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A two-day conference, marking the 300th anniversary of the death of Dutch microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, will be held at the Royal Society in September.

We highlight some recent papers in microbiology, neuroscience and bioinformatics to help you decide if your next submission should be to peer reviewed open access journal; Open Biology.

A recently published Proceedings B article used a macroecological approach to investigate factors influencing why some parasites show a tendency to infect species in their host phylogeny, while others don’t.

Organisms living in cold environments are uniquely adapted to resist or withstand freezing temperatures. The Antarctic bacterium Marinomonas primoryensis is no exception.

Lyme disease is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Spread by deer and sheep ticks, it affects over 1000 people each year in the UK and over 300,000 in the USA.