A laboratory manual geared towards first semester undergraduates enrolled in general biology courses focusing on cell biology. Centres on studying a single organism throughout the entire semester - Serratia marcescens, or S. marcescens, a bacterium unique in its production of the red pigment prodigiosin.
Introduces the key experimental techniques from across the biosciences. It uniquely integrates the theories and methods driving the fields of biology and medicine, comprehensively covering both the techniques that students will encounter in lab classes and those that underpin recent advances and discoveries.