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Dr Christina Bronowski on behalf of the Microbiome-Net team  

What have microbes ever done for us? It turns out the answer is almost everything we can think of. Microbial communities help us digest food and train our immune systems. They help plants grow, make our yoghurt and beer, clean up pollution and keep insect pests in check. The list is endless, and so is the potential for research.  

The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2027 Prizes, which will be awarded at Society’s Annual Conference 2027 in Birmingham from 12–15 April, where the winners will present their Prize Lectures. The winners are nominated by, and selected by, our membership.

Dr Victoria Orr at the University of Liverpool, UK, takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'The pQBR mercury resistance plasmids: a model set of sympatric environmental mobile genetic elements' in Microbial Genomics.

Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, which details newly discovered species of bacteria, fungi and protists. New to Science is a monthly blog series unravelling these latest microbial discoveries.

The Microbiology Society is proud to support networks aimed at microbiologists from historically marginalised backgrounds.

The Microbiology Society submitted evidence to Ireland’s COVID-19 Evaluation on behalf of microbiologists working in the Republic of Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Society Champion Simeon Makafui Nutsuklo (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana), recently organised a fellowship programme at Hive Biolab, aimed at young women in science, to allow them to gain vital experience in a lab. Below, Simeon provides more details and reflects on the experience.

The Microbiology Society's founding journal, Microbiology, has been publishing the latest advances in microbiology since 1947 (then the Journal of General Microbiology). Today, the publication reflects the diversity and importance of microbiology in addressing current global challenges, such as food security, environmental sustainability, and health, publishing fundamental and applied research across the breadth of the field.

Dr Sarah Walsh, Rebecca Ross, Prof Pablo Murcia and Prof Edward Hutchinson at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, UK, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication, 'Bovine mammary tissues are susceptible to infection by viruses bearing panzootic H5N1 influenza A virus glycoproteins' , published in Microbiology.