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microbe talk: hunting for fungi at the bottom of the ocean
august 19, 2021
in this month’s episode, laura speaks with emma keeler, research assistant at the university of pennsylvania’s bushman lab. emma recently completed a research project investigating whether the fungi that live at the bottom of the ocean – specifically around hydrothermal vents – could be the source of new antimicrobial compounds.
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new antibiotics needed: acinetobacter baumannii
november 18, 2019
in 2017, the world health organization (who) published the ‘12 priority pathogens’: a list of twelve microbes that are becoming increasingly resistant to current antimicrobials. these twelve pathogens are thought by who to pose the greatest threat to human health. to promote awareness during antibiotics awareness week, we will be publishing three more blogs in our new antibiotics needed blog series starting with acinetobacter baumannii.
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new antibiotics needed: neisseria gonorrhoeae
july 15, 2019
in 2017, the world health organization (who) published the ’12 priority pathogens’: a list of twelve microbes that are becoming increasingly resistant to current antimicrobials. these twelve pathogens are thought by who to pose the greatest threat to human health.
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infection, fermentation and protection: the many faces of yeasts
june 6, 2019
yeasts are a versatile organism and impact our lives in more ways than we may realise. but what research is being done to better understand these tiny organisms? we’ve taken a look at some of the yeast research recently published in microbiology to find out…
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keeping up with virus taxonomy: small viruses, extra small viruses and a virus used to protect against fungal disease
march 27, 2019
continuing the ‘keeping up with virus taxonomy’ blog series, in this post we will be discussing the virus family named after latin for 'small', a virus that can only cause disease in humans infected with hepatitis b and the virus being used to protect chestnut crops from a harmful fungus.
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new microbes discovered in the siberian tundra, medicinal plants and air conditioning systems
march 12, 2019
each month, the 英格兰vs美国谁会赢？ publishes the international journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology (ijsem), 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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new antibiotics needed: who priority pathogens
november 12, 2018
bacteria are becoming resistant to antimicrobial medicines at an alarming rate. as antibiotics are used to treat infections, bacteria are able to adapt to survive, particularly when antibiotics are used inappropriately, or the full course is not completed.
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uncovering the fungal pangenome
july 4, 2018
this june, charley mccarthy presented his poster ‘the pangenome of aspergillus fumigatus’ at the early career microbiologists summer conference in birmingham. charley is in the third year of his phd at maynooth university, supervised by dr david fitzpatrick. for those of you that couldn't attend the conference, here, charley discusses his research.
