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Sylvia Ighem Chi and Sandra Ramirez-Arcos takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Comparative genome analyses of Staphylococcus aureus from platelet concentrates reveal rearrangements involving loss of type VII secretion genes' published in Access Microbiology.

Kaleigh A. Connors takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Acute Rift Valley fever virus infection induces inflammatory cytokines and cell death in ex vivo rat brain slice culture' published in Journal of General Virology. 

In his second blog, the Society’s President, Professor Gordon Dougan FRS, writes about the challenges facing science and scientists.
 

In his third blog, the Society’s President, Professor Gordon Dougan FRS, writes about his experiences as he approaches the end of his first year in the role.

Tuberculosis; a contagious, infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Today, TB is one of our deadliest diseases, killing over 1.5 million people a year, but how did it get to this stage?

In our latest video, we explore this very question as we look at the history of tuberculosis.

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) celebrates its birthday on 5 July. It was on this day in 1948 that the service was born, with the aim of providing free healthcare to all. To highlight what it’s like to work in microbiology in the NHS, member Dr Benjamin Johns (@DrBenJohns) tells us about his role as a Clinical Scientist in the Public Health Wales NHS Trust.

Dr Elizabeth Darby reports on the Microbiome Safety Workshop held on 24-25 January at the Microbiology Society office. 

Amalie von Barner Tvedegaard Heim and Jørgen Vildershøj Bjørnholt take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Genomic insights into Enterococcus faecium isolates from marine bivalves highlight One Health concerns and healthcare linkages' published in Microbial Genomics.

Dr Helen Chappell and Dr James Smith take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Atomistic modelling and NMR studies reveal that gallium can target the ferric PQS uptake system in P. aeruginosa biofilms' published in Microbiology.

Bhavya Papudeshi takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication, 'Host interactions of novel Crassvirales species belonging to multiple families infecting bacterial host, Bacteroides cellulosilyticus WH2 published' in Microbial Genomics.

Víctor M. Chávez Jacobo takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'The Fsr transporter of Sinorhizobium meliloti contributes to antimicrobial resistance and symbiosis with alfalfa' published in Microbiology.

Researchers from the Quadram Institute working together with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have established a human “lung-on-chip” model that recreates how SARS-CoV-2 infects lung cells, in a contained laboratory environment.
 

The second annual London Infection Postdoc Network (LIPN) symposium, an event organised by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) for ECRs, was held on the 10^th  June at the Francis Crick Institute. The LIPN Committee, is looking back on their ongoing learning experiences and the lessons learned after two symposiums, ten seminars and more than two years of collaboration.

When it comes to disease-causing microbes, bacteria and viruses usually steal the spotlight. But there is another, often overlooked, microbial foe that is a grave cause for concern. Fungal pathogens cause an estimated 1.5 million human deaths and destroy a third of the global crop yield each year. Despite this impact on human health and food security, the number of antifungal drugs available is extremely limited.

Farah Mahmood, Elizabeth Garvey, Suffi Suffian and Joanne Rhead take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'High incidence of antibiotic resistance amongst isolates of Helicobacter pylori collected in Nottingham, UK, between 2001 and 2018' published in Journal of Medical Microbiology. 

Researchers have isolated an ultrasmall bacterium belonging to a large phylogenetic group that includes various lineages of uncultivated bacteria — the CPR

• Researchers achieved the first successful isolation of ultrasmall bacteria parasitizing archaea.
• They visualized unique parasitic attachment of the bacterium on methane-generating archaea.
• Proposed new taxonomic classification for a massively diverse group of enigmatic bacteria, including the novel phylum Minisyncoccota.

Christopher Clarke takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Diverse mobile genetic elements shaped the evolution of Streptomyces virulence' published in Microbial Genomics.

The results of new research into the effects of COVID-19 have suggested that a mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infection can lead to alterations of the upper respiratory tract (URT) microbiota, including a reduction in bacterial diversity and community structure that persists for at least several weeks after the initial infection.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, observed a relationship between the URT microbiota and the severity of COVID symptoms in their patients. They hope this could lead to new therapy methods to reduce the effects of COVID-19 in the future.
 

At the Microbiology Society's Annual Conference Online 2021, Danielle Nader, PhD Student at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RSCI), presented her findings that a new drug target could protect against vascular damage in Covid-19 patients. Find out more about Danielle's research in this blog.