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Exploring Antimicrobial Resistance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Analysis
July 2, 2024
Dr Mai Zafer takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication ‘Antimicrobial resistance patterns among critical priority pathogens in an intensive care unit at a tertiary hospital in Egypt: a descriptive analysis comparing pre- and COVID-19 eras’ published in Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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Exploring nature's relationships in guts, flowers and lungs
July 1, 2024
Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, which details newly discovered species of bacteria, fungi and protists. Here are some of the new species that have been discovered and the places they've been found.
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Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Padraic Heneghan
July 1, 2024
This year the Microbiology Society is awarding two Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prizes. The prizes recognise excellence in science communication by a member who is an undergraduate, postgraduate student or within five years of appointment to their first position.
Each of the finalists, who were either speakers or poster presenters, were selected at Annual Conference 2024 to present their research in the poster or speaker final. In the lead up to the poster final, taking place on 9 July 2024 during the Early Career Summer Conference, we speak to poster finalist Padraic Heneghan, from Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland. -
Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Emmet Campbell
June 28, 2024
This year the Microbiology Society is awarding two Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prizes. The prizes recognise excellence in science communication by a member who is an undergraduate, postgraduate student or within five years of appointment to their first position.
Each of the finalists, who were either speakers or poster presenters, were selected at Annual Conference 2024 to present their research in the poster or speaker final. In the lead up to the poster final, taking place on 9 July 2024 during the Early Career Summer Conference, we speak to poster finalist Emmet Campbell, from Queen's University Belfast, UK. -
Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Emma Browne
June 26, 2024
This year the Microbiology Society is awarding two Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prizes. The prizes recognise excellence in science communication by a member who is an undergraduate, postgraduate student or within five years of appointment to their first position.
Each of the finalists, who were either speakers or poster presenters, were selected at Annual Conference 2024 to present their research in the poster or speaker final. In the lead up to the poster final, taking place on 9 July 2024 during the Early Career Summer Conference, we speak to poster finalist Emma Browne, from Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland. -
Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy: viruses that infect archaea
June 26, 2024
Welcome back to Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy. In past editions we’ve taken you through a journey of discovering viruses that infect various microbes, including bacteria and fungi so let’s tackle another microbe shall we? For this edition of Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy, we’re looking at virus families that infect archaea.
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Investigation fungal – host interactions using Galleria mellonella larvae
June 24, 2024
Aaron Curtis takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Characterization of Aspergillus fumigatus secretome during sublethal infection of Galleria mellonella larvae' published in Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Emily Addington
June 24, 2024
This year the Microbiology Society is awarding two Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prizes. The prizes recognise excellence in science communication by a member who is an undergraduate, postgraduate student or within five years of appointment to their first position.
Each of the finalists, who were either speakers or poster presenters, were selected at Annual Conference 2024 to present their research in the poster or speaker final. In the lead up to the poster final, taking place on 9 July 2024 during the Early Career Summer Conference, we speak to poster finalist Emily Addington, from University of Glasgow, UK.