About microLife
microLife is a gold Open Access journal associated with the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) and supported by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), publishing full-length research articles, short reviews, and commentaries reporting research of the highest standard, novelty, and significance in the field of microbiology and related disciplines. microLife covers all aspects of microbiology. All microbes are covered including bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, parasites, and viruses.
Sections
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Applied microbiology
- Archaea
- Biotechnology
- Biochemistry and chemical biology
- Chemotherapy and vaccines
- Communication and signalling
- Computational microbiology
- Epidemiology and global health
- Evolution
- Community interaction and horizontal gene transfer
- Immunology and inflammation / cell biology
- Infection biology
- Methods
- Microbial ecology
- Microbiomes
- One health
- Physiology - microbial metabolism
- Plant-microbe interactions
- RNA biology
- Synthetic biology
- Systems biology / mathematical modelling of infectious diseases
- Viruses / Phage biology
Submissions
microLife welcomes direct submissions while offering EAM fellows the option to submit one manuscript per year through the ‘Academy Submission’ route, with authors organizing peer review of their article with external reviewers of their choice. We are adopting a progressive approach to journal policy. In addition to the ‘Academy Submission’ route, the journal allows format-free submission and posting on Preprint servers, introduces scooping protection for authors (whereas manuscript considered for publication will not be rejected if the results are published elsewhere by someone else after submission to microLife), and the option to recognize the work done by co-reviewers during peer review.
