Journal award lecture series
The Society runs several lecture series that allow distinguished scientists to present their work and drive debate.
The Society's annual lectures are given by distinguished active scientists who are making seminal contributions to microbiology and the understanding of microbiological processes. Such individuals may or may not be members of the Society.
These prestigious lectures invite prominent scientists to drive debate and highlight important and inspiring topics in microbiology and how they have applied microbiology to address the challenges we face today.
Environmental Microbiology lecture series
EMI Lecture 2019: Prof. Juan Luis Ramos
The double life of Pseudomonas putida: ubiquitous soil bacteria and useful microbial chassis
EMI Lecture 2018: Professor Ken Timmis
Extremophiles and 20 years of Environmental Microbiology (EMI)
EMI Lecture 2017: Professor Rino Rappuoli
Vaccines for a 21st Century Society
EMI Lecture 2016: Professor Margaret McFall-Ngai
Waging peace: establishment and maintenance of stable alliances between animals and their microbial partners
EMI Lecture 2015: Professor Ken Nealson
Extracellular electron transport (EET): opening new windows of metabolic opportunity for microbes
EMI Lecture 2014: Professor Rita Colwell
Climate, Oceans, Global Warming and Cholera
EMI Lecture 2013: Professor Ed F Delong
Deciphering microbial community dynamics, from genomes to biomes
EMI Lecture 2012: Professor Willy Verstraete
Microbial Resource Management (MRM): the road to go for environmental biotechnology
EMI Lecture 2011: Professor Willem M de Vos
Microbes inside
EMI Lecture 2010: Professor Victor de Lorenzo
Programming soil bacteria to do amazing things
EMI Lecture 2009: Professor Sang Yup Lee
Systems metabolic engineering for a green chemical industry
EMI Lecture 2008: Professor Jim Prosser
Unimaginable, unprecedented, microbial diversity: whence, so what, and can we learn from nitrifiers?
Journal of Applied Microbiology lecture series
JAM Lecture 2018: Professor Albert Bosch
Hepatitis A Virus: New Insights from an Old Acquaintance
JAM Lecture 2017: Professor Koen Venema
The gut microbiota in health and disease: potential for probiotics and prebiotics
JAM Lecture 2016: Dr Max Dow
The DSF family of bacterial cell-cell signal molecules
JAM Lecture 2015: Professor Don Cowan
Functional Metagenomics
JAM Lecture 2014: Professor George Macfarlane
Bacterial metabolism in the large intestine
JAM Lecture 2013: Professor Peter Setlow
When the Sleepers Wake: The Germination of Bacterial Spores