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Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy: Viruses that infect crustaceans
January 17, 2024
For the first edition of ‘Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy’ of 2024, let’s take a look at some virus families that infect crustaceans. Crustaceans are a group of animals belonging to the subphylum Crustacea and include crabs, lobsters, shrimp and wood lice.
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Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy: dsDNA genomes
September 15, 2023
Welcome back to Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy. The ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles of Simuloviridae and Poxviridae were both published in the Journal of General Virology this year, but that’s not the only thing they have in common: their genomes are both in the form of double stranded deoxyribonucleic acid or dsDNA. Let’s take a look at them and some other viruses whose genomes are in this structure for this edition of ‘Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy’.
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Keeping up with virus taxonomy: viruses that infect bacteria
July 18, 2023
Way back in the February instalment of Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy, we looked into viruses that infect fungi... So it’s about time we looked into viruses that infect bacteria. Otherwise known as bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria are composed of proteins and a DNA or RNA genome that can be very simple, containing four genes, or complex, with hundreds of genes. You can learn more about phages here.
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How should public health authorities use pathogen genomics in practice?
February 6, 2023
Dr Declan Bradley takes us behind the scenes of his latest research 'How public health authorities can use pathogen genomics in health protection practice: a consensus-building Delphi study conducted in the United Kingdom' published in Microbial Genomics.
From the first detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans, genomics was central to defining and understanding the threat posed by this emerging infectious disease. Pathogen genomics services grew to operate at a scale that was orders of magnitude greater than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Health protection services in public health authorities are responsible for surveillance and prevention of communicable diseases. -
One C. psittaci clone to rule them all?
October 24, 2022
Upon the publication of her team's latest paper in Microbial Genomics, Dr Martina Jelocnik gives a behind-the-scenes look at the work of the University of the Sunshine Coast's Chlamydians team, keeping track of veterinary chlamydial infections.
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Keeping up with virus taxonomy: viruses spread by vectors
October 19, 2022
The ‘Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy’ blog series returns! In the first post of the renewed series, we look at a range of viruses that are spread by vectors.
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The biggest ever bird flu outbreak: what you need to know
October 18, 2022
In this episode of Microbe Talk, Charlotte talks to Dr Ian Brown about what makes this year’s bird flu outbreak bigger and more worrisome than before.
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Meet the Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year finalists: Joanne Haney
September 8, 2021
The Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year Prize is awarded by the Society each year. The prize recognises and rewards excellence in science communication by a Microbiology Society member who is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher, having gained their PhD in the last two years. In the run-up to the event, we will be getting to know the finalists. In this blog, we meet Joanne Haney, a PhD student from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, UK.
