Current Opinion in Microbiology is a systematic review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up-to-date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of microbiology. It consists of 6 issues per year covering the following 11 sections, each of which is reviewed once a year:
Host-microbe interactions: bacteria
Cell regulation
Environmental microbiology
Host-microbe interactions: fungi/parasites/viruses
Antimicrobials
Microbial systems biology
Growth and development: eukaryotes/prokaryotes


There is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field. 

Editors-in-Chief
Judith Armitage
Oxford, United Kingdom
Joan Mecsas
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Editorial Board
Melanie Blokesch
Lausanne, Switzerland
Vern Carruthers
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Brendan Cormack
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Robert A. Cramer Jr.
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Andrew Darwin
New York, New York, United States
Diego De Mendoza
Rosario, Argentina
Jeff Errington
Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
B Brett Finlay
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sarah Fortune
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nancy Freitag
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Celia Garcia
São Paulo, Brazil
Bill Goldman
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Robert Hancock
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Regine Hengge
Berlin, Germany
Bernhard Hube
Jena, Germany
Jean-Paul Latgé
Paris, France
Michael Laub
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Jeffery Miller
Los Angeles, California, United States
Aaron Mitchell
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Valerie Mizrahi
Cape Town, South Africa
Joseph Mougous
Seattle, Washington, United States
Richard Novick
New York, New York, United States
Chad A. Rappleye
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Chihiro Sasakawa
Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
Willem van Schaik, PhD
Birmingham, United Kingdom
David Shub
Albany, New York, United States
L. David Sibley
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Thomas J Silhavy
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Eric P. Skaar
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Geoffrey Smith
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lotte Sogaard-Andersen
Marburg, Germany
Mitchell Sogin
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States
Dominique Soldati-Favre
Geneva, Switzerland
Jason Stajich
Riverside, California, United States
Olivia Steele-Mortimer
Hamilton, Montana, United States
Christoph Tang
Oxford, United Kingdom
Fred C Tenover
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Kenneth Timmis
Braunschweig, Germany
Matthew Waldor
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Graham C. Walker
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
David Weiss
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Morimasa M Yagisawa
Shinagawa-Ku, Japan
Igor B. Zhulin
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States