Blog listing

Our Champions Scheme allows members to promote microbiology and the Society in their local areas by providing funding and resources for a variety of activities. In November 2025, Champion, Bamidele Odumosu (University of Lagos, Nigeria), organised an outreach activity for high school students, to promote World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW), the Society and our Knocking Out AMR project. Below, Bamidele shares his insights and reflections on the activity.

📣 Episode 183 of Microbe Talk is out now!

On 13–16 April 2026, we hosted the Annual Conference 2026 at ICC Belfast. We’ve turned to social media to look back at some of the highlights!

I am delighted to welcome you all to Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast.

As we approach Annual Conference 2026, where members of our community come together from all over the world, Prokaryotic Division member, Prerna Vohra (University of Edinburgh, UK), reflects on the importance of names.

As the UK’s Covid-19 Inquiry has finished hearing evidence and is starting to issue detailed reports on its various modules, there is an opportunity to reflect on the contribution that members of the Microbiology Society made to the national effort.   

In this month's Microbe Talk, Charlotte Holtum (Head of Engagement & Storytelling) welcomes guests Dr Alicia Demirjian (UK Health Security Agency and Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust) and Dr Yoann Personne (bioMérieux), to explore an underdiscussed corner of the antimicrobial resistance conversation: its management with sepsis. They discuss what underpins the real-world relationship of AMR and sepsis, improving antibiotic stewardship in hospitals, and addressing these issues sooner rather than later.