Joan Slonczewski Biologist and Science Fiction Author at Kenyon College

Joan L. Slonczewski
Professor of Biology at Kenyon College. Email.

Windows: Amanda He '16, Adama Berndt '17, Richard Dennis '17, Elizabeth Eder '17
Middle row: M. Michael Harden '14, Luke Kresslein '15, Dominic Camperchioli '17, Michelle Clark, Anna Yie, '14
Front row: Kaitlin Creamer '16, Stephanie Penix '16, Maria Narvaez '14, Joan "Dr. S." Slonczewski, Eleanor Lopatto '17.

More research students and alumni

Kenyon Students Show Why Drug-resistant E. coli Survives Stomach Acid

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Tour an orbital space habitat: Frontera 3D.

Curriculum vitae
Research Students
Courses
MicrobeWiki

SF Signal review
Science Fiction
Biology in Science Fiction
Cuba Trip
Nature Profile

pH of biofilm bacteria, observed by GFP-pHluorin, AEM 2012

How do bacteria survive extreme environments, such as stomach acid?

Our NSF-funded Bacterial pH Lab identifies pH-regulated genes in Escherichia coli grown in extreme acid and base, using fluorescent proteins such as the Nobel Prize-winning GFP.
See posters at American Society for Microbiology from current students
Alumni are now tenure-track professors: Erik Zinser '94 and Brad Hersh '94.

Courses
BIOL 103 Biology in Science Fiction
BIOL 116 Information in Living Systems
BIOL 238 Microbiology
BIOL 239 Experimental Microbiology
BIOL 375 Virology
BIOL 497 Senior Honors

Science Fiction

Reader's site by Dave Switzer

Favorite Heinlein

Brain Plague
A Door into Ocean
The Children Star
Tuberculosis Joins the UN

HHMI SF Perspectives:
Genomics and SF
Future Biology of Reproduction

English/Spanish Medical Site
Con las imágenes y diálogos. ¡Pruébalo!

. HHMI Project Archive

Community service
Polls and Voter Registration
New Orleans rehab

Parents, John and Esther
On holiday in the Alps for their 50th wedding anniversary
Esther Slonczewski, violin teacher

Bob Macnab Memorial