- Publishing and Journals ×
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
JMM Editor’s Choice: developing an antimicrobial dental floss
March 12, 2020
The Journal of Medical Microbiology (JMM) is a journal published by the Microbiology Society, focused on providing comprehensive coverage of medical, dental and veterinary microbiology and infectious diseases, including bacteriology, virology, mycology and parasitology. This month, Professor Vincent Cattoir discusses the paper ‘Dental floss impregnated with povidone-iodine coated with Eudragit L-100 as an antimicrobial delivery system against periodontal-associated pathogens’, which was selected as Editor’s Choice from the February issue of JMM.
-
New microbes discovered in a person’s eye, 12,000-year-old ice and geese
March 10, 2020
Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM), 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.
-
Microbiology Society journal prizes: M4 and Pseudomonas 19
March 6, 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 Midlands Molecular Microbiology Meeting (M4) and Pseudomonas 2019.
-
How nomenclature reviews work and why are they important
March 3, 2020
When a new genus or species of bacteria or archaea is discovered, it must be described and given a name. The rules of nomenclature are complex and newly-described prokaryotes must be named in-line with the guidelines set out in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP). Here Aharon Oren, nomenclature reviewer for the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology discusses the importance of nomenclature.
-
Microbiology Editor’s Choice: electron balance in Calvin-cycle mutants
March 2, 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 “Reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes and reductive amino acid synthesis pathways contribute to electron balance in a Rhodospirillum rubrum Calvin-cycle mutant” and it was chosen by Professor Gail Preston.
