About the Author: IAN HUMPHERY-SMITH, PHD, is the Founding Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Proteomics at Utrecht University. Dr. Humphery-Smith has served as director of the Centre for Proteome Research and Gene-Product Mapping and served as managing director and chief scientific officer of Glaucus Proteomics BV. MICHAEL HECKER, PHD, is Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Institute for Microbiology at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald in Germany. Dr. Hecker is currently Vice Chair of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS).