Microbiology Society

14/08/2026

Investing in Microbiology Society membership is investing in your future.

Access grants like out Research Visit and Society Events Grants. Full, Full Concessionary and Postgraduate Student members are eligible to apply for all of our grants (with the exception of the Vacation Studentship Grant for Postgraduate Student members). Undergraduate or Master's Student members can apply for our Society Events Grants. Members become eligible following a year of membership and two consecutive membership payments.

Members can also access discounts on publishing Open Access in Society titles (if not already covered by an institutional agreement) and attend Society events at reduced rates, including our Annual Conference.

Become a member – join today via the link in our bio.

13/08/2026

Champion, Suchandra Gupta (SGT University, India), recently organised an event in a local village. The aim was to help spread the word about antimicrobial resistance and the gut microbiome to secondary school students. Find out how it went:

Champion, Suchandra Gupta (SGT University, India), recently organised an event in a local village, to help spread the word about antimicrobial resistance and the gut microbiome to secondary school students. Below, Suchandra provides more details and reflects on the experience.

12/08/2026

🔍Could manipulating microbial interactions tackle antimicrobial resistance?

Check out our latest Micro Briefing highlighting a new review on the influence of interactions between microbes on the occurrence of resistance mutations, published in Microbiology. Read the full article by following the link in bio🔗

12/08/2026

Deputy Editor-in-Chief roles are open across multiple journals within the Society's portfolio. If you are passionate about helping to implement our development strategies and taking on an editorial leadership role, find more here:

View the current job vacancies at the Microbiology Society.

12/08/2026

Why should you submit to Microbiology Outlooks? Hear from one of Microbiology Outlooks’ Editors, Bruno Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira, on the importance of this journal to the scientific community. Find out more about by clicking the link in our bio.

11/08/2026

🗓️ Save the date! The Microbiology Society Annual Meeting in Ireland 2026 is happening 3–4 November at the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone.

This one-and-a-half-day meeting celebrates the best of microbiology research across Ireland, with talks from Gordon Dougan, Kevin Kavanagh, Fiona Brennan, Brendan Gilmore, Julie Renwick and Liam Fanning — plus plenty of opportunities to connect with the wider microbiology community.

Registration will open soon. Follow this page or check the event page for the announcement: https://microb.io/MicrobioIrish26

09/08/2026

Today marks International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Recognising the needs and cultural diversity of Indigenous communities worldwide.

To mark the occasion, Skylar Gay, a member of our Members' Panel and representative on the Building Communities Committee, shares reflections on her Indigenous roots and the influence of Indigenous practices on microbiology.

Read the full piece on our blog: link in our bio! 🌍

07/08/2026

Registration for IMAV 2026 closes soon!

IMAV brings together scientists at every career stage to build the international collaboration needed to tackle arboviruses and the vectors that carry them.

Don't miss your chance to be part of the conversation, join us in Liverpool.

👉 https://microb.io/IMAV26

06/08/2026

The latest perspective led by Annual Conference 2026 Prize Medal winner, Prof Paul Williams, on the current understandings of quorum sensing dives deep into its mechanisms, knowledge gaps and potential translational opportunities.

Read the full article here by following the link in bio🔗

05/08/2026

Welcome to Micro mic: A new video series sharing what your community is doing to understand and tackle antimicrobial resistance.

First up, watch as we challenge researchers to summarise their work in ten words... Can they do it? Well, we handed them the Micro mic to them to find out!