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Introduction: Single cell biotechnology for uncultured microorganisms.- Single-cell cultivation in microfluidic devices.- Single-cell bacterial bioreporter assays to measure hydrocarbons.- Whole genome amplification of single bacterial cells.- Detection of specific mRNA molecules in hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria.- Localisation of proteins within intact bacterial cells using fluorescent protein fusions.- Raman-FISH.- Single-cell metabolomics.- Marrying single molecules to single cells: Protocols for the study of the bacterial proto-ring components essential for division.- Single cell biotechnology for uncultured microorganisms.- Single cell and systems biology tools for biofuel production.- Detection of protein-synthesizing microorganisms in the environment via bioorthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT).- Flow cytometric determination of microbial abundances and its use to obtain indices of community structure and relative activity.- Protocols for visualizing horizontal gene transfer in Gram-negative bacteria through natural competence.