Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field by submitting to our Collections, carefully curated to capture trends in fast-moving fields of science and regularly associated with an open call for papers. All manuscripts in curated Collections are selected and managed by the journal's Editors according to our standard procedures.

  • RNA biology and RNA-based applications to medicine

    This cross-journal Collection welcomes articles that report on RNA-driven cellular mechanisms, physiologically relevant RNA processes, and the development and characterisation of novel RNA-based medical applications for disease prevention, diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
    • Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza
    • Catherine Freije
    • Gracjan Michlewski
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    Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 December 2023

  • Neural organoids

    For this Collection, we encourage submissions that highlight recent advances in the biology of neural organoids and how neural organoids could be utilized to study the mechanisms of neural networks and dysfunction in neuropsychiatric conditions.
    • Ivo Lieberam
    • Christian Wozny
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    Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 September 2023

  • Developmental Timing Across Scales

    This joint Collection between Nature Communications and Communications Biology welcomes submissions of primary research that aim to understand how development events are regulated at the cellular and organismal levels by temporal cues.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 August 2023

    • Liquid liquid phase separation

      This Collection welcomes submissions that contribute to our understanding of the biophysics and properties of LLPS in biological processes and systems.
      • Krishnananda Chattopadhyay
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 November 2023

    • Plant Photobiology

      For this Collection, we welcome any submissions advancing the field of plant photobiology, from studies shedding new light on the structures of photoreceptors to those identifying novel components of the photoresponsive signaling network.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 October 2023

      • DNA replication and replication stress

        This Collection invites submissions that highlight recent advances in our understanding how the DNA replication process is regulated, mechanisms that safeguard or repair DNA damage at replication forks, and emerging strategies that exploit replication stress for cancer therapy.
        • Valeria Naim
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 September 2023

      • Evolutionary Cell Biology

        This Collection welcomes submissions that advance our understanding of fundamental cellular processes.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 June 2023

        • The Neurovascular Interface

          This Collection welcomes submissions that contribute to our understanding of all things neurovascular.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2023

          • Patterning and polarity in morphogenesis

            This Guest Edited Collection welcomes articles that shed light on the molecular and cellular mechanisms and signalling pathways governing tissue patterning and the establishment of polarity during morphogenesis, as well as research using advanced techniques to further our understanding of morphogenesis across scales.
            • Simona Chera
            • Caroline Formstone
            • Vladimir Korzh
            • Edwina McGlinn
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 August 2023

          • Live microscopy

            This Collection invites submissions on the topic of articles in live microscopy – from new tools to emerging techniques, from conventional to advanced light microscopy - with the aim of publishing high-quality research devoted to advance our understanding of biology.
            • Marco Fritzsche
            • Natalie Elia
            • Chao Zhou
            • Periklis Pantazis
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2023