2015 History of Microbiology Research Travel Award Recipient

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 481-482
Keyword(s):  
Award Recipient ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Microbiology ◽  
Microbiology Research

History of Microbiology in Australia

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 371-374
Author(s):  
E.L. French
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
History Of Microbiology

scholarly journals Women physicians underrepresented in American Academy of Neurology recognition awards

Neurology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 91 (7) ◽  
pp. e603-e614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie K. Silver ◽  
Anna M. Bank ◽  
Chloe S. Slocum ◽  
Cheri A. Blauwet ◽  
Saurabha Bhatnagar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Primary Outcome ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Women Physicians ◽  
Award Recipient ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Individual Physician ◽  
Recognition Award ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Academy Of Neurology

ObjectiveTo investigate representation by gender among recipients of physician recognition awards presented by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).MethodsWe analyzed lists of individual recipients over the 63-year history of the AAN recognition awards. Included were awards intended primarily for physician recipients that recognized a body of work over the course of a career. The primary outcome measures were total numbers and proportions of men and women physician award recipients.ResultsDuring the period studied, the proportion of women increased from 18% (1996) to 31.5% (2016) among AAN US neurologist members and from 18.6% (1992) to 35% (2015) in academia, and the AAN presented 323 awards to physician recipients. Of these recipients, 264 (81.7%) were men and 59 (18.3%) were women. During the most recent 10-year period studied (2008–2017), the proportion of women increased from 24.7% (2008) to 31.5% (2016) among AAN US neurologist members and from 28% (2009) to 35% (2015) in academia, and the AAN presented 187 awards to physician recipients, comprising 146 men (78.1%) and 41 women (21.9%). Although it has been more than 2 decades since the proportion of women among US neurologist members of the AAN was lower than 18%, 1 in 4 AAN award categories demonstrated 0% to 18% representation of women among physician recipients during the most recent decade. Moreover, for highly prestigious awards, underrepresentation was more pronounced.ConclusionAlthough the reasons why are not clear, women were often underrepresented among individual physician recognition award recipient lists, particularly for highly prestigious awards.

scholarly journals Inflammation, suppuration, putrefaction, fermentation: Joseph Lister's microbiology

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Survival Rates ◽  
High Survival ◽  
Causative Role ◽  
King's College ◽  
Inaugural Lecture ◽  
Pure Bacterial Culture ◽  
Lecture Theatre ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Microbiology

This paper focuses on Lister's inaugural lecture at King's College, London, in October 1877. As the new Professor of Clinical Surgery, Lister had much to report, including impressively high survival rates from complex operations previously regarded as foolhardy. Instead, he chose to address the processes of fermentation in wine, blood and milk. His reasons are not obvious to a modern audience, just as they probably were not to those who heard him in the Great Hall at King's. Having brought microbiological apparatus from his laboratory to the lecture theatre and presented proof of bacterial variety and specificity, Lister publicly demonstrated the creation of the first pure bacterial culture in the history of microbiology. It was an ingenious and well-thought-out strategy designed to generate a frame of mind among his new colleagues and future students, receptive to the causative role of bacteria in septic diseases. His timing was impeccable.

scholarly journals How the Microbial World Saved Evolution from the Scylla of Molecular Biology and the Charybdis of the Modern Synthesis

2009 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl R. Woese ◽  
Nigel Goldenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Microbial Ecology ◽  
Microbial World ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
History Of Microbiology

SUMMARY In this commentary, we provide a personal overview of the conceptual history of microbiology and molecular biology over the course of the last hundred years, emphasizing the relationship of these fields to the problem of evolution. We argue that despite their apparent success, all three reached an impasse that arose from the influence of dogmatic or overly narrow perspectives. Finally, we describe how recent developments in microbiology are realizing Beijerinck's vision of a field that is fully integrated with molecular biology, microbial ecology, thereby challenging and extending current thinking in evolution.

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