Reddit mentions: The best microbiology books

I'm not a doctor but a medical writer who has been obsessed with medicine since I was a kid. Hmm, let me throw out some stuff...

YouTube is a treasure trove. Hank Green's SciShow is an excellent place to start. He's the nerdy, passionate science teacher we all deserve to have.

ZDoggMd makes video parodies that are also suitable for kids. He rewords pop songs with a medical education message.

Medicalstudent.com is a collection of free medical textbooks. Still one of the best-curated lists and non-commercial.

Textbooks can't be beat for learning the fundamentals. Most texts aren't appropriate for children, but the "Made Ridiculously Simple" series is an exception. These books are for med students and it break key concepts down with cartoony illustrations. Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple is the best, IMO.

Netter's anatomy flashcards are awesome. They aren't cheap, but I bet your daughter would love them.

This should satisfy your daughter for a week or two. ;)

Molecular biology of the cell (http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Bruce-Alberts/dp/0815341059/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367877862&sr=8-1&keywords=molecular+biology+of+the+cell) and molecular biology of the gene (http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Gene-James-Watson/dp/080539592X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367877885&sr=1-1&keywords=molecular+biology+of+the+gene) are two excellent resources for understanding genetics. If reading is what you're looking to do, begin with peer reviewed journals; textbooks become outdated quickly, but peer-reviewed journals give you a glimpse into the ideas which allowed us to better understand biological phenomena.

The best way to understand genetics is to become actively involved in such matters. Attend seminars with speakers working in cell or molecular biology fields. Get involved in research (this is by far the best thing you can do to improve your understanding of genetics).

Good luck!

The two you've listed are my personal favorites. I also make use of National Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, 100 Edible Mushrooms, North American Mushrooms: A Field guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi (not my favorite, but a useful cross reference at times), and Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America (this one has fantastic photos. While it is never recommended to ID by appearance alone, the cross cuts and underside photos in this book can be very useful). If you live in the southern east coast then I'd recommend Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States if you can find it affordably (as far as I know it is out of print and even used coppies are pretty expensive, but it is a fantastic book for southeastern mushrooms).

As far as websites I am a pretty frequent visitor of MushroomExpert.com. It offers some good keys and there are a lot of mushrooms listed.

I've posted this elsewhere but here ya go...

> Avoid the Audubon guide. The Audubon guide is pretty terribad (bad photos, pithy descriptions, not user-friendly.)

> There are much better nationwide guides out there (like the Falcon Guide), but quite honestly you're better off with a regional guide.

> My recs for regional field guides:

> Alaska

> - Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams

> Western US

> - All The Rain Promises and More

• Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
  
  >Midwestern US
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• Mushrooms of the Midwest
  
• Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States
  
• Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest
  
  >Southern US
  >
  
• Texas Mushrooms: A Field Guide
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  Eastern US
  >
  
• Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Cental Appalachians
  
• Mushrooms of Northeast North America
  
• Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America
  
  > As an aside, books like Mushrooms Demystified, Lichens of North America, Mushrooms of Northeastern North America, and Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States are too large and cumbersome to take out in the field, but are all excellent references to have at home for ID after a foray.

I would not recommend the Audubon guide it is very out of date (this can range from outdated taxonomy all the way to toxicology that has changed over the years). It is useful because it lists species other guides lacks but you'll learn to hate it.

Buy a location specific guide. It depends on where you live. If you get really into field hunting buy some specific guides that give you a more in depth understanding and help you not to die. Joining a local mycological society is also an extremely valuable resource in understanding mycology.

Here's a bit of everything

Regional guides

Alaska

Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams

Western US

All The Rain Promises and More
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest

Mushrooms Demystified This is an old book, while still useful it definitely needs updating.

The New Savory Wild Mushroom Also dated but made for the PNW

Midwestern US

Mushrooms of the Midwest

Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States

Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest

Southern US

Texas Mushrooms: A Field Guide

Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States

Common Mushrooms of Florida

A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms It's old so you'll need to learn new names.

