{"id":2255,"date":"2019-05-22T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2019-05-22T12:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:03:31","slug":"finalist-in-the-young-microbiologist-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/05\/22\/finalist-in-the-young-microbiologist-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Finalist in the Young Microbiologist of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Petch, a final year PhD student in the Kent Fungal Group supervised by Mick Tuite, has been selected as a finalist in the 2019 Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year competition. This award, made by the UK-based Microbiology Society, \u201c\u2026<em>recognises and rewards excellence in science communication to a member presenting a poster or offered paper at the Society\u2019s Annual Conference<\/em> &#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura presented her poster at this year\u2019s Microbiology Society Annual Conference in Belfast. The poster was entitled \u201cThe impact of natural genetic variation on protein aggregation in <em>Saccharomyces<\/em> species\u201d. In the final of the competition, to be held in September in London, Laura will give an oral presentation on her research.<br \/>\nThis recognition bodes well for Laura\u2019s planned career in teaching after she finishes her PhD studies.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/05\/22\/finalist-in-the-young-microbiologist-of-the-year-award\/&amp;t=Finalist in the Young Microbiologist of the Year Award' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Finalist in the Young Microbiologist of the Year Award%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/05\/22\/finalist-in-the-young-microbiologist-of-the-year-award\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/05\/22\/finalist-in-the-young-microbiologist-of-the-year-award\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/05\/22\/finalist-in-the-young-microbiologist-of-the-year-award\/&amp;title=Finalist in the Young Microbiologist of the Year Award' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/05\/22\/finalist-in-the-young-microbiologist-of-the-year-award\/&amp;title=Finalist in the Young Microbiologist of the Year Award' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Petch, a final year PhD student in the Kent Fungal Group supervised by Mick Tuite, has been selected as a finalist in the 2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/05\/22\/finalist-in-the-young-microbiologist-of-the-year-award\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5212,"featured_media":2259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80390,124,54289,1],"tags":[184229,164391,70,80425,27303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}