MCB society is an organizing and managing body, formed annually by the Department of Microbiology and Cell biology for the conduct of various academic and non-academic activities. The society comprises of the President (a faculty member), Joint senior secretaries, Junior secretary, and a Treasurer (students elected by the faculties and students of department).

Academic activities organized by the society every year broadly encompasses weekly departmental seminars, guest lectures, invited talks, MS and PhD colloquia, thesis defense, Annual Faculty Symposium, IISc- MCB Open Day celebration etc.

Non-academic activities include organizing road show and instrumentation workshops and demonstrations by different companies.

Team building events and outdoor activities like MCB annual sports day, MCB day out and quarterly movie screenings are also conducted by the society.

For queries related to arrangement of roadshow/ workshop, the representatives/ vendors/ distributors of different companies are encouraged to contact us.

Email ID- micro.mcb@iisc.ac.in.