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World Antimicrobial Awareness Week with Microbiology Society Champion Jazmin Conway
November 22, 2022
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) runs from 18–24 November each year. One of our Champions, Jazmin Conway from the University of Plymouth, has organised a series of events about as to bring awareness to this serious challenge. In this blog post, Jazz discusses the process of planning these events and how the Microbiology Society provided support throughout.
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Mining the Microbiome 2022: Journal of Medical Microbiology Outstanding Science Prize winners
November 1, 2022
In October, we hosted the Microbiome and mucosa-associated infectious disease: Mining for antimicrobials and postbiotics with therapeutic potential Focused Meeting at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. At the meeting, we awarded two poster prizes for Outstanding Science, sponsored by the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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Microbe Talk: Manuka honey could help treat a deadly drug-resistant lung infection
September 12, 2022
In this episode of Microbe Talk, Charlie talks to Dr Jonathan Cox about his team's newly published research on a surprising use for Manuka honey.
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PATH-SAFE: Tracking foodborne pathogens and antimicrobial-resistant microbes
November 24, 2021
To mark the end of World Antibiotic Awareness Week, Eva Scholtus and Emily Parr from the Microbiology Society discuss our collaborative workshop series as part of the Pathogen Surveillance in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (PATH-SAFE) programme.
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Farm management and antimicrobial resistance in Northern Ireland
August 4, 2021
In this blog, Katie, a third year PhD student in the Huws Lab at Queen’s University Belfast discusses her research into antimicrobial resistance in Northern Ireland and how this is influenced by farm management practices. Katie presented her research at the Microbiology Society’s Annual Conference Online 2021.
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Exploring co-culturing to enhance antimicrobial compound production among isolates generated through the Antibiotics Unearthed Programme
January 27, 2021
Each year, the Microbiology Society awards a number of grants that enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during the summer vacation and provide early- and mid-career scientists the opportunity to gain supervision experience. Over the next few months, we’ll be posting a series of blogs from members who were awarded Harry Smith Vacation Studentships in 2020. This week is lecturer Dr Niall O’Leary and undergraduate student Leah McPhillips from University College Cork.
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New antibiotics needed: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
September 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.
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JMM Editor’s Choice: does sub-culturing of positive MRSA blood cultures affect vancomycin MICs?
September 7, 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, Dr Steve Michell discusses the paper ‘Does sub-culturing of positive MRSA blood cultures affect vancomycin MICs?’ which was chosen as Editor’s Choice for the August issue of JMM.
