08 October 2026 - Online
This event is led by Microbiology Horizons and is the first installment of a 3-part series. Each webinar explores a different perspective on the rapidly evolving role of artificial intelligence in microbiology, covering cutting-edge research, emerging methods, and real-world applications across policy, public health, and industry. Every session wraps up with an interactive Q&A, ensuring your questions are addressed. To find out more about our new journal, visit Microbiology Horizons.
This session will take place on 8 October at 12:00-13:30 BST.
With Editor-in-Chief Tania Dottorini and guest speaker Colin Brown.
Chaired by the Editor-in-Chief of Microbiology Horizons Tania Dottorini.
Colin Brown is an Infectious Disease & Medical Microbiology consultant working at the UK Health Security Agency on a portfolio of clinical and emerging infection, antimicrobial resistance, and global health. His time is currently split between treating patients with clinical infections (including high-consequence infectious diseases) at the Royal Free Hospital in London, working on domestic infection policy in healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance activities as Deputy Director of the HCAI/AMR Division, and as interim Director of Clinical and Emerging Infections.
Colin Brown's LinkedIn profile and recent publications.
The Spotlight Series is an online event series focusing on content published across the Society’s publishing portfolio and other topics of relevance to our journals and to our authors. Spotlighting interesting studies, emerging and hot topics, and innovative and exciting research, these short online events will feature authors and editors from our publishing portfolio as speakers, giving unique insight into the stories behind the science.
To respect all our delegates privacy we request that you do not take screen grabs, photos or record any of the content, names, people and research during this webinar. We also remind everyone attending our events that some people may may feel uncomfortable with their name, image or research being posted to social media platforms. A recording of the event will be made available to Microbiology Society members shortly afterwards.
| Date and Time | Topic | Speakers |
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08.10.26 12:00-13:30 (BST) |
Spotlight on AI in microbiology – part 1 |
Colin Brown (UK Health Security Agency) and Tania Dottorini (Kings College London and Editor-in-Chief of Microbiology Horizons) |
All seminars will be run via Zoom, a link for which will be sent to you via email prior to the meeting. Please ensure you have updated to the latest version of the Zoom desktop or mobile application (version 5.3 or higher is recommended). Please note all times listed are in UK time.
To respect all our delegates privacy we request that you do not take screen grabs, photos or record any of the content, names, people and research during this webinar. We also remind everyone attending our events that some people may may feel uncomfortable with their name, image or research being posted to social media platforms. A recording of the event will be made available to Microbiology Society members shortly afterwards.