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Tom Williams: Eukaryotic Division ECM Representative
April 25, 2019
Are you an Early Career Researcher interested in getting more involved in the Microbiology Society? Nominations for Early Career Microbiologists' (ECM) Forum Division Representatives are now open. To explain what this involves, Dr Tom Williams tells us about his experience as the ECM Forum Eukaryotic Division Representative.
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Champions at CURE-Infection
April 15, 2019
Earlier this year, four of our Society Champions represented the Microbiology Society at the Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Biology (CURE-Infection) Network Early Career Researcher event at Cardiff University. While some of them had worked together before, this was the first time that so many Society Champions have come together to represent the Society. We caught up with Ed Cunningham-Oakes, Laura Kerr, Daniel Morse and Michael Pascoe after the event to find out a little more about their area of specialism, how they found working together for the first time and their advice for anyone who might be thinking about becoming a Society Champion.
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Life as an antimicrobial resistance researcher
March 6, 2019
In February this year, the Northern Ireland Science Festival took place. Here, Chris Proctor, PhD student at Ulster University and Microbiology Society Champion discusses his contribution to the event.
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Could antibiotics be making Campylobacter jejuni more dangerous?
March 4, 2019
The January Junior Awards for Microbiology (JAM) talks took place in Birmingham on the 25 January. PhD student Matthew Whelan was speaking, and in the second of our blogs from speakers at the JAM talks, Matthew takes us through his research into Campylobacter jejuni.
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‘Drugs vs Bugs’: an antimicrobial resistance board game
February 20, 2019
As a budding researcher studying antibiotic resistance, I have always tried to find fun and interesting ways to convey our research during our outreach events. For me, the answer was with board games! After developing a small card game for a lab outreach event, followed by serendipitous conversation with a collaborator in South East Asia, a project was born: I would use my Professional Internships for PhD Students placement to go and create a board game to teach about antibiotic resistance in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Could the gut microbiome influence livestock growth?
October 24, 2018
Dr Stafford Vigors is a researcher at Teagasc, a Food Research Centre in Ashtown, Dublin. At the 2018 Microbes and Mucosal Surfaces Focused Meeting, Stafford presented his research ‘Analysis of the intestinal microbiome of pigs divergent in feed efficiency.’ Here, he explains how differences in the gut microbiome could improve - or hinder - pig growth on farms.
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Could household insects be carrying dangerous bacteria?
September 20, 2018
We all have insects in our homes, be it spiders, flies or bed-bugs. Their presence, although sometimes annoying, is not seen as anything sinister. But what bacteria could the creepy crawlies hiding under the sofa be carrying? Federica Boiocchi is a PhD student at Aston University in Birmingham. At the Early Career Microbiologists' Forum Summer Conference which took place in June, Federica won the poster competition with her poster 'Microbiological analysis of flying insects collected in the hospital environment and antibiotic resistance profiles of isolated bacterial strains.' Here, she discusses her research in greater detail, and what the she has learned so far during her PhD:
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Society Showcase, AGM and Young Microbiologist of the Year competition - a view from Twitter
September 17, 2018
The Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year competition took place on 6 September during the Society Showcase and AGM. We’ve turned to Twitter to look at some of the highlights of the day.