Roberto Kolter

Roberto Kolter is Professor of Microbiology, Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, an author, and past president of the American Society for Microbiology. Kolter has been a professor at Harvard Medical School since 1983 and was Co-director of Harvard's Microbial Sciences Initiative from 2003-2018. During the 35-year term of the Kolter laboratory from 1983 to 2018, more than 130 graduate student and postdoctoral trainees explored an eclectic mix of topics gravitating around the study of microbes. Kolter is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Microbiology.

As Professor Emeritus, Kolter has continued his involvement in science by communicating microbiology to scientific and general audiences. Since 2016, Kolter has been co-blogger (with Moselio Schaechter) of the popular microbiology blog, ''[http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/ Small Things Considered]''. From 2014 to 2018, Kolter and Scott Chimileski developed two exhibitions at the Harvard Museum of Natural History: ''[https://hmnh.harvard.edu/world-drop-photographic-explorations-microbial-life World in a Drop],'' open in 2017, and ''[https://hmnh.harvard.edu/microbial-life-universe-edge-sight Microbial Life]'', open through 2020. In parallel, Chimileski and Kolter wrote the book ''[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975910 Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World]'' (Harvard University Press, 2017). During a 2018 [http://www.eafit.edu.co/noticias/revistauniversidadeafit/173/solo-mitad-humanos interview at EAFIT University] in Colombia, Kolter explained that he is “in a more contemplative phase of his career," adding that he is enjoying "being able to exercise a little more the 'Ph' (Philosophy) of my PhD". Provided by Wikipedia