One point that you might want to look into is Medical and Veterinary
Microbiology. Infectious Diseases in India I'm sure are a problem as in any
country. I have a lot of friends from India that have gone into ID research in
Veterinary Medicine in Immunology,Genetics, Protein Chemistry,and Biochemistry.
These are all areas of micro. They are also in almost every area that you
could possibly imagine.
I think that the problem you are not getting "an adequate response" is that
there really is no "defined" microbiology any more. I am a geneticist but I
also consider myself a microbiologist. I also know others that work with me
that are in other areas but also consider themselves a microbiologist. This is
because the field of "microbiology" has become so enormous and encompassing
that most of us are geneticists or biochemists or immunologists first and
microbiologists second. Generally as a student of microbiology you would find
an area of micro that you enjoyed such as molecular biology, and then work and
study in that area in microbiology. Look at food micro., fermentation micro,
as well. you can also look at our website:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/ncid.htm for more info on infectious diseases.
John R. McQuiston
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta GA USA
In article <37981761.62D8FF45 at pn3.vsnl.net.in>, abt at PN3.VSNL.NET.IN says...
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>>Dear Netters,
>>I have recently posted two questions to the news group entitled
>"Define microbiology ..."
>and
>"Boundries of microbiology"
>>May be because I did not elaborate my question or motive properly, the
>response received wasn't adequate. Hence I am putting my question once
>again (for the last time) in elaborated manner with the hope of
>receiving a better response, and thorough discussion.
>>Defining microbiology isn't all that simple. Our students (in India)
>keep on reading about protein engineering, mammalian cloning, HIV,
>monoclonal work etc. and constantly argue that these are all branches of
>microbiology. This is just because some of the techniques used in all
>these experiments or the object is somewhat related to what they study.
>>I am not saying they are wrong. But at this point of time neither they
>have facilities to try or even have a look at such types of experiment,
>nor there is a broad industrial/ research base to provide carrier
>opportunities for microbiology students (on a mass scale).
>>It is this reason that I try to broaden the boundaries of microbiology
>in their minds.
>I argue that they must try to capitalize on their understanding of
>principles or concepts that are heart of microbiology. For example
>"geometric growth" and "aseptic techniques"
>are also key issues respectively in fisheries (rearing) and tissue
>culture. Incidentally these are the areas where we have much better
>opportunities in India. So, I suggest the students to find out more and
>more such hard core principles/ phenomena of microbiology and then try
>to correlate them with the available potential carrier opportunities.
>>In this respect can anyone help me out? May be just by suggesting a
>variety of microbial phenomena and / or principles that strike to you?
>>Additionally I would also like to obtain PC ( Windows 95) based
>educational software's that can be used for better understanding of
>basic microbial concepts / facts or sophisticated techniques/
>experiments. These are to be used for educational purpose only. Any such
>material / addresses of the sources are welcome.
>>Thanks
>>Dr Abhay Shendye.
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>Dear Netters,
><p>I have recently posted two questions to the news group entitled
><br>"<i>Define microbiology ..."</i>
><br>and
><br>"<i>Boundries of microbiology"</i>
><p>May be because I did not elaborate my question or motive properly, the
>response received wasn't adequate. Hence I am putting my question once
>again (for the last time) in elaborated manner with the hope of receiving
>a better response, and thorough discussion.
><p>Defining microbiology isn't all that simple. Our students (in India)
>keep on reading about protein engineering, mammalian cloning, HIV, monoclonal
>work etc. and constantly argue that these are all branches of microbiology.
>This is just because some of the techniques used in all these experiments
>or the object is somewhat related to what they study.
><p>I am not saying they are wrong. But at this point of time neither they
>have facilities to try or even have a look at such types of experiment,
>nor there is a broad industrial/ research base to provide carrier
opportunities
>for microbiology students (on a mass scale).
><p>It is this reason that I try to broaden the boundaries of microbiology
>in their minds.
><br>I argue that they must try to capitalize on their understanding of
>principles or concepts that are heart of microbiology. For example "geometric
>growth" and "aseptic techniques"
><br>are also key issues respectively in fisheries (rearing) and tissue
>culture. Incidentally these are the areas where we have much better
opportunities
>in India. So, I suggest the students to find out more and more such hard
>core principles/ phenomena of microbiology and then try to correlate them
>with the available potential carrier opportunities.
><p>In this respect can anyone help me out? May be just by suggesting a
>variety of microbial phenomena and / or principles that strike to you?
><p>Additionally I would also like to obtain PC ( Windows 95) based educational
>software's that can be used for better understanding of basic microbial
>concepts / facts or sophisticated techniques/ experiments. These are to
>be used for educational purpose only. Any such material / addresses of
>the sources are welcome.
><p>Thanks
><p>Dr Abhay Shendye.</html>
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