I. Specific stress responses : The heat shock response: regulation and function ; Sensing and responding to envelope stress ; The cold shock response ; Oxidative stress ; Mechanisms for sensing and responding to oxygen deprivation ; Coping with osmotic challenges: osmoregulation through accumulation and release of compatible solutes in bacteria ; Microbial responses to acid stress ; Sodium stress ; The SOS response to DNA damage ; Metalloregulatory systems at the interface between bacterial metal homeostasis and resistance -- II. General stress responses : The general stress response in escherichia coli ; Protective function and regulation of the general stress response in bacillus subtilis and related gram-positive bacteria ; Bacterial sporulation: a response to environmental signals ; Resistance of bacterial spores ; Long-term survival and evolution in the stationary phase ; Mutation under stress: adaptive mutation in escherichia coli ; Regulation of competence in bacillus ; The roles of cell-cell communication in confronting the limitations and opportunities of high population densities -- III. Pathogenic responses : The art of keeping low and high iron concentrations in balance ; Identification and analysis of proteins expressed by bacterial pathogens in response to host tissues ; Environmental control of pilus gene expression ; Bacterial drug resistance: response to survival threats -- IV. Bacteria thriving in stressful environments : Thermal stress in hyperthermophiles ; The stress responses of deinococcus radiodurans ; Mechanisms of organic solvent tolerance in bacteria ; Bacteria adapted to industrial biotopes: metal-resistant ralstonia -- V. Applications of stress response analysis : A comparative-genomic view of the microbial stress response ; Proteomic analysis of bacterial stress responses ; Applications of stress responses for environmental monitoring and molecular toxicology

1. Microorganisms -- Physiology
2. Stress (Physiology)
3. Adaptation (Physiology)
4. Bacteria -- genetics
5. Bacteria -- metabolism
6. Bacterial Physiological Phenomena
7. Environmental Microbiology