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Microbe Talk - World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week: pediatric AMR
November 23, 2024
For this episode of Microbe Talk Clare is joined by Dr Sanjay Patel, a paediatric infectious disease and immunology consultant at Southampton Children's Hospital and the National Clinical Advisor for Paediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship at NHS England. Clare and Sanjay discuss paediatric AMR, why it's often overlooked and how Sanjay and his colleagues from clinical, research and policy backgrounds are taking action.
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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Plastisphere: exploring the role of microplastics in supporting antimicrobial resistant pathogens
November 22, 2024
Emily May Stevenson takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Selective colonization of microplastics, wood and glass by antimicrobial-resistant and pathogenic bacteria' published in Microbiology.
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Democratising Bioinformatics! Breaking the Bioinformatics Barrier in AMR Genome Analysis
November 19, 2024
Su Datt Lam, Sabrina Di Gregorio, Mia Yang Ang, Emma Griffiths, Tengku Zetty Maztura Tengku Jamaluddin, Sheila Nathan and Hui-min Neoh take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'AMRColab – a user-friendly antimicrobial resistance detection and visualization tool' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Reflections on the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance
November 18, 2024
In September, the Microbiology Society attended the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (UN HLM on AMR). The meeting was a critical opportunity for world leaders to come together and commit to clear, new targets and practical steps to tackle AMR. Here, we highlight how the HLM represented a major step forward in knocking out AMR, but still fell short in some key areas.
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Microbe Talk: looking up at space microbiology
October 11, 2024
In aid of space week Clare is looking up into the sky with Dr Katherine Baxter about the exciting field of space microbiology. They chat about how research in space could help with problems back on earth, how microbes behave in space and how they might be key to survival in future space travel.
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Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Shauna O'Shea
July 5, 2024
This year the Microbiology Society is awarding two Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prizes. Both prizes recognise excellence in science communication by a member who is an undergraduate, postgraduate student or within five years of appointment to their first position.
Each of the finalists, who either presented a poster or offered a talk at Annual Conference 2024, were selected to present their research in the poster or speaker final. In the lead up to the poster final, taking place on 9 July 2024 during the Early Career Summer Conference, we speak to poster finalist Shauna O'Shea, from Maynooth University, Ireland. -
Exploring Antimicrobial Resistance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Analysis
July 2, 2024
Dr Mai Zafer takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication ‘Antimicrobial resistance patterns among critical priority pathogens in an intensive care unit at a tertiary hospital in Egypt: a descriptive analysis comparing pre- and COVID-19 eras’ published in Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Emmet Campbell
June 28, 2024
This year the Microbiology Society is awarding two Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prizes. The prizes recognise excellence in science communication by a member who is an undergraduate, postgraduate student or within five years of appointment to their first position.
Each of the finalists, who were either speakers or poster presenters, were selected at Annual Conference 2024 to present their research in the poster or speaker final. In the lead up to the poster final, taking place on 9 July 2024 during the Early Career Summer Conference, we speak to poster finalist Emmet Campbell, from Queen's University Belfast, UK.