BMC Biology

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 April 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 March 2025

Cell death caused by lysis of the plasma membrane.

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

Submission Status: Open until 28 February 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 February 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 February 2025

Live fluorescent image of skin from a zebrafish with an initiating melanoma cell expressing EGFP driven by a neural-crest stem cell promoter (green spindly cell, seen among other melanocytes, which are black due to the presence of melanin).

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

Submission Status: Open until 13 February 2025

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

Submission Status: Open until 22 January 2025

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

Submission Status: Open until 15 January 2025

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

Submission Status: Open until 10 January 2025

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

Submission Status: Open until 30 December 2024

Article Collections

2024

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

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