The mission of the General Meeting Program Committee (GMPC) states, “The ASM General Meeting showcases the central role of microbes in the biosphere by reporting today’s best science in the diverse areas influenced by microbes. The breadth of this meeting provides participants opportunities for immersion in fields of specialization as well as forays into different disciplines.” Underscoring the...

The many achievements ensuing in the past decade from the interdisciplinary approaches employed are very tangible in this volume. It is almost a truism these days to say that much that is original and of far-reaching consequence in contemporary biology is the result of the application of the concepts and particularly the techniques of chemistry and physics. The converse proposition is equally a...

Molecular Microbiology and Immunology has a long history of providing graduate and postgraduate education in basic principles of microbiology and immunology, as well as research training opportunities in the laboratories of established scientists with diverse research interests. Faculty expansion has provided new curricular offers with flexibility for personalized scholarly pursuits built in. T...

1 Department of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United S...

Diagnostic microbiology is a branch of medical science concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment infectious diseases. The kinds microorganisms that cause disease i.e. bacteria, fungi, parasites viruses, other type protein called proon. This study, studies characteristics pathogens, their modes growth transmission infections. In this respect entire field, as an applied science, can ...

(2) Chemical and Biological Process Development Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 6 Richland, WA, USA; 7 (3) Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB), GmBH c/o Institute of Chemical Engineering, 8 Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. 9 § Current affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of 10 Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wiscons...

Rose Cooper is Professor of Microbiology, Centre for Biomedical Sciences, Cardiff School of Health Sciences, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff Biofilms are communities of multiple species of adherent microorganisms that are embedded within a blanket of slime. Their existence in natural environments and in industrial situations is well known, but their association with chronic wounds is mor...

Saccharomyces cerevisiae has an extensive history of use in the area of food processing. Also known as Baker's Yeast or Brewer's Yeast, this organism has been used for centuries as leavening for bread and as a fermenter of alcoholic beverages. With a prolonged history of industrial applications, this yeast has been either the subject of or model for various studies in the principles of microbio...

Life on Earth is limited by physical and chemical extremes that define the 'habitable space' within which it operates. Aside from its requirement for liquid water, no definite limits have been established for life under any extreme. Here, we employ growth data published for 67 prokaryotic strains to explore the limitations for microbial life under combined extremes of temperature, pH, salt (NaC...

1 Universidade Santa Úrsula, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2 Instituto de Biof́ısica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3 Instituto Nacional de Metrologia e Qualidade Industrial—Inmetro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4 Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagens-INBEB, Brazil 5 University of California, San Francisco-Pathology, California Ins...