Friday, January 09, 2004

Website in Environmental Microbiology Journal

My rhizobia taxonomy page was recommended in the "Web Alert" section of the January 2004 issue of Environmental Microbiology. The author writes "This webpage offers a recent compilation of the taxonomic designations for rhizobial strains. This information is useful for navigating in a field where genus and species names have changed frequently."

Reference:

Wackett, Lawrence P. (2004). Rhizobia. Environmental Microbiology.
doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00564.x

Friday, October 03, 2003

MicroNZ 2003 Conference over

On Thursday MicroNZ 2003 finished.
It was a good conference, I personally learnt that quorum sensing is much more complicated than I had first thought - the host can intercept bacterial signals, and bacteria can interpret host cytokine signaling. I also learnt about integrons - 59bp transposable genetic elements.

This photo is of some of the delegates standing around the trade stalls.

Conference delegates

Thursday, September 04, 2003

2003 NZMS / AMS Conference

In about one months time from the 28th September to the 2nd October, will be the MicroNZ 2003 Conference.
This is a joint meeting of the Australian and New Zealand microbiology societies. I will be presenting a poster of my work to date there.