17 September is International Microorganism Day, an opportunity to promote the diversity and variety of microorganisms and a way to encourage everyone to recognize and celebrate the many ways microscopic organisms are important in human health, culture and, throughout our daily lives.    International Microorganism Day is an annual celebration of microbiology and this year we are making an even greater effort to promote the positive contributions of microorganisms in our daily lives given the negative stories associated with viruses in the news.    This year we have focused our efforts on online activities:    We are running a 24hour live stream of talks and discussions across the day – free to access via the IMD homepage and social media. Check out the provisional programme here.    We have organized a parallel webinar on the day produced by FEMS Microbiology Letters on online educational methods ‘’Education, Wherever We Are’’ starting at 10am EDT / 3pm BST / 4pm CEST –…