The latest from the Microbiology Society

Find out what you may have missed from the Microbiology Society. This is a roundup on some of the latest from each of our channels, with details of where you can find them. 

Podcast – Microbe Talk

At the end of last year, we had the rare opportunity to visit the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), part of Boston University, guided by Society member (and Journal of General Virology Editor) Professor Paul Duprex.

In another emerging disease podcast, we spoke with Professor Jonna Mazet at UC Davis about an ambitious programme to discover and catalogue viruses of pandemic potential.

YouTube channel

While in Boston, we interviewed delegates at the EIDA2Z meeting, including science writer David Quammen and Sir Roy Anderson from Imperial College London.

For Antibiotic Awareness Week, we produced another of our popular stop-frame animations, this time about how resistance develops. Dr Derek Gatherer from Lancaster University told us how Zika virus has circumnavigated the globe, and we learned about epidemics by playing the video game Plague Inc. with Dr Rosalind Eggo from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Blog – Microbe Post

Our On the Horizon series continues, with us learning about hantaviruses from the Animal & Plant Health Agency’s Dr Lorraine McElhinney and about monkeypox from Anne Rimoin, Associate Professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. 

Last autumn we began a new series that sees Harry Smith Vacation Studentship awardees give us an overview of their projects. Topics included an investigation into the microbiome of tardigrades, and the search for yeast prions.

Facebook

The Society has been experimenting with Facebook Live – the platform’s new broadcast system. 

At the end of last year, we visited Science Gallery London’s ‘Mouthy’ event, interviewing researchers and artists about their work making bacteria-infused ceramic glazes and growing teeth from bacteria. 

Look out for more of our live broadcasts at the Annual Conference and over the next few months.

The Microbiology Society is producing more content than ever before – don’t miss out!