Microbiology: A Systems Approach

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Universities. Since 2003 she has served
as the Chief Academic Officer of Miami
University Middletown.
Kelly has published (with her students)
twenty-four research articles stemming from
her work on bacterial adhesion mechanisms
and plant-derived antimicrobial compounds.
She holds two patents for strategies to block
microbial attachment. Kelly also travels extensively to present her research, and to talk
to other professors about teaching.
When she’s not teaching, researching or
traveling, she’s listening to live music at home played by her
two sons Taylor (16) and Sam (13), whose musical tastes run
from Robert Johnson to the Rolling Stones to Sum41.
Kelly Cowan has been a microbiologist at Miami University since 1993. She
received her Ph.D. at the University of
Louisville, and later worked at the University of Maryland Center of Marine Biotechnology and the University of Groningen in
The Netherlands.
Her first love is teaching—both doing it
and studying how to do it better. She teaches
nursing microbiology and non-majors microbiology every year. She is a member of the
Undergraduate Education Committee of the
American Society for Microbiology, and past president of
the Ohio Branch of the American Society for Microbiology.
In 1997 she won a Celebration of Teaching Award sponsored
by the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and
If there is one continuing theme reverberating through Kathy’s experiences, it is
the love of education and teaching. She has
been teaching allied health microbiology
and majors biology courses for nearly 30
years. Kathy finds great joy in watching her
students develop their early awareness of
microorganisms—when they first come
face-to-face with the reality of them on their
hands, in the air, in their food, and, of
course, nearly everywhere.
Kathy is a member of the American
Society for Microbiology and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. She keeps active in self-study
and research, and continues to attend workshops and conferences to remain current in her field. Kathy has also been active in science outreach programs by teaching Saturday
workshops in microbiology and DNA technology to high
school and junior high students.
Kathleen Park Talaro is a microbiologist, author, illustrator, photographer,
and educator at Pasadena City College.
She began her college education at Idaho
State University in Pocatello. There, she
found a niche that fit her particular abilities
and interests, spending part of her time as a
scientific illustrator and part as a biology
lab assistant. After graduation with a B.S. in
biology, she entered graduate school at
Arizona State University, majoring in physiological ecology. During her graduate
studies she participated in two research expeditions to
British Columbia with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Kathy continued to expand her background, first
finishing a Master’s degree at Occidental College and later
taking additional specialized coursework in microbiology
at California Institute of Technology and California State
University.
We dedicate this book to all public health workers
who devote their lives to bringing the advances and medicines
enjoyed by the industrialized world to all humans.
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