Applied and Environmental Microbiology® (AEM) publishes significant and novel studies on all aspects of applied and environmental microbiology, from fundamental to translational research.

Specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Biodegradation
Biotechnology
Environmental microbiology
Enzymology and protein engineering
Evolutionary and genomic microbiology
Food microbiology
Genetics and genomics
Geomicrobiology
Industrial microbiology
Invertebrate microbiology
New methods (showing their value to advance basic and applied microbiology research)
Microbial ecology and evolution
Microbial physiology
Microbial viruses (ecology, evolution, public health, industrial microbiology, biotechnology)
Molecular biology
Planetary microbiology (astrobiology)
Plant microbiology
Public and environmental health microbiology
Synthetic biology