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SPACE INVADERS! Scientists Searching for Extraterrestrial Life Need Not Necessarily Leave the Planet The magazine of the Society for Applied Microbiology ■ December 2003 ■ Vol 4 No 4 ISSN 1479-2699 SPACE INVADERS! Scientists searching for extraterrestrial life need not necessarily leave the planet ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: ■ Dairy & Food Microbiology - 2004 Summer Conference ■ The Truth is out there: could lichens grow on Mars? ■ The new Biosciences Federation - will it work? ■ Design-a-bug Children’s Competition extended! excellence in microbiology W ! gy e lo are io th crob e friendly face of mi Don Whitley Scientific is a leading supplier of innovative equipment and contract & consultancy services for microbiologists worldwide. If you work in clinical, pharmaceutical, research or industrial microbiology, please phone one of the friendly faces in our technical sales team on: +44 (0)1274 595728 www.dwscientific.co.uk The magazine of the Society for Applied Microbiology ■ December 2003 ■ Vol 4 No 4 ISSN 1479-2699 REGULARS MEETINGS FEATURES Microbiologist Vol 4 No.4 04Editorial 16 sfam 26 Cover story December 2003 Anthony Hilton January muses on after ISSN 1479-2699 dinner conversation 2004 meeting Cover Art: “Space Invaders” - Pollard Creativity 05 Contact Your last chance to Full contact book! Publisher: Society for information for all Applied Microbiology. Committee members 20 Joint Contact: Lynne Boshier, Office and Events Manager and Interest Groups sfam/ASM Telephone: 01234 326661 Facsimile: 01234 326678 06Mailbox meeting Your letters Editor: Anthony Hilton Bacterial resistance [email protected] to antibiotics and Editorial Assistant: 07 Micro break disinfectants Anouche Newman Find the 20 hidden [email protected] Archaea in our Word 21 GM Crops & scientists searching Search quiz! Contributions: These are Birds for extraterrestrial always welcome and should British Ornithologists life need not be addressed to the Editor 08President’s at: [email protected] Union meeting necessarily leave the column planet Advertising: 21 Joint Contact: Lynne Boshier, 10 Membership Office and Events Manager sfam/CIEH Telephone: 01234 326661 Matters [email protected] meeting 10 sfam AGM Food Contamination Art and Design & layout: 2003 risks associated with Pollard Creativity microorganisms and Production and printing: 11 Design-a- pests Pollard Creativity. All technical questions should bug be addressed to: [email protected] 13 sfam at Tel: 01933 665617 FEMS 2003 30 Could © Society for Applied lichens grow Microbiology 2003 34 Students on Mars? Material published in Microbiologist may not be into Work Richard Armstrong reproduced, stored in a boldly goes where retrieval system, or 38 President’s few microbiologists transmitted in any form without the prior permission Fund have gone before of the Society. Reports and concludes the truth is out there Society for Applied Microbiology, The Blore 43 Books 22 sfam Tower, The Harpur Centre, The editor is always looking Bedford MK40 1TQ, UK 49Press Summer for enthusiastic writers who releases Conference wish to contribute articles to Tel: +44 (0)1234 326661 Microbiologist on their Fax: +44 (0)1234 326678 2004 chosen microbiological email: [email protected] 50 About the Dairy & Food subject. Email: www.sfam.org.uk Society Microbiology [email protected] Editorial Microbiologist Vol 4 No.4 Table talk December 2003 Contact the Editor: ECENTLY I was invited to chair [email protected] a session at a two-day conference on food Microbiologist copy R Dates: contributors please microbiology and attended the note that the final copy conference dinner on the previous night. dates in 2004 will be: The excellent pre-dinner speech was given by Professor Richard Gilbert, OBE who Vol 5 No.1 March 2004 reviewed a series of classic outbreaks of Friday 12 December 2003 foodborne disease in all their D & V glory. I listened with interest as we waited to be Vol 5 No.2 June 2004 served and at one point found myself Friday 12 March 2004 surveying the room to see every delegate Vol 5 No.3 Sept 2004 equally engrossed in the stories. I couldn’t Friday 9 July 2004 help but raise a little smile to myself given the irony of the situation and wondered Vol 5 No.4 Dec 2004 whether any other profession engaged in Friday 17 September 2004 such an equally unusual practice. I imagine each discipline has its ‘stock’ Upon reflection I imagine there isn’t How to submit material conversation; I recall listening-in on an really a problem until there is a multi- Please submit all articles, after-dinner conversation between my disciplinary gathering such as, no doubt, reports, meetings wife, a research fellow in optometry, and will be presented over the festive season. notifications, letters etc., as her colleagues as they discussed the Here some ‘safe’ topic of conversation is plain text (*.txt) or rich text required which while stimulating and files (*.rtf). Please submit removal of the aqueous fluid from a interesting does not interfere with the all images as original patient’s eye. photographic prints or appetite of the uninitiated. I am guilty transparencies rather than myself of converting one of my female scanned images and these friends to vegetarianism as a consequence will be processed by us and of my idle banter about microbiology in returned to you promptly. abattoirs! So, in this issue of the If your images are only in Microbiologist along with the other digital format please make regular features you’ve come to expect, sure they are supplied at a we have compiled a couple of articles resolution of 300dpi (dots which should provide you with perfect or pixels per inch at a size conversational material from the hors- of not less than 100mm (4 inches) square. d’oeuvre right through to the Digestives (and I don’t mean the biscuits!) 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