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About the Author

FROM THE BEGINNING, Jim Brown had a keen interest in nature, including anything slow or unwary enough to be captured or observed in the woods, rivers, beach, or ocean that was always nearby. A single lecture on microbial diversity in a General Microbiology class while Jim was an undergraduate at Ball State University, and the announcement in that class of the discovery of an entirely new kind of living thing (the “archaebacteria”), sparked his lasting interest in microbiology. That led to undergraduate research examining Beggiatoa in a southern Indiana sulfur spring. He later earned his M.S. in Microbiology at Miami University and joined the MCD Biology Ph.D. program at The Ohio State University, where he worked on the molecular biology of methanogenic archaea with Professor John Reeve. He then moved to Indiana University for a postdoc in Professor Norm Pace’s lab, working on the comparative analysis of ribonuclease P RNA in Bacteria. Afterwards, Jim joined the Department of Microbiology at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and continued to work on RNase P in Archaea and the comparative analysis of RNA. Jim developed and teaches senior-level undergraduate lecture and lab courses in microbial diversity, which are the genesis of this textbook. Jim was awarded the NCSU and Alumni Outstanding Teacher awards in 2005 and the Alumni Association Distinguished Undergraduate Professor award in 2014. He has been a member of the ASM since Graduate School and is a long-time officer of the North Carolina branch of the ASM.