Membership in SCACM affords many advantages, including:

1. One regional Spring scientific educational meeting per year for reasonable registration rates, featuring nationally recognized speakers
2. The Mickey King Lecture each spring meeting brings experts in to lecture on hot topics in Microbiology
3. Fall state meetings held close to your home
4. Excellent workshops, both in association with Spring and Fall meetings
5. Communication and networking opportunities via Interest Group sessions and social functions
6. The informative Newsletter published twice a year
7. The provision of P.A.C.E. approved Continuing Education
8. The opportunity to heighten awareness of your professional environment
9. The opportunity to get involved at whatever capacity you choose, either as an attendee, an organizer or an appointed or elected position
10. The opportunity to visit Exhibitors' booths at the Spring Meeting
11. Audioconferences bringing top notch speakers into your hospital or laboratory via the telephone
12. Chance to win Travel Grants to attend SCACM Spring meeting and ASM
13. SCACM members are allowed access to SCACM member web site where excellent resources like the "Legends of Mycology" workshop files and other teaching files are posted

All of this is available to you at a consistently low membership rate.