Eastern US

Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians

Mushrooms of Northeast North America (This was out of print for awhile but it's they're supposed to be reprinting so the price will be normal again)

Mushrooms of Northeastern North America

Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America(Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America)

Mushrooms of Cape Cod and the National Seashore

More specific (Advanced) guides

Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World

North American Boletes

Tricholomas of North America

Milk Mushrooms of North America

Waxcap Mushrooms of North America

Ascomycete of North America

Ascomycete in colour

Fungi of Switzerland: Vol. 1 Ascomycetes A series of 6 books.

Fungi Europaei A collection of 14 books.

PDFs and online Guides

For Pholiota

For Chlorophyllum

American species of Crepidotus

Guide to Australian Fungi If this is useful consider donating to this excellent set of guides.

Websites that aren't in the sidebar

For Amanita

For coprinoids

For Ascos

MycoQuebec: they have a kickass app but it's In French

Messiah college this has a lot of weird species for polypores and other things

For Hypomyces

Cultivation

The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home (If your home is a 50,000 sq ft warehouse)

Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation

Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms

Mycology

The fifth kingdom beginner book, I would recommend this. It goes over fungal taxonomy Oomycota, Zygomycota and Eumycota. It also has ecology and fungi as food.

The kingdom fungi coffee table book it has general taxonomy of the kingdom but also very nice pictures.

Introduction to fungi Depends on your definition of beginner, this is bio and orgo heavy. Remember the fungi you see pop out of the ground (ascos and basidios) are only a tiny fraction of the kingdom.

NAMA affiliated clubs

My lab is currently making our way through Foundations in Macroecology, which was only published a couple of months ago. I haven't made it too far into it yet, but I think it's fantastic so far, and sounds like exactly what you're looking for. I would recommend this book quite highly.

http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Macroecology-Classic-Papers-Commentaries/dp/022611547X

> Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns and processes at large spatial and temporal scales. Some scientists liken it to seeing the forest through the trees, giving the proverbial phrase an ecological twist. The term itself was first introduced to the modern literature by James H. Brown and Brian A. Maurer in a 1989 paper, and it is Brown’s classic 1995 study, Macroecology, that is credited with inspiring the broad-scale subfield of ecology. But as with all subfields, many modern-day elements of macroecology are implicit in earlier works dating back decades, even centuries.
>
> Foundations of Macroecology charts the evolutionary trajectory of these concepts—from the species-area relationship and the latitudinal gradient of species richness to the relationship between body size and metabolic rate—through forty-six landmark papers originally published between 1920 and 1998. Divided into two parts—“Macroecology before Macroecology” and “Dimensions of Macroecology”—the collection also takes the long view, with each paper accompanied by an original commentary from a contemporary expert in the field that places it in a broader context and explains its foundational role. Providing a solid, coherent assessment of the history, current state, and potential future of the field, Foundations of Macroecology will be an essential text for students and teachers of ecology alike.

As AndroidPolice mentioned, it is still more expensive than the paperback versions, and you don't get to trade it in at the end of the quarter/semester:

Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology, 24th Edition

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  Katzung Basic and Clinical Pharmacology
  
  
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  Melnick & Adelberg Medical Microbiology
  
  
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  So, would I essentially pay twice as much just for convenience?

Let me recommend An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits by Uri Alon. This book is extremely well-written and approaches cellular systems from the perspective of an engineer or physicist. It will help to orient you to the "big picture" of how cells work without swamping you in molecular details. Systems biology is a hot, emerging field at the intersection of molecular biology, biophysics, and computational biology. Feel free to PM me if you're interested in the field and want a few suggestions about which are the top labs.

I would recommend getting more information about the molecular details elsewhere. I haven't read Alberts, but it seems like a classic text (I often see it on bookshelves). I read Watson's Molecular Biology of the Gene, and thought it was quite good.

For a biochemical perspective, I recommend Stryer's Biochemistry, which covers many common biological molecules. It is a very readable classic and serves as a good reference text. It should give you an idea of how the molecular machines operate on a chemical level.

You can probably find these in your school's library.

Edit: Just realized this post is 3 months old (hah). Hope this helps nevertheless.

