by Elio — Prof. Saly­ers' con­tri­bu­tions to mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy as well as the qual­ity of her teach­ing are widely known and much ad­mired. Her lab pro­vided im­por­tant tools for the ge­netic dis­sec­tion of Bac­te­ri­odes and its me­tab­o­lism of com­plex car­bo­hy­drates. More broadly, she pointed to the im­por­tance of the hu­man mi­cro­biome well be­fore it…