Biodegradation publishes papers, reviews, and mini-reviews on all aspects of science pertaining to the biotransformation, mineralization, detoxification, recycling, amelioration or treatment of chemicals or waste materials by naturally-occurring microbial strains, microbial associations, or recombinant organisms. Submissions of manuscripts describing fundamental studies and novel discoveries are highly encouraged. Biodegradation does not publish routine case studies or results of biotreatment demonstrations that do not present new concepts or novel observations.

Areas of particular interest include:

- biochemistry of biodegradative pathways;
- genetics of biodegradative organisms and the development of recombinant biodegrading organisms;
- molecular biology-based studies of biodegradative microbial communities, including metagenomic approaches (examinations of whole-community genomes);
- enhancement of naturally-occurring biodegradative properties and activities;
- novel applications of biodegradation and biotransformation technology, e.g. to soil, water, sewage, heavy metals and radionuclides, organohalogens, high-COD wastes, straight-, branched-chain and aromatic hydrocarbons;
- modelling and scale-up of laboratory processes and design of bioreactor systems;
- economic and legal aspects of biological treatment of waste.

Editor-in-Chief:
Claudia K. Gunsch 
Duke University, Durham, USA


Managing Editorial Board:
A. Cupples
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
J.A. Field (Review Editor)
University of Arizona, AZ, USA
C. Gunsch,
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; 
J. van Hamme
Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, B.C., Canada
R. M. Hozalski
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
D. Karpouzas
University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece
B. K. Singh
University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia
L. Xun
Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
H.P Zhao
ZhejiangUniversity, Hangzhou, China

Editorial Board:
P.C. Abhilash, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India; C.M. Aelion, University of Massachustts, Amherst, USA; V. Andreoni, Universita degli Studi, Milan, Italy;W. Bae, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; D. de Beer, Max Planck Institute, Bremen, Germany; J.C. Block, Faculté de Science Pharmaceutique, Nancy, France; T.J. Britz, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; J. Chambon, Geosynte Consultants, Oakland, USA; F. Chappelle, U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia, SC, USA;Anurag chaurasia, NBAIM, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India; Z. Chen, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA; Y. Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; F.S. Colwell, Oregon State University, OR, USA; A.B. Cunningham, Montana State University, USA; A.J. Daugulis, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada; S. Fetzner, Universität Oldenburg, Germany; H.C. Flemming, IWW, Mülheim, Germany; H. Furumai, The University of Tokyo, Japan; J.D. Gu, The University of Hong Kong, China;J.D. Haddock, Southern Illinois University, IL, USA; I. Head, University of Newcastle, UK; N. Kato, Kyoto University, Japan;J. Keller, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; M.J. Kirisits, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA; R. Kookana, CSIRO Land & Water, Australia;D. van der Lelie, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA;M.C.M. van Loosdrecht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; V. de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia CSIC, Madrid, Spain; R.M. Maier, The University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, USA; P.L. McCarty, Stanford University, CA, USA; R. Müller, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany; J.E. Odencrantz, Tri-S Environmental, Newport Beach, CA, USA; S. Ohgaki, University of Tokyo, Japan; S. Okabe,Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; G.F. Parkin, University of Iowa, IA, USA ; A.J. Paszczynski, University of Idaho, ID, USA; B.M. Peyton, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA; G. Quijano, Engineering Institute at the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM); J.L. Ramos, CSIC-Estación Exp. del Zaidin, Granada, Spain; L. Raskin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA; P.B. Sáez, IGSA Consultores, Santiago, Chile; G. Sayler, University of Tennessee, TN, USA; B. Schink, Universität Konstanz, Germany; C. Scott, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia; H.S. Shin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea; B. Smets, University of Connecticut, CT, USA; A. Spormann, Stanford University, CA, USA; W. Streit, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; J.B. Sutherland, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR, USA; Y. Suwa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki, Japan; M. Switzenbaum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA; S.R. Trejo-Estrada, CICATA-IPN, Puebla, USA; Y.F. Tsang, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; L. Wackett, University of Minnesota, MN, USA; P. Werner, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; P. Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; H.-Q. Yu, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China; H-P. Zhao, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China; N.-Y. Zhou, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hubei, China