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Microbiology Outreach Prize
Microbiology Outreach Prize is awarded annually by the Microbiology Society to those who made outstanding innovation in outreach about microbiology. It was introduced in 2009 and is awarded to individuals or teams. All members can nominate anyone they consider appropriate for this award. The award consists of £500 and an invitation to give a demonstration or talk at the society's Annual Society Showcase in September. The following have been awarded this Prize: *2009 Jo Heaton *2010 Gemma Walton *2011 Nicola Stanley-Wall *2012 Marieke Hoeve *2013 James Redfern and Helen Brown *2014 Joana Alves Moscoso *2015 Adam Roberts *2016 Laura Piddock Laura Piddock is a microbiologist, specialising in antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in bacteria. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham, UK and also Scientific Director within the Global Antibiotic Research and Developme ... *2017 No award made *2018 Senga Robertson-Albertyn *2019 Matt Hutchings *2020 Sreyashi B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microbiology Society
The Microbiology Society (previously the Society for General Microbiology) is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with a worldwide membership based in universities, industry, hospitals, research institutes and schools. It is the largest learned microbiological society in Europe. Interests of its members include basic and applied aspects of viruses, prions, bacteria, rickettsiae, mycoplasma, fungi, algae and protozoa, and all other aspects of microbiology. Its headquarters is at 14–16 Meredith Street, London. The Society's current president is Prof. Judy Armitage. The Society is a member of the Science Council. History The society was founded on 16 February 1945 as the Society for General Microbiology. Its first president was Alexander Fleming. The Society's first academic meeting was in July 1945 and its first journal, the ''Journal of General Microbiology'' (later renamed ''Microbiology''), was published in 1947. A symposium series followed in 1949, and a sister j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Stanley-Wall
Nicola Stanley-Wall FRSE FRSB is a Professor of Microbiology in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee who works on the molecular mechanism of biofilm formation. Her laboratory investigates how bacteria come together to form social communities called biofilms. More specifically, her research analyses the way the molecules in the biofilm matrix provide support and protection to biofilms formed by the Gram-positive bacterium ''Bacillus subtilis''. In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is an advocate for public engagement in science and has taken part in national and international events. Stanley-Wall was awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Beltane Prize for Public Engagement in 2012 and became Academic Lead for Public Engagement for the School. In this role she led in the process that resulted in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Piddock
Laura Piddock is a microbiologist, specialising in antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in bacteria. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham, UK and also Scientific Director within the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership. Education Laura J. V. Piddock gained a BSc in Biological Sciences (Biochemistry and Microbiology) in 1981 and was awarded a PhD by the University of Birmingham in 1985 for work on penicillin binding proteins with Richard Wise at Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham. Career She has been employed at University of Birmingham since 2001. Her research concentrates on the origin of antibiotic resistance in bacteria but also includes a broad interest in all aspects of the continued use of antibiotics in medicine. She is particularly interested in the control of expression of bacterial efflux pumps and their role in bacterial biology, especially as pathogens. Her research includes identifying inhibitors of efflux pumps. The genes fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalai Mathee
Kalai Mathee is a professor at Florida International University, joint editor-in-chief of the '' Journal of Medical Microbiology'', and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. She is known for her research on bacterial infections caused by ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa''. Early life and education Kalai Mathee was born into a working-class family in Malaysia to Kuyilar Kaliaperumal and Loganayaki. She is of Tamil heritage and got her early education in a vernacular school SJKT Kerajaan in Ipoh. She has a Bachelor of Science in Genetics from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, graduating in 1984, and completed her master's in molecular genetics focusing on '' Neisseria gonorrhoeae'' in 1986 under the tutelage of Chong-Lek Koh. Mathee did her Ph.D. (1992) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis under Martha Howe's guidance specializing in transcription. Mathee did two post-doctorate fellowships, one at Tufts University focusing on ''Hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microbiology
Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, protistology, mycology, immunology, and parasitology. Eukaryotic microorganisms possess membrane-bound organelles and include fungi and protists, whereas prokaryotic organisms—all of which are microorganisms—are conventionally classified as lacking membrane-bound organelles and include Bacteria and Archaea. Microbiologists traditionally relied on culture, staining, and microscopy. However, less than 1% of the microorganisms present in common environments can be cultured in isolation using current means. Microbiologists often rely on molecular biology tools such as DNA sequence based identification, for example the 16S rRNA gene sequence used for bacteria identification. Viruses have been variably classified as organisms, as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
