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March/April 2018; Volume 3,Issue 2

Editorials

  • Early-Career Systems Microbiology Scientists
    Special Issue Editorial
    Early-Career Systems Microbiology Scientists
    Jack A. Gilbert
    6 Mar 2018
  • Conflict of Interest Declarations by Contributing Editors of the Special Issue on Early-Career Systems Microbiology Scientists, Sponsored by Janssen Human Microbiome Institute (JHMI)
    Special Issue Editorial
    Conflict of Interest Declarations by Contributing Editors of the Special Issue on Early-Career Systems Microbiology Scientists, Sponsored by Janssen Human Microbiome Institute (JHMI)
    6 Mar 2018

Perspectives

  • A Microbial Perspective on the Grand Challenges in Comparative Animal Physiology
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    A Microbial Perspective on the Grand Challenges in Comparative Animal Physiology

    Interactions with microbial communities can have profound influences on animal physiology, thereby impacting animal performance and fitness. Therefore, it is important to understand the diversity and nature of host-microbe interactions in various animal groups (invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals).

    Kevin D. Kohl
    6 Mar 2018
  • Spatial Analyses of Specialized Metabolites: The Key to Studying Function in Hosts
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Spatial Analyses of Specialized Metabolites: The Key to Studying Function in Hosts

    Microbial communities contribute to a wide variety of biological functions in hosts and have the ability to specifically influence the health of those organisms through production of specialized metabolites. However, the structures or molecular mechanisms related to health or disease in host-microbe interactions represent a knowledge gap.

    Melissa M. Galey, Laura M. Sanchez
    6 Mar 2018
  • The Life Aquatic at the Microscale
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    The Life Aquatic at the Microscale

    There are more than one million microbial cells in every drop of seawater, and their collective metabolisms not only recycle nutrients that can then be used by larger organisms but also catalyze key chemical transformations that maintain Earth’s habitability. Understanding how these microbes interact with each other and with multicellular hosts is critical to reliably quantify any functional aspect of their metabolisms and to predicting...

    Jean-Baptiste Raina
    27 Mar 2018
  • Engineering Complexity in Bacterial Regulatory Circuits for Biotechnological Applications
    Special Issue Perspective | Molecular Biology and Physiology
    Engineering Complexity in Bacterial Regulatory Circuits for Biotechnological Applications

    Engineering microbial systems allows the generation of new technologies having significant impact in the biotechnological industry and on human health. In the past few years, several synthetic biology approaches have been implemented in bacteria to allow precise engineering of novel regulatory circuits for several applications.

    Cauã Antunes Westmann, María-Eugenia Guazzaroni, Rafael Silva-Rocha
    10 Apr 2018
  • It Takes a Village: Microbial Communities Thrive through Interactions and Metabolic Handoffs
    Special Issue Perspective | Applied and Environmental Science
    It Takes a Village: Microbial Communities Thrive through Interactions and Metabolic Handoffs

    An enduring theme in microbial ecology is the interdependence of microbial community members. Interactions between community members include provision of cofactors, establishment of redox gradients, and turnover of key nutrients to drive biogeochemical cycles.

    Laura A. Hug, Rebecca Co
    13 Mar 2018
  • Translating Lung Microbiome Profiles into the Next-Generation Diagnostic Gold Standard for Pneumonia: a Clinical Investigator’s Perspective
    Special Issue Perspective | Clinical Science and Epidemiology
    Translating Lung Microbiome Profiles into the Next-Generation Diagnostic Gold Standard for Pneumonia: a Clinical Investigator’s Perspective

    Severe bacterial pneumonia is a major global cause of morbidity and mortality, yet current diagnostic approaches rely on identification of causative pathogens by cultures, which require extended incubation periods and often fail to detect relevant pathogens. Consequently, patients are prescribed broad-spectrum antibiotics in a “one-size-fits-all” manner, which may be inappropriate for their individual needs and promote antibiotic...

