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Spanish Society for Microbiology

Spanish scientific society founded in 1946 to promote microbiology and its dissemination.

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The Spanish Society for Microbiology (SEM) is a Spanish scientific society founded in 1946 at the Instituto Jaime Ferrán of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid. Originally named Sociedad de Microbiólogos Españoles, it adopted its current name in 1970. It is an interdisciplinary society with about 1,700 members working across fields of microbiology, and it aims to foster basic and applied microbiology, cultivate international relations, bring together professionals, and contribute to the dissemination of science, especially microbiology, among the public.

History

The Spanish Society for Microbiology (SEM) is a scientific society founded in 1946 at the Instituto Jaime Ferrán of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid. Its original name was Sociedad de Microbiólogos Españoles, which it kept until 1970, when by decision of its members it took the current name Sociedad Española de Microbiología (SEM). The SEM's main objectives are to foster basic and applied microbiology, cultivate international relations, bring together the different professionals working in that science, and contribute to the dissemination of science in general, and microbiology in particular, among the public. It is an interdisciplinary society with about 1,700 members working in different fields of microbiology.

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Interdisciplinary scientific society for microbiology professionals in Spain.

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