John W. Foster

John Foster is a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama. He received his Ph.D. from Hahnemann University (now Drexel University School of Medicine) and completed his postdoctoral work at Georgetown University. Dr. Foster has coauthored three editions of the textbook Microbial Physiology and has published over one hundred journal articles describing the physiology and genetics of microbial stress responses. He has served as chair of the Microbial Physiology and Metabolism division of the American Society for Microbiology and as a member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Molecular Microbiology.