Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image USDA ARS ERRC.jpg right thumb 200px Microbiologists examining cultures on a Petri dish . A microbiologist is a scientist who works in the field of microbiology . Microbiologists study organisms called microbes. Microbes can take the form of bacteria , viruses , fungi , and protists . One of the microbiologists main research aim is to find out how microbes affect the world around them. Fields in microbiology Specialists in the broad field of microbiology include Bacteriologists , who work in the field of bacteriology and study bacteria . Environmental microbiologists work in the field of environmental microbiology and study microbial processes in the environment. Food microbiologists , who work in the food industry and study Food microbiology pathogenic microorganisms that cause foodborne illness and spoilage. Industrial microbiologists who generally work in biotechnology and study microorganisms that produce useful products. Medical microbiologists , medical practitioners physicians who have chosen to specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of microbial diseases in patients. Mycologist s , work in the field of mycology and study fungi . Protozoologists , who work in the field of protozoology and study protist s. Virologists , who work in the field of virology and study virus es. Microbial Epidemiology epidemiologists , who study the role of microorganism s in health and illness . Immunologists , who study how the body defends itself against viruses, bacteria, and etc. History Antonie van Leeuwenhoek of the Netherlands is commonly known as the Father of Microbiology , and considered to be the first microbiologist. See also Environmental microbiology Food microbiology Oral microbiology Virology Category Microbiologists Category Science occupations Category Microbiology Microbiology stub ar eo Mikrobiologo fr Microbiologiste ga Micribhitheola sl Mikrobiolog ... more details
refimprove date January 2010 Jon Michael Miller, Ph.D., D ABMM publishes under the name J. Michael Miller , is an internationally known clinical and public health microbiologist. He has worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for over 30 years. In addition, he is the owner and director of Microbiology Technical Services, LLC http www.microbiology consult.com , a private clinical microbiology consultation service for hospitals and private laboratories that is unaffiliated with the CDC. Miller has over 100 peer reviewed publications, including two books and has served a variety of functions within the ASM American Society for Microbiology . He is currently the Dean of the American College of Microbiology which is the certification and accreditation arm of the ASM. External links http www.microbiology consult.com US biologist stub DEFAULTSORT Miller, J. Michael microbiologist Category American biologists Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 David G. Davies is a microbiologist and associate professor at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York United States . His interests lie specifically in the study of biofilm s. He has a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Montana State University Bozeman Montana State University 1996 . External links http www2.binghamton.edu biology faculty davies Dr. David Davies at Binghamton University DEFAULTSORT Davies, David G. Category Binghamton University faculty Category State University of New York faculty Category Living people US biologist stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Peter Hirsch is a Germany German microbiologist , based out of Kiel, Germany . Approaching the age of 80, he has made many a contribution to the study of microbiology. The genus Hirschia is named after him, and is a type of hyphal bacteria . References Google book source http books.google.com books?id 9cwgo 9IyTUC&pg PA176&lpg PA176&dq hirschia bacteria&source web&ots lPA6biue1B&sig mCvKfn3EEOIa5fE4sJNLMSDLKx0 DEFAULTSORT Hirsch, Peter Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category German microbiologists Germany biologist stub ... more details
Sir David Gwynne Evans 6 September 1909 13 June 1984 was a British microbiologist. He studied at Manchester University from 1930 to 1933, when he graduated with a degree in physics and chemistry, and he gained his MSc in 1934. He finished his PhD in 1938 and began working at the National Institute for Medical Research two years later. ref name odnb cite web url http oxforddnb.com view article 31086?docPos 2 title Oxford DNB article Evans, Sir David Gwynne subscription needed date 2004 publisher Oxford University Press accessdate 2009 01 28 ref He left in 1947 to become areader in the bacteriology department at Manchester University, but returned to the NIMR in 1955 as director of the biological standards department. In 1961 he became professor of bacteriology and immunology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , a position he left in 1971 to become director of the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control. He was awarded the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society in 1977 for his work, and retired in 1979. ref name odnb References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Evans, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Evans, David Category British microbiologists Category 1909 births Category 1984 deaths ... more details
Michael Doyle is a professor of microbiology , microbiologist active in research, and author. He is Regents Professor of Food Microbiology at the University of Georgia s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the director of the school s Center for Food Safety, ref http www.foodscience.caes.uga.edu personnel faculty doyle.html University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences ref where he researches foodborne bacteria l pathogen s. He holds the patents to several sanitation products including one used as a meat wash ref name FDA Lyndsey Layton http www.washingtonpost.com wp dyn content article 2010 01 27 AR2010012704801.html Obama s pick for food safety chief surprises consumer advocates January 28, 2010 Washington Post ref Background Doyle graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison with a B.S. degree in Bacteriology, as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in Food Microbiology . ref http www.thefsrc.org bios.htm ref He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology , the International Association for Food Protection and the Institute of Food Technologists . Selected publications Food Microbiology Fundamentals and Frontiers with Larry R. Beuchat and Thomas J. Montville 2001 Principles of Microbiological Troubleshooting in the Industrial Food Processing Environment Food Microbiology and Food Safety with Jeffrey L. Kornacki and Michael P. Doyle May 12, 2010 From wild pigs and spinach to tilapia and Asia The challenges of the food safety community The John H. Silliker Lecture . Food Prot. Trends 28 800 803. 2008 Imported Foods Microbiological Issues and Challenges Emerging Issues in Food Safety with Marilyn C. Erickson Hardcover Jun 2008 Doyle, M.P. and M.C. Erickson. 2008. Summer meeting 2007 the problems with fresh produce an overview. J. Appl. Microbiol. 105 317 330. Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens 1989 References Reflist External links http www.ugacfs.org faculty doyle.html profile University of Georgia Center for Food Safety DEFAULTSORT ... more details
L szl Detre October 29, 1874, Nagysur ny May 7, 1939, Washington, DC a.k.a. Ladislas Deutsch , Ladislaus Deutsch ref name sji Origins of the Terms Antibody and Antigen , Scand. J. Immunol., 19, 281 285, 1984 http onlinelibrary.wiley.com doi 10.1111 j.1365 3083.1984.tb00931.x abstract p. 281 ref was a Hungarians Hungarian physician and microbiologist , ref http www.sulinet.hu eletestudomany archiv 1999 9944 kronika magyar.htm Detre L szl bakteriol gus ref the founder and first director of the Hungarian Serum Institute in Budapest. ref How immunology was won in Hungary , by J nos Gergely, Immunology Today , Volume 13, Issue 8, 1992, Pages A1 A3, doi 10.1016 0167 5699 92 90054 B ref Detre suggested the term antigen . ref name sji ref http books.google.com books?id YfoiszagiZIC&pg PA221&lpg PA221&dq 22ladislav deutsch 22 antigen&source bl&ots i0 9ijKNH6&sig d5 DY G9Hu19e1sfBuGM69zvYi4&hl en&ei dfatTN6PK5K6sQPQgOWCDA&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1&ved 0CBQQ6AEwAA v onepage&q 22ladislav 20deutsch 22 20antigen&f false ref He is also a codiscoverer of the Wasserman reaction , publishing this finding on humans just two weeks after Wasserman published his findings on apes. ref The Washington Century Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation s Capital By Burt Solomon, 2005, ISBN 0060937858, http books.google.com books?id yM78l9XJ2uMC&pg PT25&lpg PT25&dq 22laszlo detre 22 antigen&source bl&ots FjNU1U2eF8&sig popSakWUeGvmAx3UAMidaVPXm30&hl en&ei GbOsTMKXII EsAPWtLXWAw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 5&ved 0CB4Q6AEwBA v onepage&q detre&f false ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Detre, Laszlo ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1874 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1939 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Detre, Laszlo Category Hungarian physicians Category Hungarian microbiologists Category 1874 births Category 1939 deaths hu Detre L szl mikrobiol gus ... more details
Image Alexander Goldfarb.jpg thumb 210px right Alexander Goldfarb. Alexander Davidovich Goldfarb lang ru born in 1947 in Moscow is a microbiologist, activist, and author. Scientific career Goldfarb studied biochemistry at the Moscow State University and graduated in 1969. After graduation, he worked in Kurchatov Institute Kurchatov Research Institute of Nuclear Energy . ref http www.litvinenko.org.uk news en trustees 2007 03 07 f3 Founders Alex Goldfarb , Litvinenko Justice Foundation ref He emigrated from the USSR in 1975. He earned a Ph.D degree in 1980 at Weizmann Institute in Tel Aviv and continued education with a post doctoral program at Max Planck Institute . In 1982 1991 he was an assistant professor at Columbia University in New York . ref cite web url http www.phri.org research res pigoldfarb.asp title Alexander Goldfarb, Ph.D. archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20080404184048 http www.phri.org research res pigoldfarb.asp archivedate 2008 04 04 publisher The Public Health Research Institute Center, New Jersey Medical School location Newark, New Jersey ref Since 1992 and as of 2003 he participated in a U.S. government funded study Structure and Function of RNA Polymerase in E. Coli and directed a non U.S. government funded study Treating MDRTB in Siberian Prisons at the Public Health Research Institute of New Jersey Medical School . ref cite web url http www.phri.org research res grants.asp archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20080412062650 www.phri.org research res grants.asp archivedate 2008 04 12 title Research Grants publisher The Public Health Research Institute Center, New Jersey Medical School location Newark, New Jersey ref ref cite web url http www.phri.org programs program russiantb.asp title The PHRI Soros Russian TB Program ... Treating MDRTB in Siberian Prisons publisher The Public Health Research Institute Center, New Jersey Medical School location Newark, New Jersey ref Political activism and social work Goldfar ... more details
Infobox Scientist name David Bruce box width image Davidbruce.JPG image width 150px caption David Bruce birth date May 29, 1855 birth place Melbourne death date November 27, 1931 death place London residence citizenship nationality Scotland Scottish ethnicity field microbiology work institutions alma mater University of Edinburgh doctoral advisor doctoral students known for trypanosoma brucei trypanosome author abbrev bot author abbrev zoo influences influenced prizes Leeuwenhoek Medal in 1915 religion footnotes signature No footnotes article date July 2009 Major General Sir David Bruce Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB Fellow of the Royal Society FRS FRSE May 29, 1855, Melbourne November 27, 1931, London was a Scotland Scottish pathologist and microbiologist who investigated the Malta fever and trypanosoma trypanosomes , identifying the cause of African trypanosomiasis sleeping sickness . He was born to Scottish parents, engineer David Bruce and his wife Jane Russell Hamilton, in Australia and returned with his family to Scotland at the age of 5. He was educated at Stirling High School and then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh . ref cite web url http www.rse.org.uk fellowship fells indexp1.pdf title Former RSE Fellows 1783&ndash 2002 publisher Royal Society of Edinburgh accessdate 19 September 2010 ref After a brief period as a general practitioner in Reigate 1881 83 he joined the Army Medical Service 1883 1919 and in 1884 was stationed in Malta, where he identified Brucellosis Malta Fever . He won the Leeuwenhoek Medal in 1915. Brucella is the genus of the Bacteriaceae which is named after him. Brucella melitensis is the cause of undulant fever in man and of abortion in goats. It is usually transmitted by goat s milk. Trypanosoma brucei , the cause of sleeping sickness, is also named after him. Names of undulant fever Malta fever Mediterranean fever continued fever Cyprus fever goat fever Gibraltar fever mountain fever Neapolitan fever r ... more details
Nathans may refer to Nathan s Famous , a restaurant chain People with the family name Nathans Daniel Nathans , an American microbiologist disambig ... more details
Alexander Goldfarb or Alex Goldfarb may refer to Alex Goldfarb Israeli politician , Israeli politician and electrician Alexander Goldfarb microbiologist , Russian microbiologist and civil liberties activist Alexander Goldfarb, alias of J. Peters , organizer of the secret apparatus of the Communist Party of the United States underground in the 1930s and 1940s hndis Goldfarb, Alex ... more details
Schink may refer to Barthel Schink 1927 1944 , a member of the Edelweiss Pirates Bernhard Schink , a microbiologist having described the genus Pelobacter Disambig de schink ... more details
Gamaleya may refer to People Nikolay Gamaleya 1859 1949 , Russian and Soviet microbiologist and vaccine researcher Places Gamaleya Rock Category Disambiguation pages ... more details
