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79 days from submission to acceptance
13 days from acceptance to publication

AMB Express is a high quality journal that brings together research in the area of Applied and Industrial Microbiology with a particular interest in 'White Biotechnology' and 'Red Biotechnology'. The emphasis is on processes employing microorganisms, eukaryotic cell cultures or enzymes for the biosynthesis, transformation and degradation of compounds. This includes fine and bulk chemicals, polymeric compounds and enzymes or other proteins. Downstream processes are also considered. Integrated processes combining biochemical and chemical processes are also published.

Editor-in-Chief
Alexander Steinbüchel
Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie
und Biotechnologie
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Corrensstrasse 3
48149 Münster, Germany
Tel.: +49 (2 51) 8 33 98 21
FAX: +49 (2 51) 8 33 83 88

Managing Editor
Dorothea Kessler
 
Editors
Héctor M. Alvarez, INBIOP, CONICET, University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina
Christopher J. Brigham, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA
Stefano Donadio, NAICONS, Milano, Italy
Jesús Fernández-Lucas, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Rainer Kalscheuer, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Xuefeng Lu, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
K Madhavan Nampoothiri, CSIR - National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Bing-Jie Ni, University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia
Peter Richard, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland
Vlada B. Urlacher, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany