Safeguarding microbial biodiversity: microbial conservation specialist group within the species survival commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature

Affiliations

• ¹ Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
• ² Applied Microbiology International, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• ³ Leibniz Institute DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ⁷ Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence Food Security, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ⁸ Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.
• ⁹ Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy Potsdam and University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹¹ Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, USA.
• ¹² International Center for Deep Life Investigation, State Key Laboratory of Submarine Geoscience, School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
• ¹³ Department of Microbiology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ¹⁴ Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ¹⁵ Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
• ¹⁶ One Health Microbiome Center and Departments of Biology and Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ¹⁷ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.
• ¹⁸ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
• ¹⁹ American Society for Microbiology, American Academy of Microbiology, Washington, DC, USA.
• ²⁰ Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
• ²¹ Centro de Estudios del Cuaternario de Fuego-Patagonia y Antártica (CEQUA), Punta Arenas, Chile.
• ²² Centre for Marine Science and Innovation & School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ²³ Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ²⁴ King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
• ²⁵ Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
• ²⁶ Centre de recherche Charles-Le Moyne, CISSS Montérégie-Centre, Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada.
• ²⁷ Humans & The Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ²⁸ School of Food and Agriculture, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA.
• ²⁹ Microbes and Social Equity Working Group, Orono, Maine, USA.
• ³⁰ NOVA Institute for Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• ³¹ Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Carnegie Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
• ³² Archipelago Consulting, Portland, Maine, USA.
• ³³ International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME), Arnhem, the Netherlands.
• ³⁴ International Coral Reef Society (ICRS), Tavernier, Florida, USA.