BMC Biology

Environmental microbiology

Guest Editors:
Synan F AbuQamar, PhD, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Solange Duhamel, PhD, University of Arizona, USA
Laure Guillou, PhD, CNRS, France
Ning Ling, PhD, Lanzhou University, China

Submission Status: Open until 25 January 2026

Organelles and molecular assemblies in intercellular signalling

Guest Editors:
Senthil Arumugam, PhD, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Australia
Suvendra Bhattacharyya, PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Rotem Rubinstein, PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Jakub Sedzinski, PhD, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Yinghao Wu, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

Submission Status: Open until 18 January 2026

Small RNA structure and regulation

Guest Editors:
Mukesh Dubey, PhD, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Tuan Anh Nguyen, PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Peter Sarkies, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Xiang Zhou, PhD, Fudan University, China

Submission Status: Open until 4 January 2026

Plant communication

Guest Editors:
Jieyin Chen, PhD, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Minoru Ueda, PhD, Tohoku University, Japan

Submission Status: Open until 28 December 2025

Genome organization and evolution

Guest Editors:
Fabrizio Ghiselli, PhD, University of Bologna, Italy
Yafei Mao, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Ferdinand Marlétaz, PhD, University College London, UK
Maria V. Sharakhova, PhD, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, USA
Levi Yant, Dr rer nat, University of Nottingham, UK & Charles University, Czech Republic

Submission Status: Open until 26 December 2025

Structure, function, and regulation of membrane transport proteins

Guest Editors:
Florent Di Meo, PharmD, PhD, French Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), France
Lan Guan, MD, PhD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA

Submission Status: Open until 21 November 2025

Human microbiome in health and disease

Guest Editors:
Ana Santos Almeida, PhD, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal
Sahar El Aidy, PhD, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Torben Sølbeck Rasmussen, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Submission Status: Open until 31 October 2025

Ion channels and channelopathies

Guest Editors:
Zhuo Huang, PhD, Peking University, China
Soile Nymark, PhD, Tampere University, Finland

Submission Status: Open until 27 October 2025

Mitochondrial metabolism and dynamics

Guest Editors:
Valentina Perissi, PhD, Boston University, USA
Ulrike Topf, PhD, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Hong Xu, PhD, National Institute of Health, USA
Mara Zilocchi, PhD, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Submission Status: Open until 10 October 2025

3D patient-derived organoids are isolated from human colonic tissue sections to model inflammatory bowel disease. The organoids are stained with DAPI (blue) for nuclei and Phalloidin (green) for cytoskeletal structures.

Organoids: advancements in normal development and disease modeling, and Regenerative Medicine

Guest Editors:
João Pedro Alves Lopes, PhD, Karolinska Institutet & Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
Soumita Das, PhD, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, USA
Michael Sigal, PhD, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin & Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany

Submission Status: Open until 15 September 2025

Immunosenescence

Guest Editors:
Feng Hefeng, PhD, ADR, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg
Huimin Zhang, PhD, University of California Riverside, USA

Submission Status: Open until 5 September 2025

White adipose tissue whole mount; visible are capillaries stained with Griffonia lectin (green), DsRed+ pericytes (red), and nuclei stained with DAPI (blue).

Vasculogenesis and angiogenesis in vivo and in vitro

Guest Editors:
Sara Baratchi, PhD, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia
Tara Haas, PhD, York University, Canada
Mary Kathryn (M.K.) Sewell-Loftin, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Submission Status: Open until 22 August 2025

Nucleus of a live human osteosarcoma cell stimulated with a glucocorticoid hormone and subjected to hyperosmotic shock, expressing EGFP-tagged glucocorticoid receptor (green, forming multiple nuclear condensates) and mCherry-tagged histone H2B (magenta).

Phase separation in homeostasis and disease

Guest Editors:
Valeria Levi, PhD, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Yi Lin, PhD, Tsinghua University, China
Dragomir Milovanovic, PhD, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany
Emily Mitchell Sontag, PhD, Marquette University, USA

Submission Status: Open until 15 August 2025

Liver fibrosis. Light micrograph of a liver biopsy stained with trichrome stain. The areas of fibrosis (collagen) are stained blue. The hepatocyte (liver cell) cytoplasm is stained red.

Aging microenvironment and disease

Guest Editors:
Célia Aveleira, PhD, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Zachary R. Hettinger, PhD, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, USA
Julian U. G. Wagner, PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Submission Status: Open until 18 July 2025

Integrative and translational serial dependence

Guest Editors:
Sabrina Hansmann-Roth, PhD, University of Iceland, Iceland
Árni Kristjánsson, PhD, University of Iceland, Iceland
David Pascucci, PhD, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
David Whitney, PhD, University of California Berkeley, USA

Submission Status: Open until 11 July 2025

Synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory

Guest Editors:
Joseph M. Santin, PhD, University of Missouri, USA
Shani Stern, PhD, University of Haifa, Israel

Submission Status: Open until 8 July 2025

Evolution of immunity

Guest Editors:
Pedro José Esteves, PhD, University of Porto, Portugal
Aris Katzourakis, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Pedro Vale, PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK

Submission Status: Open until 17 June 2025

Conservation genomics

Guest Editors:
Mehrdad Hajibabaei, PhD, University of Guelph, Canada
Jazlyn Mooney, PhD, University of Southern California, USA
Arun Sethuraman, PhD, San Diego State University, USA
Josefin Stiller, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Submission Status: Open until 21 May 2025

Published Article Collections

2025

Collection
Stem cells and cancer
Guest Editors:
Jianhai Jiang: PhD, Fudan University, China
Charles K. Kaufman: MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Hernando Lopez-Bertoni: PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
Ander Matheu: PhD, Biodonostia Health Research Institute (IIS Biodonostia) San Sebastian, Spain

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Lipid metabolism in physiology and cell function
Guest Editors:
Yingqi Cai: PhD, University of North Texas, USA
Rosa Laura López-Marqués: PhD, DSc, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Tizhong Shan: PhD, Zhejiang University, China

Collection
Computational inference of protein conformations and interactions
Guest Editors:
Jacob D. Durrant: PhD, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Tatiana Galochkina: PhD, University Paris Cité & INSERM, France
Balachandran Manavalan: PhD, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Collection
Ferroptosis
Guest Editors:
Haider H. Dar: PhD, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Eun-Woo Lee: PhD, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), South Korea
Xinxin Song: MD, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Collection
Regulation of gene expression through RNA
Guest Editors:
Marco Mangone: PhD, Arizona State University, USA
Gian Gaetano Tartaglia: PhD, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy

2024

Collection
Mechanobiology
Guest Editors:
Jacopo di Russo: PhD, RWTH Aachen University & DWI - Leibniz-Institute for Interactive Materials, Germany
Nicholas Kurniawan: PhD, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Laurent Pieuchot: PhD, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France
Srikala Raghavan: PhD, University of Glasgow and CRUK Scotland Institute (Beatson), UK
Stéphane Verger: PhD, Umeå University, Sweden

Collection
Epigenetic modifications and regulation
Guest Editors:
Erin M. Green: PhD, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Zhe Liang: PhD, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Kevin A. Murach: PhD, The University of Arkansas, USA
Rajeev Taliyan: PhD, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India
Maojun Wang: PhD, Huazhong Agricultural University, China

Collection
Plants and their pathogens
Guest Editors:
Maya Bar: PhD, ARO, Volcani Institute, Israel
Helen Fones: PhD, University of Exeter, UK
Sam Periyannan: PhD, University of Southern Queensland, Australia