Updated December 2025

Youth GroupSEM Researchers - JISEM
Responsible: Samuel Garcia Huete <samuel.g.huete@gmail.com>

This working group arose with the idea of ​​promoting, disseminating and facilitating access to research in Microbiology for students in their final cycles as well as the relationship between researchers in their early scientific stages. It is an autonomous group within our group. For information, click here.

Scientific dissemination of the SEM
Responsible: Ignacio López Goñi <ilgoni@unav.es> and Raúl Rivas <raulrg@usal.es>

The main objective of this group is to identify and promote the dissemination of the main scientific achievements of SEM researchers and the milestones and challenges of Microbiology today. In addition to attending to contacts in the media (press, radio, television, etc.) and encouraging members to participate in virtual dissemination platforms, such as The Conversation, will promote the organization of informative events aimed at society (cycles of conferences and traveling exhibitions) and will coordinate the granting of the Miguel Vicente Prize for dissemination within the SEM.

IMiLI node in España

Responsible: Juan Luis Ramos, Patricia Bernal

IMiLI is an international initiative that unites Microbiology professionals to educate society about the relevance of our science to our well-being and progress, as well as its sustainability, both at a personal, community, national and global level. IMiLI promotes the creation and use of teaching materials on microbiology, with a focus on primary, secondary and older education, but also for use in general dissemination in order to promote scientific culture in Microbiology.

MicroWorld. Apprentice aje-Service and Citizen Science against Antimicrobial Resistance

Responsible: Jéssica Gil Serna <jgilsern@ucm.es> and Victor Jimenez Cid <vicjcid@ucm.es>

on the network MicroMundo, coordinated by the D+D SEM Group, partners from more than 30 universities in Spain and Portugal participate, in collaboration with Tiny Earth in the USA. Following the strategic lines of the TAKE and the OMS We take Microbiology and the One Health perspective out of university campuses to create a scientific culture in society from educational centers on the problem of multi-resistance to antimicrobials.

Coordination with FEMS-Education

Responsible: Kika Colom Valiente

The SEM works in coordination with other microbiological societies in initiatives to promote Microbiology in Europe within the European Federation of Microbiological Societies (FEMS).

Microbiology on the web

Responsible: Manuel Sánchez Angulo <m.sanchez@umh.es>

The objectives of the group are:
- Collect and disseminate news of microbiological interest that have appeared in the media and, where appropriate, correct or warn about possible errors and inaccuracies. - Disseminate the most outstanding results in the field of Microbiology.
- Promote on the web and on social networks the informative and educational activities carried out by the members of the SEM.
- Present and debate teaching methodology proposals to be used in the current information society.

Photographic file

Responsible: Cristina Sánchez Porro <sanpor@us.es>

The goal of this group is to create a image archive on the SEM website, which collects microphotographs of microorganisms, photographs of cultures and various techniques used in Microbiology. Images representative of the history of Microbiology, and in particular the history of SEM, will also be included. This file will be freely accessible for teaching purposes. If you wish to contribute images to the SEM repository, contact us.

The teaching map of Spanish Microbiology
Persons in charge: Susana Campoy susana.campoy@uab.cat>and Montserrat Llagostera

The objective of this group is to collect data on the offer of subjects in the field of Microbiology in the official degrees and master's degrees offered in the different Spanish universities, in order to study the educational panorama of Microbiology and generate proposals on the content of related subjects. For more information, click here: Microbiology Map.

TEACHING RESOURCES

Resources on History of Microbiology carried out by the Department of Microbiology. Pharmacy faculty. University of Granada. Content coordinator: Victoria Béjar

Microbiology and Immunology Resources carried out by the Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology Department of the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU)

Microbial diversity carried out by the Department of Microbiology of the University of Granada.

Online course on the environment Open CourseWare from the University of the Basque Country: How to solve practical aspects of Microbiology, OCW [2012/05]

Online course on the environment Open CourseWare from the University of the Basque Country: Molecular techniques for the detection and control of pathogenic bacteria, OCW [2010/03]

Documents

Microbiology Map in Spanish universities.

microbe

Curiosities of Microbiology

Microbios

microbichitos

Bacteria Actuaciencia

Small Things Considered

virology blog

Miguel Sánchez Pérez Award for Teaching Innovation in Microbiology.

The SEM Specialized Group for Teaching and Dissemination of Microbiology presents this initiative with the intention of rewarding SEM partners who have developed outstanding activities within the framework of teaching innovation in microbiology at any educational level.

The jury, nominated by the group's Board of Directors and made up of some of its members, will consider both the curricular trajectory of the candidates in this field and the impact of the strategies and initiatives developed.

The prize will be announced biennially and will be awarded at the congress of the specialized group.

Nominations for the award can be made in a personal capacity or presented on behalf of third parties as long as both the nominee and the person submitting their nomination are members of the SEM.

The bases can be consulted at this link: Normative

Application form: Application

In your first edition, the deadline for nominations closes next May 29 and the award ceremony will take place at the closing session of the VIII Meeting of Teaching and Dissemination of Microbiology in Salamanca on June 30.

Miguel Sanchez Perez (1955-2012) was a professor of microbiology at the University of Salamanca and at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was a pioneer in the implementation of experimental strategies for teaching innovation in microbiology in Spanish university classrooms more than a decade before the Bologna declaration, inspiring a generation of teachers (https://www.semicrobiologia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/p68-53.pdf)