The Chinese Society for Microbiology

Chinese Society for Microbiology(CSM) was founded in 1952, and now is a member society of China Association for Science and Technology and also a member society of International Union of Microbiological Societies(IUMS).

Objectives

The objectives of CSM are to organize scientific meetings and symposia and to publish journals and monographs on microbiology and related disciplines.

Membership

CSM has nearly ten thousands of members, of which more than one tenth are regard as national members. There are also thirty branch societies at different provinces, cities and autonomous regions.

Standing Committee

President:
          Prof. Ji-lun LI
Vice-President (in-charge):
          Prof. Ke-qiang MANG
          Prof. Da-kang SONG
          Prof. Yu-mei WEN
          Prof. Guan-fu ZHU
Secretary-general:
          Associate Prof. Guang-sheng CHENG
Deputy Secretaries-general:
          Prof. Qiang-wu GU
          Senior Engineer Yan-zhong CHEN

Sub-society and academic committees

Sub-society for Brewing
Committee on industrial microbiology
Committee on agricultural microbiology
Committee on medical microbiology
Committee on veterinary microbiology
Committee on aetiology of zoonoses
Committee on virology
Committee on mycology
Committee on molecular microbiology and biotechnology
Committee on general microbiology
Committee on enzyme engineering
Committee on modelling and control of biotechnical processes
Committee on biological microbiology
Committee on analytical microbiology
Committee on environmental microbiology
Committee on interferon

The above sub-society and committees are the cardinal parts of the academic activities of CSM, and more than a dozen of symposia and conferences are conducted yearly. Lately, symposia and conferences on mycorhiza, medical mycology, single cell protein, agricultural virology, monoclonal antibody, autotrophic bacteria, Chlamydia, interferon, etc. have been organized.

Some of these conferences are bilateral with foreign societiws, such as China-Japan Bilateral Conference on Medical Microbiology, China-Japan Bilateral Conference on Enzyme Engineering and China-Japan International Congress of Mycology.