ABC Of Microbiology

ABOUT THE BOOK

The book attempts to deal with the scientific advancements in the field of Microbiology and has been divided into 19 chapters keeping in mind the requirements of UG and PG students of Microbiology, Biotechnology, Botany, Nursing students and students of Dental Microbiology. The book covers Microscopy; Micrometry; Details of Instruments Chromatography; Electrophoresis, Immunoelectrophoresis; Sterilization Staining; Subculture; Lyophilisation; Details of Bacteria, Fungus, Plant Virus, Viroid, Prion, Cyanobacteria, Myxobacteria, Mycoplasma; Microbial Genetics; Microbial Metabolism, Biological Pest Control and even Dental Microbiology.

The chapters are written in an impeccable manner to update and provide comprehensive knowledge to the students. The text is written in such a way so as to enhance the readability.

The level of difficulty has been carefully set with the target audience in mind.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The author Dr. Narendra Kumar started his carrier in 2002 at Industrial Microbiology (BOTANY Department), DDU Gorakhpur University there he taught on various aspects of Microbiology. He joined Amity University Haryana in 2014 and is currently teaching Microbiology and Biotechnology. For his research studies he was awarded the Best Young Scientist Award by the Indian PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Delhi on 07.12.2002 at N.D. University of Agriculture & Technology, FAIZABAD, for presentation entitled "Putranjiva oil an eco-friendly herbal bio-pesticide" in Annual meet (MEZ) and National Symp. on integrated management of plant diseases of Mid-Eastern India with a cropping system perspective. December 2002, he again got a Young Scientist Award on 20-12-2014, in a National Conf. on Challenges of Biological and Environmental Science held at Gorakhpur, for the presentation, "Cuminum cyminum L. seed oil - A potential alternate of synthetic pesticide (sulphos and EDBA ampule) for groundnut during storage and got third prize for research work presentation - Coriandrum sativum L. leaf essential oil-A Potential source of therapeutic agent-in International Conference on Translational medicine; emerging trends in Biomedicine, Biotechnology and St,emc,ell research - Present status and future prospects Feb 2016; organized by Rutgers State University USA and Amity University Haryana. He has published several research papers and review articles in reputed journals