Blog listing

Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, which details newly discovered species of bacteria, fungi and protists. New to Science is a monthly blog series unravelling these latest microbial discoveries.

Society Champion Simeon Makafui Nutsuklo (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana), recently organised a fellowship programme at Hive Biolab, aimed at young women in science, to allow them to gain vital experience in a lab. Below, Simeon provides more details and reflects on the experience.

Dr Sarah Walsh, Rebecca Ross, Prof Pablo Murcia and Prof Edward Hutchinson at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, UK, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication, 'Bovine mammary tissues are susceptible to infection by viruses bearing panzootic H5N1 influenza A virus glycoproteins' , published in Microbiology.

Bárbara Cipulo Legabão, Ana Luisa Perini Leme Giordano and Prof Angelica Zaninelli Schreiber at the University of Campinas, Brazil, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication, 'A simplified MALDI-TOF MS method for rapid fluconazole susceptibility testing in Candida species', published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.

Society Champion Ankita Priyadarshini (Parul University, India), recently organised an event for diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate students at Parul University, India, to help spread the word about microbiology. Below, Ankita provides more details and reflects on the experience.

Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, which details newly discovered species of bacteria, fungi and protists. New to Science is a monthly blog series unravelling these latest microbial discoveries.

Celebrated annually during the month of October in the UK, Black History Month recognises the contributions, culture and history of Black people. This year, we hear from Society Champion, Mariam Bhadmus (University of Huddersfield, UK), who has reflected on this year’s theme of ‘Honouring Our Communities’.

📣 Episode 187 is out now! It's the most abundant eukaryotic microbe in humans… But what role does it play in our bodies? For decades, Blastocystis has been thought of as a parasite just like other protists that lurk within humans, such as Plasmodium or Giardia. But research is increasingly finding the opposite to be true, and scientists across the world are fighting to change this perception.