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The living medicine inside us
January 25, 2024
K. M. Salim Andalib is a recent graduate of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering from Khulna University, Bangladesh. As a Research Assistant, his current work involves understanding the host-microbiome interactions. As a Society Champion, Andalib aspires to promote and share scientific knowledge and research on a global scale. Learn more about Andalib through his interview from 2020, back when he was an undergraduate student.
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Meet 2023 Young Microbiologist of the Year finalist: Thomas Heaven
September 28, 2023
The Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year Prize is awarded by the Society each year. The prize recognises and rewards excellence in science communication by a Microbiology Society member who is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher, having gained their PhD in the last two years. In the lead up to the final, taking place on 3 October 2023, we will be getting to know each of the finalists in this blog series.
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Meet 2023 Young Microbiologist of the Year finalist: Safi Rehman
September 26, 2023
The Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year Prize is awarded by the Society each year. The prize recognises and rewards excellence in science communication by a Microbiology Society member who is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher, having gained their PhD in the last two years. In the lead up to the final, taking place on 3 October 2023, we will be getting to know each of the finalists in this blog series.
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Meet 2023 Young Microbiologist of the Year finalist: Ed Deshmukh-Reeves
September 15, 2023
The Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year Prize is awarded by the Society each year. The prize recognises and rewards excellence in science communication by a Microbiology Society member who is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher, having gained their PhD in the last two years. In the lead up to the final, taking place on 3 October 2023, we will be getting to know each of the finalists in this blog series.
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Meet 2023 Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year finalist: Anna Dewar
September 7, 2023
The Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year Prize is awarded by the Society each year. The prize recognises and rewards excellence in science communication by a Microbiology Society member who is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher, having gained their PhD in the last two years. In the lead up to the final, taking place on 3 October 2023, we will be getting to know each of the finalists in this blog series.
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Keeping up with virus taxonomy: viruses that infect bacteria
July 18, 2023
Way back in the February instalment of Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy, we looked into viruses that infect fungi... So it’s about time we looked into viruses that infect bacteria. Otherwise known as bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria are composed of proteins and a DNA or RNA genome that can be very simple, containing four genes, or complex, with hundreds of genes. You can learn more about phages here.
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What's the Quorum?
May 23, 2023
Dr Jennifer Rattray takes us behind the scenes of her latest publication 'The dynamic response of quorum sensing to density is robust to signal supplementation and individual signal synthase knockouts' published in Microbiology.
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Shigella: ask a microbiologist
April 12, 2023
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have warned the public that declared cases of drug-resistant Shigella are on the rise. In light of this, we asked Dr Maaike van den Beld, a molecular bacteriologist at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, some questions about Shigella infection and his recent publication in Microbial Genomics which reports on surveillance of Shigella in the Netherlands.
