ArticleEnvironmental microbiology2019
The urgent need for microbiology literacy in society.
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Kenneth TimmisInstitute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.
Ricardo CavicchioliSchool of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
José Luis GarciaDepartment of Environmental Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB) (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Balbina NogalesGrupo de Microbiologia, Dept. Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, and Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados 8IMEDEA, UIB-CSIC), Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Max ChavarríaEscuela de Química, Centro de Investigaciones en Productos Naturales (CIPRONA), Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica & Centro Nacional de Innovaciones Biotecnológicas (CENIBiot), CeNAT-CONARE, San José, Costa Rica.
Lisa SteinDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Terry J McGenitySchool of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
Nicole WebsterAustralian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville and Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Brajesh K SinghHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia.
Jo HandelsmanWisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA.
Victor de LorenzoSystems Biology Program, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
Carla PruzzoDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e della Vita (DISTAV), Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy.
James TimmisAthena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Juan Luis Ramos MartínEstación Experimental del Zaidín-CSIC, Granada, Spain.
Willy VerstraeteCenter for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Ghent University, Belgium.
Mike JettenDepartment of Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Antoine DanchinInstitut Cochin INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR8104, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
Wei HuangDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Jack GilbertDept. of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
Rup LalDepartment of Zoology, Molecular Biology Laboratory, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Helena SantosInstituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal.
Sang Yup LeeDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
Angela SessitschBioresources Unit, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Tulln, Austria.
Paola BonfanteDepartment of Life Science and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Italy.
Lone GramDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Raymond T P LinDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Eliora RonSchool of Molecular Cell Biology & Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Z Ceren KarahanDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Ankara University, Turkey.
Jan Roelof van der MeerInstitut de Microbiologie Fondamentale, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Seza ArtunkalDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Haydarpaşa Numune Training Hospital, lstanbul, Turkey.
Dieter JahnInstitute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.
Lucy HarperSociety for Applied Microbiology, London, UK.
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