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Penguin gut microbiomes are potential indicators of Antarctic ecosystems
October 30, 2024
Dr Wen Chyin Yew takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Seasonal variation in the stomach microbiota of two sympatrically breeding Pygoscelis penguin species at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands' published in Microbiology.
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Protist in sustainable agriculture
October 14, 2024
Julia Sacharow takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Acanthamoeba castellanii alone is not a growth promoter for Hordeum vulgare' published in Access Microbiology.
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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. -
Meet Infection Science Awardee: Dr Neil Cunningham
April 17, 2024
The Microbiology Society Infection Science Award aims to support the exchange of ideas and the career development of promising early career and trainee researchers, helping to translate microbiological research to the clinic. The scheme facilitates selected presenters from the Federation of Infection Society (FIS) conference to present their work at Annual Conference.
In this blog, meet one of this year’s awardees, Dr Neil Cunningham (Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust), who presented in the Infection Forum session at Annual Conference 2024 last week. -
From parasites to plastics: new microbes discovered this month
January 30, 2023
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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Microbial Cycling of Volatile Organic Compounds: Biogeochemistry to Biotechnology 2022 – a view from Twitter
June 9, 2022
On 26—25 May 2022, the Society hosted the first Focused Meeting of the year, Microbial Cycling of Volatile Organic Compounds: Biogeochemistry to Biotechnology 2022. Here, we look at Twitter for some of the highlights of #VOCmicrobes22.
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Microbiology Today: the impact of air pollution on bacteria
June 11, 2021
In this episode of Microbe Talk, Laura speaks with Lillie Purser, PhD student at the University of Leicester. Lillie’s research explores how air pollution can affect the way bacteria behave, specifically strains of bacteria involved in the health condition chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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The microbial risks of UK urban flooding
June 3, 2021
I am a currently studying in the department of civil and structural engineering, supervised by Dr Isabel Douterelo Soler, Dr James Shucksmith, and Dr Henriette Jensen. As my undergraduate degree was in Biology, working in the engineering department has definitely been a big change. However, it’s really exciting to see how biology can be applied to civil engineering to help investigate complex problems, such as the risk posed by floods to public health.