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Since the public launch of ChatGPT in 2022, large language models have been rapidly adopted, bringing artificial intelligence (AI) into everyday use and significantly shaping scientific research and publishing.

From the RCPath/Specialist Society Medical Elective small grant scheme: Daisy Liu reflects on five eye-opening weeks during their elective in Sri Lanka.

Following a successful Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) session at Annual Conference 2026, organisers Arindam Mitra, Bruno Silvester Lopes, Catherine Lawler and Guerrino Macori reflect on learnings from the session’s workshop.

Ahead of the 2026 Fleming Prize Lecture, Martina Chukwu interviewed Professor Antonia Ho to learn more about her career and how it feels to win a Microbiology Society prize.

Ahead of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize lecture 2026, Ashish William interviewed Dr Landon J. Getz, Dr Nicholas de Mojana di Cologna, Katie L. Barnes, Dr Bruno Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira and Dr Edel Pérez-López to learn more about their careers and how it feels to win a Microbiology Society prize.

As the UK’s Covid-19 Inquiry has finished hearing evidence and is starting to issue detailed reports on its various modules, there is an opportunity to reflect on the contribution that members of the Microbiology Society made to the national effort.   

The Microbiology Society is coordinating a collective statement from microbiologists working in the Republic of Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sewage spills have worsened in recent years, leading to severe and widespread pollution of UK waters [1]. This has rightly drawn significant public attention, with communities expressing outrage at the damage to their local environments and the risks to their health. As a result, sewage and other wastewater pollution have become firmly established on policymakers’ agendas. 

The Microbiology Society has launched a new survey to gather insights from members and the wider microbiology community on artificial intelligence (AI). 

Thanks to the support of subscribing institutions, the Microbiology Society is pleased to confirm that we have again met our sustainability target for the Journal of General Virology  and the Journal of Medical Microbiology  under the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model for 2026. All content published in these titles in the next year will be published as permanently Open Access (OA). 

For over a century, the cornerstone of modern medicine has been a simple yet profound truth: cleanliness saves lives. Infection control is not merely a hospital policy; it is the fundamental shield that allows complex surgeries and life-saving treatments to occur safely. However, as we move further into the 21st century, we are discovering that this shield is being challenged by the very nature of the microbial world we inhabit. 

The Microbiology Society welcomes the proposal to reform the water industry as detailed in their white paper, ‘A New Vision for Water’,  published on 20 January 2026.  

Peter Katsande at the Central Veterinary Laboratories in Harare, Zimbabwe, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Genetic diversity and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Salmonella enterica in the broiler supply chain in Harare, Zimbabwe: tracking transmission from farm to table', published in Microbial Genomics.

The Microbiology Society and the Association of Laboratory Medicine have joined forces to respond to the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) consultation on enabling pharmacists flexibilities when dispensing medicines.

The Microbiology Society was proud to lead a policy workshop at this year's Innovations Against AMR Summit, held at the University of Warwick, UK.  

A new policy briefing on the evolving research around biofilms and the challenges of tackling them in order to improve antibiotic treatments.

The challenges facing society are multidisciplinary and evolving in nature. Powerful new tools are emerging in fields such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning that can provide insights into large datasets that the human eye misses. There is also an opportunity to improve technologies based on imaging and sequence analysis to capture novel data. At the Microbiology Society, we recognise that microbiology offers powerful insight for addressing these future opportunities, and we are delighted to announce a new multidisciplinary journal joining our popular and successful portfolio: Microbiology Horizons.

As part of the Knocking Out AMR project, the Microbiology Society has published a new report summarising the discussions from a One Health AMR Surveillance Roundtable, held in December 2024.

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.

The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes, which will be awarded at Society’s Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast from 13–16 April, where the winners will present their Prize Lectures. The winners are nominated by, and selected by, our membership.  
 
The Microbiology Society’s Prizes recognise excellence and are awarded to those making significant contributions in the field of microbiology, based on nominations received from across the membership. Winners are selected for their work to advance understanding of microbiology and champion the contribution made by microbiology, our members and their work in addressing global challenges.