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The Prokaryotic Cell and Molecular Biology [PCMB] Study Section reviews applications addressing the genetics, biochemistry, structure, physiology and behavior of bacteria, archaea, and their phages.  The focus of the study section is on research whose results will be applicable principally to microbial organisms. Studies may use pathogenic or nonpathogenic organisms and be at the genetic, molecular, biochemical, cellular, or community level. Specific areas covered by PCMB:

• Transcription, RNA processing, gene expression and regulation, regulatory networks and dynamics
• Replication, recombination, mutation, repair, mobile genetic elements and gene transfer
• Protein synthesis and modification
• Intermediary metabolism and energics
• Development, differentiation, morphogenesis, cell division, export, secretion, and localization.
• Intercellular signaling, environmental interactions, symbiosis, chemotaxis and motility.
• Stress response, survival, and death
• Assembly of supramolecular structures
• Modeling of microbial cell processes, functional genomics and proteomics

Study sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Bacterial Pathogenesis [BACP] 
Drug Discovery and Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance [DDR] 
Host Interactions with Bacterial Pathogens [HIBP] 
Macromolecular Structure and Function A [MSFA] 
Macromolecular Structure and Function B [MSFB] 
Macromolecular Structure and Function C [MSFC] 
Macromolecular Structure and Function D [MSFD] 
Macromolecular Structure and Function E [MSFE] 
Molecular Genetics A [MGA]