Journal of & Letters in Applied Microbiology are two of the flagship research journals of the Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM). For more than 75 years they have been publishing top quality research and reviews in the broad field of applied microbiology. The journals are provided to all SfAM members as well as having a global online readership totalling more than 500,000 downloads per year in more than 200 countries. Submitting authors can expect fast decision and publication times, averaging 33 days to first decision and 34 days from acceptance to online publication. There are no page charges.
Journal of Applied Microbiology publishes high quality full-length research and review papers on novel aspects of applied microbiology in relation to agriculture and soils, animals and animal health, biodefence, biotransformation, biodegradation and bioremediation, biotechnology (except where the principal thrust of the work is optimization), environment, food and beverages, medicine and public health, mycology (except where work is concerned with the macro-fungi), pharmacy, plants and plant health, probiotics and the intestine and water of all types.

Papers reporting work on all micro-organisms, including viruses, are welcomed as are those reporting the use of newer technologies and approaches provided they demonstrate new findings of significance to the field as a whole.

Chief Editor
A. Gilmour, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland, UK
email: cejam@btinternet.com
Reviews Editor
P.J. Collier, University of Abertay, Dundee, UK
Editorial Office
email: jam@wiley.com
Editors
L. Baillie, Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
J.L. Balcazar, Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain
M.D. Barton, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
E. Bartowsky, The Australian Wine Research Institute, Glen Osmond, Australia
L. Bingle, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK
A. Bosch, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
O. Braissant, Department of Urology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
J. Brojatsch, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
P. Calik, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
M.L. Chikindas, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
C. Cooper, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
D.A. Cowan, Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Z. Cui, Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
S.P. Cummings, School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
M. Dow, BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
N. Fegan, Food Science Australia, Brisbane, Australia
J.E. Flaherty, Department of Science and Mathematics, Coker College, Hartsville, SC, USA
C. Gilbert, Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moleculaire, Université Claud Bernard Lyon, Lyon, France
B. F.Gilmore, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, UK
J. Glassey, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
M. Gougouli, Department of Food Science & Technology, Perrotis College, American Farm School, Thessaloniki, Greece
P.C. Gowland, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
I.R. Grant, Queen's University Belfast, UK
J. Guard, USDA/ARS, Athens, GA, USA
S.K. Gupta, Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Research Unit, RRC, Athens, GA, USA
K.A. Hammer, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
K.S. Howell, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville Australia
C.R. Jackson, USDA-ARS Resistance Research Unit, Athens, GA, USA
B.V. Jones, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
K. Kadlec, working group Molecular Microbiology and Antibiotic Resistance, Friedrich-Loeffler-Instiutut, Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany
M. Koenen, The Netherlands
G. LaPointe, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
L. Laurens, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
A. Leaphart, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA
J. Lisle, US Geological Survey, Center for Coastal & Watershed Studies, St Petersburg, FL, USA
J.-Y. Maillard, Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
B. Mayo, IPLA-CSIC, Villaviciosa, Spain
J.A. McGarvey, USDA-ARS Plant Mycotoxin Research Unit, Albany, CA, USA
A. Moodley, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
F. Mozzi, CERELA-CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina
D.R. Noguera, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
G-J.E. Nychas, Department of Food Science & Technology, Laboratory Food Microbiology & Biotechnology of Foods, Athens, Greece
F.Pinzari, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Soil-Plant System, Rome, Italy
A.H. Rickard, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
C.P. Saint, Centre for Water Management and Re-use, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia
A.S. Sant'Ana, Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Engineering, University of Campinas, Brazil
P. Setlow, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA
R. Seviour, Biotechnology Research Centre, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia
M.B. Taylor, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
K. Thomas, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK
S. K. Tiwari, Department of Genetics, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India
M. Upton, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
V.P. Valdramidis, University of Malta, Malta
K. Venema, Beneficial Microbes Consultancy, The Netherlands
T.M. Wassenaar, Molecular Microbiology and Genomics Consultants, Tannenstrasse, Zotzenhein, Germany
T. J. Welch, USDA-ARS National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, Leetown, WV, USA
J. Wells, USDA-ARS, Meat Animal Research Center, NE, USA
R. Zdor, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA
N.-Y. Zhou, Center for Applied & Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
Statistical Adviser
R. A. Armstrong, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.