Associate Professor AN Xuejiao from the College of Bioscience and Bioengineering at Jiangxi Agricultural University has been invited to serve as a topic editor for the journalFrontiers in Microbiology, where she will lead the establishment of a special column titled "Extremophiles: Environmental Adaptation Mechanisms, Synthetic Biology Modification, and Industrial Applications." She will co-chair the column with Professor ZHANG Qinghua from CBB, JXAU, Associate Professor ZANG Hailan fromNortheast Agricultural University, and Dr. Ayodeji BELLO fromVirginia Tech.
The journal is an authoritative publication in the field of microbiology, with an impact factor of 5.2 and is ranked as a Tier-2 TOP journal by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.