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ASM Supports Evidence-Based Science to Inform Policy
The ASM supports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the importance of evidence-based science to inform policy decisions surrounding prevention and defending the country from public health threats.
Public and Scientific Affairs Board
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Best of Bugs & Drugs 2017
2017 was a momentous year here at Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs, since this is the year that we launched! Here are the highlights of the first nine months of...
ASM Communications
ASM Members Named HHMI Professors
ASM members Avery August and Andrew Ellington, and mBio editor, Margaret McFall-Ngai ,have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Professors, an honor that recognizes excellence in research and education.
ASM Communications
Yersinia pestis: Resurgence of the Black Plague in Madagascar
Interweaving human history and microbial science to examine an unusual resurgence of the Black Plague in Madagascar.
Jennifer Brubaker Yersinia, pathophysiology, plague
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Xenodiagnosis: Using a Pest as a Test
Most diagnostic tests are performed on agar plates or in plastic bottles, tubes, or wells, but in the past certain elusive infections were identified by a decidedly more exotic method...
Thea Brennan-Krohn
Neglected Tropical Diseases and Vaccine Advocacy with Peter Hotez
Peter Hotez talks about neglected tropical diseases: what are they, where are they found, and where did the term “neglected tropical disease” come from, anyway?
Julie Wolf meet the microbiologist, Vaccines, neglected tropical diseases
Sequence analyses reveal human pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum is …
For over 100 years, Histoplasma capsulatum was thought to be a single fungal species with several variant strain variations. New analyses of genome sequences reveal the genus Histoplasma contains at least four species...
Julie Wolf
Dark fermentation - TWiM 166
The reason for poor efficacy of one of the influenza virus vaccines, and using a hyperthermophilic anaerobe to produce hydrogen from fruit and vegetable wastes in seawater.
ASM Contributes to New Smithsonian Exhibition Exploring Pandemics and Emerg…
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will mark the anniversary of the Great Influenza pandemic with a new exhibition, "Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World."
ASM Communications
bioRxiv Subject Collection: Microbiology
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Wednesday, 20 December 2017
Missing pstS locus associated with an insertion in tetM in vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium
Multi-locus sequencing typing (MLST) is frequently used to monitor the phylogeny of outbreaks of infection. For vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) infections, MLST is now becoming limited in resolution due to the recent emergence of VREfm strains with a missing MLST...
Community Statement to OMB on Science-Based Decision-Making and Policy
The ASM signed on to a letter to the director of the Office of Management and Budget encouraging the heads of all federal agencies to support the use of science...
Public and Scientific Affairs Board
The Cyanide Defense: How One Bacterium Inhibits Predators with Poison
Microbiologists report this week in mBio that the bacterium Chromobacterium piscinae produces cyanide when under attack from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus HD100, a microbial predator found in rivers and soils that ingests its prey from the inside...
ASM Communications
ASM's Best Microbiology News of 2017
Here’s a snapshot of the most popular research stories from ASM journals that were covered in the news this year.
ASM Communications
Escherichia Extends elegans Existence - BacterioFiles 321
Bacteria with various gene knockouts help roundworms live longer and with less disease!
Jesse Noar
Clinical Bench Scientists Share the Benefits of Attending ASM Microbe
The New Tech Professional Development Grant was given to clinical laboratory scientists to attend ASM Microbe 2017. They had the opportunity to network with their peers over dinner, share best...
ASM Careers
Battling White-nose Syndrome in Bats
Millions of bats in North America have been wiped out by the disease white-nose syndrome caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, and scientists worry that a catastrophic reduction in the bat...
ASM Communications
Fortified Fungi Fight Fevers - BacterioFiles 320
Fungi modified to produce spider and scorpion toxins kill malaria-transmitting mosquitoes extra fast!
Jesse Noar
New Tool Could Help Maintain Quality During Cheese Production
Dutch cheeses are made using complex starter cultures, that have been employed for centuries. Due to changes in strain composition within a culture, the quality frequently fluctuates. A team of...
ASM Communications
David Blehert sends out the Bat Signal: White Nose Fungus is Among Us!
How White Nose Syndrome kills bats, ideas on how to save our bat populations, and how a love of animals and nature drove David Blehert and Jonah Evans into their...
Karl Klose
Defining YOUR Work-Life Balance
Everyone is looking for the “holy grail” of work-life balance. Depending on the individual, career stage, and personal life, the perfect balance can be different for everyone. Just as we...
ASM Careers
Just a passing phage - TWiV 470
Bacteriophage particles rapidly move across monolayers of eukaryotic cells from different tissues.
Vincent Racaniello bacteriophage, TWiV, viruses
Probiotic Gets a Boost from Breast Milk
Supplementation with probiotics can improve a person's gut health, but the benefits are often fleeting, and colonization by the probiotic's good microbes usually doesn't last. Breast milk may help sustain...
ASM Communications
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