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Papers Please: Host attribution of Salmonella Typhimurium via Machine Learning
November 7, 2023
Antonia Chalka takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'The advantage of intergenic regions as genomic features for machine-learning-based host attribution of Salmonella Typhimurium from the USA' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Corynebacterium diphtheriae cares not for our indifference
November 6, 2023
Dr Michael Weigand takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Genomic characterization of cocirculating Corynebacterium diphtheriae and non-diphtheritic Corynebacterium species among forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, 2017-2019’ in Microbial Genomics.
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Microbiota From the Computational Perspective of a Non-Computer Scientist
October 16, 2023
Eric Nayman takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Microbiome Depiction Through User-Adapted Bioinformatic Pipelines and Parameters’ published in Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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Does HCMV have multiple escape routes?
October 6, 2023
Dr Matthew Reeves takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Repression of the major immediate early promoter of human cytomegalovirus allows transcription 2 from an alternate promoter’ published in Journal of General Virology.
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Toxin Tales
October 3, 2023
Dr. Ifrah Shahi takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication, 'Characterization of Tigurilysin, a Novel Human CD59-Specific Cholesterol-Dependent Cytolysin, Reveals a Role for Host Specificity in Augmenting Toxin Activity' published in Microbiology.
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Microbial Marvels: Meet the New Microbes Found in Exotic Plants and Equine Athletes
October 3, 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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A Journey into Crassvirales phages and Bacteroides bacteria
September 27, 2023
Bhavya Papudeshi takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication, 'Host interactions of novel Crassvirales species belonging to multiple families infecting bacterial host, Bacteroides cellulosilyticus WH2 published' in Microbial Genomics.
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Genomic data helped us during COVID-19. What other data can we use in the future?
September 11, 2023
Dr Ash Porter takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication, 'The importance of utilizing travel history metadata for informative phylogeographical inferences: a case study of early SARS-CoV-2 introductions into Australia' published in Microbial Genomics.
