Annual Conference 2022 – 'Most Promising Science' prize winners
Over the week at Annual Conference 2022, members showcased excellent posters and exciting research and we are very pleased to announce the winners of the Microbiology Society Journals ‘Most Promising Science’ prizes.
- Lorena Donzella for the presentation of ‘Engineering a native Kluyveromyces marxianus transporter to reprogramme the balance between hexose and pentose uptake’
- Selina Fecht for the presentation of ‘Characterising the role of TssA proteins in the assembly and dynamics of the type VI secretion system’
- Emma Holden for the presentation of ‘Disruption of efflux activity reduces biofilm formation through multiple pathways’
- Eliza Rayner for the presentation of ‘Testing the sit-and-wait hypothesis for the evolution of virulence in Streptococcus suis’
- Sheerien Manzoor for the presentation of ‘Responses of pediatric airway epithelium to viral and/or aeroallergens in health and disease’
- Nazia Thakur for the presentation of ‘SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern have extended mammalian ACE2 receptor host-range’
- Anna Dewar for the presentation of ‘Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range’
- Jack Whitehouse for the presentation of ‘Faecal metabolome and microbiota evaluation of dogs with Canine Cutaneous and Renal Glomerular Vasculopathy using 1H NMR and 16S rRNA gene profiling’
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- Vicky Bennett for the presentation of ‘Defining the role of efflux in bacterial biofilm formation and antimicrobial resistance to develop new treatments for infection’
- Lucy Dillon for the presentation of ‘Interpretable machine learning model to predict the AMR phenotype of bacteria from genomic data’
- Natasha Edwards for the presentation of ‘Towards the development of a hand-held RT-LAMP point-of-need assay for foot-and-mouth disease virus’
- Raphael Galleh for the presentation of ‘Sialidase of Tannerella forsythia Upregulates Pro-inflammatory cytokines and is inhibited by di-fluoro sialic acid 2e3aDFNeu5Ac9N3’
- Isobel Garratt for the presentation of ‘Polymicrobial In vitro Bladder Model Development for Studying Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections’
- Thomas MacCreath for the presentation of ‘Probing the Clostridioides difficile – host interface using innovative gut mimics’
- Mark Reglinski for the presentation of ‘Characterisation of a novel Type VI secretion system associated lipoprotein from Serratia marcescens’
- Keren Turton for the presentation of ‘The Type 3 Secretion System is a crucial mediator of macrophage-Achromobacter spp. Interaction’
Congratulations to all of the winners and thank you to the Editorial Board members who volunteered to assess posters.
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