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Bacterial jousting among squid symbionts
March 10, 2023
Dr Kirsten Guckes takes us behind the scenes of her and her colleague Dr Tim I. Miyashiro's latest publication in Microboiology, 'The type-VI secretion system of the beneficial symbiont Vibrio fischeri'.
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From Lotus flowers to fishy mouths to the Mariana Trench: explore this month's diverse microbial discoveries
March 7, 2023
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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Winners of the Microbiology best paper of the year 2022
March 2, 2023
Today, we announced the winners of the Microbiology best papers of the year 2022. We spoke to the authors to find out more about them and their research.
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Behind the bacterial spore research
March 2, 2023
Dr Andrea Corona takes us behind the scenes of her latest publication "Multiple roads lead to Rome: unique morphology and chemistry of endospores, exospores, myxospores, cysts and akinetes in bacteria" published in Microbiology.
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In pursuit of alien genes in bacteria
March 1, 2023
Rajeev Azad takes us behind the research and his recently published paper latest paper "Leveraging comparative genomics to uncover alien genes in bacterial genomes" in Microbial Genomics.
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Keeping up with virus taxonomy: viruses that infect fungi
February 28, 2023
It’s time for the third installment of the ‘Keeping up with virus taxonomy’ blog series. This month we are looking at families of viruses that infect fungi – mycoviruses.
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Chasing our antibiotic tails: resistant staphylococci are charging ahead
February 14, 2023
Domenico Santoro takes us behind the scenes of his and his colleage, Michaela Burke's research 'Prevalence of multidrug-resistant coagulase-positive staphylococci in canine and feline dermatological patients over a 10-year period: a retrospective study' published in Microbiology.
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How should public health authorities use pathogen genomics in practice?
February 6, 2023
Dr Declan Bradley takes us behind the scenes of his latest research 'How public health authorities can use pathogen genomics in health protection practice: a consensus-building Delphi study conducted in the United Kingdom' published in Microbial Genomics.
From the first detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans, genomics was central to defining and understanding the threat posed by this emerging infectious disease. Pathogen genomics services grew to operate at a scale that was orders of magnitude greater than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Health protection services in public health authorities are responsible for surveillance and prevention of communicable diseases.