A biologist who studies microorganisms, including their growth, metabolism, interactions and effects on larger organisms. Cultivation, microscopy and sequence-based measurements provide complementary access to organisms that may be difficult to observe directly.
Microbiologist and chemist whose experiments connected fermentation with living microorganisms and challenged spontaneous generation. Experiments separating access to air from access to dust-bearing contamination made the origin of growth in an infusion a question of controlled exposure rather than appearance alone.[ref]
Sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphère by Louis Pasteur. Atmospheric-contamination experiments
Researcher in microbial evolution. Imachi and collaborators isolated an archaeon relevant to the prokaryote–eukaryote transition, connecting cultivation of a previously inaccessible organism with hypotheses about complex-cell origins.[ref]
Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote-eukaryote interface by Hiroyuki Imachi and others. Title, author list and reported study
Researcher in microbial genetics. With Joshua Lederberg, Lederberg coauthored the replica-plating study, which preserved colony patterns across growth conditions to distinguish pre-existing mutants from changes caused by selection.[ref]
Replica plating and indirect selection of bacterial mutants by Joshua Lederberg and Esther Lederberg. Title, author list and reported study
Portrait of Esther Lederberg
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Microbiologist studying bacterial genome maintenance. Stewart and collaborators compared maintenance functions of linear and circular plasmids in Borrelia burgdorferi, testing how different DNA structures can share inheritance mechanisms.[ref]
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