The requirements for our Bachelor of Science in Microbiology represent our consolidation of the specifics indicated by prospective employers and feedback from graduates into what is reasonable for a ...

Department is gaining four faculty members. Sheela Ramamoorthy, Nathan Fisher, and Teresa and Peter Bergholz are joining the department as assistant professors. Ramamoorthy has a 60 percent research ...

The field of microbiology has developed over the 20 th and 21 st centuries to help researchers peer into the hidden world of the microscopic. Recent developments in nanotechnology have provided ...

The explosion of data from microbial genome sequencing has sparked intense new interest in the field of systems microbiology. Systems microbiology treats microorganisms or microbial communities as a ...

Over the last 50 years, the importance of the microbial cell surface in medicine, ecology, industry, and biology has become increasingly recognized. A microbe’s cell surface has several functions for ...

A greater focus on the role of microbiology in agriculture combined with new technologies can help mitigate potential food shortages associated with world population increases according to a new ...

Washington, D.C. – July 21, 2004 -- Microbes generate more than half the oxygen we breathe, excavate huge underground caverns, contribute mightily to the changes in our climate, and make up the ...

The Saint Louis University Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology has state-of-the-art laboratories located in a research and teaching complex with other basic science departments in the ...

While new approaches in agricultural biotechnology have improved crop quality and yield, the incorporation of genes from other organisms into food plants has raised concerns about possible health ...

Nancy Moran. Photo credit: Nolan Zunk. Nancy Moran, an evolutionary biologist at The University of Texas at Austin, will receive the 2023 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National ...

Much of what keeps science accurate, ethical, and usable is done by women and girls—and because it doesn’t look like a breakthrough, it rarely counts as one. Science loves a clean story. A single mind ...