    Georgios D. Kitsios
    13 Mar 2018
  • Making Millennial Medicine More Meta
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Making Millennial Medicine More Meta

    Although the importance of human genetic polymorphisms in therapeutic outcomes is well established, the role of specific genotypic or copy number variants in our “second genome” (the microbiome) has been largely overlooked. In this Perspective, I will discuss three major barriers to integrating metagenomics into pharmacology, highlighting ongoing research by us and others that has begun to shed light on the mechanisms that link the...

    Peter J. Turnbaugh
    6 Mar 2018
  • Considering the Lives of Microbes in Microbial Communities
    Special Issue Perspective | Molecular Biology and Physiology
    Considering the Lives of Microbes in Microbial Communities

    Over the last decades, sequencing technologies have transformed our ability to investigate the composition and functional capacity of microbial communities. Even so, critical questions remain about these complex systems that cannot be addressed by the bulk, community-averaged data typically provided by sequencing methods.

    Elizabeth A. Shank
    10 Apr 2018
  • Metabolomics and Agriculture: What Can Be Done?
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Metabolomics and Agriculture: What Can Be Done?

    The importance of Brazil as a producer and exporter of food and feed will continuously increase. Despite the recent economic and political problems in Brazil, the scientific field is expanding.

    Rodolpho Martin do Prado, Carla Porto, Estela Nunes, Claudio Lima de Aguiar, Eduardo Jorge Pilau
    6 Mar 2018
  • Understanding Microbiome Stability in a Changing World
    Special Issue Perspective | Ecological and Evolutionary Science
    Understanding Microbiome Stability in a Changing World

    Microbiomes underpin biogeochemical processes, sustain the bases of food webs, and recycle carbon and nutrients. Thus, microbes are frontline players in determining ecosystem responses to environmental change.

    Ashley Shade
    20 Mar 2018
  • Host-Microbe Interactions in Airway Disease: toward Disease Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutic Strategies
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Host-Microbe Interactions in Airway Disease: toward Disease Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutic Strategies

    Despite growing efforts to understand the role of the microbiota in airway disease, mechanisms that link microbial community dysbiosis to chronic inflammation remain elusive. Our laboratory is interested in how altered microbiota composition or function influences airway inflammatory diseases, including chronic rhinosinusitis, asthma, and cystic fibrosis.

    Emily K. Cope
    13 Mar 2018
  • Synergy among Microbiota and Their Hosts: Leveraging the Hawaiian Archipelago and Local Collaborative Networks To Address Pressing Questions in Microbiome Research
    Special Issue Perspective | Ecological and Evolutionary Science
    Synergy among Microbiota and Their Hosts: Leveraging the Hawaiian Archipelago and Local Collaborative Networks To Address Pressing Questions in Microbiome Research

    Despite increasing acknowledgment that microorganisms underpin the healthy functioning of basically all multicellular life, few cross-disciplinary teams address the diversity and function of microbiota across organisms and ecosystems. Our newly formed consortium of junior faculty spanning fields such as ecology and geoscience to mathematics and molecular biology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa aims to fill this gap.

    ...
    Nicole A. Hynson, Kiana L. Frank, Rosanna A. Alegado, Anthony S. Amend, Mohammad Arif, Gordon M. Bennett, Andrea J. Jani, Matthew C. I. Medeiros, Yuriy Mileyko, Craig E. Nelson, Nhu H. Nguyen, Olivia D. Nigro, Sladjana Prisic, Sangwoo Shin, Daisuke Takagi, Samuel T. Wilson, Joanne Y. Yew
    13 Mar 2018
  • The Tripod for Bacterial Natural Product Discovery: Genome Mining, Silent Pathway Induction, and Mass Spectrometry-Based Molecular Networking
    Special Issue Perspective | Molecular Biology and Physiology
    The Tripod for Bacterial Natural Product Discovery: Genome Mining, Silent Pathway Induction, and Mass Spectrometry-Based Molecular Networking

    Natural products are the richest source of chemical compounds for drug discovery. Particularly, bacterial secondary metabolites are in the spotlight due to advances in genome sequencing and mining, as well as for the potential of biosynthetic pathway manipulation to awake silent (cryptic) gene clusters under laboratory cultivation.

