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A de-brief from the Microbiology Safety Workshop 2024
May 17, 2024
Dr Elizabeth Darby reports on the Microbiology Safety Workshop held on 24th-25th January at the Microbiology Society.
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day: Becky Thomas
May 16, 2024
Celebrated annually on the third Thursday of May, Global Accessibility Awareness Day aims to bring awareness to the importance of having conversations about accessibility and highlights the need for inclusive experiences that are accessible to everyone and inclusive for Disabled people. This year, Society member Becky Thomas shares her experiences and insights from attending the Society’s Annual Conference, coupled with the Disabled and Neurodivergent Members Social.
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Recognising a legacy for the community – Dr Sarah Hooper reviews ‘Chemical Disinfection and Sterilisation’
May 16, 2024
In 2020, the Microbiology Society was generously left with an extensive and wide-ranging selection of scientific works by long-standing member, Dr Bernard Dixon. Bernard was a well-known scientific communicator, perhaps most notably as the Editor of New Scientist in the 1970s.
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On the limits of 16S rRNA gene-based functional profiling
May 14, 2024
Monica Matchado and Markus List take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'On the limits of 16S rRNA gene-based metagenome prediction and functional profiling' published in Microbial Genomics.
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From Custom Pipeline to Scalable Software: Assembling Complete Bacterial Genomes From Long and Hybrid Reads with Hybracter
May 13, 2024
George Bouras takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Hybracter: enabling scalable, automated, complete and accurate bacterial genome assemblies' published in Microbial Genomics.
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From sandstone to the sea: exploring May's microbial discoveries
May 1, 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.
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Why wildlife sampling is hard
April 26, 2024
Rachael Tarlinton takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Lack of detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife from Kerala, India in 2020–21' published in Access Microbiology.
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Recognising a legacy for the community – Professor Kim Hardie reviews ‘Practical Electron Microscopy’
April 25, 2024
In 2020 the Microbiology Society was generously left an extensive and wide-ranging selection of scientific works by long-standing member, Dr Bernard Dixon. Bernard was a well-known scientific communicator, perhaps most notably as the Editor of New Scientist in the 1970s.