Acknowledgments

The author thanks Dr. Janice Lovett, Professor Emeritus, Dr. Kevin Militello, Professor, and Mr. Charlie Wilson ’25, at State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo, and Dr. Bjarne Bartlett, at SUNY Farmingdale, for their input and critical reviews of the editorial accuracy and clarity. The author is grateful to the external peer reviewers Lee A. Hadwiger, Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology, Washington State University; Yulia Artemenko, PhD, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at SUNY Oswego; and Nina Liuta, PhD candidate in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Zurich, for their constructive reviews of this e-book.

The author is grateful to the Biology Department at SUNY Geneseo for their support of the laboratory. Thanks to students in the Molecular Techniques lab (Bio 390), who provided valuable feedback for the lab exercises over the years. Without their participation, the book would not exist.

The author thanks Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education for permission to use all the previously published figures submitted to the journal. Special thanks to Ms. Allison Brown, Digital Publishing Services Manager, and others at Milne Open Textbooks, SUNY Geneseo, for their assistance with overseeing the publication process and assembling the final product.

Thanks to the Geneseo Foundation for its financial support through the 2023–2024 Faculty Incentive Grants and Research Development Awards. Most of all, Ming-Mei is deeply grateful to everyone who encouraged and prayed for her throughout this long writing and publishing journey.