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Browse our collections – bringing together peer-reviewed content from across the Society’s publishing platform on a range of hot topics and subject areas.

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    • Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)


      Ebola first became headline news in 2014–2016 when it was transmitted throughout West Africa. In 2019, this severe and often fatal disease has once again been declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) with over 1700 deaths in this latest outbreak. With vaccines now available, this outbreak could be contained, but only with increased production and delivery of vaccines within the Democratic Republic of Congo.

      This collection brings together articles from our portfolio of journals on Ebola virus disease. The Microbiology Society has made this content freely available in the interests of widest possible distribution of relevant research.

    • Emerging Investigators collection 2025-26


      The Microbiology Society is pleased to introduce our Emerging Investigators collection for 2026. We are committed to our mission of amplifying the voices of microbiologists and ensuring their work provides maximum benefit to society. With that in mind, this collection aims to showcase the work of the next generation of world-leading microbiologists.

      Nominated by our Editorial Boards, Emerging Investigators are researchers up until their first year of tenure. This invited collection will feature original research, reviews and perspectives from all areas of microbiology helping to raise the profiles of the most promising early-career microbiologists. The best overall article published in each journal as determined by the Editorial Board will receive additional promotion across Microbiology Society channels.

      Articles will be featured across the following titles:

      • Access Microbiology
      • International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
      • Journal of General Virology
      • Journal of Medical Microbiology
      • Microbial Genomics
      • Microbiology

      “The Microbiology Society is proud to nurture and to provide a platform for the next generation of world-leading microbiologists as they help shape the future of the field. This collection showcases some of the most exciting work by early-career researchers across the full breadth of microbiology as they begin their independent research careers. We thank all the contributors and look forward to following their progress as they advance our understanding of the microbial world”

      Kim Hardie, Chair of Microbiology Society Publishing Panel


      Submission deadline: 31st March 2026

      Journal submission links:



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      Expand to meet our Emerging Investigators 

      portrait of Ilyas AlavIlyas Alav obtained his PhD in microbiology and infection from the University of Birmingham, where he researched RND efflux pump-mediated antibiotic resistance in Salmonella Typhimurium. As a postdoctoral fellow, he investigated plasmid transmission inhibitors in Enterobacterales and their mechanisms of action to limit the spread of antimicrobial resistance genes. Subsequently, he became a teaching fellow, during which time his research interest in multidrug efflux pumps rekindled, leading him to apply for funding to establish his own research team. He is currently a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. Currently, trainees within his team are investigating the molecular mechanisms of multidrug efflux pumps in bacterial virulence, using Salmonella Typhimurium as a model pathogen. His research aims to develop anti-virulence strategies by targeting efflux pumps to combat bacterial infections. Alongside his research, he is enthusiastic about teaching and supervising students and early-career researchers to support their professional development.


      Read Ilyas's article Strain-dependent contribution of the AcrAB-TolC efflux pump to Klebsiella pneumoniae physiology in Microbiology.


      portrait of Emily StevensEmily Stevens completed their undergraduate degree in Biology at the University of Bath in 2015, before completing their PhD in Microbiology at the University of Bristol in 2019. They worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford until taking up a lectureship position in Microbiology and Immunology at Keele University in 2024. Their research focuses on bacterial pathogenesis and evolution. In particular, they are interested in the evolution of bacterial opportunistic pathogens, with a focus on understanding how these organisms transition from harmless commensals to harmful pathogens. They are also interested in the interactions between opportunistic pathogens and host microbiota, and in the role of microbiota components in protecting against the onset of infectious disease.


      Read Emily's article Pathogens as commensals: microbial priming of the immune system and heterologous protection physiology in Microbiology.


    • Environmental Sensing and Cell-Cell Communication


      The last two decades have provided a wealth of new insight into how microbes (both prokaryotes and eukaryotes) sense and respond to their surroundings and to one another. Technological advances continue to shape our understanding of this burgeoning field, and this has led to a sea-change in the way in which we view the microbial world. No longer are microbes viewed as being the archetypal single celled entities; instead, community spirit and coordinated responses are the order of the day. In this special anniversary collection for Microbiology, timed to coincide with the Microbiology Society-sponsored Cell-Cell Communication meeting, Guest Editors Martin Welch (University of Cambridge) and Anugraha Mathew (University of Zurich) aim to assemble a landmark collection of papers that celebrate the interaction of microbes with their environment and with one another.

      Submissions are particularly welcomed on microbial sensing and signaling pathways, quorum sensing (including both intra- and inter-species interactions and other forms of community-wide behaviors), chemoreception, secondary metabolism, and the complex interplay between different sensory pathways.

    • Establishing whole genome sequencing at the core of epidemiological surveillance


      Over the last two decades, genome sequencing has become an important tool for understanding and tracking the spread of pathogens. Genomic epidemiology is now a preferred method of surveillance and recent years have seen pathogen sequencing at an unprecedented scale, pushing the underlying technologies to the limit. This has brought major innovations and opportunities to public attention, as well as identifying new research areas. However, major challenges remain in public health settings. These include: incorporating new sequencing technologies and data types for real-time surveillance; developing platforms and nomenclatures for genome-based typing and epidemiology; understanding pathogen evolution and the emergence of virulence and antimicrobial resistance; contextualizing knowledge of clinical microbiology with One Health ecological genomics. In this collection, we bring together recent studies that are establishing pathogen genomics as a major part of contemporary disease control efforts.

    • Exploring the skin microbiome in health and disease


      The skin is our biggest organ and a primary protective barrier from pathogens. The microbiome of this highly varied environment is now being described in unprecedented detail, revealing complex multispecies communities that play important roles in skin health, the development of the immune system and in wound healing. This collection aims to bring together knowledge of what these microbes are, how they colonise this often nutrient poor and challenging niche, and how they work together to suppress the growth of pathogens, while in themselves also being potential accidental pathogens if the skin barrier is broken.

      This collection will feature new primary research and review articles arising from the “Exploring the skin microbiome in health and disease” symposium held at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2024 in Edinburgh,8-11 April 2024.
      The collection is also open for new submissions from all researchers across the skin microbiome field. Please indicate within your submission that it is intended for the collection.

      Guest Editors: Georgios Efthimiou (University of Hull, UK); Albert Bolhuis (University of Bath, UK); Andrew Edwards (Imperial College London, UK)
      Status: Open for submissions
      Deadline for submissions: 31st January 2025
      Journals submission links: Microbiology Editorial Manager
                                                       Journal of Medical Microbiology Editorial Manager
                                                       Microbial Genomics Editorial Manager
       

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