• Im­ages Can Shape Us

    Pic­tures Con­sid­ered #64 by Roberto — It used to be that, when I closed my eyes and thought back, search­ing for a defin­ing mo­ment that sparked my life-long pas­sion for mol­e­c­u­lar bi­ol­ogy, this im­age came vividly to mind. Most mem­o­ries lie buried, com­ing back only mys­te­ri­ously, and of­ten with­out cue. This one, though, is clear.

  • Teach­ing Stu­dents To See Through "Mi­cro­bial Eyes"

    by Mark O. Mar­tin — At my pri­mar­ily un­der­grad­u­ate in­sti­tu­tion (3,000 stu­dents to­tal, 12 Bi­ol­ogy fac­ulty, over 50 Bi­ol­ogy ma­jors grad­u­ated per year), there is only one mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy course, and it is gen­er­ally taught to se­niors (and not all se­niors at that). Con­sid­er­ing the power and pri­macy of the mi­cro­bial world, I have al­ways found that…