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Category Archives: Podcast
Microbe Talk: March 2016
This week has seen the Society decamp to Liverpool for our Annual Conference 2016. It’s been a fantastic event with over 1,400 delegates in attendance and more than 300 scientific presentations and posters. For this month’s edition of Microbe Talk, … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Podcast
Tagged genome sequencing, Genomics, human microbiome, Lyme disease, Shigella
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Microbe Talk Extra: ProMED – An early warning system for emerging diseases
In the modern world, the spread of diseases like MERS, SARS, avian flu, Ebola, and Zika virus seems almost unavoidable. But to stop outbreaks spiralling out of control into global disasters, researchers, doctors and public health professionals need to know … Continue reading
Posted in Epidemiology, Podcast
Tagged early warning system, Emerging Diseases, ProMED
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Microbe Talk: February 2016
It’s a well-known fact that the number of bacteria in, and on, a person outnumber the actual human cells present by 10:1, right? While this ratio often appears on presentation slides across the world, is it actually true? In this … Continue reading
Microbe Talk: January 2016
Nature is full of patterns that follow fundamental mathematical rules – from nautilus shells to spiral galaxies, lightning bolts to blood vessels. In the first podcast of 2016, Anand spoke to Prof Raymond Goldstein from the University of Cambridge about the mathematical … Continue reading
Microbe Talk: December 2015
In a festive edition of our podcast, we hear from Dr Arnoud van Vliet from the Institute of Food Research. Arnoud tells us about his group’s research into foodborne pathogens like Campylobacter, and gives us his top tips for avoiding … Continue reading
Posted in Food Microbiology, Podcast
Tagged bacteria, campylobacter, christmas, food poisoning, Turkey
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Microbe Talk Extra: Swallowed by a whale
Baleen whales are some of the largest creatures on Earth, but they feed on some of the smallest – tiny ocean-dwelling crustaceans called krill and copepods. Smaller still are the microscopic organisms that help the whales to digest this vast … Continue reading
Microbe Talk: October 2015
This month’s podcast is all about microbes in remote and hostile environments. Ben spoke to Dr Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist from the University of Leicester, about NASA’s recent announcement that there is liquid water on Mars. Lewis told us more about … Continue reading
Microbe Talk Extra: Cryptosporidium
This summer, many people living in Lancashire were forced to boil their drinking and cooking water, after an outbreak of a parasite that can cause a nasty bout of stomach cramps and diarrhoea. This outbreak was caused by the protozoan Cryptosporidium, … Continue reading
Microbe Talk: September 2015
In this month’s podcast: Ebola vaccines for chimpanzees and engineering the built environment to prevent the spread of infections. First up, Anand visited the labs of the Healthy Infrastructure Research Group at UCL. Dr Lena Ciric and her team told … Continue reading
Posted in Podcast
Tagged antimicrobial surfaces, apes, black mould, chimapnzees, Ebola, infrastructure, vaccine
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