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Cell biology of infection

Guest Editors
Leslie Chavez-Galan, PhD, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico
Chunfu Zheng, PhD, University of Calgary, Canada


Submission Status: Open until 15 April 2025

Digitalization in infectious disease control measures

Guest Editors:
Fardad Haghpanah, PhD, One Health Trust, USA
Gary Lin, PhD, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA


Submission Status: Open until 28 February 2025

Phage therapy in the age of antimicrobial resistance

Guest Editors:
Vijay Singh Gondil, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Neelam Jain, PhD, Amity University Rajasthan, India

Mianzhi Wang, PhD, Yangzhou University, China

Submission Status: Open until 15 January 2025

Microbial secondary metabolites for plant growth regulation and stress management

Guest Editors:
Rainer Borriss, PhD, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Chetan Keswani, PhD, FLS, FSPR, Southern Federal University, Russia
Estibaliz Sansinenea, PhD, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México


Submission Status: Open until 2 December 2024

Synthetic and systems biology approaches applied to microbial engineering

Guest Editors:
Mingfeng Cao, PhD, Xiamen University, China
Sang Jun Lee, PhD, Chung-Ang University, South Korea


Submission Status: Open until 29 November 2024

Bacterial defense systems

Guest Editors:
Prasanth Manohar: Texas A&M University, USA
Jumei Zeng: Sichuan University, China

Submission Status: Open until 30 September 2024

The impact of gut microbiota on human health

Guest Editors:
Yongbo Kang, PhD, Shanxi Medical University, China
Anand Kumar, DVM, PhD, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Chunlong Mu, PhD, AgResearch Ltd., New Zealand


Submission Status: Open until 16 September 2024

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Plants and their pathogens

Guest Editors:
Olubukola Oluranti Babalola: North-West University, South Africa
Manoj Kumar Solanki: University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Alok K Srivastava: National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, India
Manoj Kr Tripathi: Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, India
 

Microbiome dynamics in human diseases

Guest Editors:
Animesh Acharjee:
Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
Mangesh Suryavanshi: Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, USA

 

Zoonoses and emerging pathogens

Guest Editors:
Katarzyna Grudlewska-Buda: Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Faham Khamesipour: Research Center for Hydatid Disease in Iran, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Krzysztof Skowron: Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

 

Biofilms and its impact on disease

Guest Editors:
Vijay Singh Gondil:
 University of Rochester, USA
Bindu Sajan: Long Island University, USA

 



Biocontrol strategies: an eco-smart tool for integrated pest & diseases management

Guest Editors:
Suresh Janardhan Gawande: ICAR-Directorate of Onion and Garlic Research, Pune, India
Durgesh Kumar Jaiswal: Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), India
Ram Krishna: ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, India
Soumia P. S.: ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, India
Anukool Vaishnav: University of Zurich, Switzerland

 

Antimicrobial resistance: genes, genomes and emerging technologies

Guest Editors:
Abd El-Latif Hesham: Beni-Suef University, Egypt
Youxiong Que: Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China 
Divakar Sharma: Lady Hardinge Medical College, India
 

Microbiome and cancer - Cross journal collection

Guest editors: Prof. Christopher Staley, Dr. Jacques Ravel and Dr. Sean Devlin. 

2019

Cross journal collection
Veterinary antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use
Submission deadline: 30 March 2019
 

2016

Cross journal collection
Genome engineering tools, methods, and applications
Submission deadline: 31 May 2016



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