DU Microbiological Society

🧫🧬Seminar Announcement🧬🧫

🗓 12 March | 1:00 PM

Killer Peptide: From Antibody Cryptides to Pathogen-Responsive Immunopeptides

Antimicrobial resistance and biofilm infections require new solutions beyond traditional antibiotics. This seminar will explore the Killer Peptide (KP)—an antibody-derived peptide with broad antimicrobial and immune-modulating activity. Dr. Miguel Fernandez de Ulivarri will discuss how KP targets pathogens, forms self-assembling structures at infection sites, and inspires new strategies for next-generation anti-infective therapeutics.

✨ Refreshments will be provided after the seminar.

Everyone welcome!

Throwback to our annual post-seminar christmas party at the Moyne! 🌲🎅 Hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and enjoying the holidays as we approach 2026! Lots of love from the microsoc committee 😎

Flashback from AMR week: The Moyne turns blue for AMR week 🦠💙. Thank you to everyone who wore blue last week, as well as to those who attended our annual AMR seminar! Special thanks to Professor Wim Meijer for coming in as our guest lecturer and giving an amazing talk on the presence of AMR in Dublin Bay!

On the 5th or December, Professor Rudolf Amann will be joining us at the Moyne for their annual Christmas seminar (5pm). Make sure to join to learn all about the complexity of and functions of the marine microbiome 🫡 . Make sure to stick around for refreshments and our anual Christmas party after the seminar (8pm at Doyle’s). 🎄🎅🦠 See you all there!

Join us for our AMR-THEMED craft lunch this Tuesday! A great way to disconnect during exam season, while raising awareness about the troubles of AMR. We hope to see your most creative selves there ! 🥳🧶✏️🦠🧫

A few snapshots from our amazing Halloween pub quiz yesterday evening 👻✨Amazing turnout this year, with everyone looking spookier than ever🤫🎃! Thank you to everyone who came, and we hope to see you again for our next events (coming soon)🫡

Spooky season is finally here! 👻🎃 And with it comes out ANUAL MICROSOC HALLOWEEN PUB QUIZ ✨
🗓️: OCTOBER 22nd (6pm)
📍: Upstairs of Doyle’s
Come along for a (terrifyingly) amazing time! Prizes will be awarded to the winning teams and for the best dressed, so make sure to go all out!

A separate post for our ordinary committee members for 2025-26 🙌 Love to see all of the new faces this year! ✨ (we always love seeing old faces too obviously 😋) That wraps up the committee post for this year! Stay tuned for what’s to come!🧫🔬

Presenting our 2025/2026 executive committee and our reps! 😋🎉🧫🧬
We’re all super excited for all the events and seminars to come this year!

Join us for coffee at 11am this Thursday (October 2nd) for our bi-weekly coffee mornings ✨❤️
📍Moyne Kitchen (Moyne Institute of Preventative Medicine)

Amazing start of the year with our first big event in collaboration with , , and 🥳🧫! Thank you everyone for coming and most importantly congratulations to all of the winners 🙌✨. Stay tuned for more cool events to come this year 🫡🫡

Come join us for a coffee morning on Wednesday!