Safeguarding microbial biodiversity: microbial conservation specialist group within the species survival commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
ISME J. 2025 Jan 2;19(1):wraf239.
doi: 10.1093/ismejo/wraf239.
1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla 92093, United States.
2 Applied Microbiology International, Cambridge, CB1 2LA, United Kingdom.
3 Leibniz Institute DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Inhoffenstraße 7B, Braunschweig 38124, Germany.
4 Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States.
5 Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States.
6 Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria 0028, South Africa.
7 Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence Food Security, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
8 Graz University of Technology, Environmental Biotechnology, Graz 8010, Austria.
9 Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy Potsdam and University of Potsdam, 14469, Germany.
10 Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith 2751 NSW, Australia.
11 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA 95039, United States.
12 International Center for Deep Life Investigation, State Key Laboratory of Submarine Geoscience, School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240, China.
13 Department of Microbiology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia.
15 Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, United States.
16 One Health Microbiome Center and Departments of Biology and Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States.
17 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, United States.
18 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, United States.
19 American Society for Microbiology, American Academy of Microbiology, Washing DC 20036-2904, United States.
20 Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, México.
21 Centro de Estudios del Cuaternario de Fuego-Patagonia y Antártica (CEQUA), Punta Arenas 6200000, Chile.
22 Centre for Marine Science and Innovation & School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
23 Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.
24 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955, Saudi Arabia.
25 Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, J1N 3C6, Canada.
26 Centre de recherche Charles-Le Moyne, CISSS Montérégie-Centre, Greenfield Park, QC, J4V 2G9, Canada.
27 Humans & The Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON, M5G 1M1, Canada.
28 School of Food and Agriculture, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, United States.
29 Microbes and Social Equity Working Group, Orono, ME 04469, United States.
30 NOVA Institute for Health, Baltimore, MD 21231,United States.
31 Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Carnegie Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States.
32 Archipelago Consulting, Portland, ME 04101, United States.
33 International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME), Arnhem 6708, The Netherlands.
34 International Coral Reef Society (ICRS), Tavernier, FL 33070, United States.