December 5, 2025

5 December is International Volunteer Day and it’s a great opportunity for us to highlight why Microbiology Society volunteers have decided to become Champions and have generously given their time to promote microbiology and the Society in their local areas.  
 
This year, we want to show appreciation to Champions who contribute to the Society in many different ways. They have attended events on our behalf; organised their own events; taken part in interviews, written blogs and even helped the Society go viral on LinkedIn! Champions have also played a vital role in the Society’s focus on equality, diversity and inclusion by providing content for awareness days and organising social events for members of our community from historically marginalised groups.

December 3, 2025

International Day of Persons with Disabilities takes place every year on 3 December, during UK Disability History Month. Both look to highlight the challenges faced by Disabled people. Member, Iga Wieczorek, has provided insights on her personal experiences, those of others and what needs to change.

December 2, 2025

In this Editor’s Spotlight, Senior Editor, Jesse Shapiro, takes a closer look at this featured paper ‘No innocent bystanders: pertussis vaccination and evolutionary parallelisms between Bordetella parapertussis and Bordetella pertussis’, recently published in Microbial Genomics. 
 

December 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.  

November 27, 2025

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. 

November 25, 2025

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.

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.