Title: A blog from the President, Professor Gordon Dougan FRS
November 19, 2025
In his third blog, the Society’s President, Professor Gordon Dougan FRS, writes about his experiences as he approaches the end of his first year in the role.
November 19, 2025
In his third blog, the Society’s President, Professor Gordon Dougan FRS, writes about his experiences as he approaches the end of his first year in the role.
November 19, 2025
Every year, the Society's General Secretary oversees our prize awards process, through which the exceptional prize awardees of our six Prize Lectures are identified. You can find more information about all of the prizes and former winners on our Prize Lectures pages.
Below is a short blog post from our current General Secretary, Karen Robinson, about how the process works. We encourage you to nominate a colleague, or volunteer to be on the Prize Award Panel, so that you can help us to ensure that future Prize Lectures continue to be inspirational.
November 18, 2025
LGBTQ+ STEM Day takes place annually on 18 November to celebrate and highlight the work and barriers of LGBTQIA+ people in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
This year, we caught up with Members Panel member, Liam Cremona. He shared his insights and journey as a Gay person working in STEM.
November 12, 2025
Prof Mark Webber from the Quadram Institute, UK, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Common food preservatives induce an oxidative stress response in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium' published in Microbiology.
November 6, 2025
In 2019, a mysterious contaminant lead to the start of Contamination Club, an online club dedicated to weird and wonderful intruders. In this month's Microbe Talk, two of the team, Rob Moran and Greg McCallum, join us to talk about their journey and the online community that they've built.
November 5, 2025
Cristina Landeta of the Indiana University Bloomington, US, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Disulphide bond-forming enzymes in clostridial species' published in Microbiology.
November 1, 2025
Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, which details newly discovered species of bacteria, fungi and protists. Here are some of the new species that have been discovered and the places they've been found.
October 30, 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.
October 28, 2025
Zala Kogej Zwitter of the National Institute of Biology, Slovenia, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'From vineyard to genome: optimized enrichment and sequencing of Flavescence dorée phytoplasma from grapevine samples' published in Microbial Genomics.
October 23, 2025
The Microbiology Society is saddened to share the untimely passing of Dr Girish Beedessee, an active and much-respected member of the Society.