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Microbe Talk - World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week: pediatric AMR
November 23, 2024
For this episode of Microbe Talk Clare is joined by Dr Sanjay Patel, a paediatric infectious disease and immunology consultant at Southampton Children's Hospital and the National Clinical Advisor for Paediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship at NHS England. Clare and Sanjay discuss paediatric AMR, why it's often overlooked and how Sanjay and his colleagues from clinical, research and policy backgrounds are taking action.
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Black History Month: Amaka Awayne
October 29, 2024
Celebrated annually during the month of October in the UK , Black History Month recognises the contributions, culture and history of Black people. First celebrated in October 1987, after being organised by Ghanaian analyst Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, the awareness month aims to highlight the impact of Black people, from African and Caribbean descent, on British society. It does so by raising awareness of the challenges Black communities have faced, including racism and inequality, whilst also celebrating their achievements.
The month serves as an opportunity to educate the world on the often overlooked history of Black people, encouraging a deeper understanding of the UK’s multicultural heritage and the ongoing efforts for racial equality and inclusion. -
Microbe Talk: looking up at space microbiology
October 11, 2024
In aid of space week Clare is looking up into the sky with Dr Katherine Baxter about the exciting field of space microbiology. They chat about how research in space could help with problems back on earth, how microbes behave in space and how they might be key to survival in future space travel.
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Microbe Talk - Roots of resistance: exploring AMR in ancient mouths
June 13, 2024
For this episode of Microbe Talk Clare was joined by the wonderful Gwyn Dahlquist-Axe and Francesca Standeven, archaeological scientists who study AMR and ancient human oral microbiomes. They're on the podcast to discuss their review into diet, disease and antibiotic resistance from ancient human oral microbiomes published in Microbial Genomics.
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Microbe Talk - Knocking Out AMR: fixing the broken innovation pipeline
May 17, 2024
Yesterday, we released our vision statement for Knocking Out Antimicrobial Resistance, the Society's new cross-disciplinary project. It outlined the key issues faced by the AMR community: the lack of understanding of the urgency of the crisis, a fragmented AMR landscape and a broken innovation pipeline.
So for this special Knocking Out AMR episode of Microbe Talk Clare spoke to Professor Paul Hoskisson to pick his brain on his latest venture: a one million pound project to use food by-products make antimicrobial production more cost effective and sustainable.
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Microbe Talk - Women’s History Month: a conversation with Dr Linda Oyama
April 24, 2024
Last month was Women’s History Month, taking place annually throughout the month of March. It aims to highlight and reflect on the many, but often over-looked, achievements made by women throughout history – which have paved the way for the women of today. In this episode, to mark the month, we caught up with Society Champion and microbiologist, Dr Linda Oyama. Linda discusses her insights as a woman in science, by diving into some of her experiences, as well as her passion for outreach with young girls.
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Microbe Talk - Behind the lecture with Dr Claas Kirchhelle
April 6, 2024
Dr Claas Kirchhelle from University College Dublin will be giving the Hot Topic Lecture: "Faecal Flows – a very short history of microbiology, sewers, and Britain's rivers (ca.1850-2023)" at this years Annual Conference. Clare spoke to Claas to find out how he's feeling ahead of his lecture and to pick his brain about his intriguing research area.
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Microbe Talk - Investigating invisible culprits with Dr Tim Inglis
March 22, 2024
Clare is back with another episode of Microbe Talk and this time she’s investigating the topic of Microbial Forensics with Dr Tim Inglis from the University of Western Australia. Tim is the Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s Journal of Medical Microbiology where he published his review on the topic: ‘A systematic approach to microbial forensics’.