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Women's History Month: Enas Newire
March 8, 2024
Women’s History Month takes place annually throughout the month of March. It aims to highlight and reflect on the many, but often over-looked achievements made by women throughout history – which has paved the way of opportunities for the women of today. To mark the month, we caught up with Society Champion, Enas Newire, to discuss her insights as a woman in STEM.
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Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance within Highly Vulnerable Patient Populations: at the Forefront of AMR Emergence
March 6, 2024
William C. Shropshire takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Identification of a novel CG307 sub-clade in third-generation-cephalosporin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae causing invasive infections in the United States‘ published in Microbial Genomics.
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Playing while learning: creation of a card game featuring microbial characters and their ecological functions
March 5, 2024
Saskia Bindschedler and Pilar Junier take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Gamification as a tool to teach key concepts in microbiology to bachelor-level students in biology: a case study using microbial interactions and soil functioning' published in Access Microbiology.
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Unveiling Fragrant Bacteria and Flower Dwelling Yeasts
March 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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Zero Discrimination Day: Arindam Mitra
March 1, 2024
Zero Discrimination Day takes place annually on 1 March, bringing awareness to the importance of inclusion and acceptance of all people, regardless of our differences in race, gender, abilities or socio-economic background. To celebrate the day, this year we caught up with Members Panel member and Champion, Arindam Mitra, who highlights why Zero Discrimination Day is important to him and gives advice on how to incorporate it’s initiatives.
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Fitness compensation in M. tuberculosis: A game of genetic chess
February 21, 2024
Viktoria Brunner takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Compensatory mutations are associated with increased in vitro growth in resistant clinical samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Modernising bovine tuberculosis epidemiology with whole genome-based approaches – valuable new possibilities
February 16, 2024
Dr Adrian Allen takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Whole-Genome sequencing in routine Mycobacterium bovis epidemiology – scoping the potential' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Microbe Talk - Navigating Academia: a conversation with Professor Iruka Okeke and Professor Judith Armitage
February 12, 2024
In aid of The International Day of Women and Girls in Science Clare spoke to Professor Iruka Okeke and Professor Judith Armitage to discuss women in science. In this episode they discuss the importance of mentors, promotions in academia and the inequalities of maternity leave and Clare gains valuable insights from Judy and Iruka's impressive careers.