#microbiologists

Colored engraving depicting Louis Pasteur at work in the laboratory of Whitbread's Brewery in London in 1871

A microbiologist is gunning it out of the Lab with no care but panic in his eyes as he runs into an innocent bystander and even left his shoe behind in the collision. Inside his chaotic lab covered in a mess of equipment and some left-over formula spilled all over the place, telephone beeping off the hook. As I look around to investigate, I pick up a vile that glows blue and it stumbles into my pocket. As I reach down to get a better look at it, men in trench coats come in and say they are part of an international government agency and restrict me from leaving at first. I persuaded them to let me go after I cooperated and told them I just arrived and everything was like this after the microbiologists ran out. I leave the scene and forget the vile I have hidden in my pocket. I finally get off work and go about my normal routine. As I reach my great heights apartment building, I get to my apartment and throw my coat on the chair; as it hits the chair, I hear a “clank” as the vile I totally forgot hits the wooden chair. My curiosity peaks as I take a closer look at the contents. “Secret Formula”.

By Lucy Rennick

“Crafting a loaf of bread from scratch can be challenging at the best of times, but when you’re dealing with yeast that’s 4500 years old, your bread-baking game hits expert level.”

“That's the case for a physicist, video game developer and self-professed ‘bread nerd’ Seamus Blackley, whose adventures in (ancient) bread-making recently went viral. Teaming up with Egyptologist Dr Serena Love and microbiologist Richard Bowman, Blackley recovered yeast from an ancient Egyptian pot and then did what any respectable bread aficionado would do – baked a loaf with it.”

“I felt a strong attraction to the field, not only because of its importance given the rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance at the time, but also because I simply enjoyed the process of experimentation, from planning to execution and analysis. I felt at home in the lab.”

Emmanuelle Charpentier is currently Director of the Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology in Berlin. Her microbiology research focus began during her graduate studies at the Pasteur Institute, and later The Rockefeller University in New York. She has held a long and distinguished career since then, including as a Laboratory Head at Vienna University, the Max F. Perutz Laboratories, and Umeå University, and was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2014. She was awarded the prestigious Japan Prize, often described as the Japanese Nobel Prize, in 2017, for the development of the CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism, a revolutionary new technology in genetic engineering.

In the latest installment of the FEMS Microbiology Letters spotlight series, Professor Charpentier discusses her research, the advice she would give to budding microbiologists, and how her interest in the subject may have begun much earlier than she thought.

American Society for Microbiology takes down member pages because of Trump DEI edicts why exactly?

https://asm.org/articles/2024/february/not-if-but-when-spotlight-chelsey-spriggs

This is the page that used to be there.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240306022722/https://asm.org/articles/2024/february/not-if-but-when-spotlight-chelsey-spriggs

This is NOT a government website. This is a private professional organization. I guess headed by MAGA adherents. It's so sad to realize that this professional organization obviously must've hated their non-white members the whole time and are just welcoming edicts from racist central government.