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8 Tips to Help You Begin Writing Your Paper
For scientists it is imperative to relay your research to your colleagues through published papers. But what if you find the idea of writing overwhelming – daunting even? You struggle...
ASM Careers
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
TMI: Deciding Whether to Include MIC Values in Susceptibility Reports
When laboratories provide susceptibility reports to clinicians, they must decide whether to include minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) or to report categorical interpretations (such as susceptible or resistant) alone. In some...
Thea Brennan-Krohn
Pig microbiome makeup may influence animal growth rate
Farmers want their livestock to put on weight quickly so they can increase profits when they sell their animals. A new Applied and Environmental Microbiology study reports a possible link...
Julie Wolf
Antibodies from elite HIV controllers activate the ADCC immune response
Elite controllers are HIV-infected individuals who maintain undetectable virus levels even when not administered antiretroviral drugs. Understanding how the immune system of these elite controllers acts against HIV may help...
Julie Wolf
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Summertime, and the living is easily filled with ticks and mosquitos
Summertime brings people closer to the great outdoors - and to arthropods that can spread disease! In this week's Bugs & Drugs, we emphasize the importance of a full patient...
ASM Communications
Gifted microbes and defensive symbiosis - TWiM 156
The use of microbial genome mining to identify new drugs, and how a bacterial symbiont protects flies against parasitoid wasps.
Vincent Racaniello Microbiology, TWiM, Drosophila, Spiroplasma
Malaria infection decreases immune response to bacterial infection
Children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria are more susceptible to invasive infection with nontyphoidal Salmonella. A new Clinical and Vaccine Immunology report finds that the immune system of malaria-infected children has lower antibacterial...
Julie Wolf
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
When a little bit of blood won't do: detecting bacteremia
Bloodstream infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and identifying the causative organism(s) is critical. Can the most important step in this process really be as simple as...
Matthew Pettengill
Career Advice for Early-Stage Clinical Microbiologists
ASM asked six ASM members included in the ASCP's "40 Under Forty" listing of young, successful scientists,"what advice do you have for those considering a career in clinical microbiology? What...
ASM Careers
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Honoring ASM members among the ASCP 40 under 40
Several of the American Society for Clinical Pathology's "40 Under Forty" include young, successful ASM members, and we here at Bugs & Drugs reached out to ask them about their...
ASM Communications
Living in the stomach of a cell - TWiM 155
Updates on Legionella in the Flint water supply, and how horizontally acquired biosynthesis genes boost the physiology of Coxiella burnetii.
Vincent Racaniello
Controlling Mosquito Infection by Bacterial Manipulation: Using Bacteria to…
Controlling mosquito-borne diseases comes in many formats, including manipulation of the bacterial endosymbiont found in many insects, Wolbachia. A recent Journal of Virology article reports the ability of different strains...
Julie Wolf
ASM Addresses Palmetto Lab Testing Reimbursement
ASM has joined other societies with expertise in diagnostic testing in a letter addressing the Palmetto Draft Local Coverage Determination of Panels Identified by Multiplex Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAATs)...
Public and Scientific Affairs Board Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Microbiology Resources
One Year Later: on the Eve of WiSci 2017, 2016 Attendees Reflect on Life Si…
With WiSci 2017 soon to be under way in Malawi, WiSci 2016 attendee Leslie Anasu Espinoza Campomanes and WiSci 2016 counselor Paola Moreno-Roman reflect on how this initiative impacted their lives
International Affairs
Novel Class of Antibiotics Shows Promise Against Plague, Drug-Resistant Bac…
This week in mBio, an international group of scientists report on laboratory experiments suggesting that a novel LpxC inhibitor can treat multi-drug resistant bacterial infections, including many that originate in hospitals.
ASM Communications
mSystems - Author Video Abstracts
N Limitation Effects on Prochlorococcus SS120 Proteome - mSystems®
Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth, contributing significantly to global primary production and playing a prominent role in biogeochemical cycles. Here we study the effects of extreme...
Chris Condayan mSystems, Prochlorococcus
Expectorate the unexpected - TWiV 451
The TWiV scientists reveal that mosquitoes transmit different West Nile virus populations with each blood meal, only to have the diversity purged in a bird host.
Vincent Racaniello Virology
Sticky Skin Sows Cells - BacterioFiles 303
Roundworms in soil can carry with them bacteria they eat to grow new food, like farmers!
Jesse Noar
Living Together Brings Couples' Microbiomes Together
Couples who live together share many things: Bedrooms, bathrooms, food, and even bacteria. Microbial ecologists at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, found that people who live together significantly influence...
ASM Communications microbiome, skin, built environment
Minority Microbiology Mentor Newsletter
Minority Microbiology Mentor Newsletter - July
Public and Scientific Affairs Board minority
Advancement Paths for Bench-Level Clinical Microbiologists
Bench-level clinical microbiologists serve an important role in a clinical microbiology lab. They are often the first people to identify disease-causing pathogens, which helps medical staff with the treatment of...
Shilpa Gadwal
Coalition Letter on FY 2018 Funding for NSF
The ASM signed onto a letter, as a member of the Coalition on National Science Funding (CNSF), to Congress urging them to maintain federal investments in America’s scientific and innovation...
Public and Scientific Affairs Board Research and Development Budgets
Bioenergy Research Centers Selected for Continued Funding
Department of Energy program to exploit biomass for fuels and biopoducts expanded to 4 centers
Patrick Lacey
Multiplex Array White Paper: Clinical Utility of Multiplex Tests for Respir…
Christopher Doern and Duane Newton, members of the Public and Scientific Affairs Board, Laboratory Practices Committee authored the white paper “Clinical Utility of Multiplex Tests for Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Pathogens.” ...
Public and Scientific Affairs Board Infectious Disease Laboratory Testing, Clinical Microbiology Resources, Clinical Microbiology
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