All five of the FEMS journals have announced the winners of their Article Awards for 2019. This is the first year that all our journals have given these awards.
The Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Boards of each journal selected the best article(s) from the scientific papers published in their journal, and each decided how to award a prize pot of €1,000 per journal. The prize money is funded by the income we receive from our journals (which also fund our charitable activities, events, grants, and other awards).
All authors who published with us in 2019 were automatically considered for an award upon submission of their papers. If the Editorial Board of a journal decided to award more than one article, then the prize money is split between the first authors of each paper.
The award also includes special attention, from FEMS and our not-for-profit publisher Oxford University Press, devoted to the winning articles to promote the authors’ research. We have contacted all winners of an Article Award and will be releasing a series of in-depth interviews with each winning author/author group about their research and background, so stay tuned for that!
The winners for 2019 are listed below. Our congratulations go to:
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Frederik Bak | Preferential flow paths shape the structure of bacterial communities in a clayey till depth profile
Sarah Johnston | Highly competitive fungi manipulate bacterial communities in decomposing beech wood
Florian Lelchat | Viral degradation of marine bacterial exopolysaccharides
Eeva Vainio | Viruses of fungi and oomycetes in the soil environment
FEMS Microbiology Letters
Sylvia Soldatou, Grimur Hjorleifsson Eldjarn, Alejandro Huerta-Uribe, Simon Rogers and Katherine Duncan | Linking biosynthetic and chemical space to accelerate microbial secondary metabolite discovery
FEMS Microbiology Reviews
Johan Bengtsson-Palme | Environmental factors influencing the development and spread of antibiotic resistance
Pathogens and Disease
Kevin Hoffman | Sex differences in cytokine production following West Nile virus infection: Implications for symptom manifestation
FEMS Yeast Research
Melanie Wijsman | A toolkit for rapid CRISPR-SpCas9 assisted construction of hexose-transport-deficient Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains
Check out past winners of the Journal Article Awards
This article was first published by FEMS on 23 January 2020.
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