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Food Microbiology
A section of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158).
Section Information
This Section focuses on all areas of food microbiology including foodborne pathogens, lactic acid bacteria, spoilage microbes, and probiotics. Studies related to microbial detection, pathogenesis, antimicrobial resistance, microbial intervention, biofilms, food fermentation, predictive microbiology, and food microbial communities and ecology will be considered.
Keywords
- food microbiology
- lactic acid bacteria
- spoilage microbes
- probiotics
- pathogenic microbes
- detection
- pathogenesis
- antimicrobial resistance
- microbial intervention
- biofilms
- food fermentation
- predictive microbiology
- food microbial communities and ecology
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Probiotics: Selection, Cultivation, Evaluation and Application (Deadline: 15 December 2022)
- Advances in Food Mycology (Deadline: 20 December 2022)
- Microbiota and Probiotics in Fermented Food (Deadline: 20 December 2022)
- Microbiological Safety of Food (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- New Insight in Microbial Diversity and Genomic in Foods (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Advance and Future Challenges to Microbial Food Safety (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Advances in Foodborne Pathogen Analysis—Second Volume (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Plant Extracts Used to Control Microbial Growth: Efficacy, Stability and Safety Issues for Food Applications (Deadline: 10 January 2023)
- Current Research of Lactic Acid Bacteria in Fermented Foods (Deadline: 10 January 2023)
- Microbes in Cheese: Isolation, Molecular Detection and Characterization (Deadline: 10 January 2023)
- Molecular Methods in Food Quality and Microbiological Safety (Deadline: 15 January 2023)
- Detection, Control, Risk Assessment, and Prevention of Foodborne Microorganisms (Deadline: 15 January 2023)
- Food-Borne Disease Prevention and Risk Assessment 2.0 Edition (Deadline: 20 January 2023)
- Detection and Identification of Waterborne and Foodborne Microbes: Risk Assessment and Public Health (Deadline: 20 January 2023)
- Microbiological Safety and Quality of Fermented Products (Deadline: 20 January 2023)
- Selection of Lactic Acid Bacteria: Metabolic Characteristics, Effects on Food Quality and Human Gut Microbiota (Deadline: 10 February 2023)
- Functional Properties of Lactic Acid Bacteria in Fermented Foods (Deadline: 15 February 2023)
- The Challenge of Biofilms in the Food Industry: Formation, Prevention and Control (Deadline: 20 February 2023)
- Profiling and Characterization of Microbiota Occurring in Food Fermentation (Deadline: 20 February 2023)
- Molecular Epidemiology of Foodborne Pathogenic Bacteria (Deadline: 28 February 2023)
- The Role of Microbes in Coffee Fermentation and Their Impact on Coffee Quality (Deadline: 28 February 2023)
- Foodborne Pathogenic Bacteria: Prevalence and Control (Deadline: 10 March 2023)
- Advanced Research in Foodborne Microorganisms: Detection, Control, Risk Assessment and Prevention Volume II (Deadline: 10 March 2023)
- Lactic Cultures: Applications in Food (Deadline: 15 March 2023)
- New Perspectives on the Production and Action of LAB and Yeast and Their Derivatives against Food and Feed Contaminants (Deadline: 20 March 2023)
- Detection, Identification and Control of Foodborne Microbial Pathogens in Food Safety Applications (Deadline: 24 March 2023)
- Health-Promoting Characteristics of Probiotics: Current Trends and Emergent Functional Food Applications (Deadline: 25 March 2023)
- Improvement of the Microbiological Quality of Food: From Risk Assessment to Optimization of Hazard Management (Deadline: 28 March 2023)
- Microorganisms and Their Importance in the Food Industry: Safety, Quality and Health Properties (Deadline: 5 April 2023)
- Antibiotic Resistance from Farm-to-Fork: Prevention and Containment (Deadline: 5 April 2023)
- Microbiome and Volatile Compounds in Fermented Products (Deadline: 15 April 2023)
- Recent Advances in Lactic Acid Bacteria and Metabolite for Food Quality (Deadline: 20 April 2023)
- Yeasts as a Tool to Improve Health Quality in Food Industry (Deadline: 30 April 2023)
- Food Brewing Technology and Brewing Microorganisms (Deadline: 30 April 2023)
- Research on Rapid Detection Foodborne Pathogens and Mycotoxins in Food Matrixes (Deadline: 30 April 2023)
- Changes of Volatile Flavor Compounds during the Fermentation in Foods (Deadline: 5 May 2023)
- New Insights in Microbial Diversity of Fermented Foods (Deadline: 10 May 2023)
- Regulation of Food Fermentations by Bacteria, Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi (Deadline: 20 May 2023)
- Anti-virus and Anti-microbial Activity of Food Ingredients (Deadline: 20 May 2023)
- Resistance in Food Microorganism and Their Application (Deadline: 26 May 2023)
- The Application of Starter Cultures in Food and Beverage Production (Deadline: 10 June 2023)
- Current Research on Probiotics and Fermented Products (Deadline: 10 June 2023)
- Microbiology and Genomic Analysis of Fermented Foods (Deadline: 15 June 2023)
- Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens in the Context of Climate Changes—New Approaches in Detection, Control, and Safety Assessment (Deadline: 15 June 2023)
- Probiotic Potential of Isolated Cultures from Spontaneously or Naturally Fermented Food Products (Deadline: 19 June 2023)
- Emerging of Control on Microbial Quality of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- Potential of Lactobacillus Strains for Health Promotion and Flavoring of Fermented Dairy Products (Deadline: 20 June 2023)
- The Production and Application of High-Value-Added Fermented Foods with Functional Microbes (Deadline: 25 June 2023)
- Novel Approaches for Detecting Foodborne Pathogens (Deadline: 15 July 2023)
- Effects of Preservatives, Processing Technologies, Packaging Systems and Bioprotective Agents on the Microbiome of Foods (Deadline: 24 July 2023)
- Food Microbes Acting in Gut Microbiota Ecology and Metabolism: Functionality and Safety (Deadline: 30 July 2023)
- Lactic Acid Bacteria and Their Metabolites: Industrial and Health Applications (Deadline: 30 July 2023)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
