Cellular microbiology
Cellular microbiology is a discipline that bridges microbiology and cell biology.
The term "cellular microbiology" was coined by the authors of the book of the same title published in 1996.[1] Cooperation and mutual dependency between microbiology and cell biology had been increasing in the years before that, and the emergence of a new discipline had been suggested and discussed in several scientific conferences.
Cellular microbiology attempts to use
host-cell
counterparts, is crucial.
Numerous eukaryotic cellular processes have been clarified using microbial "tools". A major subject in this category is the
vesicle trafficking, cell cycle and transcriptional regulation
, to name but a few.
Recently, the field of Cellular Microbiology has been expanded to incorporate investigation of the
microbes themselves.[3][4] "The field of cellular microbiology is a coalescence of two fields: molecular microbiology and cell biology," said Professor Jacek Hawiger, Chair of Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University.[4] Particularly in the case of bacterial cells, new technology is starting to be used to reveal a high level of organization within the bacterial cells themselves. For example, high-resolution fluorescence microscopy[5] and atomic force microscopy [6] are both being used to show just how sophisticated bacterial cells
are.
References
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- ^ NHMRC Program in Cellular Microbiology (http://cellularmicrobiologyprogram.org.au/ Archived 2019-05-03 at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ a b NIH Cellular and Molecular Microbiology (CMM) training program (http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=988)
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