Microbe Talk: a miniseries for Annual Conference

Posted on April 7, 2025   by Clare Baker

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.

🔬Phoebe Crossley explains her research analysing vaginal microbiota and immunometabolic differences between women with varying sexual health symptom severity to decipher the potential mechanisms driving this distinction.

🐨Clare and Guilherme Neumann chat about his research on Koala Retrovirus, which began integrating into the koala germline several hundred thousand years ago, and how he is applying it to Koala populations today.

🧫Pre-prepared marinated meat products are becoming increasingly popular and may be causing the bacteria Campylobacter to adapt. So, Elizabeth O'Gorman talks to Clare about how she exposed a panel of Campylobacter isolates to sodium chloride to assess if adaptation to salt altered any phenotype that would increase the risk of human infection.

🎙️Andrew Spicer talks about his work at Algenuity reimagining microalgae of the genus Chlorella as an alternative everyday food ingredient which could replace eggs and/or dairy. Clare and Andrew chat about the success of his work and advice he'd give to Early Career microbiologists.