The Istanbul Regional Meeting of the Turkish Microbiology Society (TMC), organized by the Sepsis Working Group, “Molecular Methods in Sepsis Diagnosis” was held on May 27. KUISCID Vice Director Prof. Dr. Füsun Can chaired the meeting, Assoc. Prof. Mert Kuşkucu gave a presentation titled “Combining pathogen and host metagenomic data for more accurate sepsis diagnosis.” Congratulations to all our researchers.