IUMS consists of three Divisions
Within these Divisions are 6 Committees, 9 Commissions and 2 Federations (COMCOFs), under which are subgroups consisting of working groups concerned with bacteriological, mycological and virological research. IUMS acts as an umbrella organization for these scientific research activities
An IUMS Executive Board is elected at each IUMS General Assembly meeting . The Board consists of 15 members: a President, Past President, two Vice Presidents, Secretary General, Treasurer, two Members at Large and the Chairman and Vice Chairman of each of the three Divisions. The Executive Board meets annually and coordinates IUMS activi¬ties. Read more here
| General Assembly Members & Associate Members |
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| Executive Board | ||
| IUMS Public Policy Committee | ||
| Bacteriology & Applied Microbiology Division (BAM) | Mycology and Eukaryotic Microbiology Division (MEM) | Virology Division |
| ComCofs and Federations BAM | ComCofs Mycology | ComCofs Virology |
| ICFMH - International Committee on Food Microbiology & Hygiene | ICFM - International Commission on Food Mycology | ICTV - International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses |
| ICSP - International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes | ICPA - International Commission on Penicillium & Aspergillus | |
| ICMSF - International Commission of Microbiological Specifications for Food | ICTF - International Commission on Taxonomy of Fungi | |
| ICY - International Commission on Yeasts | ||
| Federations | ||
| WFCC - World Federation for Culture Collections is concerned with the collection, authentication, maintenance and distribution of cultures of microorganisms and cultured cells. | ||
| Interdisciplinary committee | ||
| ICB - The International Committee on Bionomenclature is devoted to explore ways and means to harmonise the various sets of international rules governing the creation and use of scientific names of organisms | ||
| ComCofs joint by all Divisions: IABS - International Association fof Biologicals | ||