For general ID there are three books I recommend for your area (linked below). I’ve used each of them and have many friends in the Mycology community that vouch for them. As what OP is saying, you will be limited no matter which book you get. There are thousands upon thousands of mushroom species and you’ll never get all of them. The way he pooh-poohed on books though is silly. LOL.
As far as psychoactive Mushrooms, you will definitely have better luck on the Internet. The one species I recommend you start out with psilocybe Ovoideosystidiata. It is probably the most common one in Virginia and you will have the best luck identifying it. I have been researching that one for quite a while and I can give you very specific indicators for location habitat and season dates. I’ll PM you those deets. Wouldn’t want them getting into the wrong hands 🙄.
Also I have much more active and recent threads for you to read up on for ovoids. The current ovoid season 2018 thread is very active. Actualy you will see me drop some bomber photos this evening. One of the first posts of non-cultivated specimen for fall 2018. Found some gymnopolus luteus also but it wasn’t much and far past prime. Problem with the other species the OP mentioned to look for is they are either not common or no potent or both. For gyms, you need to ingest a lot! Some people really like them and I recommend trying them once you find them, but unlike gyms, all you have to do with ovoids is find 2-5 caps and your already at an effective dose. We can discuss dosage in pm.
With caerulepes the issue is they usualy only fruit in fall and in smaller numbers than ovoids. Again, if you find them, try them. But don’t be bummed if you don’t find them first few seasons. I can give you a spot of two for ovoids I’m spring. It will be a sure fire harvest!
TLDR:
Get at least one book and learn the identification key. Look up ovoids.

Links-
Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians https://www.amazon.com/dp/0813190398/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_G5k4BbEB9FWRD

Mushrooms of the Southeast (A Timber Press Field Guide) https://www.amazon.com/dp/160469730X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_oCl4Bb9E1RQT7

Amazon only has hard covered for this one. That price is ridiculous. Search on eBay and you’ll find one for 20 or less and soft cover.
Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States https://www.amazon.com/dp/081563112X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_KDl4BbFTCT9D6

And here’s the most current actives thread for your area.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/25036526

Loosing genetic information is often just another way of saying that a species became more efficient.

This can be seen throughout nature. In Viruses particularly its interesting, a smaller and more efficient genome can help alot in efficiency. Loosing a gene that codes for a certain protein can make the virus overcome an Immune-defense of the host and thus be able to infect the cell.

Mass and quantity is not class.

Evolution is considerably more then just hoarding more genes. If you are interested in evolution i highly recommend this book

"Microbes and Evolution: The world that Darwin never saw"

Its a great book that explains some very complex things in very easy to understand terms.

I'll stick to recommending science communication books (those that don't require a deep background on biological concepts):

• On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection - Charles Darwin, bonus points if you can get a 1st edition reprint (before his colleagues made him change a lot of important things); it is a must-read but it might need quite some time to truly understand it, it is a heavy read.
  
  
• A lot of people recommend the Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins but that one is one of his most controversial books and if you decide to read it, you should take everything with a pinch of salt; for Dawkins I prefer to recommend the Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution and the Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design. Just beware of Dawkins, he's a little dogmatic in his approach.
  
  
• The Dialectical Biologist - Richard Levins & Richard Lewontin.
  
  
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn, this one will change forever your conception of science as a whole.
  
  
• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - Matt Ridley.
  
  
• Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, and the Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History - Stephen J. Gould.
  
  
• The Ghosts of Evolution: Non-sensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms - Connie Barlow.
  
  
• Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal, this one is about animal cognition but has an incredible underline of all the deficiencies and prejudges on science.
  
  
• Microbe Hunters - Paul de Kruif.
  
  
• Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution, and What is Life? - Lynn Margulis.
  
  
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan.
  
  
• A Short Story of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson.
  
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  For books that everyone studying biology ends up reading, my candidate would be Lehninger's Principles of Biochemistry, by Nelson & Cox but that's a textbook.

A good introductory text on the statistical mechanics of biopolymers (including a number of models of DNA) is Ken Dill's Molecular Driving Forces. Much of it is undergraduate level, and it will necessarily include simple models that are primarily pedagogical, but they are nonetheless incredibly useful tools for connecting to the literature in a deeper way. For example, two state models can deliver some surprising results despite how simple they are -- such models show up in the literature in the form of elastic network models (ENMs), where two well-defined configurations are used to construct harmonic approximations to the state space. These can then be used to model transitions between states across the potential surface. ENMs aren't as relevant to DNA, as far as I know (I work on a membrane transporter at the moment), but is representative of the simpler tools used in the field.

