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Microbiology Editor’s Choice: mycobacterial growth in iron limiting conditions
April 1, 2020
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 “SufT is required for growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis under iron-limiting conditions” and it was chosen by Professor Jörg Stülke.
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Microbe Talk: MicroNews March
March 31, 2020
MicroNews is the sister series of our podcast Microbe Talk, where we discuss microbiology in the news over the last month. As COVID-19 is taking over the news elsewhere, we decided to focus on other stories from the microbial world, including the microbiome of turtles, how bacteria are being used to clean groundwater and a new way to tackle Candida auris. Links to the news stories discussed during this episode can be found below:
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Microbe Talk: Managing mildew
March 27, 2020
This month on Microbe Talk, Laura speaks with Haoxiang Wu, PhD student at Hong Kong Baptist University. In some tropical climates, mould growth is managed by near-constant use of dehumidifiers or air conditioners, which has a great environmental impact. Haoxiang’s research involves using fluid dynamics to control indoor mould growth in a sustainable way.
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Developing a severity assessment test for Ebola infection
March 25, 2020
Researchers are looking for new ways to predict the disease outcomes of infection with Ebola virus. As part of her PhD project, Dr Jocelyn Pérez Lazo aimed to predict the course of infection – including how severe disease would be in the patient – by measuring host biomarkers.
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Microbiology Society journal prizes: the Asian Conference on Transcription and the International Calcivirus Conference
March 23, 2020
Each year, the Microbiology Society’s journals sponsor a number of prizes at various conferences around the world. Here, we speak with some of the winners of prizes presented at the Asian Conference on Transcription and the International Calcivirus Conference.
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Giant phages and their impact on the gut microbiome
March 20, 2020
A team of researchers from University College London (UCL) are studying giant viruses and their direct impact on the composition of the gut microbiome.
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New antibiotics needed: Staphylococcus aureus
March 17, 2020
In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the ’12 Priority Pathogens’: a list of 12 microbes that are becoming increasingly resistant to current antimicrobials. These 12 pathogens are thought by WHO to pose the greatest threat to human health.
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Jam Talks: Waste water, CPE and sinks, oh my!
March 16, 2020
The Junior Awards for Microbiology (JAM) Talks is a monthly seminar series based in Birmingham that allows early career researchers to gain experience presenting to an audience of their peers. Dr Paz Aranega Bou, a water systems microbiologist at Public Health England (PHE), presented her work at the November JAM Talks in 2019. Here Paz takes us through her research.
