Selected Papers from the 2025 Symposium on Marine Microbiology in China
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 11
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine natural product chemistry; drug leads; pharmacological mechanism; marine microorganisms; biotransformation
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Interests: marine actinobacterial resources; hydrolase enzymes, and their applications
Interests: toxin–antitoxin systems; environmental adaptation; mobile genetic elements
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The "2025 Symposium on Marine Microbiology in China" is jointly organized by the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Marine Microbiology Professional Committee of the Chinese Society for Microbiology and will be held in Guangzhou from August 27 to 30, 2025.
With the theme of "Frontier Exploration and Application Innovation of Marine Microorganisms", this symposium aims to garner well-known scholars in China and abroad to share their cutting-edge research findings. Its objective is to showcase the latest achievements and progress in the field of marine microbiology, explore the opportunities and challenges its faces, and clarify key research directions for the future. It additionally seeks to promote collaboration and joint innovation between marine microbiology and other disciplines and boost the high-level development of China's marine microbiology research and blue marine industry.
The organizing committee would like to invite experts, scholars and graduate students engaged in marine microbiology and related fields to come to Guangzhou and participate in this significant event.
We welcome submissions from participants of the conference and global researchers who are interested in its subject matter. Research submitted to this Special Issue should pertain to the following themes:
- Medicinal marine environmental resources;
- Bioactive compounds from marine microorganisms;
- Toxin–antitoxin systems in marine microorganisms;
- Marine microbial metabolism and biosynthesis;
- Research on marine biomedicine products;
- Chemical ecology research inspiring marine drug discovery;
- Marine biotechnology and molecular biology studies related to drug discovery;
- New technologies and methods in marine natural products;
- Artificial intelligence in marine drug research
Prof. Dr. Xuefeng Zhou
Prof. Dr. Xinpeng Tian
Dr. Yunxue Guo
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Marine Drugs is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- marine microorganisms
- marine natural products
- marine toxins
- biosynthesis
- chemical ecology
- marine biotechnology
- molecular biology
- artificial intelligence
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