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📣 The Microbiology Society was proud to lead a policy workshop at this year's Innovations Against AMR Summit last Friday, held at the University of Warwick, UK.

Read more about the exciting event here: microb.io/4pQ7MvV

#AMR #policy #WAAW
Microbiology Society leads policy workshop at Innovation Against AMR Summit
25 November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Immunogenicity of a trivalent haemorrhagic fever vaccine candidate against Sudan virus, Marburg virus and Lassa virus in an mpox vaccine. Published Open Access and fee-free in JGV using a Publish and Read agreement: doi.org/10.1099/jgv.... #JGV #PublishAndRead
Immunization schedule and vaccination groups. (a) Serum samples were collected from all animals prior to any immunization and at the indicated time points (weeks) depicted as blood drop symbols (timeline and experimental design created with BioRender.com). The study was terminated 5 weeks after the third immunization. (b) BALB/c mice were primed at week 0 either with a mixture of DNA vaccine vectors each encoding one of the three indicated wt antigens (group 1), or with a trivalent DNA vaccine vector (DNA HFVac3.v1; group M2) via the subcutaneous route (s.c.), or with the trivalent MVA (MVA HFVac3.v1, group M3) via the intramuscular (i.m.) route. Primed mice were boosted i.m. at weeks 4 and 8 either with the mixture of rMVAs encoding each one of the indicated antigens (group M1) or the trivalent MVA-HFVac3.v1 (groups M2 and M3), respectively. As a control, animals were primed with an empty DNA (group M4) or WT MVA (group M5) and boosted with WT MVA, respectively.
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social's Professor Donal Wall has been acknowledged by @microbiologysociety.org for his expert review of their new briefing exploring the role of microbiomes across human, animal, and environmental health.

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Professor Donal Wall in lab coat in the lab. The front cover of the Microbiology Society briefing, with society logo, an image of a hand holding soil, and text.
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Oluwatosin Orababa @tosinorababa.bsky.social, one of the winners of our 2025 Infection Science Award! 🦠👏
Get to know them in our new interview: microb.io/3XFyCui

#InfectionScience #Microbiology #ResearchSpotlight
Photo of Oluwatosin Orababa - Finalist of the 2025 Infection Science Award
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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📢🎉 Celebrate Biofilm Week 2025 and read our new policy briefing!

We explore biofilm challenges, applications and how the UK government can support innovation.

👉 Read more here: microb.io/3Mjkq7S

#Biofilms #WAAW #BiofilmWeek #BiofilmAware
Towards biofilm innovation: how can we tackle challenges and unlock potential?
24 November 2025
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November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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“At its core, Microbiology Horizons is dedicated to uniting people and ideas,” says Dr Tania Dottorini, Editor-in-Chief of our new multidisciplinary title. See the journal announcement: microb.io/4o8FyuX
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November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Microbiology research continues to evolve, as does our publishing portfolio. Microbiology Outlooks, invites researchers to contribute proposals, reviews and perspectives that challenge thinking and inspire innovation in microbiology. Find out more: microb.io/MoutJournal
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November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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New paper alert! Oligopeptide transporters are used for nitrogen acquisition during growth in milk of Lacticaseibacillus paracasei strain Shirota. Also identifies the individual oligopeptide binding proteins involved. @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Identification and functional analysis of two oligopeptide transporters supporting the growth of Lacticaseibacillus paracasei strain Shirota in milk
Oligopeptide transporters are important proteins in several lactic acid bacteria (LAB) that facilitate the transport of oligopeptides, the primary nitrogen source for growth in milk. Although the prot...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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New paper alert! Elimination of restriction endonuclease activity produces the very useful tool of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain that enables propagation and purification of a wide range of phage. @microbiologysociety.org @btemperton.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Eliminating the type I restriction endonuclease from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 for optimized phage isolation
Phage therapy is a promising treatment for multidrug-resistant bacterial infections. Due to their high host specificity, phages must be matched to the target clinical strains. Efficiently identifying ...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#AMR is a challenge we face today
We urge everyone to turn political commitments into tangible & life-saving actions. Now is the time for policies that drive real change: protecting our present & securing our future

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November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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If you're about to push these last manuscripts before wrapping up 2025, remider that our MGen Eukaryotic collection @microbiologysociety.org is open & growing; #Protists #Parasites #Fungi; friend or foe; all welcome 😊
#MicroSky #IDSky #Protistsonsky 🧬💻
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Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes | Microbiology Society
With technological advances like single-cell sequencing and long-read sequence techniques continually improving, allowing the full resolution of increasingly complex highly repetitive genomes, and wit...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Whole-genome sequencing reveals Enterobacter hormaechei as a key bloodstream pathogen in six tertiary care hospitals in southwestern Nigeria. Read now in MGen: doi.org/10.1099/mgen... #MGen
Geographic source of genome-sequenced Enterobacter in Nigeria. Isolates originated from southwestern Nigeria (this study) and north and central Nigeria.
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Join Dr Stephanie Lo's Seminar this Friday on ‘Genomic Surveillance to Inform Vaccine Impact and Design' Register here: microb.io/49tTbRS #JMM
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November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Don’t forget to submit your abstract for Microbes in Microbiomes 2026!

