For his educational efforts, he won the 2007 Southern Illinois University Outstanding Teaching Award.

His nonscientific interests include reading, hiking, tree planting, and caring for his dogs and horses.S. degree in Microbiology from the University of Washington, Seattle, and completed graduate studies in microbial phylogeny and evolution with Carl Woese in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. This gallery is dedicated to some of the best fiction and nonfiction portraying one of the greatest cities in the world.

Since 1981, he has been in the Department of Microbiology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he was Associate Professor and Chair, and Director of the Molecular Biology, Microbiology, and Biochemistry Graduate Program. He has taught several courses in environmental microbiology, is one of the co-founding editors of the journal Environmental Microbiology, and has served on many advisory committees. The aseptic technique is a collection of practices that allow for the preparation and maintenance of sterile nutrient media and solutions. Subsequent work as a postdoctoral fellow with Norman Pace, then at the National Jewish Hospital in Colorado, focused on early applications of 16S rRNA-based sequence analysis to the study of natural microbial communities.

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The printing is excellent, the paper is fair, and the some of the colored ink is marginal (smears, don't touch anything red).Bacteria and fungi produce a broad range of structurally diverse siderophores, which all show a very high affinity for ferric ions. Brock Biology of Microorganisms speaks to today’s students while maintaining the depth and precision science majors need. D. (1976) in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the laboratory of Thomas Brock. Following a three-year postdoctoral in the Department of Microbiology, Indiana University, Mike moved to Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he has been a professor of microbiology for 32 years.