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An Interview with Sfam Fellow Sir David Attenborough MARCH 2019 | VOL 20 NO 1 | ISSN 1479-2699 Rubbish microbiology An interview with SfAM Fellow Sir David Attenborough Fatbergs Pesticide contamination CONTACT POINT •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Editorial Group Copy dates Executive Committee Editor Vol. 20. No. 2 June 2019 COMMITTEE MEMBERS Paul Sainsbury Wednesday 5 April President [email protected] Vol. 20. No. 3 September 2019 Mark Fielder Regular Content Editor Wednesday 3 July [email protected] Louise Hill-King Vol. 20. No. 4 December 2019 General Secretary [email protected] Wednesday 2 October Clare Taylor Contributing Editor [email protected] Vol. 21 No. 1 March 2020 Brendan Gilmore Wednesday 8 January Meetings Secretary [email protected] Ian Feavers Features Editors [email protected] Nick Jakubovics Society Office staff [email protected] ORDINARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS UNTIL JULY 2019 Ayuen Lual Chief Executive [email protected] Lucy Harper Simon Gould [email protected] [email protected] Clare Taylor [email protected] Head of Communications and Stephen Forsythe Business Development [email protected] Nicola Stanley-Wall Paul Sainsbury [email protected] [email protected] ORDINARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS Elaine Cloutman-Green UNTIL JULY 2020 Finance and Grants Coordinator [email protected] Tina Sellwood Tim Aldsworth Advertising [email protected] [email protected] Luwam Mekonen Digital Communications Officer Linda Thomas [email protected] Stewart Cumiskey [email protected] Proofreader [email protected] Liz Rees ORDINARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS Policy and Public Affairs Manager [email protected] UNTIL JULY 2021 Christopher Brown Design and Production [email protected] Mike Dempsey John Dryden [email protected] Membership and Marketing Officer [email protected] Luwam Mekonen Sally Cutler [email protected] [email protected] Society for Applied Microbiology Events and Projects Manager Claire Hill Charles Darwin House, 12 Roger Street Laura Lincoln [email protected] WC1N 2JU UK [email protected] Elaine Cloutman-Green +44 (0)207 685 2596 Business Technology Manager [email protected] [email protected] Abraham Glover www.sfam.org.uk [email protected] Microbiologist is published quarterly by the Society for Applied Microbiology, a registered charity. ISSN 1479-2699. Disclaimer: The Society assumes no responsibility for the opinions expressed by contributors. The views expressed by Society officers and staff do not necessarily represent the official position of the Society. Readers should note that scientific material is not refereed and represents only the views of the authors. The claims of advertisers cannot be guaranteed. 02 microbiologist | March 2019 www.sfam.org.uk EDITORIAL •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Big fish, little fish, plastic bag The effect plastic waste has in our oceans is a tragedy of modern life. Marine microbes carry out many of the basic functions that support life in the oceans and understanding what impact this pollution has on marine microbiomes is key to preserving the diversity of our oceans. Unless you have been on another Blue Planet, you would Our last issue reached over 10,000 readers and that special have probably heard about Sir David Attenborough’s antimicrobial resistance (AMR) issue coincided with the spotlight on ocean plastic pollution. People listened in launch of a 20-year vision and 5 year action plan by the droves as Attenborough produced stories of sea turtles UK government. The ambitious plan that aims to contain, and other marine creatures drowning in plastic, mistaking control and mitigate AMR should help to focus efforts on plastic bags as food and ingesting them. According to the areas that require most urgent attention. research published in the journal Science, at least 8 million The government’s plan reveals a number of priorities tons of plastic enter the oceans each year. That’s like where the microbiology community will make a difference: emptying a busload of plastic into an ocean every minute. • The UK government commits to back an infectious Although the harm caused by domestic, industrial and intestinal disease (IID) study that gathers population- commercial pollution on larger organisms in the oceans is based data on the gut resistome. well documented, the impact on microorganisms is not as widely known. Microbiologists not only have a major task • Over the next 5 years the government will support in investigating the role microbiomes play in ocean health, research to improve understanding of the hazards and but also how bacteria and other microbes can potentially risks from AMR in the environment. consume all this mess we keep putting into them. This • UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) commits to develop issue of Microbiologist features several scientists who are the scientific capacity needed to support and deliver doing just that. Fatberg, landfill and plastic-bag-eating ongoing high-quality research in infectious disease bacteria are investigated, as is the potential of phage in prevention and microbiology-related disciplines. tackling water pollution. Microbes and microbiologists certainly have a crucial role in solving the wide range of problems facing humankind. It’s crucial that we find a way to help them. Paul Sainsbury Editor www.sfam.org.uk microbiologist | March 2019 03 CONTENTS •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ‘I know that microscopic organisms of one kind or another can eat plastic. That is one thing in this world that this poor planet needs. It needs something that eats plastic because, by God, there’s an awful lot of it out there. The situation is really dreadful.’ Sir David Attenborough Fellow of the Society for Applied Microbiology SfAM Fellowship Reception BMA House, London, UK 27 November 2018 04 microbiologist | March 2019 www.sfam.org.uk CONTENTS •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• News Must-read Articles 02 Contact point 42 Journal of Applied Microbiology 03 Editorial 43 Environmental Microbiology Reports Big fish, little fish, plastic bag 06 A President speaks Education & A non-siloed approach Public Outreach 07 Harper’s postulates Women in microbiology 44 Rubbish microbiology: filming The Secret 08 Shaping the future Life of Landfill Attenborough and the hot plastic planet 46 Science solstice: sticky side up 09 Membership 48 Bacteria Builder: a game of survival 10 Shaping the future Impact beyond the university walls 52 FEMS2019 Congress Features Industry 12 Stemming the tide: plastics at Portsmouth 54 The latest news, views and microbiological developments 14 Tackling sources of contamination in water: the age of phage 18 Pesticide contamination: what can Policy & Public Affairs microbiologists do? BioFocus: Shaping the future of the 22 Fatbergs: microbes and the future of fats, 56 Royal Society of Biology beyond 2019 oils and grease 58 A simple target with a complex solution People & Places 26 An interview with Sir David Attenborough 30 From molecules and cells to global images 34 East London’s microbiota: saving Churchill 38 WH Pierce: the scientist behind the prize www.sfam.org.uk microbiologist | March 2019 05 A PRESIDENT SPEAKS •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• A non-siloed approach The world of microbiology is an ever-changing place. It constantly provides new and interesting challenges that need to be understood, adapted to, or indeed, challenged. This is evident with areas such as antimicrobial resistance an interesting turn with the reality of AMR taking an (AMR) and understanding the importance of the important place within some curricula. This has allowed a microbiome. We need to think about how we engage, truly multidisciplinary approach to teaching microbiology and then train, the next generation of microbiologists. with the inclusion of subject areas such as biotechnology, Both individuals and societies have critical roles to play in chemistry (and biochemistry), genetics, evolution, engaging microbiologists of the future and the question that pharmacy (pharmacology), one health and, further afield, remains is, how young do they have to be for us to engage subjects such as economics, anthropology and social with them? I remember a number of years ago a professor sciences. The latter subject encompasses interesting of mine being equally scathing of talking to the public and aspects such as behavioural change and emotional drivers. also of teaching microbiology to young children. Rather These dimensions are now considered in terms of AMR and than putting me off, this encouraged me to attempt to have become an important part of antimicrobial usage/ prove them wrong. resistance teaching. I celebrate this non-siloed approach to the way we need to teach microbiology. A colleague and I took a roadshow into local schools to discuss matters around the washing of hands and how On a separate topic I wanted to record my own personal not all bacteria are ‘disease causing’. Now this is of course note on the passing of the wonderful Professor Basil Jarvis. essentially public engagement, but it was also teaching, I was fortunate enough to have been guided, cajoled, and we found it was possible to both engage and teach encouraged and made to laugh out loud by this wonderful a subject such as microbiology to preschool children and man. His advice always sage, his anecdotes always funny, all the way upwards to 16-year-olds. The key messages his presence always reassuring. He was a stalwart of the are of course the same, but the method of delivery varies Society, an elder and a fantastic character. At every markedly as one would expect. One of the important function we both attended over the past few years we parameters regardless of age is making it relevant, making sought each other out to compare notes on our bow ties, it real, whilst avoiding the question of ‘so what?’ and to debate our successes and failures when fly fishing. I will miss these encounters. More recently, teaching undergraduate students has taken I can’t think of a better way to end this column than by thanking Professor Basil Jarvis for everything he has done – including educating us.
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