This book contains the proceedings of the symposium on Microbial Adhesion and Invasion. The meeting was the fifth in a series of symposia initiated and sponsored by the Department of Biochemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham. We gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support of the following institutions and companies. -Department of Biochemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA -Alfa Laval International, AB, Tumba, Sweden -Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA -Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, USA -Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA We would like to express our appreciation to Agneta Hook, Timo Kostiainen, Mary Homonylo McGavin, Martin McGavin, Cindy Patti, Joe Patti and Anna-Marja Saamanen for their time and hard work making this symposium a success; and special thanks to Kay Cooper and Wade Butcher for help with the management of the symposium and editorial assistance with this book.