenomenon that has impacted scientists at every stage of their careers and shared the magical of microbes with world. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Show 6 more Contents items
Other title(s)
Small things considered (Blog)
ISBN
9781555819590 ((pbk.))
1555819591 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2016011177
OCLC
945585983
Other standard number
40026253299
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information