PDRA 1 (4yrs) - cultivation and characterisation (DNA- and RNA-sequencing / bioinformatics focus) of Icelandic hot spring microbiomes, involved fieldwork in Iceland www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... 2/5
Characterisation of UK StrepA isolates during the 2022-3 upsurge www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
At the end of 2022 into early 2023, the UK Health Security Agency reported unusually high levels of scarlet fever and invasive disease caused by Streptococcus pyogenes (StrepA or group A Streptococcus...
A cgMLST scheme for H. influenzae www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Haemophilus influenzae is part of the human nasopharyngeal microbiota and a pathogen causing invasive disease. The extensive genetic diversity observed in H. influenzae necessitates discriminatory ana...
C. difficile is Gram positive, causes antibiotic associated diarrhoea and pseudomembranous colitis (overgrowth) with broad spectrum antibiotics that reduce the total microbiota. Selective targeting of Gram negatives seems to prevent this.
Depositing a strain with NCTC is free www.culturecollections.org.uk/culture-coll...
Wow! Congratulations!!
Which PSA? PSA and multiple other polysaccharides are variably produced within a B fragilis population and there are multiple types of polysaccharide A amongst different strains www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Which light microscope objective do you use to view the cells? Was always the best way to teach undergraduate students the difference, especially between fungi/ yeasts and actinomycetes in practical classes. Perhaps not as simple now…🙂
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Publish in not-for-profit Society journals as in www.microbiologyresearch.org/publish-and-... publishing = supporting the academic community; allows the society to run conferences, support early careers, provide grants.
