The #MicrobiologySociety ‘s flagship journal ‘Microbiology’ (#MicrobioJ) is now fully Open Access (#OA)! Publishing OA with the Society increases opportunities for global reach and impact, as well as investing in support and activities for the community. Find out more: microb.io/3G9XUaL

#PublishingForTheCommunity

Chemist Rachel Fuller Brown was born #OTD in 1898. She discovered the antifungal antibiotic nystatin while doing research for the NY State Department of Health, hence the name.

Rather than keep the profits from the drug, Brown (standing in the photo) and co-discoverer Elizabeth Hazen assigned nystatin’s patent royalties to the nonprofit Research Corporation of New York, to help support other researchers.

Image: Smithsonian Institution

Day 1 of #MicroEvo22 had #plasmids #phages #phageplasmids #microbiomes #genomes #CRISPR #zoonosis #capsules #HGT #antiviralimmunity #fungi #mutators #siderophores #compost #soilmicrobiome #marinemicrobes #heavymetals #adaptiveradiation #T6SS #competition #cooperation #mutualism #multilevelselection 😅

Every single talk was amazing and the poster session was buzzing! — day 2 promises to be equally exciting

#MicrobialEvolution

#Introduction
Hi all, I am Elisabeth Bik, @microbiomdigest on Twitter. I am a Dutch/American microbiologist with a PhD from Utrecht University (not an MD).

In 2019 I started working for myself. I specialize in #ImageForensics, i.e. searching for image problems in published scientific papers, #ResearchIntegrity and #ScienceMisconduct.

Hope to meet and discuss problems in science papers with you here!

I mostly post #ImageForensics challenges or rant about #SciencePublishing.

#Conference — only two weeks to go until our #MicrobiologySociety Focus Meeting about #MicrobialEvolution in #Manchester UK 22-23 November

#ExperimentalEvolution #PathogenGenomics #Microbiome #dynamics #Mathematical #modelling #crispr #plasmids #phages #GeneRegulatoryNetworks #PredictingEvolution #EvolutionaryApplications #MutationRates #HorizontalGeneTransfer #EvolutionaryTheory #EvolutionaryInnovation #EvolutionaryRescue #EcoEvolutionaryDynamics

To register: https://microbiologysociety.org/event/full-events-listing/understanding-and-predicting-microbial-evolutionary-dynamics.html#tab-4