In a paper just published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Professor Greg Cook and colleagues have demonstrated for the first time that acidobacteria, the second most dominant bacteria in global soils, rely on hydrogen gas for survival.
Professor Greg Cook, Dr Htin Aung, and Dr Phillip Hill (Centre for International Health) have been awarded $450,000 to investigate the genetic basis of tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance in Indonesia and Myanmar. The funding has been made available as part of the e-Asia HRC (Health Research Council) Joint Research Programme.
Two doctoral theses with a supervision contribution from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology have been named as 'exceptional' by the Division of Sciences. Congratulations to Clara Bah and Fanny Mondet.
Alice McSweeney, Assistant Research Fellow in the Ward Lab, has been awarded the 2015 Summer Research Scholarship Renshaw Prize.
Professor Clive Ronson is a part of an international team of scientists that has just published a research breakthrough in the high-profile journal Nature.
The Department has this year had a 100% success rate with applications for OSMS Bequest funds. Congratulations to Dr Matloob Husain, Associate Professor Keith Ireton, Dr Ros Kemp, Dr Jo Kirman, Associate Professor Alex McLellan and Dr James Ussher, who have all been awarded research funding.
Research undertaken by Jo Kirman and PhD student Pia Steigler received a mention in a Nature Immunology report of the first Innate Immune Memory Conference held in Cambridge recently.
This year, the Margaret di Menna Prize for the Research Paper of the Year by a Postgraduate Student has been jointly awarded to two former postgraduate students, Dr Ron Dy and Dr Chris Greening.
The first Department of Microbiology and Immunology photo competition themed 'Life in the Lab' attracted a wide range of entries, creatively depicting many aspects of labwork.
Researchers from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology have obtained two translational research grants and one PhD scholarship in the latest Lottery Health Research funding round.
