Italian Society for General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology (IT-SIMGBM)
Organizational remit
- Congress of Microbiology (biennial, odd years)
- Bacterial Genetics meeting (aka Cortona procarioti, biennial, even years)
- Congress of the Italian Federation of Life Sciences (biennial, even years)
- Environmental Microbiology meeting (Bertinoro)
- Courses
- Summer schools
- Annual prizes to Early Career Scientists (“Franco Tatò” prize to a selected PhD thesis in Microbial Biotechnology; “Mario Campa” prize to a selected PhD thesis in General Microbiology; “Naicons” prize to a selected research paper on Bioactive Microbial Molecules)
Membership
Membership location: national/international
Membership scope: basic and applied research in the following areas:
- Agro-food microbiology
- Environmental microbiology
- Industrial microbiology
- Medical microbiology
- Microbial biotechnology
- Microbial genetics
- Microbial physiology
- Virology
| Membership type | fee (currency) | NOtes |
| Full member (with permanent position) |
60 | |
| Full member (with temporary position) |
30 | |
| Junior member (<31 yr) | FREE | first 3 years |
| Junior member (<31 yr) | 30 | after first 3 years |
How to join
Members must be active researchers in at least one of the fields listed in the scope (see above). Applicants must be presented by a full member and provide a CV.
Download application forms: http://www.simgbm.it/articoli-generici/8-diventa-socio.html
Contact point: Membership Officer
Lucia Ugo
Secretary
Contact point: FEMS Delegate
Prof. Ezio Ricca
FEMS Delegate
Request additional contact details via fems@fems-microbiology.org
History
The Italian Society for General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology (SIMGBM) was established in 1982. The SIMGBM mission is to foster research and promote collaboration among Italian microbiologists and microbial biotechnologists from academia, research centers and industry. Main areas of interest are:
- Agro-food microbiology
- Environmental microbiology
- Industrial microbiology
- Medical microbiology
- Microbial biotechnology
- Microbial genetics
- Microbial physiology
- Virology
All but one of the FEMS journals are now fully open access (OA), with one journal, FEMS Microbiology Letters remaining a subscription journal with free-to-publish and OA options. Open access is key to supporting the FEMS mission of disseminating high quality research as widely as possible: when high quality, peer reviewed sound science is open access, anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection, can read it.
