Microbe Talk

Jan 06 2025 100 ep. 18 mins 2.7k

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Microbe Talk is a podcast from the Microbiology Society, interviewing researchers about bacteria, viruses and parasites. We are the largest microbiology society in Europe, covering all aspects of microbial science.

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Episode 168: Exploring the science of wellness, ageing and death with John Tregoning

Jan 06 2025 25 mins

For the first episode of Microbe Talk in 2025, we’re bringing you something fascinating and a bit different— non-communicable diseases. In this special episode, Clare chats with Professor John Tregoning, a Professor in Vaccine Immunology, about his new book, 'Live Forever? A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death'. Clare and John chat about why he's writing a

Episode 167: Antimalarial drug resistance: current challenges and future solutions

Dec 20 2024 21 mins

In this episode of Microbe Talk Clare spoke to Adam Aspinall who's Senior Director in the Access and Product Management team at Medicines for Malaria Venture. They discuss Malaria, antimalarial drug resistance and the work that Medicines for Malaria Venture is doing to support new drug discovery.If you'd like to find out more about the Microbiology Society's Knocking Out AMR projec

Episode 166: World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week: pediatric AMR

Nov 23 2024 24 mins

For this episode of Microbe Talk Clare is joined by Dr Sanjay Patel, a paediatric infectious disease and immunology consultant at Southampton Children's Hospital and the National Clinical Advisor for Paediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship at NHS England. Clare and Sanjay discuss paediatric AMR, why it's often overlooked and how Sanjay and his colleagues from clinical, research

Episode 165: Black History Month: Amaka Awayne

Oct 29 2024 14 mins

The month of October is #BlackHistoryMonth and this year we caught up with Society Champion, Dr Amaka Awayne, on our latest episode of the Microbe Talk podcast. Dr Amaka discusses her insightful experiences as a Black person working in science, as well as how she is contributing to Black History Month this year.Find out how to get more involved with Society activities via our Get I

Episode 164: Looking up at space microbiology

Oct 11 2024 26 mins

In aid of space week Clare is looking up into the sky with Dr Katherine Baxter about the exciting field of space microbiology. They chat about how research in space could help with problems back on earth, how microbes behave in space and how they might be key to survival in future space travel.The details of the ways to get involved are below. If you're in need of even more space c

Episode 163: Investigating invisible culprits with Dr Tim Inglis

Jun 20 2024 31 mins

Clare is back with another episode of Microbe Talk and this time she’s investigating the topic of Microbial Forensics with Dr Tim Inglis from the University of Western Australia. Tim is the Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s Journal of Medical Microbiology where he published his review on the topic: ‘A systematic approach to microbial forensics’. You can read a full transcrip

Episode 162: Roots of resistance: exploring AMR in ancient mouths

Jun 13 2024 27 mins

For this episode of Microbe Talk Clare was joined by the wonderful Gwyn Dahlquist-Axe and Francesca Standeven, archaeological scientists who study AMR and ancient human oral microbiomes. They're on the podcast to discuss their review into diet, disease and antibiotic resistance from ancient human oral microbiomes published in Microbial Genomics.You can read their review 'Inferring

Episode 161: Knocking Out AMR: fixing the broken innovation pipeline

May 17 2024 29 mins

Yesterday, we released our vision statement for Knocking Out Antimicrobial Resistance, the Society's new cross-disciplinary project. It outlined the key issues faced by the AMR community: the lack of understanding of the urgency of the crisis, a fragmented AMR landscape and a broken innovation pipelineSo for this special Knocking Out AMR episode of Microbe Talk Clare spoke to Profe

Episode 160: Women’s History Month: a conversation with Dr Linda Oyama

Apr 23 2024 23 mins

Last month was Women’s History Month, taking place annually throughout the month of March. It aims to highlight and reflect on the many, but often over-looked, achievements made by women throughout history – which have paved the way for the women of today. In this episode, to mark the month, we caught up with Society Champion and microbiologist, Dr Linda Oyama. Linda discusses

Episode 159: Behind the lecture with Dr Claas Kirchhelle

Apr 06 2024 42 mins

Dr Claas Kirchhelle from University College Dublin will be giving the Hot Topic Lecture: "Faecal Flows – a very short history of microbiology, sewers, and Britain's rivers (ca.1850-2023)" at this years Annual Conference. Clare spoke to Claas to find out how he's feeling ahead of his lecture and to pick his brain about his intriguing research area. If you're at Annual Confer