Additionally, Rob Phillips has some very useful texts (that emphasize an intuition of the length- and time-scales involved): Physical Biology of the Cell and Cell Biology by the Numbers.

Hope that helps!

https://www.scribd.com/doc/114800796/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-of-North-America

https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbz8EvhqeMxul_huFTjigKQq8DmIUHhpJ

the first two links will give you more of a general overview of identification techniques and psychoactive mushrooms at large . the youtube playlist at the bottom depicts videos of the species that occur in massachusetts. the more research you do, the more confident you will be. especially considering this is your first hunt, make sure to clarify with experienced hunters reports online. please be extra careful my friend, and if you can’t find any locally i’m sure you can find other ways of obtaining the magic. cheers!

What kind of books do you like? Something with a narrative or something that's more like a text book? Something that fits in between is a short read called " Microcosm: E.coli and the New Science of Life

My favorite book is "The Hot Zone" though. It's more of a page-turner, but some information in it is dramatized and it's more about the story than the organism. It depends what you're looking for. Another good book is "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" It's a bit of a slower read, but it's a good read that focuses more on diseases while having good stories

Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World by Paul Stamets.

I cannot recommend this enough. All identification features are explained in length, and there are pictures of many, many different psilocybes all over the world. It is not exactly about homegrowing, but a fantastic resource for learning about the amazing genus Psilocybe, and our friends psilocybin, psilocin, and baeocystin. It's a little technical, but it will give you the background to understand many issues faced by growers.

better to learn both poisonous and edible.

Eastern US

Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada The most recently published for the NE

Mushrooms of the Northeast by Walt Sturgeon An excellent pocket guide, Walt does a good job mentioning the lesser known look alikes.

Mushrooms of Northeast North America A great guide for beginners, with many pictorial and dichotomous guides to ID fungi.

Mushrooms of Northeastern North America Has the most species listed for the NE.

Available on Amazon. The ereader versions pay the content creators nearly nothing so I suggest getting the physical book as the author gets the best royalty this way. Need the wonderful kind intelligent fungi evangelist Paul Stamets to get his. For this book there are two paperback types as the only formats.
https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0898158397

It really depends.

Primary care docs like myself don't use much actual true biology, physiology, chemistry, physics, organic chemistry, pharmacology on a day-to-day basis. Like most jobs, as you get more experienced, your knowledge also gets more focused on aspects you need to learn and use repeatedly and you forget most of the inane and trivial things that you may have learned.

Although I might have seen a case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever today, that I've never seen before. But I was thinking the last time I really thought about Rickettsial disease was while reading [this] (https://www.amazon.ca/Clinical-Microbiology-Made-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/1935660152) study guide in undergrad. I was actually picturing the drawing from that guide today about the RMSF guy with the mustache and spots all over.

Well, yes, but certain mushrooms grow in certain areas. Not sure how many woodloving mushrooms ya'll got over there in your Louisiana woods, as they're all over the Pacific North West. Could be.

I'd read up on Psilocybe mushrooms, and recommend Paul Stamets' book Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. The important thing is not knowing about the blue bruising Psilocybes, but rather the blue bruising lookalikes which are toxic.

I’m not saying you don’t have a point... And, If you already feel like psychiatrists are dumbing things down and treating you like a baby, Stahl’s books aren’t going to help.

All I’m saying is that this style is a mnemonic device and books like this, that are intentionally simple/cartoonish and humorous are a meme in medical education. See: https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Microbiology-Made-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/1935660152

Do more than just 'a bit'. If you are serious, make a serious effort. Nobody 'plans' on getting anyone killed, but it happens.

Paul Stamets has an excellent book on active mushroom identification if that's your interest:

https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397

But you will also want to become familiar with other types, as you don't want to risk confusing one type for another.

Hi! I would very strongly recommend the book Spillover, written by perhaps our most eminent science writer, which is all about zoonotic diseases (those which spill over from other non-human species). It goes into great detail about Ebola specifically and answers many of your questions, though they're a bit long to type out here. http://www.amazon.com/Spillover-Animal-Infections-Human-Pandemic/dp/1480564443

I personally find Brock Biology of Microorganisms to be quite useful. It not only functions as a microbiology text book, but has a very in depth section to the identification of microorganisms.

http://www.amazon.com/Brock-Biology-Microorganisms-Michael-Madigan/dp/0130819220

I'm sure a free pdf copy of it exists somewhere.

Ken Dill has the easiest to follow stat mech book I have encountered. McQuarrie has lots of good problems to work through. David Chandler is the shortest, and simultaneously most brilliant and difficult work on the subject I have read. His brief review of thermodynamics in the first couple chapters is fantastic if you only have a day or two to get back on the horse.

Some suggestions are below. They aren't "field guides" but are still some good choices. I admit I haven't finished March of the Microbes or Missing Microbes but Microbes and Evolution is a fantastic collection of essays.

March of the Microbes

Microbes and Evolution: The World Darwin Never Saw

Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling Our Modern Plagues

Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC by Joseph McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch is a good read - definitely non-fiction. They were there for the first Ebola outbreaks in the 70's and the Hanta outbreaks in NM later on.

McCormick is a great guy. I tracked him down and emailed him when I was an undergrad, and I asked him how I could get in to the field. He responded back with an incredibly detailed email and couldn't have been nicer.

Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Sijmple: http://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Microbiology-Made-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/1935660152

This was uniformly loved by all of my classmates and myself. The author of a lot of the passages has a great sense of humor.

Dill and Bromberg's Molecular Driving Forces is a good intro book that basically builds up from rudimentary math/chem/physics to a basic understanding of rates, diffusion and random walk processes, folding mechanisms, and stat mech. This would be very helpful for you, as Dill is known for his work on energy landscapes of protein folding and conformation.

Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer. E. coli has played a huge role in how we understand life at the molecular level. This book is written for beginners and non-scientists so its pretty palatable for people not in the field.
http://www.amazon.com/Microcosm-Coli-New-Science-Life/dp/0307276864

Much appreciated!

I actually plan to study medicine myself, and I've seen the flashcard flow chart. From your post, I take it you recommend beginning with zanki, and thus relying on Pathoma and Sketchy?

It'll be a few years until I'll start studying, but I've been thinking about—as a primer—doing Incremental Reading on these first.

• Anatomy. Atlas of Anatomy by Schuenke et al https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Anatomy-Anne-M-Gilroy/dp/1604067454
  
• Physiology. Physiology by 5th Edition by Costanzo https://www.amazon.com/Physiology-STUDENT-CONSULT-Online-Costanzo/dp/145570847X
  
• Immunology. How the Immune System Works by Sompayrac (looks like it's written in Classic Prose) https://www.amazon.com/How-Immune-System-Works-Desktop/dp/0470657294
  
• Microbiology. Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple by Gladwin, Trattler and Mahan https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Microbiology-Made-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/1935660152
  
  Dunno what you think about that?

Awesome book but try Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC, it's way better.

I love this talk! The overall message reminds me of some concepts I've read in Lynn Margulis' work, particularly in the book [Symbiotic Planet] (http://www.amazon.com/Symbiotic-Planet-New-Look-Evolution/dp/0465072720). There's also a paper she co-authored, Proprioception: When the Environment Becomes the Body. She writes about Gaia Theory - viewing the Earth more literally as a living organism by any way we can define the word "alive". She also talks about proprioception: the way different parts of a body can feel one another and react to one another. As an example, touch your finger to your nose. How did you do that? Did you nose smell your finger's way? No, you knew the status of different parts due to proprioception, another major sense of a living body. Margulis talks about how Earth has similar senses that react to one another, such as the mechanisms that facilitate temperature regulation.

I see the human race advancing in Earth-wide proprioception, to the point where when people across the world are in pain, I immediately feel it - mainly via the internet (think: Arab Spring revolutions; human rights abuses in China or Syria). Every major advancement in technology has further strengthened our ability to feel what others feel at ever-greater distances: first books, then radio, telephones, television, and now the internet. It seems we are growing to understand and eventually replicate the all-encompassing information sharing/immediate feedback network of our planet. If we can cultivate this proprioception, we can advance enough to take responsibility for what we can do to help each other and the planet during our lifetime.

