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International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia: Charlotte Roughton
May 17, 2022
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia is an annual awareness day which takes place on 17 May to draw attention to the violence and discrimination faced by LGBTQ+ communities around the world. This year, for the first time, our members organised an LGBTQ+ Networking Event during Annual Conference 2022 and so, to celebrate this important day, attendee, member and Champion, Charlotte Roughton, has written a review of the networking event and shared her experience of coming out recently.
“I thoroughly enjoyed meeting and networking with fellow queer microbiologists at all different stages of their careers and felt safe and comfortable being my entire authentic self.” Charlotte Roughton, Newcastle University, UK
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Celebration of excellence in research in Benin
April 22, 2022
Supporting excellence in the world of science is the leitmotiv of the National Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of Benin (ANSALB). On Thursday, 10 February 2022, a delegation of ANSALB visited the facilities of the Research Unit in Applied Microbiology and Pharmacology of Natural Substances (U.R.M.A.Pha), a team of young Beninese researchers who have written their names in gold letters in the world of higher education and scientific research. The objective of this visit was to better discover this unit which impacts the institutional landscape of research at the national and international level.
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Q&A with Peter Collins
April 5, 2022
Peter Collins (historian of science and Emeritus Director of the Royal Society) has been exploring the history of our founding journal, Microbiology, in celebration of its 75th anniversary. He recently published the first in a series of historical articles, 'How Microbiology started' and will be sharing an insight into the history of the journal at the Microbiology 75th Anniversary Drinks Reception. In this Q&A, we get to know Peter Collins and how he became interested in this area.
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International Transgender Day of Visibility: James Oliver
March 30, 2022
International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV) was founded by trans activist, Rachel Crandall; it takes place on 31 March every year to celebrate trans and non-binary people as well as raise awareness of the discrimination faced by trans people.
Back in July 2019, we interviewed member and Champion, James Oliver, for LGBTSTEM Day (now LGBTQ+ STEM Day) and we thought TDoV would be a good opportunity to catch up with him to find out how life has changed over the last few years and allow him to share his experiences.
“I encourage embracing your identity as much as possible, but sometimes you need to prioritise your safety before you focus on anything else.” James Oliver
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Bacterial genome annotation - handling and taking advantage of a multimillion protein sequence space
March 25, 2022
Oliver Schwengers, PhD student at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen discusses the analysis of microbial genomics data, resulting challenges and new approaches for the annotation of bacterial genomes for applications within the fields of microbial ecology and medical microbiology.
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International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Omololu Fagunwa
March 21, 2022
International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination takes place annually on 21 March as a commemoration of the same date in 1960 when police in South Africa killed 69 people at a peaceful protest against apartheid. This year’s theme is ‘voices for action against racism’, which specifically aims to highlight the importance of public participation and representation, freedom of expression and to peaceful assembly, as well as recognising the contribution of people and organisations in fighting racial discrimination.
This year, to raise awareness, we interviewed member and Champion, Omololu Fagunwa. Omololu discusses some of the challenges he has faced as a Black, international student in the UK.
“Black people and people of colour are still hugely underrepresented in most fields of science. The ceiling needs to be removed.” Omololu Fagunwa
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Coronastream March 2022: Progress, of sorts
March 21, 2022
In this special blog series, medical microbiologists led by Dr Tim Inglis summarise some of the research that will be essential to inform COVID-19 countermeasures. Find out more about the project in Dr Inglis' Editorial 'Logic in the time of coronavirus', published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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COCCUS POCUS 2021: A MICROBIOLOGY-INSPIRED SCARY STORY COMPETITION
March 14, 2022
In October 2021, the Department of Biomedical and Forensic Sciences at the University of Hull, UK launched an exciting scary story competition for Halloween: Coccus Pocus 2021! The event was organised for a third time, following two successful runs in 2019 and 2020. Read on to find out more about this year's competition.
