History
The society was founded on 16 February 1945; its first president was 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 1967. 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 (2001–2004).
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