Blog listing

Society Champion Simeon Makafui Nutsuklo (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana), recently organised a fellowship programme at Hive Biolab, aimed at young women in science, to allow them to gain vital experience in a lab. Below, Simeon provides more details and reflects on the experience.

As part of the Society’s grant scheme, microbiologists who have been members for a year or more can apply for Society-Supported Conference Grants to help them in organising scientific conferences. That’s exactly what the organisers of the London Infection Network for ECRs (LINE) did ahead of organising their annual symposium for early career researchers (ECRs) in June 2026. Below, they reflect on the experience of organising the symposium and the importance of the event to the community it serves.

Supported by the Education and Outreach Grant, the AMR graphic novel project is an incredible cross-disciplinary project bringing together scientific expertise and creative art to produce an open-resource graphic novel.

From the RCPath/Specialist Society Medical Elective small grant scheme: Daisy Liu reflects on five eye-opening weeks during their elective in Sri Lanka.

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.  

In this blog, meet one of this year’s winners, Dr Elizabeth O'Gorman. 

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.  

In this blog, meet one of this year’s winners, Oluwatosin Orababa, who will present in the Microbiology Society - Infectious Disease Futures Session at FIS on 4 December 2025.

The Society offers a limited number of Vacation Studentships to enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during their summer vacation. The scheme also gives early- and mid-career scientists the opportunity to gain supervision experience.

Meet the Vacation Studentships recipients and learn more about their journey.

This year, the Microbiology Society is awarding Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prizes from two streams. Both prizes recognise excellence in science communication by a member who is an undergraduate, postgraduate student or within five years of appointment to their first position.

Each of the finalists, who either presented a poster or offered a talk at Annual Conference 2025, was selected to present their research in the poster or talk final. In the lead-up to the talk final, taking place on 7 October 2025 during the Executive Committee meeting, we speak to talk finalist Liam Walsh, from Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland.