Mighty Microbes
| Table of contents | ||
| Introduction | Exploring mighty microbes | Bauke Oudega President of FEMS |
| Section I | Microorganisms: Key players in evolution | Peter Willemsen and John van der Oost |
| 1 | The first microbe | Fred C. Boogerd and Eugene V. Koonin |
| 2 | It’s all microbes in the tree of life | Nico M. van Straalen |
| 3 | Archaea: The discovery of a new life form | John van der Oost, Servé W.M. Kengen and Karl O. Stetter |
| 4 | The origin of the eukaryotic cell: The symbiosis that changed the world | Thijs J.G. Ettema |
| 5 | Extremophiles: Some like it hot | Servé W.M. Kengen, Mark J. Young and John van der Oost |
| 6 | Discovery and application of “impossible” microbes | Mike Jetten |
| 7 | Marine microbiology: An ocean of microbes | Lucas J. Stal |
| Section II | From invisible to infinity: The discovery, observation and cultivation of microbes | Joop van Doorn |
| 8 | Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the discoverer of “little animals” | Lesley Robertson |
| 9 | Microscopes: Essential instruments in microbiology research | Ida van der Klei and Marten Veenhuis |
| 10 | Moore’s Law of microbial culturing: Blessed are those who start now | Colin J. Ingham and Willem M. de Vos |
| 11 | Copy, cut and paste: From single genes to synthetic chromosomes | Nico J. Claassens, Daniel Gibson, Clyde A. Hutchison III, John van der Oost |
| 12 | Ecogenomics: Key to a hidden world | Hans van Veen |
| 13 | Biohazard: Working safely with microorganisms | Willem Reijnders |
| Section III | Variation and adaptation: The lifestyle of microorganisms | John van der Oost, Joop van Doorn and Bauke Oudega |
| 14 | Aerobic and anaerobic bacteria: Respiration without oxygen | Rob van Spanning, John van der Oost and David Richardson |
| 15 | Lactic acid bacteria: Cash cows of microbiology | Bas Teusink and Rute Neves |
| 16 | Microorganisms: The first to see the light | Klaas J. Hellingwerf |
| 17 | Pearls on the surface of kelp: Rhodopirellula and other Planctomycetes | Jens Harder |
| 18 | Bacterial gangs: United and strong by means of quorum sensing | Oscar P. Kuipers and Akos T. Kovacs |
| Section IV | Sustainable energy and food: Microorganisms employed by humans | Bauke Oudega |
| 19 | Albert Jan Kluyver: Unity in diversity | Lesley Robertson |
| 20 | Fungi for food, drink and health | Teun Boekhout and Jan Dijksterhuis |
| 21 | Methane from microbes: Climate change or renewable energy? | Caroline M. Plugge, Rudolf K. Thauer and Servé W.M. Kengen |
| 22 | Hydrogen, the ideal biofuel? | Servé W.M. Kengen and Michael W.W. Adams |
| 23 | Bakers’ yeast and biofuels: The sky is the limit? | Jack Pronk |
| 24 | Microalgae-based economy: Green goes with everything: Feed, food, fuels and biomaterials | Iago Dominguez Teles, Olaf Kruse and René H. Wijffels |
| 25 | Wastewater treatment, an example of how microbes work for us | Alfons J.M. Stams, Arjan R. Borger, and Hardy Temmink |
| Section V | Microbes and plants: From nurture to torture | Joop van Doorn |
| 26 | Living on air: Nitrogen fixation for all plants? | Douglas Cook and Ton Bisseling |
| 27 | The hidden underground fungal network | Gijsbert Werner and Toby Kiers |
| 28 | Fungi: Friends and Foes | Han Wösten and Sarah Gurr |
| 29 | Agrobacterium: Genetic modification avant la lettre | Ronald Koes and Paul J.J. Hooykaas |
| 30 | Microbial plant diseases: From tulip mania to chestnut bleeding canker | Joop van Doorn and Martin Romantschuk |
| Section VI | Infectious diseases and epidemics | Peter Willemsen and Joen Luirink |
