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Avian Infectious Diseases 2021 – a view from Twitter
September 23, 2021
The Microbiology Society’s third Focused Meeting of the year, Avian Infectious Diseases 2021, took place digitally on 15–17 September 2021. The aim of the event was to bring together the scientific community to help find solutions to the biggest challenges in avian infectious diseases and provide a forum for discussion not only on individual pathogens, but also on cross-cutting areas of relevance to multiple infections. Here, we look back on the three-day event with a view from Twitter.
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Microbiology Editor’s choice: Bacteria can simultaneously express multiple capsules
September 22, 2021
Each month, a manuscript published in our flagship journal Microbiology is chosen by a member of the Editorial Board. This month, the paper is titled ‘Phase-variable bacteria simultaneously express multiple capsules’ and was chosen by Dr Jen Cavet.
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New microbes discovered in a bats, humans and a marine invertebrate
September 16, 2021
Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM), 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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Editor’s Choice: How Shigella hijacks the lysosome
September 15, 2021
In this blog, Dr Ryan Hunter discusses ‘Shigella escapes lysosomal degradation through inactivation of Rab31 by IpaH4.5’ which he selected as Editor’s Choice in the Journal of Medical Microbiology after its publication in July.
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Meet the Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year finalists: Mary Turley
September 14, 2021
The Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year Prize is awarded by the Society each year. The prize recognises and rewards excellence in science communication by a Microbiology Society member who is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher, having gained their PhD in the last two years. In the run-up to the event, we will be getting to know the finalists. In this blog, we meet Mary Turley, a PhD student from Trinity College Dublin.
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Meet the Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year finalists: Luke Woodford
September 10, 2021
The Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year Prize is awarded by the Society each year. The prize recognises and rewards excellence in science communication by a Microbiology Society member who is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher, having gained their PhD in the last two years. In the run-up to the event, we will be getting to know the finalists. In this blog, we meet Luke Woodford, a PhD student from the University of St Andrews.
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Meet the Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year finalists: Joanne Haney
September 8, 2021
The Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year Prize is awarded by the Society each year. The prize recognises and rewards excellence in science communication by a Microbiology Society member who is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher, having gained their PhD in the last two years. In the run-up to the event, we will be getting to know the finalists. In this blog, we meet Joanne Haney, a PhD student from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, UK.
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Meet the Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year finalists: James Horton
September 6, 2021
The Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year Prize is awarded by the Society each year. The prize recognises and rewards excellence in science communication by a Microbiology Society member who is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher, having gained their PhD in the last two years. In the run-up to the event, we will be getting to know the finalists. In this blog, we meet James Horton, a postdoctoral research fellow from the University of Bath, UK.
