Dear Members,

Before the New Year, we would like to share a few announcements regarding the Society’s upcoming activities and kindly invite you to participate.

1. We would like to inform you that we will be reconstituting the SMD Terminology Committee, as activities in its current composition have recently come to a standstill. Our aim is for the committee to operate actively in the future and to respond promptly to language-related questions raised by our members. It is also important that professional terminology continues to develop in the Slovenian language. We therefore invite all those who would be interested in participating in the new SMD Terminology Committee to contact us by email at smd@smd.si and briefly describe their field of work.

2. In 2026, we wish to continue with the online seminars that have been held in the past. The coordination of these online seminars is to be taken on by Dr Nejc Stopnišek from NLZOH. We would also like other members to join him, particularly those willing to assist with establishing contacts with international lecturers or Slovenian lecturers working abroad. Anyone interested in this type of collaboration is kindly invited to inform us at smd@smd.si.

3. We have begun collecting contributions for the spring issue of our journal Mikrobiolog.si. We are very pleased with all the contributions we receive; however, we kindly ask you to follow the guidelines published on our website when preparing your manuscripts. Please note that only contributions submitted to the email address of the Editor-in-Chief, Assoc. Prof. Dr Polonca Štefanič (polonca.stefanic@bf.uni-lj.si), or to the Society’s official email address will be published in the journal.

We look forward to receiving your applications to participate in the committee and/or the online seminars, as well as your contributions to Mikrobiolog.si, by 20 January 2026.