    Daniela B. B. Trivella, Rafael de Felicio
    27 Mar 2018
  • Using Cultivated Microbial Communities To Dissect Microbiome Assembly: Challenges, Limitations, and the Path Ahead
    Special Issue Perspective | Ecological and Evolutionary Science
    Using Cultivated Microbial Communities To Dissect Microbiome Assembly: Challenges, Limitations, and the Path Ahead

    As troves of microbiome sequencing data provide improved resolution of patterns of microbial diversity, new approaches are needed to understand what controls these patterns. Many microbial ecologists are using cultivated model microbial communities to address this challenge.

    Benjamin E. Wolfe
    27 Mar 2018
  • Ecosystem Microbiology of Coral Reefs: Linking Genomic, Metabolomic, and Biogeochemical Dynamics from Animal Symbioses to Reefscape Processes
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Ecosystem Microbiology of Coral Reefs: Linking Genomic, Metabolomic, and Biogeochemical Dynamics from Animal Symbioses to Reefscape Processes

    Over the past 2 decades, molecular techniques have established the critical role of both free-living and host-associated microbial partnerships in the environment. Advancing research to link microbial community dynamics simultaneously to host physiology and ecosystem biogeochemistry is required to broaden our understanding of the ecological roles of environmental microbes.

    Linda Wegley Kelly, Andreas F. Haas, Craig E. Nelson
    13 Mar 2018
  • Exploring Linkages between Taxonomic and Functional Profiles of the Human Microbiome
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Exploring Linkages between Taxonomic and Functional Profiles of the Human Microbiome

    Microbiome studies typically focus on characterizing the taxonomic and functional profiles of the microbes within a community. Functional profiling is generally thought to be superior to taxonomic profiling for investigating human-microbe interactions, but there are several limitations and challenges to existing approaches.

    Morgan G. I. Langille
    27 Mar 2018
  • Hologenomics: Systems-Level Host Biology
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Hologenomics: Systems-Level Host Biology

    The hologenome concept of evolution is a hypothesis explaining host evolution in the context of the host microbiomes. As a hypothesis, it needs to be evaluated, especially with respect to the extent of fidelity of transgenerational coassociation of host and microbial lineages and the relative fitness consequences of repeated associations within natural holobiont populations.

    Kevin R. Theis
    10 Apr 2018
  • Toward Personalized Control of Human Gut Bacterial Communities
    Special Issue Perspective | Novel Systems Biology Techniques
    Toward Personalized Control of Human Gut Bacterial Communities

    A key challenge in microbiology will be developing tools for manipulating human gut bacterial communities. Our ability to predict and control the dynamics of these communities is now in its infancy.

    Lawrence A. David
    20 Mar 2018
  • Vive la Persistence: Engineering Human Microbiomes in the 21st Century
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Vive la Persistence: Engineering Human Microbiomes in the 21st Century

    I imagine a future in which children grow up with healthy microbial communities. Engineering human microbiomes might actually be achievable in the near future, as we enter an era of hunting for human-adapted bacterial strains and phages. Furthermore, breath metabolites could allow us to track whether a probiotic colonizes persistently or a phage has knocked down a microbe of interest.

    Katrine L. Whiteson
    10 Apr 2018
  • At the Nexus of History, Ecology, and Hydrobiogeochemistry: Improved Predictions across Scales through Integration
    Special Issue Perspective | Ecological and Evolutionary Science
    At the Nexus of History, Ecology, and Hydrobiogeochemistry: Improved Predictions across Scales through Integration

    To improve predictions of ecosystem function in future environments, we need to integrate the ecological and environmental histories experienced by microbial communities with hydrobiogeochemistry across scales. A key issue is whether we can derive generalizable scaling relationships that describe this multiscale integration.

