Meet the editors

Miroslav Blumenberg, PhD, was born in Subotica and received his BSc in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He completed his PhD at MIT in Organic Chemistry; he followed up his PhD with two postdoctoral study periods at Stanford University. Since 1983, he has been a faculty member of the RO Perelman Department of Dermatology, NYU School of Medicine, where he is a codirector of a training grant in cutaneous biology. Dr. Blumenberg's research

is focused on the epidermis, expression of keratin genes, transcription profiling, keratinocyte differentiation, inflammatory diseases and cancers, and most recently the effects of the microbiome on skin. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles and graduated numerous PhD and postdoctoral students. Dr. Blumenberg lives in New York, USA, with his wife and two children.

Dr. Mona Shaaban received her PhD at Mansoura University/Egypt through a joint scholarship with the University of Wisconsin Madison, USA. Currently, she is working as an associate professor in the Microbiology and Immunology Department, Mansoura University, Egypt. She has more than 40 publications in international journals. She is interested in the study of bacterial virulence and resistance. She is also working on the inhibition of quorum sensing as an

antipathogenic approach to counter bacterial resistance and virulence. She is a reviewer of *PLOS One*, scientific reports, *Frontiers in Microbiology*, *Microbial Pathogenesis*, *Microbiology Research International*, and other impacted journals. She is also an editor of perpetual journals.

Abdelaziz Ahmed Elgaml, PhD, MSc, BSc, is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. He received his PhD degree at the Environmental and Applied Microbiology Laboratory at the Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Japan. Moreover, he received his MSc and BSc degrees at the

Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. His main research interests are bacteriology, Gram-negative bacteria, Gram-positive bacteria, bacterial toxins, vibrios, vibrosis, bacterial resistance, bacterial virulence factors, regulation systems of virulence factor production, quorum sensing, microbial biodiversity, phylogeny, virology, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and complement systems.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Ivan Kushkevych*

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Preface III**

Bacterial Physiology **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

Bacteria in Nature **43**

**Chapter 3 45**

**Chapter 4 63**

Relation to Human Health **85**

**Chapter 5 87**

**Chapter 6 109**

**Chapter 7 131**

Biology and Physics of Magnetotactic Bacteria *by Fernanda Abreu and Daniel Acosta-Avalos*

Isolation and Purification of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

First Insights into the Resilience of the Soil Microbiome

*by Tamaki Mizuno, Anusuya Debnath and Shin-ichi Miyoshi*

The Genus *Enterococcus* and Its Associated Virulent Factors

Aspects of Photodynamic Inactivation of Bacteria *by Faina Nakonechny and Marina Nisnevitch*

*by Michelle Jovanne Rivera-Rivera and Elvira Cuevas*

of a Tropical Dry Forest in Puerto Rico

Tropical Crops and Microbes *by Barachel Odaro-Junior Umukoro*

Hemolysin of *Vibrio* Species

*by Hassan Bin-Asif and Syed Abid Ali*
