Professor Judith Armitage FRS to be new Microbiology Society President

Professor Judith Armitage FRS from the University of Oxford will be the new President of the Microbiology Society, beginning 1 January 2019, when the current President, Professor Neil Gow FRS, steps down. Her presidency will run for three years.

Judy is a bacterial physiologist using interdisciplinary approaches to study bacterial behaviour. She joined the Society in the early 1970s as a PhD student, and was the editor of the Journal of Bacteriology for 10 years. She is one of the two Editors-in-Chief of Current Opinions in Microbiology, a member of EMBO, and a Fellow of the American Society of Microbiology and the Royal Society of Biology.

Image: Incoming President Judith Armitage with Outgoing President Neil Gow (left) and Chief Executive Peter Cotgreave (right).