Preface: Johnson/Rust/Kondo
Dedications to Kondo's retirement to Carol Andersson and Yohko Kitayama
Chapters:
Johnson/Rust/Kondo: historical background about the history that prokaryotes were not thought to have circadian timing mechanisms before 1985
Part I: The Circadian Clock System in Cyanobacteria; Pioneer of Bacterial Clocks
Susan Golden mechanism & structural approachesAndy LiWang
Michael Rust adaptiveness of having a clock based on competing demands of noise, & co-authors? biosynthetic cost, and the need for efficient entrainment
Carl Johnson evolution of & selective forces for clocks in bacteria& co-authors?
Takao Kondo mechanism----an alternate view; autobiographical piece ala PittendrighKumiko Ito-Miwa
Tetsuya Mori/Takayuki Uchihashi single-molecule approaches to circadian mechanisms
Ilka Axmann diversity of Kai systems within cyanobacteria
Yong-Ick Kim Redox and the cyanobacterial clock Shuji Akiyama structural basis of the "slowness" of circadian clock
Hideo Iwasaki damped oscillations in the cyano clock system & how we got the idea to doubt the TTFL dogma
Kazuki Terauchi ATPase reaction of KaiC and its central role
Taeko Ohkawa-Nishiwaki Role of Phosphorylation in the cyanobacterial clock
Brian Pfleger Biotech applications using cyanobacteria& Yao Xu
Mark Byrne modeling approaches
Part II: Circadian Phenomena in Microbiomes and Bacteria Besides Cyanobacteria

Eran Elinav Basic biology of rhythms & the microbiome
Ali Keshavarzian Disease implications of the clocks/microbiome interface
Vincent Cassone Circadian rhythms in the gut bacterium Enterobacter (Klebsiella)
Johnson & co-author? Biological timing in purple bacteria
TBD Circadian/daily rhythmicity in microbiomes besides the gut microbiome, possibly in microbial mats

Dedications: To Drs. Carol Andersson and Yohko Kitayama for leaving us too soon.
To Professor Takao Kondo on the event of his retirement and lab closure.

AffiliationsCarl Hirschie Johnson Vanderbilt University, USA
Michael Rust University of Chicago, USATakao Kondo Nagoya University, JapanSusan Golden University of California San Diego, USAAndy LiWang University of California Merced, USAKumiko Ito-Miwa Nagoya University, JapanTetsuya Mori Vanderbilt University, USATakayuki Uchihashi Nagoya University, JapanIlka Axmann Heinrich Heine University, GermanyShuji Akiyama National Institutes of Natural Sciences, JapanHideo Iwasaki Waseda University, JapanKazuki Terauchi Ritsumeikan University, JapanTaeko Ohkawa-Nishiwaki Nagoya University, JapanBrian Pfleger University of Wisconsin, USAYao Xu Vanderbilt University, USAMark Byrne Spring Hill College, USAEran Elinav Weizmann Institute of Science, IsraelAli Keshavarzian Rush University Medical Center, USAVincent Cassone University of Kentucky, USAYong-Ick Kim New Jersey Institute of Technology

About the Author:

Carl Hirschie Johnson earned his B.A. at the University of Texas, followed by graduate work with Colin Pittendrigh, a pioneer of chronobiology, at Stanford University. A postdoctoral fellowship with the clocks and bioluminescence expert J. Woodland ('Woody') Hastings at Harvard University completed his training. Johnson is now Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University, and his laboratory studies circadian biological clocks from perspectives ranging from molecules (biochemistry and biophysics) to populations (evolution and adaptive fitness). He served as President of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR), the major international society of chronobiologists in 2012-2014.