MicrobiologyBytes 2007: Year in Review
2007 has been a record breaking year for MicrobiologyBytes, so here’s a look back at some of the highlights:
We started January off with noroviruses and ancient plague, then relaxed a bit by playing with Lego and brewing beer.
In February, we looked at yaws and Mimivirus, then went green by reducing our carbon footprint with microdiesel.
And in March we marked World Tuberculosis Day by looking at new drugs for an old foe.
April started off with an exploration of whether viruses evolve to protect their hosts, then we took out first look at colony collapse disorder affecting bees.
May was dominated by news about extreme drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and chikungunya, then later looked at probiotics.
In June we looked at the origins of yellow fever and quorum sensing in Serratia (quorum sensing remains one of the most popular topics on MicrobiologyBytes).
July began with flesh eating bacteria and finished up with prions and Alzheimers disease.
In August, most people took a holiday and this was the quietest month of the year in terms of visitors, but we still managed to fit in Hendra, chikungunya and Marburg viruses.
September brought lots of bad news for UK farmers, so we looked at the biology of the bluetongue and foot and mouth disease virus outbreaks in the UK.
In October we covered the bacterial SOS system and debated the strategy for HPV vaccination in the UK.
November started with the terrorist threat posed by glanders and melioidosis then considered the dangers of Chlamydia infection and the opportunities presented by DNA microarrays.
We finished up the year with bacteriocins and bacterial morphology.
Phew. Overall, the most popular posts of the year were:
- Hepatitis C Virus: a mountain to climb
- Fungal Infections and All About Fungi
- Infectobesity
- Toll-Like Receptors
- DNA microarrays
See you next year!
Tags: Agriculture, Bacteria, Biology, Biotechnology, Bioterrorism, Emerging disease, Environment, Fungi, Genetics, Health, Immunology, Medicine, Microbiology, Mycology, Prions, Science, Tuberculosis, Vaccines, Virology
