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Chris McMillan and Chloe Entriken of the University of Queensland, Australia, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Improved efficacy of an influenza DNA vaccine through high-density microarray patch delivery' published in the Journal of General Virology.

As 2025 comes to an end, we’re reflecting on a milestone year for the Microbiology Society. Celebrating our 80th anniversary and launching two new journals, Microbiology Outlooks and Microbiology Horizons. In this blog post, we look back at our key achievements and content highlights of the year. Read on and enjoy, and we’ll see you in 2026.

Welcome back to another edition of ‘Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy’. For this edition, we’re taking a closer look at some viruses that are linked to cancers in their hosts and the families where they belong.

Some viruses hijack the host cells machinery to replicate. In order to do this, they insert their genetic code into that of the host cell. If this affects the host’s own genetic code, this may alter the normal functioning of the cell and steer it towards becoming cancerous.

Other viruses may weaken the host's immune system, affecting its ability to detect and eliminate cancerous cells.

Thank you to everyone who attended the Annual Coference 2025 in Liverpool. If the week has left you wanting more, or you were unable to make it this time, don't worry, as we've put together a special miniseries of podcasts featuring speakers from the programme.

Welcome back to ‘Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy’ and the first edition of 2025! For this edition, we’ll be taking a look at families of viruses that make you say ‘there’s something going round at the moment’ — seasonal viruses. 

For this edition of ‘Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy’, we thought we’d take a slightly different approach. Instead of bringing you a collection of families of viruses that infect fungi, or are transmitted by insects, we’re going to make sure you’re up to date with profiles that are hot off the press. So, let’s take a look at the latest ICTV profiles published in Journal of General Virology.

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.

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.