技术革新和微生物多样性，使我们对微生物学这门学科的理解发生了革命性变化。微生物学正在迈向一个全新时代：不再关注特定物种，而是更多的关注它们之间联系的过程和机制。Nature Reviews Microbiology涵盖了广泛微生物学的研究。我们采用综合方法，将微生物学中的进出研究和临床、工业和环境应用联合起来，创建了一个统一的信息源。Nature Reviews Microbiology发表高质量的综述和前瞻，侧重于对细菌、古细菌、病毒、真菌和原生动物的理解，它们与环境的相互作用，人类如何利用这些生物以及它们对社会的影响。 
期刊收录研究方向：生物化学、生理学和分子生物学，遗传学与基因组学，生态、进化与生物多样性，细胞微生物学，环境微生物学，发病机制和宿主防御，临床和诊断微生物学，传染性疾病，抗生素疗法和疫苗，流行病学和公共卫生微生物学，应用微生物学和工业微生物学，微生物学教育，微生物学与社会

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Chief Editor: Ursula Hofer, MD PhD ORCID 
Ursula completed the MD PhD programme of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in molecular biology. She studied HIV’s effects on the gastrointestinal tract and how the virus and gut microbiota interact to disturb the immune system. As a postdoctoral researcher, Ursula contributed to a HIV gene-therapy project at the University of Southern California, USA. In early 2013, Ursula started her career in scientific publishing as an Associate Editor of Nature Reviews Microbiology. After helping to launch Nature Reviews Disease Primers in 2015, she joined the journal again as Chief Editor.
 
Senior Editor: Andrea Du Toit, PhD ORCID
Andrea obtained her Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, investigating the mechanisms of crosstalk between the glucocorticoid receptor and GPCR signalling pathways. During her postdoctoral studies she continued to research novel mechanisms of rapid, non‑genomic reciprocal receptor crosstalk, and she also developed an interest in crosstalk between the HIV-1 Vpr protein and the host glucocorticoid receptor in modulating host and viral gene regulation. In 2012, she decided to pursue her career in science publishing and joined the Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology team before moving to Nature Reviews Microbiology.
 
Senior Editor: Ashley York, DPhil ORCID
Ashley studied at University College London, UK, gaining a first class degree in Biological Sciences before earning his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, UK. During his doctoral studies, he investigated the molecular mechanisms of influenza virus RNA synthesis with Professor Ervin Fodor at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. He then joined the Laboratory of Retrovirology at The Rockefeller University, USA, as a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr Paul Bieniasz. During this time, his research focussed on understanding intrinsic immune proteins that restrict HIV infection. Ashley joined the Nature Reviews Microbiology editorial team in 2016 as an Associate Editor.
The editors of Nature Reviews Microbiology are based in London, UK.