Spanish Society for Microbiology (ES-SEM)
Organizational remit
Members receive the society’s regular publications, which include the quarterly, English language-edited journal International Microbiology, the biannual news magazine SEM@foro and the monthly on-line news bulletin NoticiaSEM. They have reduced fees for the attendance to SEM congresses and meetings, as well as courses. Members may receive grants for attendance to SEM congresses and also be candidates for the FEMS short stay and meeting attendance grants.
Membership
Membership location: national
Membership scope: The main objectives of the society are to promote basic and applied microbiology both amongst interested parties and society as a whole, to encourage international relations and to bring together the many professionals who work in all its various fields. It is an interdisciplinary society focused on different areas of microbiology, represented by eleven specialist groups: Biodeterioration, Biodegradation and Bioremediation, Education and Communication in Microbiology, Filamentous Fungi and Yeasts, Biology of Pathogenic Microorganisms, Food Microbiology, Microbiology of Aquatic Environments, Industrial Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology, Molecular Microbiology, Plant Microbiology, Protistology, Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Biodiversity.
| Member type | fee (currency) | Notes |
| Full member | 48 (€) | Member candidates must be interested in Microbiology and accept the rules expressed on the Statutes of the society. They must be presented by two members of the Society. They may be enrolled in any of the specialized groups of the society. |
| Student member | 24 (€) | |
| Emeritus member | FREE | |
| Honorary member | FREE |
How to join
Contact point: Membership Officer
Isabel Perdiguero
Administrative Secretary
Contact point: FEMS Delegate
Dr Rafael Giraldo
Delegate of the Society
Request additional contact details via fems@fems-microbiology.org
History
FEMS member since 1974
The Spanish Society for Microbiology is a scientific society founded in 1946 at the Jaime Ferrán Institute. It was originally called the Society of Spanish Microbiologists, the name by which it was known until 1970, when its members decided to change it to Spanish Society for Microbiology (Sociedad Española de Microbiología, SEM).
The Spanish Society for Microbiology represents Spanish microbiologists in the Federation of European Microbiology Societies (FEMS), International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS), Asociación Latinoamericana de Microbiología (ALAM) and Confederación de Sociedades Científicas de España (COSCE).
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.