Submit your abstract by 26 November 2025 at 23:59 GMT and register now - microb.io/MiM26Abstracts

#MiM26 #Microbiology #Microbiomes
Microbes in Microbiomes
18 - 20 February 2026
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November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Isolation and passaging of reptarenaviruses utilizing cultured snake cells suggest tissue tropism and restrictions in segment reassortment. Published Open Access and fee-free in JGV using a Publish and Read agreement: doi.org/10.1099/jgv.... #JGV #PublishAndRead
Workflow of passaging viruses and cells. (a) The cells were split (black arrow) on 6-well plates the day before the inoculation with tissue samples containing virus segments (red arrow). Media samples (microtube) were collected before each virus passage (pink arrow), where the media was inoculated with newly plated cells. (b) Cells inoculated with the F17 sample were split and passaged five times. Media samples were collected before each passage.
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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📽️ In part 2 of our Knocking Out AMR video series, we take a look at how vaccines play an important role in preventing the spread of AMR. This follows from our previous video on the fundamentals of understanding AMR🦠 #WAAW #KOAMR

Check out the full video here: microb.io/3X6kqKT microb.io/3X6kqKT
The role of vaccines in combatting antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is when harmful microbes – known as pathogens - evolve to evade the treatments used against them. If you've not watched our video on 'What is AMR and how can we solve it', go check that out first!
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November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Read the latest Microbe Profile on Streptomyces formicae KY5: an ANT-ibiotic factory. Published Open Access and fee-free in Microbiology using a Publish and Read agreement: doi.org/10.1099/mic.... #MicrobioJ #PublishAndRead
Streptomyces formicae was isolated from Tetraponera penzigi plant-ants and has bioactivity against Gram-positive pathogens due to the production of formicamycins.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Read the latest Microbe Profile on Streptomyces formicae KY5: an ANT-ibiotic factory. Published Open Access and fee-free in Microbiology using a Publish and Read agreement: doi.org/10.1099/mic.... #MicrobioJ #PublishAndRead
Streptomyces formicae was isolated from Tetraponera penzigi plant-ants and has bioactivity against Gram-positive pathogens due to the production of formicamycins.
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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📣 Knocking Out AMR turns two!

KOAMR is our committed effort to support AMR experts from around the world. In the two years since we started, our team has been busy fulfilling this goal and we wanted to share our progress in our Impact Report: microb.io/4pgKfnh
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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New guidance was published to aid academics/SMEs with interpreting the MHRA “Regulatory considerations for therapeutic use of bacteriophages in the UK”, published earlier this year.
Read the interpretation guidance here: doi.org/10.1099/mic.... #MicrobioJ
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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We are delighted to announce Microbiology Horizons, the new title connecting microbiology with data science, engineering, social science and other disciplines to address global challenges. Read the full announcement: microb.io/4o8FyuX
Visual description: Invitation for people to discover the Microbiology Society's new journal: Microbiology Horizons. In the image, the cover design of Microbiology Horizons is also visible, emphasising cutting-edge microbiology research and solutions.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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As part of the WHO World AMR Awareness Week a group of engaged undergraduate students, led by Eloise Nelson, have organised a @microbiologysociety.org sponsored seminars:
Dr Ishwar Singh (University of Liverpool) & Dr Tom Hellyer (Newcastle University) @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social #antibiotics
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Our latest is out tonight in @microbiologysociety.org MGen. Using long read seq to ID and then control hospital transmission of a CRKp we believe shows genomic and clinical signs of hypervirulence

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Identification and response to a putatively hypervirulent, carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST395 hospital outbreak in the UK
Here, we describe a putatively hypervirulent, carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (hv-CRKP) outbreak. Nanopore sequencing guided the infection prevention and control (IPC) responses during the ...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Sign up for our AMR in Focus webinar series before 11:00 GMT on 8 December to attend our next webinar, ‘Irish National Action Plan (iNAP3) on AMR Panel Discussion'. Find out details of the event: microb.io/486F0kl
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Assessment of health and science undergraduate students’ knowledge, attitudes, education and training related to antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in 27 EU/EEA universities. See more in ACMI: doi.org/10.1099/acmi... #AccessMicro
Percentage distribution of respondents answering each question correctly or incorrectly (Q7–Q13). Respondents (n=1,222) chose ‘True’ or ‘False’ or ‘Unsure’. ‘True’ and ‘False’ responses were converted to correct or incorrect as appropriate.
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM