The membership year for the society runs from January 1st to December 31st. The benefits of membership include:
Benefit from a reduction of up to 33% in the registration fees of the Annual General Meeting.
Have the opportunity to subscribe to the Canadian Journal of Microbiology. Members receive a savings of over $90.00 per year.
Have the opportunity to post news items (e.g. job seeking, event announcement, news about colleagues) to the CSM web site FREE of charge.
Be eligible for nomination and participation in our “members only”
awards: the SCM/Roche Diagnostic Award in
recognition to an outstanding Canadian Microbiologist and his/her
achievements, the Fisher Scientific Award given to stimulate and
recognize a new researcher in the microbiological sciences, the
Canadian Graduate Student Microbiologist of the Year to acknowledge
excellence in graduate studies, the Cederlane Award for the Student
Poster Competition, and the Canadian college of Microbiologists
Award for the Student Oral Competition.
There are several options in getting information out to the membership of the society:
Post on the CSM web
site. Members may post news items free of charge.
Include a paid insert, advertisement or notice in a CSM
Email Alert:
May - CSM Programme and Abstracts
January - CSM Renewal Email
February - CSM Call for Abstracts
Purchase the mailing list of the society. A set of mailing labels is provided for a fee of $300.00.
Become a sponsor or exhibitor at the Annual General Meeting of the society.
The CSM currently accepts only "news items" to post
on the CSM web site. The format is:
(i) a photo or image; (ii) a headline; (iii) the text of the news item. Members may post news items to the web site free of charge. Items from non-members are accepted, although a fee may be charged for posting. Forward all materials to the
CSM Secretariat.
