2008 Impact Factor: 2-Year IF: 4.7, 5-Year IF: 5.2
Environmental Microbiology
Published jointly with the Society for Applied Microbiology
Edited by:
Kenneth N. Timmis, David A. Stahl, Edward F. DeLong, Michael Wagner, Mike Jetten, Michael Galperin and Juan L. Ramos
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 16/91 Microbiology
Impact Factor: 4.707
Environmental Microbiology is devoted to the study of microbial processes in the environment, microbial communities and microbial interactions.
Environmental Microbiology provides a high profile vehicle for publication of the most innovative, original and rigorous research in the field. The scope of the Journal encompasses the diversity of current research on microbial processes in the environment, microbial communities and microbial interactions.
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TopNews and Announcements
**NEW FOR 2009 - Environmental Microbiology Reports**
From January 2009, Environmental Microbiology will no longer publish Brief Reports; instead, Brief Reports will be published in a new sister journal, Environmental Microbiology Reports. The new journal will be an online only vehicle dedicated to the rapid publication of important new findings that can be adequately documented by a limited amount of text and displays.
The journal will be identical in scope to Environmental Microbiology, will share the same editorial team and submission site, and will apply the same high level acceptance criteria. The two journals will be mutually supportive and evolve side-by-side.
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Environmental Microbiology Annual Lecture
Sponsored by SfAM and Wiley-Blackwell, the second **Environmental Microbiology Annual Lecture**,
which took place on Monday 12th October 2009 at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, is now available to view online:
Deciphering microbial community dynamics, from genomes to biomes
with guest speaker Prof. Edward F. DeLong
Past Lectures
Climate, Oceans, Global Warming and Cholera
with guest speaker Dr. Rita R. Colwell
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Poster Prizes Awarded by Environmental Microbiology
In 2009, Environmental Microbiology awarded poster prizes at the following conference:
Young Microbiologists Mini-Symposium: microbe signalling, organisation, and pathogenesis
Cork, Ireland. April 21-22nd, 2009
Winners:
- Identifying factors required for colonisation of infective juvenile stage nematodes by Photorhabdus luminescens by Catherine Easom
- Characterization of a Pseudomonas putida strain lacking the global regulator Hfq by Alejandro Arce
Online Open
Authors of articles in this journal can now choose to make their articles open access and available free for all readers through the payment of an author fee. Read more.
Early View
Environmental Microbiology now publishes Early View papers - fully reviewed and revised articles published online in advance of publication in a forthcoming printed issue. To view theses papers, click here
Faculty of 1000
Faculty of 1000 Biology is an award-winning online service that highlights and evaluates the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of over 2000 of the world's top researchers.
The following recently publishes articles in Environmental Microbiology have been evaluated and rated by Faculty of 1000:
Whole-genome microarray analyses of Synechococcus-Vibrio interactions
Vera Tai, Ian T. Paulsen, Katherine Phillippy, D. Aaron Johnson, Brian Palenik
Architecture of developing multicellular yeast colony: spatio-temporal expression of Ato1p ammonium exporter
Libuše Váchová, Oleksandr Chernyavskiy, Dita Strachotová, Paolo Bianchini, Zuzana Burdíková, Ivana Ferčíková, Lucie Kubínová, Zdena Palková
Swarming motility: a multicellular behaviour conferring antimicrobial resistance
Sandra Lai, Julien Tremblay, Eric Déziel
Viral biogeography revealed by signatures in Sulfolobus islandicus genomes
Nicole L. Held, Rachel J. Whitaker
Recognition between symbiotic Vibrio fischeri and the haemocytes of Euprymna scolopes
Spencer V. Nyholm, Jennifer J. Stewart, Edward G. Ruby, Margaret J. McFall-Ngai
Spatial patterns of bacterial taxa in nature reflect ecological traits of deep branches of the 16S rRNA bacterial tree
Laurent Philippot, David Bru, Nicolas P. A. Saby, Jiří Čuhel, Dominique Arrouays, Miloslav 
imek, Sara Hallin
Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO), the AGORA initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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TopHighlights
Crystal Ball articles
All Crystal Ball articles are freely available to download. Click here
Special Issues
Roles of viruses in the environment
Guest Editors: Forest Rohwer, David Prangishvili and Debbie Lindell
Click here to read the Editorial. Click here to browse the table of contents.
Polar Microbiology
Guest Editors: Craig Cary, Alison Murray and Ian McDonald
Click here to browse the table of contents.
Most downloaded articles in 2008:
Microbial diversity - insights from population genetics
Ted H. M. Mes
Social bacteria and asocial eukaryotes
Michael Y. Galperin
Simultaneous analysis of microbial identity and function using NanoSIMS
Tianlun Li, Ting-Di Wu, Laurent Mazéas, Laurent Toffin, Jean-Luc Guerquin-Kern, Gérard Leblon, Théodore Bouchez
The microbial nitrogen cycle
Mike S. M. Jetten
How to get more out of molecular fingerprints: practical tools for microbial ecology
Massimo Marzorati, Lieven Wittebolle, Nico Boon, Daniele Daffonchio, Willy Verstraete
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