FC Garg PhD is currently Professor of Microbiology and Dean at Sardar Bhagwan Singh University, (erstwhile Sardar Bhagwan Singh Post Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Research) Dehradun. Having an experience of teaching microbiology of more than five decades to undergraduate as well as postgraduate students, he has served in various institutions in different capacities. He joined as Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture, Himachal Pradesh University, Palampur, and moved to CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, from where he retired as Professor of Microbiology. He was on deputation with Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, as Regional Director, Regional Biofertiliser Development Center, Hisar. The areas of his research interest have been biological nitrogen fixation, inoculant production and food fermentations. He has to his credit more than 80 research papers published in journals of national and international repute, and has contributed book chapters also.
<p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">It includes more than 70 exercises grouped into 13 sections: •Introduction, •Control of Microbial Growth, •Microscopy, •Microorganisms—An Overview, •Bacterial Staining, •Culture Techniques, •Physiological Characteristics, •Bacterial Growth, •Microbiology of Food, •Microorganisms and Environment, •Bacterial Genetics, •Medical Microbiology and Serology,•pH,Buffers and Suspension Fluids.</p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">An additional section •Laboratory Instruments has been included to acquaint the students with principles, working, components and applications of instruments commonly used in biochemistry, microbiology, biotechnology, medical microbiology and medical laboratory technology laboratories.</p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">Each section has been introduced with background information to make the students aware of the basics underlying each exercise. Suitable illustrations have been provided in the text to enhance the usefulness of the book. Further, review questions have been incorporated at the end of each section to help students in understanding and grasping the fundamentals of each exercise.</p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">The book also discusses composition and method of preparation of •stains, •bacteriological media,•solutions and •buffers generally used in the laboratory. The book will prove to be a boon to the students, teachers and the beginners in research in microbiology, medical microbiology, medical laboratory technology, biotechnology and allied health sciences.</p>
