Abstract

Increasing diversity in the general area of Microbiology is welcome and inevitable. The modern microbiologist is a mathematician or an experimentalist, an ecologist or a cell biologist, a geneticist or a population biologist. Rather than concern ourselves with a narrowing definition, we must aim for inclusiveness and opportunity. Maree Overall in the National Office and Cheryl Power, our Vice President (Corporate affairs), have undertaken an analysis of the declared interests of the members of the Society (many Society members listing more than one interest, of course), and there are obvious groupings of several hundred each.