From Molecules to the Biochemistry of Cells: Fundamentals of Biology 1
暫譯: 從分子到細胞生物化學：生物學基礎 1

這本教科書將生物學介紹為一門跨學科的科學，將物理學和化學與在熱力學法則下運作的生物過程聯繫起來。基於進化的敘述，重點放在細胞的分子組成和生物化學上。通過將生物學根植於其分子基礎，這種方法揭示了生命多樣性背後的統一原則，並提供了一個理解生物複雜性的概念框架。核心概念包括大分子的結構與功能、信息的編碼與解碼，以及能量轉換的普遍原則。

主要特點
- 反映了一種新穎的生物學教學方法
- 以進化作為統一框架
- 引入了關於生命複雜性的敘述
- 橋接化學和物理，使分子生物學變得易於理解
- 將細菌和古菌作為最簡單的生命形式，來說明基本原則
- 從分子進展到分子互動，再到細胞過程
- 以摘要和反思問題突顯關鍵生物概念

這本教科書旨在為尋求將分子機制與細胞結構相連接的綜合生物學介紹的學生提供學習資源。

Julia A. Vorholt is Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Biology, ETH Zurich. She studied biology at the Universities of Bonn and Marburg and conducted her PhD work at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg. Following postdoctoral research at the University of Washington in Seattle, she led research groups at the MPI Marburg and subsequently at the CNRS in Toulouse. She joined ETH Zurich as Associate Professor in 2006 and has been Full Professor since 2012. She is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the Academia Europaea, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Her laboratory focuses on one-carbon metabolism, plant microbiomes, and endosymbioses.

Jörn Piel is Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Biology, ETH Zurich. He studied chemistry at the University of Bonn, where he also received his PhD. After a postdoctoral project at the University of Washington, Seattle, he became a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena. In 2004, he moved to the University of Bonn as an Associate Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry, and since 2013 he has been Full Professor at the Institute of Microbiology at ETH Zurich. He is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. His research group studies bacterial natural product biosynthesis at the interface of biology and chemistry.

Markus Aebi is Professor emeritus of Mycology at the Department of Biology, ETH Zurich. He studied natural sciences at ETH Zurich and received his PhD from ETH Zurich. Following postdoctoral research at the University of Zurich and the California Institute of Technology, he led a research group as a START fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 1994 he became Professor at ETH Zurich. He is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. His research activities focused on microbial glycobiology.

Donald Hilvert is Professor emeritus of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich. He obtained his B.A. from Brown University, Rhode Island and earned his PhD from Columbia University, New York. Following postdoctoral work at Rockefeller University, New York, he joined the Scripps Research Institute as an Assistant Professor, where he was promoted to Associate Professor and then Full Professor. He came to ETH Zurich as Full Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1997. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His group is developing general strategies for the design of proteins with customized catalytic properties.

Julia A. Vorholt 是蘇黎世聯邦理工學院生物系的微生物學教授。她在波恩大學和馬爾堡大學學習生物學，並在馬爾堡的馬克斯·普朗克地球微生物學研究所進行博士研究。隨後，她在西雅圖的華盛頓大學進行博士後研究，並在馬克斯·普朗克研究所和隨後的圖盧茲法國國家科學研究中心領導研究小組。她於2006年加入蘇黎世聯邦理工學院擔任副教授，自2012年以來一直是正教授。她是歐洲分子生物學組織（EMBO）、歐洲科學院、德國國家科學院Leopoldina的當選成員，以及美國國家科學院的國際成員。她的實驗室專注於一碳代謝、植物微生物組和內共生。

Jörn Piel 是蘇黎世聯邦理工學院生物系的微生物學教授。他在波恩大學學習化學，並在該校獲得博士學位。在西雅圖的華盛頓大學完成博士後項目後，他成為耶拿的馬克斯·普朗克化學生態學研究所的研究小組負責人。2004年，他轉到波恩大學擔任生物有機化學副教授，自2013年以來一直是蘇黎世聯邦理工學院微生物學研究所的正教授。他是德國國家科學院Leopoldina的當選成員。他的研究小組研究生物學和化學交界處的細菌天然產物生物合成。

Markus Aebi 是蘇黎世聯邦理工學院生物系的名譽真菌學教授。他在蘇黎世聯邦理工學院學習自然科學，並獲得該校的博士學位。隨後，他在蘇黎世大學和加州理工學院進行博士後研究，並作為瑞士國家科學基金會的START獎學金獲得者領導一個研究小組。1994年，他成為蘇黎世聯邦理工學院的教授。他是德國國家科學院Leopoldina的當選成員。他的研究活動專注於微生物糖生物學。

Donald Hilvert 是蘇黎世聯邦理工學院化學與應用生物科學系的名譽有機化學教授。他在羅德島的布朗大學獲得學士學位，並在紐約的哥倫比亞大學獲得博士學位。在紐約的洛克菲勒大學完成博士後工作後，他加入斯克里普斯研究所擔任助理教授，並晉升為副教授，然後成為正教授。他於1997年以有機化學正教授的身份來到蘇黎世聯邦理工學院。他是美國藝術與科學學院的當選成員。他的研究小組正在開發設計具有定制催化特性的蛋白質的一般策略。