IUMS - International Union of Microbiological Societies
IUMS is one of the unions of the International Science Council (ISC) which is a non-governmental organization with a unique global membership that brings together 40 international scientific Unions and Associations and over 140 national and regional scientific organizations including Academies and Research Councils. IUMS was founded in 1927 as the International Society of Microbiology, and became the International Association of Microbiological Societies affiliated to the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) as a Division in 1967. It acquired independence in 1980 and became a Union Member of ICSU in 1982. ICSU (the International Council for Science) together with the International Social Science Council (ISSC) has merged into ISC since 2018. Read further on the objectives, the goal and activities of the Union.
IUMS Congresses 2022
The next IUMS congresses will be organized by the Royal Dutch Society of Microbiology and Dutch Society of Medical Microbiology and they will take place on July 20-22, 2022 in the congress centre Ahoiy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Letter of the IUMS president
Dear fellow microbiologist,
The next IUMS congress is planned for 2022 in The Netherlands and we hope that by then we can meet in person and communicate with our colleagues and our students. Please note that members of IUMS member societies will get a reduction in the registration fee!! Read here the complete message by Eliora Z. Ron IUMS President