Dr. Alaa Abdul-Hussain Al-Sareeh participated in the first session of a series of symposia of the Journal of Medical Microbiology organized by the British Society of Microbiology. The first session included a lecture aimed at improving researchers' skills in writing research manuscripts, delivered by Professor Kalay Mathie.  Note that Dr. Alaa Al-Sareeh has been a member of the British Microbiology Society since 2015 and has previously attended a number of conferences held by the Society in Liverpool and Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.