Microbiology with Diseases by Taxonomy -- Modified Mastering Microbiology with Pearson eText Access Code

Bauman, Robert

ISBN 10: 013517483X ISBN 13: 9780135174838

Publisher: Pearson, 2019

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This product features all of the resources of Modified Mastering Microbiology in addition to the Pearson eText.

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ROBERT W. BAUMAN is a professor of biology and past chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences at Amarillo College in Amarillo, Texas. He has taught microbiology, human anatomy and physiology, and botany for over thirty years. In 2004, the students of Amarillo College selected Dr. Bauman as the recipient of the John F. Mead Faculty Excellence Award and he has been nominated for the one-time award every year since. He received an M.A. degree in botany from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in biology from Stanford University. His research interests have included the morphology and ecology of freshwater algae, the cell biology of marine algae (particularly the deposition of cell walls and intercellular communication), environmentally triggered chromogenesis in butterflies, and terrestrial oil pollution remediation by naturally occurring bacteria. He is a member of the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) where he has held national offices, Texas Community College Teachers Association (TCCTA) where he serves in a statewide position of leadership, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS), and The Lepidopterists’ Society. When he is not writing books, he enjoys spending time with his family: gardening, hiking, camping, rock climbing, backpacking, cycling, skiing, and reading by a crackling fire in the winter and in a gently swaying hammock in the summer.

TODD P. PRIMM (contributor) is a Professor at Sam Houston State University, where he teaches pre-nursing and general microbiology. He also serves as Director of the Professional and Academic Center for Excellence, which focuses on improving teaching and learning on campus. In 2010, he was Distinguished Alumnus of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences of Baylor College of Medicine, where he earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. He received a B.S. from Texas A&M University. He is very active in the American Society for Microbiology and received the Texas Branch 2015 Faculty Teaching Award. He was chair of the organizing committee for the 2013 ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators, participated in the 2012 Research Residency of the ASM/NSF Biology Scholars Program, and currently serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. He is also an affiliate staff member with the international organization Cru. He loves teaching and mentoring students and spending time with his wonderful wife of 25 years and their five children.

About the Clinical Consultants

CECILY D. COSBY is nationally certified as both a family nurse practitioner and physician assistant. She is a professor of nursing, currently teaching at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, California, and has been in clinical practice since 1980. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California, San Francisco; her BSN from California State University, Long Beach; and her P.A. certificate from the Stanford Primary Care program. She is the Director of Samuel Merritt University’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Program.

JEAN E. MONTGOMERY is a registered nurse formerly teaching in the associate degree nursing program at Austin Community College in Texas. She received her MSN from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 013517483X
• ISBN 13: 9780135174838
• Binding: Printed Access Code
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 928