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On 31 March - 03 April 2025, we hosted the Annual Conference 2025 at ACC Liverpool. We’ve turned to X and Bluesky to look back at some of the highlights!

Thank you to everyone who attended the Annual Coference 2025 in Liverpool. If the week has left you wanting more, or you were unable to make it this time, don't worry, as we've put together a special miniseries of podcasts featuring speakers from the programme.

The second annual London Infection Postdoc Network (LIPN) symposium, an event organised by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) for ECRs, was held on the 10^th  June at the Francis Crick Institute. The LIPN Committee, is looking back on their ongoing learning experiences and the lessons learned after two symposiums, ten seminars and more than two years of collaboration.

On 8-11 April 2024, we hosted the Annual Conference 2024 in ICC Edinburgh. We’ve turned to X (formerly known as Twitter) to look back at some of the highlights!

Dr Claas Kirchhelle from University College Dublin will be giving the Hot Topic Lecture: "Faecal Flows – a very short history of microbiology, sewers, and Britain's rivers (ca.1850-2023)" at this years Annual Conference. Clare spoke to Claas to find out how he's feeling ahead of his lecture and to pick his brain about his intriguing research area.

Dr Aisling Brady and Yueyi Cai take us through their experiences in public outreach at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, bridging the gap between scientific breakthroughs and public awareness. 

Dr Monika Gostic takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Reflections on the Teaching Symposium at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2023' published in Access Microbiology.

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. The scheme facilitates selected presenters from the Infection Forum at Annual Conference to present their work at the Federation of Infection Society (FIS) conference.

In this blog meet one of this year’s awardees, James Larkin (University College Cork, Ireland), who will be presenting in the Infectious Disease session taking place on 15 November 2023 at FIS 2023.

In the latest edition of Microbiology Today we launched our brand-new project 'Knocking out AMR'. So for the next two episodes of Microbe Talk we're bringing you conversations with our members who are working on antimicrobial resistance. For this episode, Clare spoke to Professor Chloe James from the University of Salford about all things AMR.

The Microbiology Society Annual Meeting in Ireland took place as in person meeting between 24 – 25 October 2023 and was held in Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone, Ireland. We've turned to Twitter to take a look at some of the highlights!

Bactobio is a biotechnology company that uses next-generation sequencing, machine learning and bioengineering to culture the 99% of microbes which have previously been unculturable. Their first targets are to discover novel antibiotics against the most pressing bacterial infections and help make plant protection sustainable.

We spoke to Microbiology Society member, Dr Mark Wilkinson, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Bactobio to find out more about how they are hoping to tackle the antimicrobial resistance crisis.

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. The scheme facilitates selected presenters from the Infection Forum at Annual Conference to present their work at the Federation of Infection Society (FIS) conference.

In this blog meet one of this year’s awardees, Blanca Perez-Sepulveda (University of Liverpool, UK), who will be presenting in the Infectious Disease session taking place on 15 November 2023 at FIS 2023.

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. The scheme facilitates selected presenters from the Infection Forum at Annual Conference to present their work at the Federation of Infection Society (FIS) conference.

In this blog, meet one of this year’s awardees, Amber Barton (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK), who will be presenting in the Infectious Disease session taking place on 15 November 2023 at FIS 2023.

This year the Microbiology Society is hosting FIS (the Federation of Infection Societies (FIS) conference) in partnership with HIS and BIA. FIS is all about fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration, so in this episode of Microbe Talk Clare speaks to Professor Elaine Cloutman-Green, a microbiologist whose work spans clinical, lab, and patient-facing roles about the importance of collaboration across microbiology disciplines. 

Dr Azul Zorzoli takes us through the highlights of NorthTick 2023.

Anaerobe 2023 took place on 12–14 July 2023 at the Leonardo Hotel, Cardiff. In this blog, we take a look at the highlights from twitter. 

This June, the first annual London Infection Postdoc Network (LIPN) symposium was held at the Francis Crick Institute. The LIPN Committee, the group of Early Career Researchers that put together this event, reflect on the journey till the day of the event and what they have learnt from the experience. 

Candida and Candidiasis 2023 took place on 13–17 May 2023 at the Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel, Canada. In this blog, we take a look at the highlights from Twitter.

On 17–20 April 2023, we hosted Annual Conference 2023 in ICC Birmingham. We’ve turned to Twitter to take a look back at some of the highlights!
 

Vaccines As Tools to Combat Antimicrobial Resisitance took place as  in person meeting between 27–28 February 2023 and was held in Edgebaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre in Birmingham, UK. We've turned to Twitter to take a look at some of the highlights!