Professional Development Virtual Issue,

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Explore the free collection of MiniReviews on Professional Development from FEMS Microbiology Letters. Topics covered include employability, how to choose a reputable journal for publication, STEM education reform, and desktop bibliometrics.

The Intersection of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Microbiology: Educating the Next Generation of Health Care Professionals
Lauren A. O’Donnell, Anthony J. Guarascio
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnw281

A review of microbiology service learning 
Ginny Webb
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx032

What Supervisors and Universities Can do to Enhance Doctoral Student Experience (and how they can help themselves)
Dawn C. Duke, Pam M. Denicolo
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx090

Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences in Molecular Biosciences? Patterns, trends, and faculty support
Jack T. H. Wang
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx157

Keeping education fresh - Not just in microbiology
Beatrix Fahnert 
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx209

Due Diligence in the Open-Access Explosion Era: Choosing a Reputable Journal for Publication 
Yondell Masten
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx206

Interdisciplinary STEM education reform: Dishing out art in a microbiology laboratory
James Morris
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx245

Harnessing the power of communities: Career networking strategies for bioscience PhD students and postdoctoral researchers
Sarah Blackford
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fny033

What are we measuring? Refocusing on some fundamentals in the age of desktop bibliometrics
Ian Rowlands
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fny059