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Meet 2024 Infection Science Awardee: Dr Eva Bernadett Benyei
April 18, 2024
The Microbiology Society Infection Science Award aims to support the exchange of ideas and the career development of promising early career and trainee researchers, helping to translate microbiological research to the clinic. The scheme facilitates selected presenters from the Federation of Infection Society (FIS) conference to present their work at Annual Conference.
In this blog, meet one of this year’s awardees, Dr Eva Bernadett Benyei (PhD student at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge), who presented in the Infection Forum session at Annual Conference 2024 last week. -
Meet Infection Science Awardee: Dr Neil Cunningham
April 17, 2024
The Microbiology Society Infection Science Award aims to support the exchange of ideas and the career development of promising early career and trainee researchers, helping to translate microbiological research to the clinic. The scheme facilitates selected presenters from the Federation of Infection Society (FIS) conference to present their work at Annual Conference.
In this blog, meet one of this year’s awardees, Dr Neil Cunningham (Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust), who presented in the Infection Forum session at Annual Conference 2024 last week. -
Candida albicans, a Dazzling Fungus: Application of a Novel Fluorescent Protein
April 16, 2024
Jonas Devos takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'A multi-colour fluorogenic tag and its application in Candida albicans' published in Microbiology.
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The resistance: how E. coli learns to fight our most potent antibiotics
April 12, 2024
Sébastien Matamoros takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Nanopore sequencing elucidates in vivo development of meropenem resistance by insertion of a mobile genetic element in the porin gene ompC in E. coli' published in Access Microbiology.
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Adaptation and Amino Acids: How Experimental Evolution Revealed a New Pathway for Staphylococcus aureus Tolerance to Pseudomonas aeruginosa
April 12, 2024
Dr Ashley Alexander takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Experimentally evolved Staphylococcus aureus shows increased survival in the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by acquiring mutations in the amino acid transporter, GltT' published in Microbiology.
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Behind the lecture with Dr Claas Kirchhelle
April 6, 2024
Dr Claas Kirchhelle from University College Dublin will be giving the Hot Topic Lecture: "Faecal Flows – a very short history of microbiology, sewers, and Britain's rivers (ca.1850-2023)" at this years Annual Conference. Clare spoke to Claas to find out how he's feeling ahead of his lecture and to pick his brain about his intriguing research area.
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Hot springs to pickle jars: diving into April's hottest new microbial discoveries
April 4, 2024
Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, which details newly discovered species of bacteria, fungi and protists. Here are some of the new species that have been discovered and the places they've been found.