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HISTORY The society was founded in 1945; its first president was Sir Alexander Fleming . The SGM's first academic meeting was in July of that year, and its first journal, the ''Journal of General Microbiology'' (later renamed ''Microbiology'') came out in 1947. A symposium series followed in 1949, and a sister journal, the ''Journal of General Virology'', in 1966. The society purchased its own headquarters in Reading in 1971, after sharing accommodation with the Biochemical Society in London , moving to its present location just outside Reading in 1991. The SGM's stable of journals later increased to four, with the acquisitions of the ''International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology'' (later renamed ''International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology'') from the American Society For Microbiology (1998) and the ''Journal of Medical Microbiology'' from the Pathological Society Of Great Britain And Ireland (2001-4). ACTIVITIES The SGM currently organises two academic meetings a year. It publishes a magazine, ''Microbiology Today'', and four academic journals in virology & microbiology:
FURTHER READING Postgate, J (1995) ''Society for General Microbiology - Fifty Years On'', SGM Postgate, J (1995) Fifty years of the SGM. ''Trends Microbiol.'' 3: 249-50 EXTERNAL LINKS |
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