MicrobiologyOpen is an interdisciplinary, broad-scope journal delivering rapid decisions and fast publication of microbial science and biotech – fields that are undergoing a profound and exciting evolution in this post-genomic era.

The journal aims to serve the research community by providing a vehicle for authors wishing to publish articles that stimulate discussion and debate, as well as add to our knowledge base and further our understanding of microbial interactions and microbial processes.

We will consider submissions across unicellular and cell-cluster organisms – prokaryotes (bacteria, archaea) and eukaryotes (fungi, protists, microalgae, lichens), as well as viruses and prions, infecting or interacting with microorganisms, plants, and animals.
              
MicrobiologyOpen welcomes manuscripts on all aspects of fundamental and applied microbiology, including:

antimicrobial resistance
astrobiology
biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology
cellular and molecular biology
clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
computational, systems, and synthetic biology
environmental science
evolutionary biology, ecology, and systematics
food microbiology
genetics and genomics
geobiology and earth science
host-microbe interactions
immune response and microbial pathogenesis
microbial physiology and metabolism
natural products discovery
pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry
plant pathology
veterinary microbiology

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
  
 
Sonja-Verena Albers, University of Freiburg, Molecular Biology of Archaea, Germany
  
Eric Cascalès, CNRS - Aix-Marseille Université, Mediterranean Institute of Microbiology, France
  
Jennifer Cavet, University of Manchester, UK
  
Victor J. Cid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  
Luyan Ma, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  
Jonathan Shaw, University of Sheffield, UK
  
Mark S. Thomas, University of Sheffield, UK
        
Simon C. Andrews, University of Reading, UK
  
Scott Beatson, University of Queensland, Australia
   
Wilbert Bitter, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
Jesús Blazquez, CSIC, Spain
   
Daniel Charlier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  
Pierre Cornelis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
    
Eric Dézièl, INRS-Laval, Canada
       
Cristina Dorador, University of Antofagasta, Chile
  
Friedrich Götz, University of Tübingen, Germany
  
Roland Lloubès, Université Aix-Marseille, France
  
Jose L. Martinez, CSIC, Spain
  
Skorn Mongkolsuk, Mahidol University, Thailand
  
Cheryl A. Nickerson, Arizona State University, USA
  
Wim J. Quax, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  
Edson Rocha, East Carolina University, USA
  
Lígia Saraiva, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, UNL, Portugal
  
Stephen Spiro, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
  
Alain Stintzi, University of Ottawa, Canada
  
Laurence Van Melderen, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  
Cynthia Whitchurch, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia