This series is committed to giving an overview of the state of the art, as well as upcoming trends, and to promoting discussion about scientific, technological and educational aspects of anti-microbial strategies.

"Anti" is here taken in the broadest sense as "against cell cycle, adhesion, or communication", when harmful for the human health, industry or economy (infectious diseases, chemotherapy, food, biomedicine, agriculture, livestock, biotechnology, water systems...). It will also cover topics on antimicrobial resistance, (early) microbial and resistance detection, enhancement of innate defenses against pathogens, as well as methods and techniques.

The book will be composed of chapters written by active researchers using original research materials, but presented in a way accessible to a public beyond those ones who are specialists in the topic dealt.
It is the main goal of this approach to take full pedagogical advantage of many research materials that researchers manage around the world but which are outside the scope of more specialized scholarly publications.

This call for papers is aimed to all those researchers who are active in any of the following themes:

• Antimicrobial natural products I - Peptides
• Antimicrobial natural products II - Terrestrial and marine organisms
• Bacteriophages
• Biocontrol. Biosynthesis of antimicrobials
• Biofilms
• Antimicrobial materials science and surface chemistry. Antimicrobials in consumer products
• Antimicrobial chemistry
• Non-antibiotic biocides
• Antimicrobial physics
• Clinical and medical microbiology, infectious diseases and antimicrobials. Public health
• Strengthening of innate immune system as antimicrobial strategy
• Antimicrobial resistance. Mechanisms of action of antimicrobial agents
• Attenuation of virulence as antimicrobial strategy
• Techniques and Methods
• Formal and non-formal education on the above topics

Please, take some time to read the proposed list of topics for this book.

Education-oriented original research papers and mini-reviews are especially welcome, although more "regular" research papers might also be suitable if the addressed topic is clearly exposed for non-specialists. Mini-reviews can be thematic in nature, or focused on the activity of a specific research group. In this latter case, the work should provide an integrated view of the research carried out by that group across the years.

If you are interested in submitting a chapter proposal, please read the Instructions for authors section.

Abstract submission deadline: 30 May 2018
Chapter submission deadline: 16 October 2018

• Book title: Understanding microbial pathogens: current knowledge and educational ideas on antimicrobial research
• Editor: A. Méndez-Vilas
• Publisher: Formatex Research Center
• Publication date: January 2019