Microcosm is an awesome book for this: http://www.amazon.com/Microcosm-Coli-Science-Vintage/dp/0307276864

Yeah, tons.

• Spectroscopy and NMR
  
• X Ray crystallography
  
• Biomolecular simulations / biophysics
  
• Thermodynamics
  
• Systems biology
  
• Proteomics
  
• Bioinformatics
  
• ...
  
  Here's a good math & biochemistry book.
  
  http://www.amazon.ca/Molecular-Driving-Forces-Statistical-Thermodynamics/dp/0815320515
  

MMRS for Microbio (and flashcards/make your own quizlet to drill it in).

We used this book for Immuno and I thought it was great

http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Driving-Forces-Statistical-Thermodynamics/dp/0815320515

this book was great when I took statistical thermodynamics which deals with everything you discussed.

Concerning those "wavy mushrooms", you need to do a whole lot of reading Paul Stamets would be a great place to start. You also need to learn how to make a spore print and learn how to recognise Galerina so that you don't go off and destroy your liver.

Liberty caps grow in an entirely different environment.

Honestly, the field changes so fast that it'd be hard to have a "comprehensive" text book stay relevant. Most of the time we're reading and discussing academic papers from the past ~5 years, occasionally referencing significant results from further back.

http://www.amazon.com/Population-Genetics-A-Concise-Guide/dp/0801880092 is a good book to start with though to build up a good foundational understanding of how people are thinking about and studying evolution (or at least the people I'm working with), assuming you already have some basic familiarity with population genetic principles.

edit: When starting grad school several years ago, this is the textbook we used for the molecular biology courses we had to take. The degree program I'm in is Computational and Molecular Biology (where students are either in Comp or Mol bio, but there's some overlap in the first semester. I'm in Comp, so most of my coursework is in math/cs/stats), so I can't say what graduate level Evolutionary Biology courses require.

I have a book, Psilocybin Mushrooms of The World, and in it there's a pic of this woman with a wide brimmed hat that has spore prints all around it. She walks around town spreading billions of spores without a care in the world. I love that kind of initiative.

EDIT: Found it!

Here are a bunch microbiology essays that I really enjoyed:

Microbes and Evolution: The World That Darwin Never Saw
http://www.amazon.ca/Microbes-Evolution-World-Darwin-Never/dp/1555815405

Actually the earth was created for viruses, based on sheer numbers and ubiquity. They are the most prolific life form on this planet. I am reading Carl Zimmer's A Planet of Viruses now. Highly recommended if you want to learn about this fascinating organism.

Oh, and read about this virus equipped with a drill.

Planet of viruses by Carl Zimmer is a very accessible (and short) book on virus factoids link. It's actually based on his blog so it's more of a beginner text. One big drawback is there's a ton of spelling errors in it for some reason.
Another great one about the history of viruses is called To Catch a Virus. It really reads more like a history text but is one of the most thorough ones i've stumbled across link

By far the best, hands down:

https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397

There's a bit of a learning curve to learn the lingo, and you may need a microscope to differentiate certain species in your area, but it will get you closer than most other resources.

Hey, you. Yeah, you reading this. Don't think these LBM's (Little Brown Mushrooms) that look an awful lot like the ones growing in your yard are safe. Never, ever, EVER pick and eat mushrooms you find unless you have extensive knowledge of mycology. LBM's are notorious for being difficult to identify, as they have no real phenotypic traits (fancy way of saying that there are few visual cues as to what they are and if they're safe or not).

LBM's usually require spore prints to identify the species, and even then you need a keen eye and lots of experience to use those to identify the mushroom. There are plenty of books to help, but remember that microscopic features can be the difference between a trip and a trip to the hospital.

I liked Brock Biology of Microorganisms a lot.

Though large for a field guide, I really like "Mushrooms of Northeastern North America"

I know it's about viruses. But it's an interesting read none the less.
Written by those who experienced the facts for themselves.
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
It follows the emergence of Ebola and other haemorrhagic viruses.