Hanahan may refer to Douglas Hanahan , American microbiologist who developed SOB medium, and cancer researcher and co author of the classic Hallmarks of Cancer paper Hanahan, South Carolina , a city in the U.S. disambig ... more details
Klebs is a German surname and may refer to Arnold Klebs 1870 1943 , microbiologist Edwin Klebs 1834 1913 , pathologist Elimar Klebs 1852 1918 , historian Georg Klebs 1857 1918 , botanist surname Category Surnames de Klebs ... more details
Stefan Kaufmann may refer to Stefan Kaufmann musician born 1960 , drummer with Accept Stefan Kaufmann politician born 1969 , member of Germany s Bundestag Stefan H.E. Kaufmann , microbiologist hndis Kaufmann, Stefan ... more details
Hamilton Smith may refer to TOCright Hamilton Smith cricketer 1884 1955 , Hampshire cricketer Hamilton O. Smith 1931 , American microbiologist and Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith actor 1887 1941 , American actor and director hndis Smith, Hamilton ... more details
Luria is a surname, a variant of Lurie . It may refer to Alexander Luria , Russian neuropsychologist Isaac Luria , a Jewish mystic in Safed Roger de Luria , Italian Admiral Salvador Luria , Italian microbiologist Solomon Luria , an Ashkenazic rabbi surname de Luria fr Luria it Luria disambigua he ru ... more details
Kuenen is a The Netherlands Dutch surname . Notable people with this surname include Abraham Kuenen , Dutch Protestant theologian Philip Henry Kuenen , Dutch geologist Gijs Kuenen , Dutch microbiologist Johannes Petrus Kuenen , Dutch physicist surname de Kuenen nl Kuenen ... more details
Ben Rubin or Benjamin Rubin is the name of several people, including Ben Rubin legislator , Wisconsin Socialist and Progressive state legislator from Milwaukee Ben Rubin professional Magic player Benjamin Rubin , microbiologist and inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle for smallpox dab ... more details
Detre may refer to L szl Detre microbiologist 1874 1939 , a Hungarian physician who suggested the concept and proposed the term antigen L szl Detre astronomer , a Hungarian astronomer 1538 Detre , an asteroid named after the astronomer Detre Bebek 14 15th century , a palatine Kingdom of Hungary palatine of Kingdom of Hungary hu Bebek Detre disambig ... more details
Kinichiro or , Kin ichir may refer to Kinichiro Ishikawa 1871 1945 , a Japanese painter Kinichiro Sakaguchi 1897 1994 , a Japanese agricultural chemist and microbiologist given name cat Japanese masculine given names ... more details
Goldfarb is German for golden color and is the surname of Alex Goldfarb Israeli politician , a former Israeli politician Alexander Goldfarb microbiologist , a microbiologist, activist and author Alexander Goldfarb is also one of the aliases used by NKVD agent J. Peters Alvin Goldfarb , president of Western Illinois University Charles Goldfarb , co inventor of the Generalized Markup Language, a system for annotating text Howard Goldfarb , a Canadian poker player Lawrence Larry R. Goldfarb , CEO and founding partner of LRG Capital Group Robert Goldfarb , President and CEO of Ruane, Cunniff, and Goldfarb See also Ruane, Cunniff, and Goldfarb , an investment firm in the United States Goldfarb, Levy, Eran, Meiri & Co. , the second largest law firm in Israel Broyden Fletcher Goldfarb Shanno method, a.k.a. BFGS method , a method for solving nonlinear optimization problems surname Category Jewish surnames Category German language surnames de Goldfarb ... more details
Willem M. de Vos born 30 October 1954, Apeldoorn is a Dutch academic and microbiologist . He studied for his PhD at the University of Groningen . He is notable for winning the Spinozapremie in 2008. External links http www.wewur.wur.nl popups vcard.aspx?id VOS017&lang uk http www.nwo.nl NWOHome.nsf pages NWOA 7F4GUT Eng NWO Spinoza Prize jury report for Prof. W.M. Willem de Vos Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Vos, Willem De ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Microbiologist DATE OF BIRTH 30 October 1954 PLACE OF BIRTH Apeldoorn , Netherlands DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Vos, Willem De Category 1954 births Category Living people Category Dutch microbiologists Category People from Apeldoorn Category University of Groningen alumni Category Wageningen University faculty Category Academics of the University of Helsinki ... more details
Albert Schatz may refer to Albert Schatz law 1879 ? , law professor and historian Albert Gerard Schatz 1921 1985 , U.S. federal judge Albert Schatz music 1839 1910 , musicologist, composer, and librettist Albert Schatz scientist 1922 2005 , microbiologist, co discoverer of streptomycin hndis name Schatz, Albert bg fr Albert Schatz ... more details
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