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Sheila Patrick
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🦠🧫 Professor Emerita Anaerobic bacteria Human microbiota
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#FIS25 SESSION HIGHLIGHT ⭐ Join us on day one to hear more about hot topics in HIV from BHIVA.

Register 👉 https://ow.ly/iJq650X5vxS

#IPC #InfectionPrevention #infection #InfectiousDiseases #microbiology #IDSky
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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In the second part of her interview, @andreaprinzi.bsky.social talks about how the March of Dimes played such a significant role against #polio and how its oral vaccine is a singular lesson that can be applied to science as a whole and the need to adapt to changing circumstances. #IDsky #Medsky
What We Can Learn From Polio and its Vaccines
In the second part of an interview with Andrea Prinzi, PhD, MPH, SM(ASCP), she talks about how the March of Dimes played such a significant role against the disease and how the polio oral vaccine is a...
www.contagionlive.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This month, Ana Zyumbyuleva has written a piece for our Phage Collection Project Blog all about the importance of developing phage biobanks! 🥼

Make sure to check it out by following the link below!

#PhageBiobanks #CitizenScience #PhageCollectionBlog

www.phage-collection.org/blog/why-are...
Why Are We Building a Phage Biobank? — ThePhageCollectionProject
As many of you probably know by now, we’ve been busy searching for new bacteriophages from samples sent by citizens. With each sample you provide whether from puddle or lake, we are isolating pha...
www.phage-collection.org
May 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I found a bacteria-eating virus in my loo - could it save your life?

I have ordered my kit! #IDSky #MicroSky 🦠🔬💉🧫 @phagecollection.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org
June 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Publish in Society Journals 🧪🦠🧬

Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.
The Society has supported the microbiology community for 80 years. Now we invite you to get involved by submitting your research, helping to shape the future of science and innovation. Publish with us - microb.io/Publishing-f...
June 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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yes.... if there was any silver lining to today's meeting it is that vaccination during pregnancy is evidence based, and protects pregnant people and their newborns.

#ObGynSky + #IDSky + #MedSky.

www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
CDC Experts Make the Case for Maternal COVID Vaccination
Data presented during ACIP meeting highly suggestive of benefit for mothers, babies
www.medpagetoday.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Early Career Summer Conference 2025
microbiologysociety.org
June 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Woman's eyesight saved by cutting-edge test after mystery infection
#IDSky #MicroSky 🧫🦠💉🔬
April 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
#IDSky 🦠💉🔬🧫
Stakeholders need to urgently address the global threat of AMR in wastewater. Find out more in our most recent policy briefing, which highlights key interventions: t.co/mVyvOB0rAF
#AMR #KnockingOutAMR
April 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
#IDSky 🦠💉🔬🧫
Looking to publish your manuscript? Find out what you need to consider when choosing a journal to publish to. @andybritalian, Head of Scientific Programmes at the Microbiology Society, will be at stand J34 ready to talk to you. #JMedMicro #MicrobioJ #AccessMicro #ESCMIDGlobal
April 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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It’s started!!! #Microbio25
🧫🦠🧬🧪💊💻🍄
March 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
#IDSky #MicroSky 🦠💉🧫🧪
Mark your calendars! On 31 March, we're unveiling a new journal at Annual Conference. See you at #Microbio25!
March 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🦠💉🔬🧫🧪 #MicroSky #IDSky
Scientific publishing should evolve with science itself. That’s why we’re launching something new—designed for the microbiology community. Join us on 31 March at #Microbio25 as we reveal what’s coming next to our portfolio.
March 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🦠💉🧫🔬 #MicroSky #IDSky
At #Microbio25 join us for the 'The potential of AI for microbiology' session. A panel will discuss addressing opportunities, challenges, and validation standards in AI-driven research. Registration is still open -
Annual Conference 2025
31 March - 03 April 2025
microb.io
March 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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At #Microbio25 join us for the 'The potential of AI for microbiology' session. A panel will discuss addressing opportunities, challenges, and validation standards in AI-driven research. Registration is still open -
Annual Conference 2025
31 March - 03 April 2025
microb.io
March 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Scientific publishing should evolve with science itself. That’s why we’re launching something new—designed for the microbiology community. Join us on 31 March at #Microbio25 as we reveal what’s coming next to our portfolio.
March 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Would you live on Vaccine Avenue or Virology Grove? www.bbc.com/news/article...
yes!!! #IDSky 💉🔬🦠🧫
Housing estate streets named in honour of Ruchill Hospital
Ashlar Village is on the site of the former Ruchill Hospital, which closed in 1998.
www.bbc.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Would you live on Vaccine Avenue or Virology Grove?
Yes!!
March 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Federation of Infection Societies FIS 2025 | 2-5 December 2025 Bournemouth UK British Infection Association (BIA) save the date !
🦠🧫🔬🧪 #IDSky
fisconference.org
February 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning.
Without those grants, my lab must close within a year.
And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues
🤬
#MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬
February 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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#womensweek is here 🥳
Did you hear about June Almeida?
🧫 born in 1930
🧫 grew up in N. east Glasgow
🧫little formal education
🧫technician in histopathology at #gri 🧫became a pioneer of virus imaging
🧫moved to St Thomas’ in London
🧫in 1964 June identified coronavirus
November 17, 2024 at 4:12 AM
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For all lovers of #microbial #genomics & #mosquito #microbiomes, PhD with me & @widdowquinn.bsky.social! 'Generating a genome-based interaction network of functional modules in mosquito microbiomes to create a synthetic microbiome.' #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬 See www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
John Anderson Research Studentship Scheme (JARSS) | University of Strathclyde
www.strath.ac.uk
January 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM