Professor Judith Armitage FRS to be new Microbiology Society President
06 November 2018
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).