| 31 | The story of Pasteur: Comtois, tête de bois | Jan Verhoef |
| 32 | Koch’s Postulates:
A milestone for Microbiology |
Cathrien Bruggeman |
| 33 | Yersinia pestis: Causative agent of the black death | Henk Smit and Peter Willemsen |
| 34 | Diarrhoea: Montezuma’s revenge | Bauke Oudega |
| 35 | Salmonella: From Typhoid Mary to human food chain | Jaap van Dissel |
| 36 | Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC): How a beneficial bacterium turned evil | Sabrina Mühlen, Manfred Rohde and Petra Dersch |
| 37 | Biological warfare and bioterrorism: Killing by the letter | Antoine Stuitje |
| 38 | Viral history | Milton W. Taylor |
| 39 | The Spanish Flu: A devastating riddle | Peter Willemsen and Henk Smit |
| 40 | Ebola | My V.T. Phan, Matthew Cotten and Marion Koopmans |
| Section VII | Therapy and prevention | Peter Willemsen and Joen Luirink |
| 41 | Alexander Fleming: The discoverer of penicillin | Lenie Dijkshoorn and Tyrone Pitt |
| 42 | History of tuberculosis control | Stephen V. Gordon |
| 43 | The tubercle bacillus: An indestructible pathogen? | Wilbert Bitter |
| 44 | Tuberculosis vaccine development | Jelle Thole and Danielle Roordink |
| 45 | Challenges and solutions for antibiotic discovery | Gilles van Wezel |
| 46 | Antibiotic resistance and horizontal gene transfer | Adam P. Roberts and William P. Hanage |
| 47 | Revival of phage therapy | Franklin L. Nobrega, Rob Lavigne and Stan J.J. Brouns |
| 48 | Allies of humans: Natural-born bacteria-killers | R. Elizabeth Sockett and Andrew L. Lovering |
| 49 | Malaria: Next on the list of eradication? | Teun Bousema and Chris Drakeley |
| 50 | Arboviruses: From feared pathogens to medicines of the future | Jeroen Kortekaas |
| 51 | Why is it so difficult to find a cure or vaccine against HIV? | Rogier W. Sanders |
| 52 | Influenza viruses | Guus F. Rimmelzwaan |
| 53 | New approaches to vaccines | Rino Rappuoli and Loek van Alphen |
| Section VIII | Microbes and health | Peter Willemsen and Joen Luirink |
| 54 | Life without microbes? | Henk Smit |
| 55 | Microorganisms in the human gut: A truly breath-taking journey through our intestinal tract | Hauke Smidt, Harry J. Flint and Erwin G. Zoetendal |
| 56 | Faecal transplantation: Bugs better than drugs? | Willem M. de Vos and Max Nieuwdorp |
| 57 | Oral microorganisms: An ecological history | Toon Ligtenberg, Hans de Soet and Phil Marsh |
| 58 | Health and our microbial partners: The hygiene hypothesis and the old friends mechanism | Graham A.W. Rook |
| 59 | Healthy microbes, the probiotics | Michiel Kleerebezem and Colin Hill |
| 60 | Endospore-forming bacteria: From bacterial pathogens to beneficial microbes | Stanley Brul and Ezio Ricca |
| 61 | One Health in practice | Joke van der Giessen |
| Section IX | Recent and future breakthroughs in microbiology | Bauke Oudega |
| 62 | The smallest life as a source of great developments in biology: En route to a mathematical model for the cell | Klaas Krab |
| 63 | Budding yeast as a model organism to understand cancer and neurological diseases | Matteo Barberis and Steve G. Oliver |
| 64 | Synthetic biology: From engineering living systems to the bottom-up construction of synthetic cells | Bert Poolman and Vincent Noireaux |
| 65 | Unravelling the Bauplan of life: The DNA sequencing revolution | Jung Soh and Christoph W. Sensen |
| 66 | Designing and synthesizing minimal (bacterial) life | J. Craig Venter, Clyde A. Hutchison III and Hamilton O. Smith |
| 67 | From immunity to gene therapy: CRISPR goes viral | Jennifer A. Doudna and John van der Oost |
Mighty Microbes
