The Microbiology Society is a membership charity for scientists interested in microbes, their effects and their practical uses.

It is one of the largest microbiology societies in Europe with a worldwide membership based in universities, industry, hospitals, research institutes and schools.

Latest from the Society

  • Meet 2024 Infection Science Awardee: Dr Eva Bernadett Benyei

    18 April 2024

    The Microbiology Society Infection Science Award aims to support the exchange of ideas and the career development of promising early career and trainee researchers, helping to translate microbiological research to the clinic. The scheme facilitates selected presenters from the Federation of Infection Society (FIS) conference to present their work at Annual Conference.
    In this blog, meet one of this year’s awardees, Dr Eva Bernadett Benyei (PhD student at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge), who presented in the Infection Forum session at Annual Conference 2024 last week.

  • Meet Infection Science Awardee: Dr Neil Cunningham

    17 April 2024

    The Microbiology Society Infection Science Award aims to support the exchange of ideas and the career development of promising early career and trainee researchers, helping to translate microbiological research to the clinic. The scheme facilitates selected presenters from the Federation of Infection Society (FIS) conference to present their work at Annual Conference.

    In this blog, meet one of this year’s awardees, Dr Neil Cunningham (Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust), who presented in the Infection Forum session at Annual Conference 2024 last week.

  • Professor Michael Goodfellow (1941–2024): a tribute

    16 April 2024

    The Microbiology Society is saddened to report the death of Mike Goodfellow on 8 March 2024, following a short illness. He was 83 and still highly active. Mike was the preeminent authority on the systematics of the actinomycetes (now formally named Actinomycetota Goodfellow 2021) and was committed to using systematics as the framework for ecological understanding and effective bioprospecting of these hugely important bacteria.

  • Candida albicans, a Dazzling Fungus: Application of a Novel Fluorescent Protein

    16 April 2024

    Jonas Devos takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'A multi-colour fluorogenic tag and its application in Candida albicans'  published in Microbiology

 

Publishing Fundamentals Workshop May 2024

20 May 2024