Article Awards
The FEMS Journals and Oxford University Press recognise the best articles submitted to our journals, with each journal awarding a prize of €1,000 anually. The award also includes special marketing devoted to the winning articles to promote the author(s) research. All authors are automatically considered for the award upon submission of their papers. If the Editorial Board of a journal decides to award more than one article, then the prize money is split between the first authors of each paper.
2019
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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
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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
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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
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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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Lactic Acid Bacteria (Lactobacillales) are an order of diverse bacteria that play a vital role in food production and fermentation, probiotic products, and could even help with the administration of vaccines. From gut health to applications of CRISPR-Cas systems, this Thematic Issue of FEMS Microbiology Reviews presents a series of papers showcasing the cutting-edge research that is being conducted in this important and developing field.