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Institute of Microbial Technology

Institute of Microbial Technology is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Institute of Microbial Technology rather than just read about it. In short: The Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), based in Chandigarh, India, is one of the constituent establishments of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR). It was established in 1984.

Key takeaways

Institute of Microbial Technology belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Institute of Microbial Technology to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Institute of Microbial Technology from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), based in Chandigarh, India, is one of the constituent establishments of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR). It was established in 1984. The institute is engaged in research in many areas of modern biological sciences and microbe-related biotechnology, with special emphasis on research that is interdisciplinary and of a collaborative nature, such as immunity and infectious diseases, protein design and engineering, fermentation science, microbial physiology and genetics, yeast biology, bioinformatics, microbial systematics, exploitation of microbial diversity for bioactives and enzymes for biotransformations. Present Director is Dr Alka Rao, and former directors were Dr Sanjeev Khosla, Dr Anil Koul, and Dr Girish Sahni.

Facilities The institute is equipped with facilities for modern biology research. They include lab-to-pilot-scale fermenter of many capacities, tissue and cell culture facility, facility for maintenance, preservation and identification of micro-organisms, an animal house, workstations for bioinformatics and biocomputing, equipment for protein and DNA analysis, a library with around 64,000 references books, microscopy equipment, and databases for intellectual property management. The institute is equipped with biosafety level 3 (BSL3) laboratory facility for research work on pathogenic microorganisms.

Achievements Patented natural, recombinant and clot specific Streptokinase as a vital lifesaving drug.

Academics The institute offers Ph.D. jointly with the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Computational Resources for Drug Discovery CRDD (Computational Resource for Drug Discovery) is a module of the in silico module of Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD). The CRDD web portal provides computer resources related to drug discovery on a single platform. This module is developed and maintained under the guidance of Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology.

Controversy of fake data On 17 July 2014, mainstream media in India published reports about retraction of a total seven papers published by scientists at IMTECH in various journals. This was done after establishing that the data used in these papers were fake/fabricated.

Three papers published in PLoS ONE were retracted, and four papers in other journals are in the process of being retracted. All the three PLoS ONE papers have Dr. Fazlurrahman Khan, Research Associate, as the first author and Dr. Swaranjit Singh Cameotra from the Environmental Biotechnology and Microbial Biochemistry Laboratory as the corresponding author. They were published online on April 17, October 1 and October 8 respectively. Unfortunately, these papers have been cited by five other papers. This came as a huge shock to the scientific community in India since CSIR and its constituent bodies are considered to be among the top research organizations in the country.

Bioinformatics services More than 150 free and open source software, databases and web-servers has been developed at the Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh. These servers are heavily used by scientific community worldwide.

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Institute of Microbial Technology

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Institute of Microbial Technology claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Institute of Microbial Technology before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Institute of Microbial Technology ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Institute of Microbial Technology

In research: Institute of Microbial Technology appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Institute of Microbial Technology in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Institute of Microbial Technology is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1984 establishments in Chandigarh, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Medical research in India, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Institute of Microbial Technology outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Institute of Microbial Technology in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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