Qiu-Xing Jiang is faculty in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Science and and Electron Microscopy Faculty Director at the University of Florida's Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research. His laboratory is working in two areas. One is the structural and functional studies of membrane proteins and intracellular signaling complexes. The second general direction is the development of new techniques for both single particle cryoEM and for studying eukaryotic membrane proteins in lipid environments.
Each chapter begins with an introduction that carefully covers the fundamental operating principles of each method illuminated by details of its historical development. This extends to the mathematical functions encountered in the chapters on scanning angle interference microscopy and the analysis of protein function in reconstituted membrane systems. Each chapter appears to be well illustrated and thoroughly referenced. The end result is a concise and straightforward introduction to the topics selected for each chapter. - Peter J. Kennelly, PhD(Virginia Tech)