Mycology opens submissions for fungal biomanufacturing collection

The journal Mycology has opened submissions for a special article collection on fungal biomanufacturing, according to a business announcement from the Institute of Microbiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Researchers are invited to submit manuscripts for the collection, which will place appropriate papers through the journal’s full peer-review process. The announcement does not specify a submission deadline, and prospective contributors are directed to consult the journal’s scope and author instructions before preparing a paper.

The collection’s guest advisors are Yongjun Wei, an associate professor at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Laboratory of Synthetic Biology at Zhengzhou University in China, and Boyang Ji, a scientific data developer at the BioInnovation Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. Wei is also director of the Henan Province Engineering Technology Research Center for Fermentation of Chinese Veterinary Drugs. His stated research interests include synthetic microbiology and the application of microbiota and synthetic biology to human-health problems. Ji’s work focuses on genome-scale metabolic modeling of fungal cell factories, machine learning for strain optimization, and integration of multi-omics information in fungal production systems.

The advisors’ backgrounds connect the collection to several technical areas of fungal biomanufacturing, including strain engineering, metabolic modeling, data-driven optimization and the integration of biological datasets. Ji describes applications of these approaches in pharmaceuticals, enzymes and bio-based chemicals. These fields concern the use and improvement of fungal biological systems for production, while Wei’s background adds experience in fermentation and synthetic microbiology. The announcement presents these research profiles as context for the collection but does not provide experimental results, production figures or evidence of a new research outcome.

Authors seeking to submit to the special collection must indicate that they are submitting for a specific special issue or article collection when completing the journal’s submission questionnaire. In the field for the special-issue or article-collection name, they should select “Fungal Biomanufacturing.” Contributors with questions or those seeking discount codes can contact Changluan Zhou at the email address supplied in the announcement. The guest advisors have declared no conflict of interest regarding the collection.

Submissions will undergo full peer review, according to the announcement. Authors are advised to review the journal’s scope and submission instructions before submitting a manuscript, both to confirm that their work fits the collection and to meet the journal’s requirements. The announcement was issued on 15 September 2026 by the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It describes a manuscript-submission opportunity and identifies the journal, collection, guest advisors and submission process; it does not report findings from a study, announce a new fungal product or evaluate the commercial performance of fungal biomanufacturing methods.

Subject of Research: Submission opportunities for a peer-reviewed journal collection on fungal biomanufacturing

Article Title: Submit a manuscript to the journal Mycology for an article collection on fungal biomanufacturing

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