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In this Microbiology Pioneers Essay, Salomon Bartnicki-Garcia pays tribute to two pioneers of fungal cell ultrastructure, Manfred Girbardt and Charles Bracker.
In this Essay in our Microbiology Pioneers series, Hilary Lappin-Scott, Sara Burton and Paul Stoodley pay tribute to Bill Costerton, who was the founding father of biofilm research, and trace his development of the biofilm concept.