Over the past 20 years, environmental microbiology has emerged from a rather obscure, applied niche within microbiology to become a prominent, ground-breaking area of biology. Environmental microbiology's rise in scholarly stature cannot In’ simply explained. But one factor was certainly pivotal in bringing environmental microbiology into the ranks of other key biological disciplines. That factor was molecular techniques. Thanks largely to Dr. Norman Pace (in conjunction with his many students) and Gary Olson and Carl Woese, nucleic acid analysis procedures began to flow into environmental microbiology' in the mid-1980s. Subsequently, a long series of discoveries have flooded out of environmental microbiology. This two-way flow is constantly accelerating and the discoveries increasingly strengthen the links between environmental microbiology and core areas of biology that include evolution, taxonomy, physiology, genetics, environment, genomics, and ecology.
This textbook has grown from a decade of efforts aimed at presenting environmental microbiology as a coherent discipline to both undergraduate and graduate students at Cornell University. The undergraduate course was initially team-taught by Drs. Martin Alexander and William c. Ghiorse. Later, w. c. Ghiorse and I taught the course. Still later I was the sole instructor. Still later I became instructor of an advanced graduate version of the course. The intended audience for this text is upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and established scientists seeking to expand their areas of expertise.
Environmental microbiology is inherently multidisciplinary'. It provides license to learn many things. Students in university courses will rebel if the subject they are learning fails to develop into a coherent body of knowledge. Thus, presenting environmental microbiology to students in a classroom setting becomes a challenge. How can so many disparate areas of science (c.g., analytical chemistry, geochemistry, soil science, limnology, public health, environmental engineering, ecology, physiology, bio-geochemistry, evolution, molecular biology, genomics) be presented as a unified body of information?
This textbook is my attempt to answer that question. Perfection is always evasive. But I have used five core concepts (see Section 1.1) that are reiterated throughout the text, as criteria for selecting and organizing the contents of this book.
The majority of figures presented in this book appear as they were prepared by their original authors in their original sources. This approach is designed to illustrate for the reader that advancements in environmental microbiology are a community effort.
A website with downloadable artwork and answers to study questions is available to instructors at www.blackwellpublishing.com/madsen
I hope this book will stimulate new inquiries into what I feel is one of the most fascinating current areas of science. I welcome comments, suggestions, and feedback (rom readers of this book. I thank the many individuals who provided both direct and indirect sources of information and inspiration. I am particularly grateful to p. D. Butler for assistance in manuscript preparation, to J. Yavitt who guided me to the right destinations in the biogcochcmistry literature, and to w. c. Ghiorsc for his unbounded enthusiasm for the art and science of microbiology. Constructive comments from several anonymous reviewers are acknowledged. I also apologize for inadvertently failing to include and/or acknowledge scientific contributions from fellow environmental microbiologist friends and colleagues.
This textbook has grown from a decade of efforts aimed at presenting environmental microbiology as a coherent discipline to both undergraduate and graduate students at Cornell University. The undergraduate course was initially team-taught by Drs. Martin Alexander and William c. Ghiorse. Later, w. c. Ghiorse and I taught the course. Still later I was the sole instructor. Still later I became instructor of an advanced graduate version of the course. The intended audience for this text is upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and established scientists seeking to expand their areas of expertise.
Environmental microbiology is inherently multidisciplinary'. It provides license to learn many things. Students in university courses will rebel if the subject they are learning fails to develop into a coherent body of knowledge. Thus, presenting environmental microbiology to students in a classroom setting becomes a challenge. How can so many disparate areas of science (c.g., analytical chemistry, geochemistry, soil science, limnology, public health, environmental engineering, ecology, physiology, bio-geochemistry, evolution, molecular biology, genomics) be presented as a unified body of information?
This textbook is my attempt to answer that question. Perfection is always evasive. But I have used five core concepts (see Section 1.1) that are reiterated throughout the text, as criteria for selecting and organizing the contents of this book.
The majority of figures presented in this book appear as they were prepared by their original authors in their original sources. This approach is designed to illustrate for the reader that advancements in environmental microbiology are a community effort.
A website with downloadable artwork and answers to study questions is available to instructors at www.blackwellpublishing.com/madsen
I hope this book will stimulate new inquiries into what I feel is one of the most fascinating current areas of science. I welcome comments, suggestions, and feedback (rom readers of this book. I thank the many individuals who provided both direct and indirect sources of information and inspiration. I am particularly grateful to p. D. Butler for assistance in manuscript preparation, to J. Yavitt who guided me to the right destinations in the biogcochcmistry literature, and to w. c. Ghiorsc for his unbounded enthusiasm for the art and science of microbiology. Constructive comments from several anonymous reviewers are acknowledged. I also apologize for inadvertently failing to include and/or acknowledge scientific contributions from fellow environmental microbiologist friends and colleagues.
Eugene Madsen
[EBOOK] Environmental Microbiology: From genomes to biogeochemistry, Eugene L. Madsen, Cornell University, Department of Microbiology, Published by Blackwell
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