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type vi secretion system: the ultimate weapon for microbial warfare
january 2, 2024
amy anderson and becca morell take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'distribution and diversity of type vi secretion system clusters in enterobacter bugandensis and enterobacter cloacae' published in mcirobial genomics.
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how should public health authorities use pathogen genomics in practice?
february 6, 2023
dr declan bradley takes us behind the scenes of his latest research 'how public health authorities can use pathogen genomics in health protection practice: a consensus-building delphi study conducted in the united kingdom' published in microbial genomics.
from the first detection of sars-cov-2 infection in humans, genomics was central to defining and understanding the threat posed by this emerging infectious disease. pathogen genomics services grew to operate at a scale that was orders of magnitude greater than before the covid-19 pandemic. health protection services in public health authorities are responsible for surveillance and prevention of communicable diseases. -
bacterial genome annotation - handling and taking advantage of a multi-million protein sequence space
march 25, 2022
oliver schwengers, phd student at the justus liebig university in giessen takes us behind the scebes of his latest research 'bakta: rapid and standardized annotation of bacterial genomes via alignment-free sequence identification' published in microbial genomics. oliver discusses the analysis of microbial genomics data, resulting challenges and new approaches for the annotation of bacterial genomes for applications within the fields of microbial ecology and medical microbiology.
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new antibiotics needed: streptococcus pneumoniae
november 22, 2019
as part of world antibiotic awareness week, we are continuing our new antibiotics needed blog series detailing the twelve pathogens thought by the world health organisation (who) to pose the greatest threat to human health. next on the list is streptococcus pneumoniae.
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new antibiotics needed: enterococcus faecium
november 20, 2019
as part of world antibiotic awareness week, we are continuing our new antibiotics needed blog series detailing the twelve pathogens thought by the world health organisation (who) to pose the greatest threat to human health.
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sequencing the genome of streptococcus pneumoniae
october 21, 2019
whole genome sequencing has revolutionised many fields of study, not least microbiology. in a short time, its use in research has significantly improved our knowledge of bacteria and viruses. earlier this year, carmen sheppard hosted a workshop on whole genome sequencing of streptococcus pneumoniae in a public health reference laboratory. this meeting was supported by funding from the 英格兰vs美国谁会赢？ .
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imaging the topology of dna
september 17, 2019
in march this year, james provan, phd student at the university of glasgow was awarded a research visit grant by the 英格兰vs美国谁会赢？ . he used this grant to visit the lab of dr alice pyne, expert in atomic force microscopy at university college london. here, james describes his research and the findings he collected during his research visit to dr pyne's lab.
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the applied bioinformatics and public health conference with microbial genomics
july 8, 2019
from 5–7 june, microbial genomics supported ayorinde afolayan to attend the applied bioinformatics and public health conference (abphm) at the wellcome sanger institute. ayorinde recently completed his phd in pharmaceutical microbiology at the university of ibadan, nigeria and was able to attend abphm and present a poster at the event. here, he discusses his experience at the event.
