The Prokaryotes

Martin Dworkin: Emeritus Professor of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, USA Major research area: Developmental Biology and Social Behavior of Myxococcus xanthus Selected awards and honors: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology; Sackler Scholar, Tel Aviv University; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Roger Porter Award for Microbial Diversity- American Society for Microbiology Stanley Falkow: Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA; Former Assistant Chief of the Department of Bacterial Immunology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Selected awards and honors: Member of the National Academy of Sciences; President of the American Society for Microbiology from July 1997 through June 1998; Robert Koch Award from German Government; Abbott Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Microbiology; Several honorary doctorates in Europe and the US Eugene Rosenberg: Professor of Microbiology at Tel Aviv University, Israel; Associate Professor at the Department of Bacteriology & Institute of Molecular Biology, University of California at Los Angeles (1967-1970); Member of the Israel Committee for Emerging Diseases Selected awards and honors: Guggenheim Fellow and Visiting Professor MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts; Pan Lab Award, Society of Industrial Microbiology, San Diego Karl-Heinz Schleifer: Professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology, Technical University of Munich, Germany Awards and Honors: Full Member of Bergey's Manual Trust; President of the International Union of Microbiological Societies; Korber Award for European Scientific Research; Award of the Society of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine; Ferdinand-Cohn-Medal Erko Stackebrandt: Professor of Microbiology at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, and Director of the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany; Professor of Microbiology Department, University of Kiel, Germany (1984-1990); Professor of Microbiology and Department Head at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (1990-1993) Selected awards and honors: Associate Member of Bergey's Manual Trust (1990-1997); Bergey's Award

Guide to Recent Phylogenetic Updates.- Essays in Prokaryotic Biology. How We Do and Don't and Should Look at Bacteria and Bacteriology. Defining Taxonomic Ranks. Prokaryote Characterization and Identification. Principles of Enrichment, Isolation, Cultivation, and Preservation of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotes and Their Habitats. Morphological and Physiological Diversity. Cell-Cell Interactions. Prokaryotic Genomics. Genomics and Metabolism in Escherischia coli. Origin of Life: RNA World versus Autocatalytic Anabolism. Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology. Bacterial Pathogenicity in Animal Hosts. Bacterial Multicellularity. The Structure and Function of Microbial Communities.- 2: Symbiotic Associations. Cyanobacterial-Plant Symbioses. Symbiotic Associations between Ciliates and Prokaryotes. Bacteriocyte-Associated Endosymbionts of Insects. Symbiotic Associations between Termites and Prokaryotes. Marine Chemosynthetic Symbioses. Symbiotic Associations between Amoebae and Prokaryotes.- 3: Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology. Organic Acid and Solvent Production I: Acetic, Lactic, Gluconic, Succinic, and Polyhydroxyalkanoic Acids. Organic Acid and Solvent Production II: Propionic and Butyric Acids and Ethanol. Organic Acid and Solvent Production III: Butanol, Acetone, and Isopropanol. Amino Acid Production. Microbial Exopolysaccharides. Bacterial Enzymes. Agricultural Products from Microorganisms. Bacteria in Food and Beverage Production. Bacterial Pharmaceutical Products. DNA Recombinant Protein Production in Bacteria. Biosurfactants. Scale-up of Bacterial Fermentations. Bioremediation. Biodeterioration. Microbial Biofilms.-