Launched in 1985, as a sister journal to Journal of Applied Microbiology, Letters in Applied Microbiology (LAM) is a flagship title of Applied Microbiology International, whose members benefit from free online access and discounts on open access publishing fees.

Letters in Applied Microbiology aims to be the journal to support and develop the next generation of applied microbiologists. With a focus on early career scientists, it provides rapid publication of short well-designed studies containing robust datasets and insightful analysis. With a focus on the quality of science, we do not exclude papers based on subjective views of their potential impact. Replication studies, along with those of niche interest or showing negative results, are all welcome.

Scope
The broad scope of Letters of Applied Microbiology encompasses the full breadth of applied microbiology research, exploring topics that include (but are not limited to):

Clinical microbiology

Human, animal and environmental microbiomes

Sanitation and public health microbiology

Bacteriology, mycology

Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy

Applied microbial and cell physiology

Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics

Environmental microbiology and biotechnology

Food microbiology

Agricultural and plant microbiology

Industrial microbiology

Enzymology and protein engineering

Chief Editor
Jean-Yves Maillard, Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University
email: MaillardJ@cardiff.ac.uk

Reviews Editor
P.J. Collier, University of Abertay, Dundee, UK

Editorial Office
email: lam@wiley.com
Editors
L. Baillie, Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
J.L. Balcazar, Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain
M.D. Barton, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
E. Bartowsky, The Australian Wine Research Institute, Glen Osmond, Australia
L. Bingle, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK
A. Bosch, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
O. Braissant, Department of Urology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
J. Brojatsch, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
P. Calik, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
M.L. Chikindas, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
C. Cooper, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
D.A. Cowan, Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Z. Cui, Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
S.P. Cummings, School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
M. Dow, BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
N. Fegan, Food Science Australia, Brisbane, Australia
J.E. Flaherty, Department of Science and Mathematics, Coker College, Hartsville, SC, USA
C. Gilbert, Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moleculaire, Université Claud Bernard Lyon, Lyon, France
B.F. Gilmore, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, UK
A. Gilmour, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland, UK
J. Glassey, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
M. Gougouli, Department of Food Science & Technology, Perrotis College, American Farm School, Thessaloniki, Greece
P.C. Gowland, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
I.R. Grant, Queen's University Belfast, UK
J. Guard, USDA/ARS, Athens, GA, USA
S.K. Gupta, Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Research Unit, RRC, Athens, GA, USA
K.A. Hammer, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
K.S. Howell, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
C.R. Jackson, USDA-ARS Resistance Research Unit, Athens, GA, USA
B.V. Jones, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
K. Kadlec, working group Molecular Microbiology and Antibiotic Resistance, Friedrich-Loeffler-Instiutut, Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany
M. Koenen, The Netherlands
G. LaPointe, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
L. Laurens, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
A. Leaphart, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA
J. Lisle, US Geological Survey, Center for Coastal & Watershed Studies, St Petersburg, FL, USA
B. Mayo, IPLA-CSIC, Villaviciosa, Spain
J.A. McGarvey, USDA-ARS Plant Mycotoxin Research Unit, Albany, CA, USA
A. Moodley, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
F. Mozzi, CERELA-CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina
D.R. Noguera, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
G-J.E. Nychas, Department of Food Science & Technology, Laboratory Food Microbiology & Biotechnology of Foods, Athens, Greece
A.H. Rickard, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
C.P. Saint, Centre for Water Management and Re-use, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia
F. Pinzari, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics,Research Centre for Soil-Plant System, Rome, Italy
A.S. Sant'Ana, Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Engineering, University of Campinas, Brazil
P. Setlow, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA
R. Seviour, Biotechnology Research Centre, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia
M.B. Taylor, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
K. Thomas, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK
S. K. Tiwari, Department of Genetics, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India
M. Upton, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
V.P. Valdramidis, University of Malta, Malta
K. Venema, Beneficial Microbes Consultancy, The Netherlands
T.M. Wassenaar, Molecular Microbiology and Genomics Consultants, Tannenstrasse, Zotzenhein, Germany
T. J. Welch, USDA-ARS National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, Leetown, WV, USA
J. Wells, USDA-ARS, Meat Animal Research Center, NE, USA
R. Zdor, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA
N.-Y. Zhou, Center for Applied & Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
Statistical Adviser
R. A. Armstrong, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.