ISE Prescott's Principles of Microbiology

Joanne M. Willey has been a professor at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, since 1993, where she is the Leo A. Guthart Professor of Biomedical Science and Chair of the Department of Science Education at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Willey received her B.A. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, where her interest in microbiology began with work on cyanobacterial growth in eutrophic streams. She earned her Ph.D. in biological oceanography (specializing in marine microbiology) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology–Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in 1987. She then went to Harvard University, where she spent her postdoctoral fellowship studying the filamentous soil bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor. Dr. Willey has coauthored a number of publications that focus on its complex developmental cycle. She is an active member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and served on the editorial board of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology for nine years and as Chair of the Division of General Microbiology. Dr. Willey taught microbiology to biology majors for 20 years and now teaches microbiology and infectious disease to medical students. She has taught courses in cell biology, marine microbiology, and laboratory techniques in molecular genetics. Dr. Willey lives on the north shore of Long Island and has two grown sons. She is an avid runner and enjoys skiing, hiking, sailing, and reading. She can be reached at joanne.m.willey@ hofstra.edu. Christopher J. Woolverton is Professor of Biological Sciences at Kent State University, Ohio. Linda M. Sherwood is a member of the Department of Microbiology at the Montana State University.

Part One  Introduction to Microbiology
1  The Evolution of Microorganisms and Microbiology
2  Microscopy
3  Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Structure
4  Eukaryotic Cell Structure
5  Bacterial and Archaeal Growth

Part Two  Microbial Metabolism
6  Introduction to Metabolism
7  Catabolism: Energy Release and Conservation
8  Anabolism: The Use of Energy in Biosynthesis

Part Three  Microbial Molecular Biology and Genetics
9  Genome Replication
10  Gene Expression
11  Regulation of Cellular Processes
12  Mechanisms of Genetic Variation

Part Four  The Diversity of the Microbial World
13  Gram-Positive Bacteria
14  Proteobacteria
15  Nonproteobacterial Gram-Negative Bacteria
16  Archaea
17  Eukaryotic Microbes
18  Viruses and Other Acellular Infectious Agents
 
Part Six  Host Defense and Pathogenicity
22  Innate Host Resistance
23  Adaptive Immunity
24  The Human Microbiome and Host Interactions
25  Infection and Pathogenicity

Part Seven  Applied Microbiology
26  Epidemiology and Public Health Microbiology
27  Control of Microorganisms in the Environment
28  Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
29  Microbiology of Food
30  Industrial and Environmental Microbiology

Part Eight  Methods in Microbiology
31  Microbial DNA Technologies
32  Microbial Genomics
33  Methods in Microbial Biology
34  Clinical Microbiology and Immunology