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Adapting to a virtual word: Virtual Poster Conference 2020
June 25, 2020
In this blog, Emily Speakman discusses the virtual poster conference she and her colleagues at the University of Exeter organised to make up for those missed due to cancellation of events.
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Professor Gordon Dougan: Winner of the Marjory Stephenson Prize 2019
May 13, 2020
Each year, the Microbiology Society awards five Prize Lectures in recognition of significant contributions to microbiology. The awards celebrate the outstanding applications of microbiology to research, education and translation and all members are invited to nominate an outstanding microbiologist for the Microbiology Society Prize. We got in touch with former Marjory Stephenson Prize winner Professor Gordon Dougan, University of Cambridge, to find out about his work and what winning the prize meant to him.
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Microbiology Society prizes: MIM and EMVZ
April 9, 2020
Each year, the Microbiology Society’s journals sponsor a number of prizes at various conferences around the world. Here, we speak with some of the winners of prizes presented at the 9th European Meeting on Viral Zoonoses (EMVZ) and Microbes in Medicine: a century of microbiology at Trinity College Dublin (MIM).
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Microbiology Society journal prizes: the Asian Conference on Transcription and the International Calcivirus Conference
March 23, 2020
Each year, the Microbiology Society’s journals sponsor a number of prizes at various conferences around the world. Here, we speak with some of the winners of prizes presented at the Asian Conference on Transcription and the International Calcivirus Conference.
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Microbiology Editor’s Choice: electron balance in Calvin-cycle mutants
March 2, 2020
Each month, a manuscript published in our flagship journal Microbiology is chosen by a member of the Editorial Board. This month, the paper is titled “Reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes and reductive amino acid synthesis pathways contribute to electron balance in a Rhodospirillum rubrum Calvin-cycle mutant” and it was chosen by Professor Gail Preston.
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Microbiology Society journal prizes: Genome Science and IMAV19
February 21, 2020
Each year, the Microbiology Society’s journals sponsor a number of prizes at various conferences around the world. Here, we speak with some of the winners of prizes presented at Genome Science and the 2019 International Meeting on Arboviruses and their Vectors (IMAV).
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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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Microbe Zone winner Dr Bruno Silvester Lopes
February 3, 2020
In November 2019, the Microbiology Society supported the online competition ‘I’m a Scientist, get me out of here!’ This programme connects scientists and school students in a fast-paced online chat. Here, the students have the opportunity to ask scientists anything they want and then vote for their favourite to win a cash prize. Dr Bruno Silvester Lopes won the Microbe Zone of November’s I’m a Scientist competition, and here he talks about what it meant to him.