Thank me later. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0898158397/ref=redir_mdp_mobile

"Basic Immunology" by Abbas is the review book I use to bone up on basic (more basic than entry level) information on the immune system if you want to specifically learn about that. I also second Robbins, I literally live by Robbins.

amazon link

literally the cover of Alan Bessette's Mushrooms of Northeastern North America

I agree with Hygrocybe sp.

"Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple"
was very helpful through my MLS program, the ASCP generalist exam, and still as a reference at the bench. Here's an Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1935660152/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_todeBbCRTCF6J

Well considering that taking 2.5g dry (or ~30g fresh) completely prevents migraines and cluster headaches for six weeks at a time (some people experience up to six months' relief but I assume they're taking a full dose - I've only ever consumed enough to trip once), I don't really need to worry about it. Even eating food with lots of soy protein (that's most processed foods) doesn't trigger the headaches for me. (I'm soy intolerant and soy protein is my worst migraine trigger)

And yes, everything people claim about cluster headaches is true. When I get them the last for up to 12 hours (often accompanied by projectile vomiting, and wishing and praying for death because the pain really is that bad), then I usually get 2-3 rebound headaches hours later and each lasts equally long. The only thing that gets me through them is knowing the headache will eventually end.

It's better losing ~5 hours every month to month and a half high on shrooms than 1-3 days a week to these headaches.

What do I do during winter? Cannabis tincture or vaping (which doesn't cure the headaches but makes them tolerable), or if friends have any, I take dried shrooms. They're nasty dried (fresh out in the woods they're kind of like a "gamey" shitake mushroom) so I follow it up with an orange soda chaser. :)

I'm going to eventually relocate to the PNW for easy access to shrooms as azurecens is ubiquitous there, and there is over a dozen other psilocybe species which grow throughout the area. Here we have only six species, they're not terribly common, and they're oyster/shelf-shaped varieties which look very similar to poisonous species so you need to take it very slow, making a spore print and bruise them and inspect them for a membrane before consumption (the first two characteristics is nearly 100% guarantee it's a psilocybe species and therefore edible, the latter you should still check for insurance because there may be a non-psilocybe, toxic species which drops purple-brown spores and bruises blue which hasn't been identified yet). When I move to the PNW I will probably collect a bunch and will have rhododendron or other laurel species shrubbery with a dress bark apron to encourage azurecens grow in my yard since they are a wood-loving species and are symbiotic with laurel-family trees.

I bring one of Paul Stamets' field guides with me ( http://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1464358847&sr=8-5&keywords=paul+stamets ) when I go foraging for visual identification then I do the additional tests to verify. :)

I wish I had known about this property of these fungi sooner - I've lost months of my life bedridden with these agonizing headaches and could have cured them just going out for a walk in the woods. I believed the propaganda about these wonderful species, and believed the lies about cannabis. The government did a huge disservice to The People by pandering to logging and pharmaceutical lobbyists. The stoners were right all along. :-(

Though they are the reservoir host for Hendra, flying foxes do not spread it directly to humans. An amplifier host (in the case of Hendra, horses) is required for the virus to spread to humans.

David Quammen talks at length about the transmission of viruses from animals to humans in his book Spillover. It's an interesting read (albeit maybe a little frightening) and the language used is understandable for even those with little to no scientific background.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0898158397/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519918587&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=psilocybin+mushrooms+of+the+world&dpPl=1&dpID=51YNNfdC6bL&ref=plSrch The Amazon link.

Or you might be able to get it at the libary. I’ve seen it here in WA. That might differ from state to state.

Personally? I want this. I don't know why I haven't bought it for myself yet...

I thought Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple was a good read. (http://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Microbiology-Made-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/1935660152/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418962425&sr=8-1&keywords=microbiology+made+ridiculously+simple)

If you move the decimal over. This is about 1,000 in books...

(If I had to pick a few for 100 bucks: encyclopedia of country living, survival medicine, wilderness medicine, ball preservation, art of fermentation, a few mushroom and foraging books.)


