Microbiology

As the founding journal from the Microbiology Society, Microbiology brings together communities of scientists from all microbiological disciplines and from around the world. Originally Journal of General Microbiology, we have been publishing the latest advances in microbiology since 1947. Today the journal reflects the diversity and importance of microbiology in addressing current global challenges, such as food security, environmental sustainability, and health, by publishing fundamental and applied research across the breadth of the field.

Microbiology publishes high-quality original research on bacteria, fungi, yeast, protists, archaea, algae, parasites, phages and other microscopic life forms. Key topic areas include:

• Antimicrobials and AMR
• Biotechnology and synthetic biology
• Cell and developmental microbiology
• Microbial cell surfaces
• Microbial interactions and communities
• Microbial evolution
• Microbial physiology, biochemistry and metabolism
• Microbial virulence and pathogenesis
• Plant microbiology and soil health
• Regulation, sensing and signalling

These topic areas also include research on: biofilms and biological systems; chemical biology; cross-disciplinary work; ecology and environmental microbiology; food microbiology; genetics and omics, including genomics, proteomics and metabolomics; microbial methods and techniques; microscopy and imaging, and the microbiome.