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The hidden viral world of dogs that hunt wildlife
October 17, 2024
Dickson Stuart Tayebwa and Tony Lawrence Goldberg take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Viruses of free-roaming and hunting dogs in Uganda show elevated prevalence, richness and abundance across a gradient of contact with wildlife' published in Journal of General Virology.
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How long does immunity last?
October 16, 2024
Dr Kieran Dee takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Smallpox vaccination campaigns resulted in age-associated population cross-immunity against monkeypox virus' published in Journal of General Virology.
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Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy: virus families that are transmitted or maintained in insects
July 26, 2024
For this edition of 'Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy' we're looking at some interesting families that contain viruses that are transmitted or maintained in insects.
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Implementation of Next-Generation Sequencing-Based HIV Drug Resistance Testing: Enhancing Antiretroviral Treatment Monitoring and Public Health Outcomes
July 26, 2024
Gerald Mboowa and Stephen Kanyerezi give us an inside look at their latest publication 'HIV-DRIVES: HIV Drug Resistance Identification, Variant Evaluation, and Surveillance Pipeline' published in Access Microbiology.
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Decoding Huge Phage Diversity: A Taxonomic Classification of Enormous Viral Genomes
July 4, 2024
Dr Ryan Cook takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication ‘Decoding huge phage diversity: a taxonomic classification of Lak megaphages’ published in Journal of General Virology.
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Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Philippa Hall
July 3, 2024
This year the Microbiology Society is awarding two Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prizes. The prizes recognise excellence in science communication by a member who is an undergraduate, postgraduate student or within five years of appointment to their first position.
Each of the finalists, who were either speakers or poster presenters, were selected at Annual Conference 2024 to present their research in the poster or speaker final. In the lead up to the poster final, taking place on 9 July 2024 during the Early Career Summer Conference, we speak to poster finalist Philippa Hall, from University of Leeds, UK. -
Meet Early Career Microbiologist of the Year poster finalist: Padraic Heneghan
July 1, 2024
This year the Microbiology Society is awarding two Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prizes. The prizes recognise excellence in science communication by a member who is an undergraduate, postgraduate student or within five years of appointment to their first position.
Each of the finalists, who were either speakers or poster presenters, were selected at Annual Conference 2024 to present their research in the poster or speaker final. In the lead up to the poster final, taking place on 9 July 2024 during the Early Career Summer Conference, we speak to poster finalist Padraic Heneghan, from Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland. -
Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy: viruses that infect archaea
June 26, 2024
Welcome back to Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy. In past editions we’ve taken you through a journey of discovering viruses that infect various microbes, including bacteria and fungi so let’s tackle another microbe shall we? For this edition of Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy, we’re looking at virus families that infect archaea.