Biotechnology (2nd Edition) – eBook

Author(s)

David P. Clark

Dr. David P. Clark did his graduate work on bacterial antibiotic resistance to earn his Ph.D. from Bristol University, UK. During this time, he visited the British Government's biological warfare facility at Porton Down and was privileged to walk inside the Black Death fermenter. He later crossed the Atlantic to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois and Yale University. Dr. Clark recently retired from teaching Molecular Biology and Bacterial Physiology at Southern Illinois University which he joined in 1981. His research into the Regulation of Alcohol Fermentation in E. coli was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, from 1982 till 2007. From 1984-1991 David was also involved in a project to use genetically altered bacteria to remove contaminating sulfur from coal, jointly funded by the Illinois Coal Development Board and the US Department of Energy. In 1991, Dr. Clark received a Royal Society Guest Research Fellowship to work at Sheffield University, England while on sabbatical leave.

Clark has supervised 11 master’s and 7 Ph.D. students and published approximately 70 articles in scientific journals. He has written or co-authored several textbooks, starting with Molecular Biology Made Simple and Fun (with Lonnie Russell; (Cache River Press, First edition, 1997). Other books are Molecular Biology (now in its 3rd edition) and Biotechnology (now in its 2nd edition).

Nanette J. Pazdernik

Dr. Nanette Jean Pazdernik, is a co-author of Biotechnology (now in its 2nd edition) and Molecular Biology (now in 3rd edition), with Dr. David P. Clark. The 2nd edition of Molecular Biology won a Texty award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association in 2013. She has also authored an on-line study guide to accompany the updated edition of Molecular Biology. She has taught courses in Genetics, General Biology, as well as Anatomy and Physiology at Southwestern Illinois College, McKendree University, and Harris-Stowe University. She got her BA in Biology from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1996. Dr. Pazdernik's doctoral thesis studied how alterations in the structure of lactose permease affect its ability to transport sugar across the membrane of E. coli. Following her degrees, she investigated the IL-1 and TNF signal transduction pathways that control apoptosis and immunity at Indiana University School of Medicine. She has most recently studied the various molecules that maintain stem cell fate in C. elegans at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO.