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Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy: virus families that are transmitted or maintained in insects
July 26, 2024
For this edition of 'Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy' we're looking at some interesting families that contain viruses that are transmitted or maintained in insects.
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Implementation of Next-Generation Sequencing-Based HIV Drug Resistance Testing: Enhancing Antiretroviral Treatment Monitoring and Public Health Outcomes
July 26, 2024
Gerald Mboowa and Stephen Kanyerezi give us an inside look at their latest publication 'HIV-DRIVES: HIV Drug Resistance Identification, Variant Evaluation, and Surveillance Pipeline' published in Access Microbiology.
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A new annual infection biology symposium for ECRs to add to the calendar!
July 25, 2024
The second annual London Infection Postdoc Network (LIPN) symposium, an event organised by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) for ECRs, was held on the 10th June at the Francis Crick Institute. The LIPN Committee, is looking back on their ongoing learning experiences and the lessons learned after two symposiums, ten seminars and more than two years of collaboration.
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Teesside University Academic Names New Species of Bacteria
July 24, 2024
Dr. Bruno Silvester Lopes takes us behind the scenes of his latest publication 'Campylobacter devanensis sp. nov., Campylobacter porcelli sp. nov., and Campylobacter vicugnae sp. nov., three novel Campylobacter lanienae-like species recovered from swine, small ruminants, and camelids' published in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.
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Opportunity to Represent the Microbiology Society on the Scottish Cross-party Group on Science and Technology
July 22, 2024
Are you based in Scotland and interested in science policy? Would you like to volunteer your expertise and contribute to decision-making? The Microbiology Society is looking for a member to act as our representative on the Scottish Cross-Party Group (CPG) on Science and Technology.
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Disability Pride Month: Sharon Brookes
July 17, 2024
The month of July marks Disability Pride Month – a month dedicated to celebrating difference and diversity among the disabled community. To highlight this awareness month, we caught up with retired member, Sharon Brookes, who has worn many Society hats during her career. Sharon shares her experience navigating academia with a disability, and gives advice to others with disabilities working in science.
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This toolbox could use a flashlight: adapting split-luciferase as a new tool for detecting proteins secreted by Bacillus subtilis
July 17, 2024
Mariah Kes takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Development of a split-luciferase assay to establish optimal protein secretion conditions for protein production by Bacillus subtilis' published in Microbiology.
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An evaluation of ChatGPT and Bard (Gemini) in the context of biological knowledge retrieval
July 12, 2024
Ron Caspi takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'An evaluation of ChatGPT and Bard (Gemini) in the context of biological knowledge retrieval' published in Access Microbiology.
