Article Awards
The FEMS Journals and Oxford University Press recognise the best articles published in our journals each year through our Article Awards. The awards also include special promotion devoted to the winning articles to help spread the author(s) and their research to the microbiology community. The articles are made free to read for everyone. All authors are automatically considered for the award after acceptance of their papers for publication.
2024
FEMS Microbiology Letters | Minghui Ma, Afshan Ardalan, Adrian Van Dyk, Trevor C Charles, and Geoff P Horsman | Discovery of a glyphosate oxidase in nature
microLife | Benjamin Kumwenda, Rocío Canals, Alexander V Predeus, Xiaojun Zhu, Carsten Kröger, Caisey Pulford, Nicolas Wenner, Lizeth Lacharme Lora, Yan Li, Siân V Owen, Dean Everett, Karsten Hokamp, Robert S Heyderman, Philip M Ashton, Melita A Gordon, Chisomo L Msefula, and Jay C D Hinton | Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium ST313 sublineage 2.2 has emerged in Malawi with a characteristic gene expression signature and a fitness advantage
FEMS Microbiology Reviews | Yunpeng Liu, Zhihui Xu, Lin Chen, Weibing Xun, Xia Shu, Yu Chen, Xinli Sun, Zhengqi Wang, Yi Ren, Qirong Shen, and Ruifu Zhang | Root colonization by beneficial rhizobacteria
FEMS Microbiology Ecology | Daniela Trojan, Emilio García-Robledo, Bela Hausmann, Niels Peter Revsbech, Dagmar Woebken, and Stephanie A Eichorst | A respiro-fermentative strategy to survive nanoxia in Acidobacterium capsulatum
Pathogens and Disease | Mélanie Gonzales, Baptiste Kergaravat, Pauline Jacquet, Raphaël Billot, Damien Grizard, Éric Chabrière, Laure Plener, and David Daudé | Disrupting quorum sensing as a strategy to inhibit bacterial virulence in human; animal; and plant pathogens
FEMS Yeast Research | Irene De Guidi, Céline Serre, Jessica Noble, Anne Ortiz-Julien, Bruno Blondin, and Jean-Luc Legras | QTL mapping reveals novel genes and mechanisms underlying variations in H2S production during alcoholic fermentation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
FEMS Microbes | Emma K Sheriff, Fernanda Salvato, Shelby E Andersen, Anushila Chatterjee, Manuel Kleiner, and Breck A Duerkop | Enterococcal quorum-controlled protease alters phage infection
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2023
FEMS Microbiology Ecology | Ate H Jaarsma, Katie Sipes, Athanasios Zervas, Francisco Campuzano Jiménez, Lea Ellegaard-Jensen, Mariane S Thøgersen, Peter Stougaard, Liane G Benning, Martyn Tranter, Alexandre M Anesio | Exploring microbial diversity in Greenland Ice Sheet supraglacial habitats through culturing-dependent and -independent approaches
FEMS Microbiology Letters | Barbara R Heard | Supporting students with blindness and visual impairments in microbiology
FEMS Microbiology Reviews | Amin R Mohamed, Michael A Ochsenkühn, Ahmed M Kazlak, Ahmed Moustafa, Shady A Amin | The coral microbiome: Towards an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of coral-microbiota interactions
Pathogens and Disease | Stanimira V Valeva, Manon Degabriel, Fanny Michal, Gabrielle Gay, John R Rohde, Felix Randow, Brice Lagrange, Thomas Henry | Comparative study of GBP recruitment on two cytosol-dwelling pathogens, Francisella novicida and Shigella flexneri highlights differences in GBP repertoire and in GBP1 motif requirements
FEMS Yeast Research | Romeu Viana, Tiago Carreiro, Diogo Couceiro, Oscar Dias, Isabel Rocha, Miguel Cacho Teixeira | Metabolic reconstruction of the human pathogen Candida auris: using a cross-species approach for drug target prediction
microLife | Regine Hengge, Mihaela Pruteanu, Jörg Stülke, Natalia Tschowri, Kürşad Turgay | Recent advances and perspectives in nucleotide second messenger signaling in bacteria
FEMS Microbes | Colleen C Naughton, Fernando A Roman Jr, Ana Grace F Alvarado, Arianna Q Tariqi, Matthew A Deeming, Krystin F Kadonsky, Kyle Bibby, Aaron Bivins, Gertjan Medema, Warish Ahmed, Panagis Katsivelis, Vajra Allan, Ryan Sinclair, Joan B Rose | Show us the data: global COVID-19 wastewater monitoring efforts, equity, and gaps
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2022
FEMS Microbiology Ecology | Francesca Vulcano, Cedric Hahn, Desiree Roerdink, Hakon Dahle, Eoghan Reeves, Gunter Wegener, Ida H. Steen, Runar Stokke | Phylogenetic and functional diverse ANME-1 thrive in Arctic hydrothermal vents
FEMS Microbiology Letters (MiniReview Award) | Smriti Arora, Samikshha Puri, Nitika Bhambri | A designer diet layout for astronauts using a microbiome mediated approach
FEMS Microbiology Reviews | Anna Roik, Miriam Reverter, Claudia Pogoreutz | A roadmap to understanding diversity and function of coral reef-associated fungi
FEMS Yeast Research | Identification of European isolates of the lager yeast parent Saccharomyces eubayanus
