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David Wooster

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I earned my Ph.D. while working on cystic fibrosis in 2002. I then worked at Children's Hospital Los Angeles on childhood meningitis. When my postdoctoral fellowship ended in 2004, I began teaching and writing science books.

These books are fictional, but based on real experiences I had in graduate school in Montana and later research in California.

I hope you enjoy them and they give you some insight into what it's like to be a medical researcher in a modern microbiology lab. ...more

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	Secret Life of the Brewer's Yeast: A Microbiology Tale 3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I still remember the first time I was ever able to read anything in Thai. It was their word for "eat", which happens to be "gin" (hard g sound as in gun joined with in). It was on my computer screen late at night and I was just finishing up with my free lesson courtesy of a website called "Learn Thai From a White Guy". I already knew how to say the word "gin" because when you're hungry in a far Read more of this blog post »

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