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Podcast: Disability History Month
November 30, 2022
In this special episode of Microbe Talk for Disability History Month, Charlie talks to Kirsty Jones about her experience of accessibility in labs.
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What can affect the bacteria in your sink?
February 5, 2020
Each year, the Microbiology Society awards a number of grants that enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during the summer vacation. Over the next few months, we’ll be posting a series of articles from members who were awarded Harry Smith Vacation Studentships this summer. This week is Harry Ferguson, a third year Biological Sciences student at the University of Southampton.
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Biology Summer School at Maynooth University
October 25, 2019
During the week beginning 12 August 2019, a number of postgraduate students at Maynooth University ran a summer school for undergraduate students. Here, PhD student Gerard Sheehan discusses the activities that took place during the week and how it went.
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Increasing the scope of Access Microbiology
April 24, 2019
Following feedback from our members, we have increased the scope of our new, open access journal, Access Microbiology to include papers that discuss pedagogy, the science of teaching.
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Spotlight on Grants: The motility of Staphylococcus aureus
October 3, 2016
Each year, the Microbiology Society awards a number of grants that enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during the summer vacation. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting a series of articles from students who were awarded Harry Smith Vacation Studentships this summer. This week is Megan Davies, a second year student from the University of Sheffield.
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Spotlight on Grants: Do tardigrades have a microbiome?
September 26, 2016
Each year, the Microbiology Society awards a number of grants that enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during the summer vacation. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting a series of articles from students who were awarded Harry Smith Vacation Studentships this summer. This week is Dana Barringham, a third year zoology student studying at Aberystwyth University.
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These are the Champions: Sagar Aryal
June 23, 2016
The Microbiology Society has a number of Champions across the world who highlight the work of the Society and run microbiology-related events in their local area. In this post, we meet Sagar Aryal, who works at St. Xavier’s College in Kathmandu, Nepal. We caught up with him to learn a little about microbiology in Nepal, his career and the publications he has set up.
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Annual Conference 2016: the Twitter story
April 4, 2016