FEMS Journals, in partnership with Oxford University Press (OUP), are a leading resource for the microbiology community. Our not-for-profit publications advance the field through research, education, and collaboration, featuring exciting special issues, topical webinars, and cutting-edge advancements.

Explore the research below:  

• FEMS Microbiology Letters - Understanding the role of the cytadhesins on the pathogenesis and transmission of Mycoplasma genitalium infection: a minireview - Published: 19 September 2025
   
• FEMS Microbiology Reviews - Exploring antiviral strategies to combat African swine fever - Published: 8 September 2025
   
• FEMS Microbiology Ecology - Challenging the Paradigm: Non-Canonical Exoprotease Cheating in Clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates - Published: 22 October 2025
   
• Pathogens and Disease (soon to be FEMS Infectious Diseases) - Inc/GFP chimera protein-based interactomics reveals host cellular interactions of Cps0558, a novel Chlamydia psittaci inclusion protein - Published: 22 October 2025
   
• FEMS Yeast Research - The Sef1 Transcription Factor Interacts with Promoters of Riboflavin Structural Genes in Candida famata -  Published: 19 September 2025
   
• FEMS Microbes - Ionic Surfactants Alter Virus Surface Properties and Electrostatic Interactions in Aqueous Systems - Published: 11 September 2025
   
• microLife - Small DUF1127 proteins regulate bacterial phosphate metabolism through protein-protein interactions with the sensor kinase PhoR - Published: 18 September 2025

Calls for papers from FEMS Microbes: Astrobiology and Extremophiles

How do microbes survive the most extreme environments on Earth and what does that tell us about life beyond our planet? FEMS Microbes is welcoming papers on the microbiology of extreme environments and their links to astrobiology. 

Working on something relevant? Share your latest insights into how microbes push the limits of life in our upcoming thematic issue.

Submit your manuscript before 31 December 2025

Publish with purpose:

Looking for a place to publish your paper? The not-for-profit FEMS journals, run by and for microbiologists, publish rigorously peer-reviewed research to support the microbiology community.

Find all open calls for thematic issues submissions here. We have open access and free-to-publish submission options available.

Immerse yourself within the dynamic world of microbiology with the #FEMSmicroBlog, your essential monthly resource for the latest news, recent studies, innovative discoveries, and insightful perspectives.

Explore our latest blog posts:

• Optimizing the production of ethanol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - For millennia, we have employed fungi’s ability to make ethanol in culinary activities such as baking and brewing. In this #FEMSmicroblog, Aafke van Aalst discusses a sustainable way of ethanol production based on the study “Optimizing the balance between heterologous acetate- and CO2-reduction pathways in anaerobic cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains engineered for low-glycerol production” in FEMS Yeast Research which combined two engineering strategies in a single yeast strain to boost ethanol production. #FascinatingMicrobes
   
• Double trouble: How a Mini-Me endolysin isoform supercharges bacterial lysis - Phages – viruses that infect and kill bacteria – carry a specialised toolkit to complete their life cycles and leave their bacterial hosts. Among the most important of these tools are endolysins; enzymes that rapidly break down bacterial cell walls. Léa Zinsli and Matthew Dunne explain their work in this #FEMSmicroBlog, examining the functionality of an endolysin to optimize killing of the bacterial hosts from their study “Heterodimerization of staphylococcal phage φ2638A endolysin isoforms and their functional role in bacterial lysis” in microLife. #FascinatingMicrobes

The #FEMSmicroBlog welcomes external bloggers, writers and SciComm enthusiasts. Get in touch if you want to share your idea for a blog entry with us.

Help shape the future of microbiology in Europe

FEMS is undertaking a strategic research initiative to ensure we remain closely aligned with the needs of microbiologists and can best support the field across Europe in the years ahead. 

To guide this work, we are conducting a survey of those who have engaged with FEMS over the years, and we invite you to participate in a brief survey to share your perspective. 

By participating, you will help identify key challenges facing microbiologists, guide how FEMS can best support the microbiology community, and ensure your voice is heard at the European level. 

We also encourage you to share this survey link with other microbiologists in your professional network. Broad participation will ensure that we effectively gather the diversity of perspectives from our community. 

Meet Prof. Breck Duerkop, new Co-Editor-in-Chief of FEMS Microbes

Join us in welcoming Prof. Breck Duerkop as the new Co-Editor-in-Chief of FEMS Microbes. Beyond his pioneering work in phage research, Breck is deeply committed to mentoring young scientists and empowering early-career researchers.

These are values that align perfectly with the journal’s mission to highlight and support emerging voices in microbiology.

Highlights from the FEMS Summer School for Postdocs

What happens when a cohort of Europe’s brightest postdocs come together for eight days of science, collaboration, and exploration? The FEMS Summer School for Postdocs brought this question to life in Ohrid, North Macedonia. Attendees immersed themselves in an intensive programme exploring the vast impact of microbiology on human and environmental health while learning from leading experts and connecting across borders.

The FEMS journals are run by microbiologists, and for microbiologists. Every article published by us has been rigorously reviewed for soundness of science by our community of academic peer reviewers – and the not-for-profit journals support the microbiology community.