A tradition of the ISAI is the publication of conference proceedings. This year’s proceedings will be published in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology. Below are some key considerations for submission to the Proceedings.

Deadline for submissions is August 8, 2025 (open for submissions June 24, 2025)

Guest Editors: Celia Abolnik, Ashley Banyard, Ian Brown, Jolene Giacinti, Timm Harder, Erik Karlsson, Ghazi Kayali, Thijs Kuiken, Andrew Lang, Daniel Perez, Andy Ramey, Michelle Wille, Sjaak de Wit

Please refer to the journal’s author guidelines for submission criteria: https://cdnsciencepub.com/journal/cjm/authors#guidelines. Note that all papers will undergo the peer review process; an invitation to publish does not guarantee acceptance.

Open access
The publisher has provided two free open access articles for the collection. These will be given to the winners of the best student presentation awards. If these are not used, they will be allocated to submissions from low- and middle-income countries (LIMICs).

All Review Articles are automatically published as free access.

There are no page charges for the journal. Open access articles are subject to a fee of $3,350 (CDN). Open access fees are covered for corresponding authors affiliated with many agencies and universities (see below). Publishing papers as open access is entirely optional.

The conference organizers are working hard to secure sponsorships for the meeting, and some of this funding will hopefully be used to support more open access articles.

Available open access discounts in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Canada

Federal Sciences Libraries Network (FSLN), including:

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency
• Canadian Grain Commission
• Environment and Climate Change Canada
• Impact Assessment Agency of Canada
• Fisheries & Oceans Canada
• Canadian Coast Guard
• Health Canada
• Public Health Agency of Canada
• National Research Council Canada

Australia

Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL), including:

• University of Queensland
• Australian National University
• Massey University
• Monash University
• University of Auckland
• University of Melbourne
• Curtin University
• University of Otago
• University of Sydney
• University of Western Australia

 

USA

• Clemson University
• Tulane University
• James Cook University
• University of Florida
• University of Oklahoma
• Michigan State University
• Florida State University
• University of Arizona
• Texas A&M University
• University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Other

• ETH Zurich
• University of Oslo
• University of Tokyo
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México