Welcome to our Microbiology page where we highlight our most recent content, including articles and collections, as selected by our Editors. Read the latest content across our BMC and Springer Nature portfolios.
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Our Featured Collections
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Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV
A review series on bnAb development after HIV-1 infection, the application of bnAbs as therapeutics and the attempts to elicit bnAbs by vaccination. Edited by Rogier Sanders and Marit van Gils.
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Constructing 'intelligent' microbial cell factories
This special issue covers the topic of 'Constructing 'intelligent' microbial cell factories' by dynamic and systems metabolic engineering approaches.
Edited by Prof Long Liu, Jiangnan University, China.
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Measuring HIV-1 persistence in vivo
A collection of review articles describing traditional and novel methods of quantitation of HIV persistence in vivo.
Edited by Ben Berkhout and Alexander Pasternak
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Editors' Pick
- BMC Microbiology
- Virology Journal
- Fungal Biology and Biotechnology
- Microbial Cell Factories
- Gut Pathogens
Drug resistant bacteria found in the International Space Station
Scientists have isolated drug resistant Enterobacter strains from two locations on the International Space Station, which could be pathogenic to humans.
Host-hijacking and planktonic piracy: how phages command the microbial high seas
Microbial communities living in the oceans, where nutrients are limited across great swathes, are major drivers of global bio-geochemical cycles. As viruses have by necessity hijacked microbial cells, this review by Warwick-Dugdale et al. evaluates the mechanisms used by bacteriophages to reconfigure host metabolism to maximise their own reproduction.
Moulding a network – How fungi establish and maintain a dynamic mycelial colony
What it is that makes a fungal colony so fascinating unfolds itself once you recognize it as an organism – an entity that excels at adapting to an ever-changing environment..
Small RNAs: a new weapon in the war between plants and phytopathogens?
Could small RNAs be an eco-friendly way to control fungal diseases of crops? Yohann Petit tells us more.
Biobutanol production from coffee silverskin
Coffee silverskin, an as-of-yet underutilised by-product of the coffee roasting industry is investigated for its viability as a feedstock for acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation.
Antibiotic resistance, the 3 As and the road ahead
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most important health threats of our time. In this review, the topic is addressed through 3 concepts that can be summarised by 3 As: Awareness through good information tools; Availability of antibiotics or the lack thereof; Alternatives to be found as a response to antibiotic resistance.
Going ‘Behind the Paper’
What does it truly take to get to the stage where you are ready to publish the results of your research?
Here we share the real story behind researchers' papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows. Join recent Microbiome authors Ashley Ross, Michael Gänzlec, Frédéric Raymond, Enoch Narh Kudjordjie,Remco Kort and Hongwei Zhou as they take us behind their papers.
Deepest recesses of the world’s oceans hold highest numbers of alkane degrading bacteria
The microbial communities at the deepest known site in the Earth’s oceans, the Mariana Trench (more than 10,000 m deep), have been characterized in a study published in the open access journal Microbiome. A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China conducted an extensive analysis of which microbes are present at different depths (4000 m, 9600 m, 10,400 m and 10,500 m) in the Mariana Trench, and also analyzed their genes. Read more
Call for papers - Bacteriophage Ecology and Evolution
Virology Journal is proud to announce that "Bacteriophage Ecology and Evolution" is open for submissions, specifically original works and reviews focusing on phage population and community ecology, phage-host interaction, and integrated genomics and post-genomics approaches in microbial ecology are welcome.