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Microbiologist – Published four times a year, in this professionally produced full-colour magazine is receiving critical acclaim from microbiologists around the world. In addition to keeping SfAM members up-to-date on all Society matters, Microbiologist provides detailed information on their Meetings and contains reports and feature articles on a wide variety of microbiological topics. If you are interested in receiving Microbiologist please visit the SfAM's member pages at http://www.sfam.org.uk/join.html.

From the December issue of Microbiologist  , the SfAM's critically acclaimed member newsletter: 

• Culture Collection Training Course: INBio, Costa Rica 
• Education in Ethiopia 
• Gonorrhoea: An unlikely love affair 
• Poems, Paintings and Penile Chancres 
• The use of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) in applied microbiology 
• Biodiversity conservation in Costa Rica: the INBio experience.    

From the March issue of Microbiologist:

• Bioterrorism – the use of infectious biological agents in warfare (.pdf)
• Is there a bug on board? – The process of immunomagnetic separation (.pdf)
• The good, the bad and the ugly – Clostrudium botulinum neurotoxins (.pdf)   

From the September issue of Microbiologist  , the SfAM's critically acclaimed member newsletter: 

• Tenants of the last 1.5 metres 
• Education in Ethiopia 
• Lichens, Lichenometry and Global Warming 
• Suspicious Packages