Abstract
About a generation ago, C. B. van Niel taught a special course in microbiology that reflected his interest in microbial diversity and his quest to identify fundamental biological principles (ASM News, August 2004, p. 258). In emulating van Niel's approach, Alfred Spormann, Christopher Francis, Sebastian Behrens, and Paul Rainey are not claiming to duplicate his legendary course. But they surely invoked his spirit in their four-week summer course in microbiology at the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, Calif.—taught last summer for the first time in 40 years, and scheduled for another round this coming July.
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