Spotlight on AI in microbiology – part 1

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. 

Spotlight on AI in microbiology – part 1

With Editor-in-Chief Tania Dottorini and guest speaker Colin Brown.

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.