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ECM Forum Summer Conference 2022: Access Microbiology poster prize winners
September 13, 2022
The 2022 Early Career Microbiologists (ECM) Forum Summer Conference took place in July, returning to its in person annual meeting format in Sheffield following a two-year hiatus due to the global health crisis. At the meeting, we awarded two poster prizes, sponsored by our open research platform Access Microbiology.
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Bunyavirus 2022: Journal of General Virology prize winners
September 7, 2022
The Bunyavirus 2022 conference took place on 27–28 June in Cambridge, UK. At this event, we awarded two prizes, sponsored by Journal of General Virology (JGV). Published by the Microbiology Society, JGV welcomes high-quality research and review articles that contribute significantly to the field of virology. In this blog, we find out more about winner of the Best Poster Presentation Prize, Sergio Barata, and winner of the Best Offered Oral Presentation Prize, Monique Merchant.
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Q&A with Peter Collins
April 5, 2022
Peter Collins (historian of science and Emeritus Director of the Royal Society) has been exploring the history of our founding journal, Microbiology, in celebration of its 75th anniversary. He recently published the first in a series of historical articles, 'How Microbiology started' and will be sharing an insight into the history of the journal at the Microbiology 75th Anniversary Drinks Reception. In this Q&A, we get to know Peter Collins and how he became interested in this area.
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Bacterial genome annotation - handling and taking advantage of a multimillion protein sequence space
March 25, 2022
Oliver Schwengers, PhD student at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen discusses the analysis of microbial genomics data, resulting challenges and new approaches for the annotation of bacterial genomes for applications within the fields of microbial ecology and medical microbiology.
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Preprints, publications and publishing ethics
July 20, 2021
The Microbiology Society’s sound science and open access journal, Access Microbiology, will be converting into an open research platform early next year. This platform will include posting all article versions as preprints, with a transparent peer review process and acceptance required for full publication.
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What will our open research platform publish and how will it advance microbiology?
June 22, 2021
The Microbiology Society’s sound science and open access journal, Access Microbiology, will be converting into an open research platform at the beginning of 2022. This blog examines the benefits of publishing sound science and details the broad range of article types we are aiming to publish on the platform.
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Meet the new Microbiology Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Professor Tracy Palmer
March 16, 2021
In this blog, we get to know Professor Tracy Palmer, who was announced as the new Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Microbiology. We asked Tracy some questions about her research interests and her new role on the Microbiology Editorial Board.
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JMM Editor’s Choice: validating a rapid test for SARS-CoV-2
October 5, 2020
This month, Professor Arunaloke Chakrabarti discusses Validation of a single-step, single-tube reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA’ which was chosen as Editor’s Choice for the September issue of Journal of Medical Microbiology.
