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ISME Journal致力于促进微生物生态学的多样性和相互协调，横跨微生物寿命，包括细菌、古细菌、微生物真核生物和病毒。特别鼓励具有广泛生物学意义和影响的研究成果。 
期刊收录研究方向：微生物种群和社区生态，微生物与微生物、微生物与宿主相互作用，进化遗传学，微生物生态学中整合基因组学和后基因组学方法，微生物工程，地质微生物学和微生物对地球化学循环的作用，微生物生态学和自然栖息地功能多样性，微生物生态系统影响

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Co-Editors in Chief
Ian Head
Ian Head is a professor in Environmental Microbiology at Newcastle University, school of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. His research seeks to unravel the microbial controls on biogeochemical process in natural and engineered environments. The research has been central in revealing the mechanisms responsible for the development of the world's immense heavy oil deposits - dramatic evidence of the power of the very small to influence globally significant Earth processes. His group has also made important contributions to understanding key elements in the microbial ecology of the carbon, nitrogen and sulfur cycles in natural and engineered environments.
Kazuya Watanabe
Kazuya Watanabe is a professor in Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences. He studies onmicrobes and microbiomes involved in water treatment, waste management, environmental cleanup, energy recovery, and bioproduction. He is also interested in studying genetic, physiological and ecological strategiesthat microbes have evolved for surviving in the natural environment.
Reviews Editor
Jim Prosser, University of Aberdeen, UK
Senior Editors
Mark Bailey, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
Jennifer Biddle, University of Delaware, USA
Andrew Holmes, University of Sydney, Australia
Britt Koskella, University of California, USA
George A. Kowalchuk, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Steven Lindow, UC Berkeley, USA
Julian R. Marchesi, Cardiff University, UK
Jennifer Martiny, University of California, USA
Josh D. Neufeld, University of Waterloo, Canada
Satoshi Okabe, Hokkaido University, Japan
Laurent Philippot, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
Heide Schulz-Vogt, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Germany
Hauke Smidt, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands
Matthew Sullivan, The Ohio State University, USA
Susannah Tringe, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA
Rebecca Vega Thurber, Oregon State University, USA
Joshua Weitz, George Institute of Technology, USA
William Wilson, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS), UK
Dagmar Woebken, University of Vienna, Austria
Tanja Woyke, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, USA
Liping Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Jizhong Zhou, Oklahoma University, USA