Steve Keating has been teaching and coordinating microbiology labs for 25 years. Over that time, he has acquired both a mastery of lab techniques and a catalog of information on the history and applications of microbiology lab methods. Steve earned his BS in Microbiology at the University of Maryland and his PhD in Entomology at Pennsylvania State University. He began his teaching career at St. Francis College (now St. Francis University), where he directly taught his students these microbiology laboratory techniques. For the past 15 years, Steve has taught microbiology at Pennsylvania State University, where he both lectures and coordinates the introductory lab courses in microbiology.… Steve has twice won the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department's Althhouse Outstanding Instructor Teaching Award.
Joan L. Slonczewski is a professor of biology at Kenyon College, where she teaches microbiology every year. She received her Ph.D. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University and did her postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania. She has earned a silver medal in the National Professor of the Year program of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. She has published numerous research articles with undergraduate authors on pH regulation, as well as publishing numerous science-fiction novels. One of these novels, A Door into the Ocean, earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.