The majority of the membership are professional biologists who study animal behaviour and work in Universities, Research Institutes or schools. We are the only national association dedicated exclusively to the concerns of biology and life science educators. The Society for College Science Teachers' purpose is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary interaction amongteachers of science at all institutions of higher education. Over the decades the society has evolved and expanded to provide a forum for molecular and cellular biology as well as serving the basic interests of plant science. It is a voluntary, non-profit association of national food science organizations linking the world's best food scientists and technologists.
Most members teach and conduct research at colleges and universities.
Others conduct research in various government laboratories, nonprofit research institutions and industry. The American Society for Microbiology is the oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world. Membership has grown from 59 scientists in 1899 to over 40,000 members today located throughout the world. ASM represents 23 disciplines of microbiological specialization plus a division for microbiology educators. It has over 5000 members, of whom about two thirds are resident in the UK, with the remainder living in more than 60 other countries.