Symposia

• Focus on 3Rs - the growing role of organoids and microbial models to understand human and animal diseases
• Biobased circular economy & bioremediation
• Extremophiles: living life at the edge
• The origin and diversity of the eukaryotes
• Global food security: the challenges for microbiology
• Intra- and interspecies metabolic networks: You are what you eat
• Microbial dark matter 
• Missing microbes and the hygiene hypothesis: new challenges and perspectives
• The biological and chemical tales of the antibiotic makers
• Non-human pathogens
• Offence and defence
• The microbial pangenome
• Vaccines against bacterial pathogens
• Irish fungal society clinical case studies
• Fighting fire with fire: deploying microbes in the battle against disease
• How viruses jump the species barrier 
• Virus infections of the central nervous system
• Clinical Virology Network
• Marine protists as emerging models for functional genomics and cell biology

Virology workshops

• Morphogenesis, egress and entry
• Innate immunity
• Clinical virology
• Antivirals and vaccines
• Gene expression and replication
• Pathogenesis

Eukaryotic and prokaryotic forums

• Environmental and applied microbiology forum
• Genetics and genomics forum
• Infection forum
• Microbial physiology, metabolism and molecular biology forum

Microbiology Society

• Teaching microbiology in higher education symposium
• Essential skills: Managing a research laboratory
• Staying resilient in your career
• Research and publishing ethics: What you need to know and why it matters
• Essential skills: CV workshop
• Essential skills: Peer review