Special Issues

guest editors:
Justin Teissié,
Damijan Miklavčič

Current Gene Therapy

guest editors:
Marie-Pierre Rols,
Damijan Miklavčič

Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

innovative food science and emerging technologies

published special issue - part I
published special issue - part I

guest editors:
Henry Jäger,
Damijan Miklavčič

Journal of Membrane Biology

guest editors:
P. Thomas Vernier,
Lluis M. Mir,
Damijan Miklavčič

Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing

medical and biological engineering and computing

guest editors:
Günther Zeck,
Damijan Miklavčič

Radiology and Oncology

guest editor(s):
Richard Heller,
Maja Čemažar

Bioelectrochemistry

"Bioelectrochemistry is an international journal devoted to electrochemical principles in biology and biological aspects of electrochemistry. It publishes experimental and theoretical papers dealing with the electrochemical aspects of: • Electrified interfaces (electric double layers, adsorption, electron transfer, basic principles of biosensors); • Electric and magnetic field effects (field-dependent processes, field interactions with molecules, intramolecular field effects, sensory systems for electric and magnetic fields, molecular and cellular mechanisms); • Bioenergetics and signal transduction (energy conversion, photosynthetic and visual membranes); • Biomembranes and model membranes (thermodynamics and mechanics, membrane transport, electroporation, fusion and insertion); • Electrochemical applications in medicine and biotechnology (drug delivery and gene transfer to cells and tissues, iontophoresis, skin electroporation, injury and repair)." more...

Guest editors of this special issue are Justin Teissié and Damijan Miklavčič, who expect papers following the WC2015 and COST workshop on spore electroeradication. Bioelectrochemistry has accepted to publish a special issue on bacterial inactivation and related issues. Questions about this special issue should be addressed to Justin Teissié ().

In the submission process select on the journal’s submission page the special issue "Bacterial Inactivation". Make sure to also identify the special issue in your letter to the editor. We kindly ask you to also send the submitted manuscript's name and submission number by e-mail to the guest editors Justin Teissié () and Damijan Miklavčič ().

Current Gene Therapy

As a participant to the 1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields, we are pleased to invite you to submit a manuscript for publication in a special issue of the Current Gene Therapy Journal (link).

Current Gene Therapy publishes reviews and original contributions focusing on the latest developments in gene transfer and gene expression, vector development, cellular genetic engineering, animal models and human clinical applications of gene and cell therapy. The issue will contain 6-8 papers of specially new and important topics or results presented in the meeting and also an editorial highlighting aspects of the Congress.

In the cover letter you will provide with your manuscript, please indicate that you are submitting to the Special Issue "1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields". The paper publication will follow the regular process of evaluation and will be published in a special issue of Current Gene Therapy journal.

The guidelines for authors can be found on the web site (link).

We kindly ask you to also send the submitted manuscript's name and submission number by e-mail to the guest editors Marie-Pierre Rols () and Damijan Miklavčič ()."

Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies

Electro technologies and pulsed electric fields (PEF) in particular have gained increasing interest in food science and technology during the past years. Advances achieved in the design of reliable and viable equipment as well as intense research in a large number of application areas have resulted in significant progress with regard to the development and implementation of that technology. In addition, the strengthened interaction between food and biomedical PEF research and application has led to fruitful synergies and improvements also illustrating the flexibility of the technology.

The 1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields brings together people from Biology, Medicine, Food and Environmental Technologies in order to discuss advances in basic research and application within and across the different disciplines. Derived from this event, the special issue of Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies is devoted to highlight the recent progress of pulsed electric fields and other electrotechnologies in food science and technology.

Contributions focusing on the improved understanding of effects on a molecular, cellular and tissue level of foods, process-product interactions, the integration of technologies into existing and new processing concepts for biomaterials as well as on experimental and simulation tools developed and applied in order to study above aspects are of high interest for this special issue.

The papers prepared according to the instructions should be submitted via the electronic submission system. The submission website for this journal is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/ifset. The guides for authors can be also found there.

It is very important to select "SI: PEF" when you reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process in order to ensure that your manuscript is correctly identified for inclusion in the special issue.

The deadline for the submission is October 20, 2015. For any questions, please feel free to contact Henry Jäger at .

Journal of Membrane Biology

"The Journal of Membrane Biology is dedicated to publishing high-quality science related to membrane biology, biochemistry and biophysics. In particular, we welcome work that uses modern experimental or computational methods including but not limited to those with microscopy, diffraction, NMR, computer simulations, or biochemistry aimed at membrane associated or membrane embedded proteins or model membrane systems. These methods might be applied to study topics like membrane protein structure and function, membrane mediated or controlled signaling mechanisms, cell-cell communication via gap junctions, the behavior of proteins and lipids based on monolayer or bilayer systems, or genetic and regulatory mechanisms controlling membrane function." more...

When submitting your manuscript in the first step "Select Article Type", please choose the "S.I. Electroporation Technologies Treatments" as article type from the pull-down menu. In addition, we advise you to clearly identify in your letter to the editor (accompanying letter to your submitted paper) that this manuscript should be considered for publication in the special issue on electroporation following the 1^st World Congress on Electroporation or EBTT. Once submitted, we strongly suggest you also inform the guest editors of this special issue of your submission. Please do so by e-mail, providing the authors, title, number of the manuscript in the submission system (if available), and date of submission, to be sure it gets into the right hands.

Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing

Outline: Strong electric fields affect cellular membranes by inducing reversible or irreversible structural changes and / or changes of the transmembrane voltage. These electric field effects are widely used in many different clinical applications, ranging from neuroprosthetic implants to the treatment of various cancer forms, of infectious diseases or of wound healing. In this special issue experts from each of the listed fields will present recent results in preclinical experiments and in clinical trials. Emphasis will be put on relating technological progress to advancements in the therapeutic outcomes. more...

Potential Topics:

Electrostimulation and electroporation in neuroprosthetic applications
Electroporation of cutaneous tumors / Electroporation of internal tumours
Electroporation-based gene transfer
Irreversible electroporation for cancer treatment
In vivo imaging of electroporation in preclinical clinical settings

Special note: Before submitting a manuscript, please make sure to go through the Instructions for Authors that provide important information about the journal style.

Updated instructions on paper submission for the special issue "Electroporation for biomedical applications":

When submitting a manuscript for publication in the special issue of Biomdical Engineering please mention in the cover letter to the editor that your manuscript shall be considered as a contribution for the special issue "Electroporation for biomedical applications" following the 1^st World congress on Electroporation.

In the submission process select on the journal’s submission page the special issue "Electroporation for biomedical applications".

We kindly ask you to also send the submitted manuscript's name and submission number by e-mail to the guest editors Günther Zeck () and Damijan Miklavčič ().

Radiology and Oncology

Articles dealing with biomedical applications of electroporation in the areas of irreversible or reversible electroporation (electrochemotherapy) as well as gene electrotransfer for DNA vaccination or gene therapy, are welcome. The articles will undergo the regular process of evaluation, and will be published as regular papers in a thematic issue of Radiology and Oncology.

All articles published in Radiology and Oncology are open access available at: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/raon

"Radiology and Oncology (ISSN 1318-2099) is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the publishing of original and high quality articles in diagnostic and interventional radiology, computerized tomography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance, nuclear medicine, radiotherapy, clinical and experimental oncology, radiobiology, radiophysics, and radiation protection. Therefore, the scope of the journal is to cover diagnostic and therapeutic aspects in oncology, which distinguishes it from the other journals in the field." more...