Medical:

Where there is no doctor

Where there is no dentist

Emergency War Surgery

The survival medicine handbook

Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine

Special Operations Medical Handbook

Food Production

Mini Farming

encyclopedia of country living

square foot gardening

Seed Saving

Storey’s Raising Rabbits

Meat Rabbits

Aquaponics Gardening: Step By Step

Storey’s Chicken Book

Storey Dairy Goat

Storey Meat Goat

Storey Ducks

Storey’s Bees

Beekeepers Bible

bio-integrated farm

soil and water engineering

Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation

Food Preservation and Cooking

Steve Rinella’s Large Game Processing

Steve Rinella’s Small Game

Ball Home Preservation

Charcuterie

Root Cellaring

Art of Natural Cheesemaking

Mastering Artesian Cheese Making

American Farmstead Cheesemaking

Joe Beef: Surviving Apocalypse

Wild Fermentation

Art of Fermentation

Nose to Tail

Artisan Sourdough

Designing Great Beers

The Joy of Home Distilling

Foraging

Southeast Foraging

Boletes

Mushrooms of Carolinas

Mushrooms of Southeastern United States

Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast


Tech

farm and workshop Welding

ultimate guide: plumbing

ultimate guide: wiring

ultimate guide: home repair

off grid solar

Woodworking

Timberframe Construction

Basic Lathework

How to Run A Lathe

Backyard Foundry

Sand Casting

Practical Casting

The Complete Metalsmith

Gears and Cutting Gears

Hardening Tempering and Heat Treatment

Machinery’s Handbook

How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic

Electronics For Inventors

Basic Science


Chemistry

Organic Chem

Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving

Ham Radio

AARL Antenna Book

General Class Manual

Tech Class Manual


MISC

Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft

Contact!

Nuclear War Survival Skills

The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm

I bought it off of Amazon:) Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/0898158397/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_hZYFAbAMTCCKC

Theres a book https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397

https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397/ref=asc_df_0898158397/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312090128349&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12340258693395792528&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008532&hvtargid=pla-331923859582&psc=1

This one

First find out if they grow where you live. Then start by "acquiring" books such as this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397

Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/0898158397/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_D3z2Cb5XHQ78W

Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/0898158397/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_D3z2Cb5XHQ78W

Want to know more?

This

The world is your source

Couldn't remember why I knew that name, but then I remembered he did some work with Psilocybin.

https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybe-Mushrooms-Their-Allies-Stamets/dp/0930180038

https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397

https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397

I'm currently chewing my way through Microbes and Evolution: The World That Darwin Never Saw. It's a series of essays on microbial evolution.

If by ‘good kind’ you mean psilocybin containing, you are dangerously far off. Buy and cherish Paul Stamet’s Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World(https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397) if you want to know what to look for.

If by ‘good kind’ you mean edible, then you should read the sticky on how to properly request an ID as you are missing key features used in identification of your mushroom.

Based on the initial picture I would say very likely a no to both possibilities of a good kind.

Start here

And DEFINITELY buy other identification guides to cross-reference. Forest-hunting isn't particularly lucrative for psychedelics. Be very careful and deliberate with anything you find, because there are quite a few species (in the fields and forests) that are similar to psilocybin species, but dangerous.

https://www.amazon.com/Psilocybin-Mushrooms-World-Identification-Guide/dp/0898158397

People will forage for as long as mushrooms continue to grow in the wild. You could probably order them too through the dark net, but I’d be more inclined to order 4-aco-DMT personally. You can also grow them yourself at home. For the record I live in Oakland and have no clue where to buy mushrooms so I wouldn’t suggest coming here for that purpose.

how does this pair up to Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide

Stamets, Paul ?

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better/ worse?

I used to do the Shroomery quite a bit... grew up some. Not to disparage, but some of them damn kids! Ugh.

Too northern? I'm not sure about that. Season's coming up for winter stuff in northern climates...

Are you asking for a "shroom" guide, or a mushroom guide?
This for the former.
This and this for the latter.

Can you tell me where you are, generally, so that i can help?

Randomly enough, I just asked Dr. Joe McCormick (http://www.amazon.com/Level-4-Virus-Hunters-CDC/dp/0760712085) about this a few hours ago in a lecture.

He was there for the first Ebola outbreak and seems to be somewhat of an international expert on these "hot" viruses. He said that this outbreak is unique in that it has moved into large cities, but didn't seem to be overly concerned about the threat of pandemic or spread beyond the region. It's really only spread by close contact with infectious patients, so it's fairly hard to catch from others.