Extremophiles Where It All Began /

• Main Author: Horikoshi, Koki (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Biotechnology.; Microbial ecology.; Microbiology.; Nature.; Environment.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Microbial Ecology.

Koki Horikoshi — discoverer of the alkaliphiles, microbes that thrive in alkaline environments — describes in his autobiography how the research on extremophiles started and developed. He is a pioneer in the study of these microorganisms that thrive in extreme conditions, and in his book he opens a...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Prologue
• 2 Earlier Microbiology
• 3 The University of Tokyo and Purdue University
• 4 Alkaliphiles
• 5 The Ingham Family and Biosciences
• 6 Superbugs project
• 7 Medal Lecture at the Royal Society
• 8 JAMSTEC Deep Star
• 9 Samples From 10,898 Meters Beneath the Pacific Ocean
• 10 His Majesty the Emperor and the Deep Sea
• 11 New Scientific Journal Extremophiles and the International Society of Extremophiles
• 12 My Lifelong Friend Hubert Gottschling
• 13 Epilogue.