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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. -
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. -
Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Danai Irakleidi
June 21, 2024
This year the Microbiology Society is awarding two Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prizes. Both 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 either presented a poster or offered a talk at Annual Conference 2024, were selected 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 Danai Irakleidi from Imperial College London, UK.
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Creating a graphic novel about microbiology’s forgotten woman
June 21, 2024
On 22 June 1850, Fanny Angelina Hesse was born, and Society Champion, Corrado Nai is working on an exciting project to celebrate her 175th birthday next year. Corrado is a microbiologist and writer with a PhD in Fungal Ecology, living in Indonesia with his wife and baby daughter. Corrado has teamed up with other microbiologists and creatives to produce a graphic novel about the woman who introduced agar to microbiology.
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Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Afifah Tasnim
June 19, 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 Afifah Tasnim from University of Warwick, UK.
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Recognising a legacy for the community – Professor Nigel Brown reviews ‘Second International Congress for Microbiology – London 25 July – 1 August 1936’
June 14, 2024
In 2020 the Microbiology Society was generously left with an extensive, and wide-ranging selection of scientific works by long-standing member, Dr Bernard Dixon. Bernard was a well-known scientific communicator, perhaps most notably as the Editor of New Scientist in the 1970s.