Annual Conference 2025 – A social media outlook

Posted on April 10, 2025   by Leisha Wan

On 31 March - 03 April 2025, we hosted the Annual Conference 2025 at ACC Liverpool. We’ve turned to X and Bluesky to look back at some of the highlights!

The conference took place over three days alongside around 530 poster presentations, 70 invited speakers, and 240 offered talks. We are grateful to all our Prize Lecture winners, delegates, exhibitors, poster presenters, speakers, session Chairs and organisers for helping to make Annual Conference 2025 a success.

We were pleased to welcome over 1,250 registered delegates and to see how excited the whole community was for #Microbio25!

A lovely warm welcome at ACC Liverpool, We recognised a few familiar faces...

New to Bluesky, but not to #microbio25 - great to be back at Micro soc and back in Liverpool 😁 Come say hi!

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— Jess Buddle (@buddlejess.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM

Daniel travelled 7,168 miles from Chile to sunny Liverpool:

Crossing the Andes again from Chile 🇨🇱 for the #Microbiology Society Conference 2025 !! @microbiologysociety.org 🇬🇧🥹 Looking forward to meeting fantastic people and science!! 🦠🧫🧬 See you at #Microbio25 ✨

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— Daniel Plaza Sáez (@dplazasaez.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM

Some smiley faces on the train en route to #Microbio25:

On our way to The Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2025 #Microbio25 with Post-Docs Subhadeep Gupta and Molly Webster!! 🧫🔬🦠☕☕☕

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— Ozan Gundogdu (@ozangundogdu11.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM

Francis enjoying his first-ever international conference!

I have been enjoying my first international conference so far. Thanks @microbiologysociety.org for the travel awards. While I have gained communication skills, I have equally listened to great talks and met some incredible people #microbio25

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— Francis (@fgyapong.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM

University of Glasgow Bacteriologists representing at #Microbio25:

University of Glasgow Bacteriologists representing at #Microbio25 @uofgsii.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org

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— Justine Rudkin (@scousemicrobe.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM

Dr Houldcroft having fun water rafting while at #Microbio25: 

Who needs a lab coat when you’ve got a Microbiology Society-themed bowtie?

Seen a few dapper gents at #Microbio25 in waistcoats and good shoes. Well In. Maybe there's a market for an MSoc necktie/bowtie @MicrobioSoc

— Nabil-Fareed Alikhan (@happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy) April 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM

Poster day for me, so this was literally the first protocol I googled this morning. I decline to answer on the number of attempts. Still time to see me at A303 in the second session- learn how to make your research accessible to secondary school students (I guarantee it's possible!) #Microbio25

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— Joe Weaver (@joeeweaver.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM

As the Annual Conference 2025 kicked off, our Chief Executive, Dr Peter Cotgreave, was delighted to welcome everyone:

 

Exhibitors

Our exhibitors were buzzing on social media and looking forward to the week ahead:

One stall had a visit from the Easter bunny!

While others had eye-catching poster displays: 

Look what I found! #Microbio25 @microbesng.bsky.social @plasmidsng.bsky.social

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— Aisling Brady (@aislingbrady.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM

 

Prize Lectures

We were thrilled to host a series of Prize Lectures throughout the week, presented by our eminent microbiologists Prof Richard Lenski, Prof George Salmond, Prof David Aanensen, I’ah Donovan-Banfield, Dr Ariangela Kozik, Dr Nikea Pittman, Dr Chelsey Spriggs, Dr Ninecia Scott and Dr Kishana Taylor, Prof Cesar de la Fuente and Prof Lindsay Hall

Their talks highlighted impactful scientific contributions to the field of microbiology from around the world.

Time to sit back and hear from a legend of microbiology. @relenski.bsky.social #microbio25

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— Nick Loman (@pathogenomenick.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM

What a fantastic and highly relevant way to start #Microbio25 with a wonderful presentation by the Black Microbiologists Association as our EDI prize winning lecture.

— Alan McNally (@alanmcn1.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM

 

Scientific Sessions

The scientific sessions at #Microbio25 featured a mix of symposia, workshops, and presentations from both invited and submitted speakers. They offered a fantastic platform to highlight research from early career and experienced microbiologists alike.

Here are some highlights below:

Great talk yesterday at #Microbio25 from @whelanfj.bsky.social about evolution of an epidemic PA strain over 30 years!

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— Taoran Fu (@taoranfu.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM

 

Poster Presentations

Arrived at #Microbio25 and my poster is A044

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— pricarlon.bsky.social (@pricarlon.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM

Please go check out poster 311 during the poster session to hear all about the inspiring project that is Flow.Walk.Drag 💧👣👩‍🎤 So cool to have this at @microbiologysociety.org this year 🤩 #MicroBio25 #QueerInSTEM #QueerinMicro 🏳️‍🌈🦠🧫

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— Rebee (@rebee.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM

at #Microbio25

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— Taoran Fu (@taoranfu.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM

Super proud of @megllewellyn.bsky.social presenting her first ever poster at #Microbio25 today. Don't miss it!

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— Aleksei Agapov (@alekseiagapov.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM

 

Social sessions

The Society was delighted and thankful to our Champions and Early Career (EC) microbiologists for hosting social events to offer informal opportunities for delegates to make new friends, forge future collaborations and have fun!

 

Get involved

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Prize Lectures. These awards celebrate outstanding contributions across the field of microbiology. If you know someone whose work deserves recognition, don’t miss this chance to put their name forward.

The deadline for nominations is 15 June 2025. Members are also invited to apply to join the judging panel that will evaluate this year’s submissions. For more information on how to nominate or apply to be on the panel, visit our Prize Lectures page

We have 42 Governance vacancies open; apply by 22 April 2025. Find out more and submit your application here. 

Want to get involved and become a Champion? Find out more on our more on our Society Champions web page.

Publishing for the community

Annual Conference is only possible due to the revenue and content in our journals. Publishing one article with us generates the revenue to fund four early career members to attend Annual Conference.

Learn more about #PublishingForTheCommunity on our website.

Thank you!

On behalf of everyone at the Microbiology Society, we want to say a huge thank you to all who attended, presented and helped Chair and co-Chair sessions at Annual Conference 2025. We hope you enjoyed the Conference as much as we did, and we look forward to welcoming you back for Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast!

Massive thanks to all the staff of our society for another excellent conference… now time to return the favour by publishing in journals run by a society that supports us with grants and events like this! #Microbio25 @microbiologysociety.org

— Tadhg O Croinin (@tadhgocroinin.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM

Wonderful few days at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference. It was lovely to see such a range of research and to meet people from across the discipline. #microbio25

— Lily Massey (@lilymassey.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM

Thanks for a great week @microbiologysociety.org, we had a blast at the #Microbio25 Annual Conference in Liverpool! A lovely full circle moment bringing my own PhD students to the conference nearly 15 years after my first Microsoc conference as a student!

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— Shivkumar Lab (@shivkumarlab.bsky.social) April 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM

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