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Editor's Spotlight: Vaccination and evolutionary parallels between two strains of whooping cough bacteria
December 2, 2025
In this Editor’s Spotlight, Senior Editor, Jesse Shapiro, takes a closer look at this featured paper ‘No innocent bystanders: pertussis vaccination and evolutionary parallelisms between Bordetella parapertussis and Bordetella pertussis’, recently published in Microbial Genomics.
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Microbe Talk - The Kocurious Case of Noodlococcus: From Discovery to Community
November 6, 2025
In 2019, a mysterious contaminant lead to the start of Contamination Club, an online club dedicated to weird and wonderful intruders. In this month's Microbe Talk, two of the team, Rob Moran and Greg McCallum, join us to talk about their journey and the online community that they've built.
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Shortcut to a Phytoplasma Genome: Less Gear, More Discovery
October 28, 2025
Zala Kogej Zwitter of the National Institute of Biology, Slovenia, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'From vineyard to genome: optimized enrichment and sequencing of Flavescence dorée phytoplasma from grapevine samples' published in Microbial Genomics.
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From NICU to Data-Driven Discoveries: Decoding the Preterm Gut Microbiome
September 23, 2025
Dr Lauren Beck of Newcastle University, UK, takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Temporal characterisation of the gut microbiome and metabolome in preterm infants' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Genomic Insights into Hypervirulent Klebsiella in Ireland
March 20, 2025
Mark Maguire takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Genomic and phylogenetic analysis of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST23 in Ireland' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Sexually Transmitted Infections: Genome Analysis from Clinical Samples
February 14, 2025
Helena Seth-Smith takes us behind the scenes of their latest publications 'Evaluating methods for genome sequencing of Chlamydia trachomatis and other sexually transmitted bacteria directly from clinical swabs' and 'Chlamydia trachomatis genomes from rectal samples: description of a new clade comprising ompA-genotype L4 from Argentina' published in Microbial Genomics.
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Can metagenomics be used to identify safe food?
February 7, 2025
Dr Samuel Bloomfield takes us behind the scenes of his latest publication “Ecological insights into the microbiology of food using metagenomics and its potential surveillance applications” published in Microbial Genomics.
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Democratising Bioinformatics! Breaking the Bioinformatics Barrier in AMR Genome Analysis
November 19, 2024
Su Datt Lam, Sabrina Di Gregorio, Mia Yang Ang, Emma Griffiths, Tengku Zetty Maztura Tengku Jamaluddin, Sheila Nathan and Hui-min Neoh take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'AMRColab – a user-friendly antimicrobial resistance detection and visualization tool' published in Microbial Genomics.