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Exploring nature's relationships in guts, flowers and lungs
July 1, 2024
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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Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Emily Addington
June 24, 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 Emily Addington, from University of Glasgow, UK. -
Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Danai Irakleidi
June 21, 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 Danai Irakleidi from Imperial College London, UK.
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Demystifying Borrelia: novel computational methods to detect and identify OspA types
June 19, 2024
Dr Jonathan T Lee and Dr Li Hao take us behind the scenes of their latest publication ‘Development of a sequence-based in silico OspA typing method for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato’ published in Microbial Genomics.
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Delving into the Diversity of Fusobacterium nucleatum
June 7, 2024
Claire Crowley takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. polymorphum recovered from malignant and potentially malignant oral disease exhibit heterogeneity in adhesion phenotypes and adhesin gene copy number, shaped by inter-subspecies horizontal gene transfer and recombination-derived mosaicism' published in Microbial Genomics.
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From the wonders of the human body to the spectacles of nature
June 3, 2024
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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Validating ex vivo cornea for drug development in bacterial keratitis
May 24, 2024
Dr Katarzyna Okurowska takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Increased tolerance to commonly used antibiotics in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa ex vivo porcine keratitis model' published in Microbiology.
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From Custom Pipeline to Scalable Software: Assembling Complete Bacterial Genomes From Long and Hybrid Reads with Hybracter
May 13, 2024
George Bouras takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Hybracter: enabling scalable, automated, complete and accurate bacterial genome assemblies' published in Microbial Genomics.