microLife | | Nonessential tRNA and rRNA modifications impact the bacterial response to sub-MIC antibiotic stress
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2021
FEMS Microbiology Ecology | Damien Finn, Benoît Bergk-Pinto, Christina Hazard, Graeme Nicol, Christoph Tebbe and Timothy Vogel | Functional trait relationships demonstrate life strategies in terrestrial prokaryotes
FEMS Microbiology Letters (MiniReview Award) | Gargi Dey and Sohom Mookherjee | Probiotics-targeting new milestones from gut health to mental health
FEMS Microbiology Reviews | Ebony Monson, Alice Trenerry, Jay Laws, Jason Mackenzie and Karla Helbig | Lipid droplets and lipid mediators in viral infection and immunity
Pathogens and Disease | Sebastian Bruchmann, Theresa Feltwell, Julian Parkhill and Francesca Short | Identifying virulence determinants of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Galleria mellonella
FEMS Yeast Research | Brigitte Gasser, Özge Ata, Burcu Gündüz Ergün, Patrick Fickers, Lina Heistinger, Diethard Mattanovich and Corinna Rebnegger | What makes Komagataella phaffii non-conventional
microLife | Bruno Lemaitre, Alice Marra and Florent Masson | The iron transporter Transferrin 1 mediates homeostasis of the endosymbiotic relationship between Drosophila melanogaster and Spiroplasma poulsonii
FEMS Microbes | Aaron Barnes, Kristi Frank, Jennifer Dale, Dawn Manias, Jennifer Powers and Gary Dunny | Enterococcus faecalis colonizes and forms persistent biofilm microcolonies on undamaged endothelial surfaces in a rabbit endovascular infection model
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2020
FEMS Microbiology Ecology | Megan Morris, Natalie Frixione, Alexander Burkert, Elizabeth Dinsdale and Rachel Vannette | Microbial abundance, composition, and function in nectar are shaped by flower visitor identity
FEMS Microbiology Letters (MiniReview Award) | Andrea Gianotti, Lorenzo Nissen and Flavia Casciano | Intestinal fermentation in vitro models to study food-induced gut microbiota shift: an updated review
FEMS Microbiology Reviews | Michelle Wille and Edward Holmes | Wild birds as reservoirs for diverse and abundant gamma- and deltacoronaviruses
Pathogens and Disease | Cristiano Salata, Arianna Calistri, Cristina Parolin and Giorgio Palù | Coronaviruses: a paradigm of new emerging zoonotic diseases
FEMS Yeast Research | Sophia Tsouka and Vassily Hatzimanikatis | redLips: a comprehensive mechanistic model of the lipid metabolic network of yeast
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2019
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Frederik Bak | Preferential flow paths shape the structure of bacterial communities in a clayey till depth profile
Sarah Christofides (née Johnston) | Highly competitive fungi manipulate bacterial communities in decomposing beech wood
Florian Lelchat | Viral degradation of marine bacterial exopolysaccharides
Eeva Vainio | Viruses of fungi and oomycetes in the soil environment
FEMS Microbiology Letters (MiniReview Award) | Sylvia Soldatou, Grimur Hjorleifsson Eldjarn, Alejandro Huerta-Uribe, Simon Rogers and Katherine Duncan | Linking biosynthetic and chemical space to accelerate microbial secondary metabolite discovery
FEMS Microbiology Reviews | Johan Bengtsson-Palme | Environmental factors influencing the development and spread of antibiotic resistance
Pathogens and Disease | Kevin Hoffman | Sex differences in cytokine production following West Nile virus infection: Implications for symptom manifestation
FEMS Yeast Research | Melanie Wijsman | A toolkit for rapid CRISPR-SpCas9 assisted construction of hexose-transport-deficient Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains
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2018
FEMS Microbiology Letters | Gregory S. Gavelis and Gillian H. Gile | How did cyanobacteria first embark on the path to becoming plastids?: lessons from protist symbiosis
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2017
FEMS Microbiology Letters | Ronald S. Oremland, Chad W. Saltikov, John F. Stolz, and James T. Hollibaugh | Autotrophic microbial arsenotrophy in arsenic-rich soda lakes
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2016
FEMS Microbiology Letters | Ulrich Sonnenborn | Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917 – from bench to bedside and back: history of special Escherichia coli strain with probiotic properties
Read a post on the OUPblog by Ulrich Sonnenborn, and explore a timeline of the last ‘100 years of E. coli strain Nissle 1917‘.
Runners up:
FEMS Microbiology Letters | Fernanda P. Cid, Joaquín I. Rilling, Steffen P. Graether, Leon A. Bravo, María de La Luz Mora, and Milko A. Jorquera | Properties and biotechnological applications of ice-binding proteins in bacteria
FEMS Microbiology Letters | Maureen O’Malley | Microbiology, philosophy and education
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