Dr Davide Bulgarelli awarded inaugural Dorothy Jones Prize

Researchers and students from the University of Milano-Bicocca - including AMI student member Giulia Ghisleni - teamed up for an ambitious citizen science project, collecting more than 2,400 samples of the urban microbiome over four seasons.

A new study by scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several institutes across India and Saudi Arabia - including AMI Global Ambassador Professor Alexandre Rosado - has reported 26 novel bacterial species growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions.

It’s time to have your say! Applied Microbiology International (AMI) is calling on all members to vote in the Trustee election.

A study by AMI member Dr Gerry Quinn highlights the potential of spiritual healing sites as fertile ground for novel antibiotics, particularly from Streptomyces bacteria, known for producing the majority of current antibiotics.

The Trump adminstration has signed an Executive Order halting federal gain of function research on microbes - but does it throw the baby out with the bathwater? Virologist Simon Wain-Hobson, Emeritus Professor with the Pasteur Institute, Paris, gives his take.