Microbial Biotechnology
A section of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607).
Section Information
Microorganisms are important cell factories for the synthesis of proteins, small and large metabolites and for the production of single cell proteins. The field of microbial biotechnology includes methods and strategies for the production and use of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms (e.g. yeasts, fungi, algae) and archaea for substance synthesis and the use of the microorganisms or their substances in applications in the fields of white (industrial), red (pharmaceutical/medical) and green (agro-environmental) biotechnology. It also considers the application of microorganisms or their products in the fields of energy, food and feed, biocatalysis, mining and for new materials. Aside from these application areas, the section also focuses on the methodology of bioprocess development, including high throughput screening and process technologies, design of experiments (DoE) and modelling approaches, and technologies for scale-up and scale-down.
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Functional Microbial Diversity for Biotechnology (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- Advances in Microbial Biosynthesis (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- Microbial Fuel Cell and Microbial Electrolysis Cell (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- Trends in Yeast Biochemistry and Biotechnology (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- New Electrogenic Microbes (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- Novel Drugs by Biotransformation—in Memory of the Late Scientists Frieder Schauer and Peter Grunwald (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- Secondary Metabolism of Microorganisms (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- Microbial Communities in Anaerobic Digesters (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- Biotechnological Applications of Yeasts (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- NANO versus BIO: Nanophysical Bactericidal Methods in Microbiology and Their Prospective Applications (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) for the Identification of Pathogenic Microorganisms (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Production of Recombinant Molecules in Algal Chloroplasts (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Microbial Surfactants: Production and Applications (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Actinobacteria and Myxobacteria—Important Resources for Novel Antibiotics 3.0 (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Antimicrobial Lipopeptide Biosurfactant (Deadline: 15 July 2022)
- Microbial Nanotechnology (Deadline: 30 July 2022)
- Current Prokaryotic Genome Engineering (Deadline: 31 July 2022)
- New Microbial Sources of Natural Products: Their Biology, Chemistry and Biosynthetic Machinery (Deadline: 31 July 2022)
- Rhodococcus Species, Their Resistance to Stress and Biotechnological Potential (Deadline: 31 July 2022)
- Microbial Cell Factories (Deadline: 30 August 2022)
- Application of MALDI-TOF MS in Microbiology (Deadline: 31 August 2022)
- Microbial Biodegradation of Toxic Pollutants (Deadline: 31 August 2022)
- Biotechnological Application of Photosynthetic Bacteria 2.0 (Deadline: 31 August 2022)
- Biofilm Processes in Technical Systems for Wastewater Treatment (Deadline: 31 August 2022)
- Going Further with Microbial Secondary Metabolites and Biotechnology (Deadline: 31 August 2022)
- Assembly, Structure, and Germination of Bacterial Spores (Deadline: 30 September 2022)
- Strategies for the Efficient Development of Microbial Bioprocesses (Deadline: 30 September 2022)
- Feature Papers in Biotechnology of Microbial Enzymes (Deadline: 30 September 2022)
- Biological-Electrode Interface as the Nexus of Breakthroughs towards Viability of Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (Deadline: 15 October 2022)
- Systems Metabolic Engineering of Industrial Microorganisms (Deadline: 31 October 2022)
- Microbial Cell Factories: Production of Amino Acids Using Microorganisms (Deadline: 31 October 2022)
- Microbes for Production of Biofuels and Bio-Products 2.0 (Deadline: 30 November 2022)
- Microbial Cellulose Utilization (Deadline: 1 December 2022)
- Advances in Modeling Anaerobic Digestion (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
- The Role of Atomic Force Microscopy in Microbiology: Sensing the Cell Surface (Deadline: 31 December 2022)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions: