Antibiotic-resistant pathogens are profoundly important to human health, but the environmental
reservoirs of resistance determinants are poorly understood. The origins of antibiotic …

Microbial communities are at the heart of all ecosystems, and yet microbial community behavior
in disturbed environments remains difficult to measure and predict. Understanding the …

Metagenomics (also referred to as environmental and community genomics) is the genomic
analysis of microorganisms by direct extraction and cloning of DNA from an assemblage of …

Research universities should provide leadership in the reform movement. Faculty and
administrators should collaborate to overcome the barriers and to create an educational ethos that …

Despite efforts to recruit and retain more women, a stark gender disparity persists within
academic science. Abundant research has demonstrated gender bias in many demographic …

Cultured soil microorganisms have provided a rich source of natural-product chemistry.
Because only a tiny fraction of soil microbes from soil are readily cultured, soil might be the …

… coliDNA will be presented elsewhere (MR Liles, J. Handelsman, and RM Goodman,
unpublished data). PCR amplification of 16S rRNA genes (50-μl reaction volume) used 100 ng of …

Seasoned classroom veterans, pre-tenured faculty, and neophyte teaching assistants alike
will find this book invaluable. HHMI Professor Jo Handelsman and her colleagues at the …

Although copious qualitative information describes the members of the diverse microbial
communities on Earth, statistical approaches for quantifying and comparing the numbers and …

A 2012 report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
predicts that the US workforce will suffer a deficit of one million college graduates in science, …