Mark Mar­tin has spent his pro­fes­sional ca­reer work­ing with strange and won­der­ful "un­do­mes­ti­cated" bac­te­ria, and is in­ter­ested in how mi­crobes in­ter­act with one an­other in the de­vel­op­ing field of "so­ciomi­cro­bi­ol­ogy." He yields to no one in his pas­sion for Mi­cro­bial Su­premacy in this bios­phere and else­where. Mark is as­so­ciate pro­fes­sor in the De­part­ment of Bi­ol­ogy,...