Dr. Kenneth Todar, emeritus faculty, has been teaching undergraduate microbiology in the Department of Bacteriology since 1975. He received a PhD degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1972. Since 1970, he has taught microbiology at The University of Texas, University of Alaska, and University of Wisconsin. His main teaching interests are in microbial diversity, environmental microbiology and microbial interactions. You can visit his courses, Bacteriology 303 (Procaryotic Microbiology) and Bacteriology 330 (Host-Parasite Interactions), which are scheduled to be taught in the Spring Semester, 2007. He is also author of Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology and maintains the website The Microbial World for public reference and education in diverse topics in microbiology.