Microbial Biotechnology

New Special Issue Out Now!

Special Issue: Microbial Resource Management (May 2012)
Guest Editors: Nico Boon and Willy Verstraete

Previously Published Special Issues:

Special Issue: Microbial Vaccines and Immunomodulators (March 2012)
Guest Editors: Carlos A. Guzman, Ennio De Gregorio, Jan ter Meulen, and Martin Friede

Special Issue: Thematic Issue on Extremophiles (July 2011)
Guest Editors: Terry McGenity, Ricardo Amils, Rick Cavicchioli, Dirk Wagner

Special Issue: Lactic Acid Bacteria (May 2011)
Editors: Michiel Kleerebezem and Willem M. de Vos

Special Issue: Crystal ball and Streptomyces (March 2011)
Guest Editors: Hildgund Schrempf, Paul Dyson and Sergey Zotchev

Special Issue: Marine Omics (September 2010)
Guest Editors: Laura Giuliano, Michele Barbier and Frederic Briand

Special Issue: Biocatalysis (January 2010)
Guest Editors: Karl-Erich Jaeger, Andreas Schmid and Manuel Ferrer

Special Issue: Microbiology of energy biotechnology (September 2009)
Guest Editors: Professor Erick Vandamme and Professor Willy Verstraete

Special Issue: Life of microbes that interact with plants (July 2009)
Guest Editors: Dr. Ana Segura, Dr. Gail Preston and Professor Pierre de Wit

Special Issue: Bioremediation (March 2009)
Guest Editors: Jan Roelof van der Meer, Thomas Wood, Hideaki Nojiri and Pieter van Dillewijn

Have you read the Top 5 most downloaded papers for 2011?

Crystal ball – 2011

Engineering Streptomyces coelicolor for heterologous expression of secondary metabolite gene clusters
Juan Pablo Gomez-Escribano, Mervyn J. Bibb

Marine genomics: at the interface of marine microbial ecology and biodiscovery
Karla B. Heidelberg, Jack A. Gilbert, Ian Joint

Cross-talk of global nutritional regulators in the control of primary and secondary metabolism in Streptomyces
Juan F Martín et al.

Genome-wide gene expression changes in an industrial clavulanic acid overproduction strain of Streptomyces clavuligerus
Marnix H. Medema et al.

Click on the links below to read the most cited papers in Microbial Biotechnology to date:

Metabolic engineering to enhance bacterial hydrogen production
Toshinari Maeda, Viviana Sanchez-Torres, Thomas K. Wood

Identification of furfural as a key toxin in lignocellulosic hydrolysates and evolution of a tolerant yeast strain
Dominik Heer, Uwe Sauer

T-DNA insertion, plasmid rescue and integration analysis in the model mycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor
Minna Kemppainen, Sebastien Duplessis, Francis Martin, Alejandro G. Pardo

Microbial degradation of lignin: how a bulky recalcitrant polymer is efficiently recycled in nature and how we can take advantage of this
Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas, Ángel T. Martínez

Microbial reporters of metal bioavailability
Sagi Magrisso, Yigal Erel, Shimshon Belkin