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In the December 2009 issue of Microbe (p. 538-539), Professor Schaechter suggests that advances in microbiology can be classified as "paradigm shifts" or "paradigm drifts."
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In the February 2010 issue, p. 41, one of the authors of the letter entitled "Whole-Genome Sequencing (WGS) and the Changing Landscape of Bacterial Genetics" was inadvertently omitted. Shanmuga Sozhamannan of the Biological Defense Research Directorate Annex, Naval Medical Research Center, Rockville, Md., should have been included among the authors listed on p. 42. Microbe regrets the error.
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Bergey's Manual Trust has formed a new international society for microbial taxonomists entitled Bergey's International Society for Microbial Systematics, or BISMiS.
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