    James C. Stegen
    10 Apr 2018
  • Insect Transmission of Plant Pathogens: a Systems Biology Perspective
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Insect Transmission of Plant Pathogens: a Systems Biology Perspective

    Insect-vectored pathogens pose one of the greatest threats to plant and animal, including human, health on a global scale. Few effective control strategies have been developed to thwart the transmission of any insect-transmitted pathogen.

    Michelle Heck
    20 Mar 2018
  • Seven Billion Microcosms: Evolution within Human Microbiomes
    Special Issue Perspective | Ecological and Evolutionary Science
    Seven Billion Microcosms: Evolution within Human Microbiomes

    Rational microbiome-based therapies may one day treat a wide range of diseases and promote wellness. Yet, we are still limited in our abilities to employ such therapies and to predict which bacterial strains have the potential to stably colonize a person.

    Tami D. Lieberman
    20 Mar 2018
  • Beyond Structure: Defining the Function of the Gut Using Omic Approaches for Rational Design of Personalized Therapeutics
    Special Issue Perspective | Therapeutics and Prevention
    Beyond Structure: Defining the Function of the Gut Using Omic Approaches for Rational Design of Personalized Therapeutics

    Over the past 10 years, microbiome research has focused on defining the structures associated with different disease states in multiple systems, but has fallen short on showing causation. Prior omic studies have generated many new hypotheses, but moving forward we need to start dissecting the function of each bacterium alone and in concert with complex bacterial communities in well-characterized systems.

    Casey M. Theriot
    6 Mar 2018
  • Role of the Gut Microbiome in Vertebrate Evolution
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Role of the Gut Microbiome in Vertebrate Evolution

    Darwin referred to life as a struggle. Organisms compete for limited resources in nature, and their traits influence the outcome.

    Thomas J. Sharpton
    20 Mar 2018
  • In Search of Model Ecological Systems for Understanding Specialized Metabolism
    Special Issue Perspective | Ecological and Evolutionary Science
    In Search of Model Ecological Systems for Understanding Specialized Metabolism

    Microbes occupy diverse habitats, forming interconnected, dynamic communities. Elucidating the principles of microbial community function is a grand challenge for microbiology, and it will entail experiments that engage microbiomes across multiple levels of complexity.

    Rita C. Pessotti, Bridget L. Hansen, Matthew F. Traxler
    27 Mar 2018
  • Microbiomes <em>In Natura</em>: Importance of Invertebrates in Understanding the Natural Variety of Animal-Microbe Interactions
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Microbiomes In Natura: Importance of Invertebrates in Understanding the Natural Variety of Animal-Microbe Interactions

    Animals evolved in a world teeming with microbes, which play pivotal roles in their health, development, and evolution. Although the overwhelming majority of living animals are invertebrates, the minority of “microbiome” studies focus on this group.

    Jillian M. Petersen, Jay Osvatic
    13 Mar 2018
  • Revival of Archaeal Methane Microbiology
    Special Issue Perspective | Applied and Environmental Science
    Revival of Archaeal Methane Microbiology

    The methane concentration in the Earth’s atmosphere is rising, and, as methane is a potent greenhouse gas, it contributes considerably to climate change. It is produced by methanogenic archaea that thrive in anoxic habitats and can be oxidized by methane-oxidizing bacteria or archaea.

    Cornelia U. Welte
    20 Mar 2018
  • Computational Genomics of Specialized Metabolism: from Natural Product Discovery to Microbiome Ecology
    Special Issue Perspective | Novel Systems Biology Techniques
    Computational Genomics of Specialized Metabolism: from Natural Product Discovery to Microbiome Ecology

    Microbial and plant specialized metabolites, also known as natural products, are key mediators of microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions and constitute a rich resource for drug development. In the past decade, genome mining has emerged as a prominent strategy for natural product discovery.

    Marnix H. Medema
    6 Mar 2018
  • Unraveling Interactions between the Microbiome and the Host Immune System To Decipher Mechanisms of Disease
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Unraveling Interactions between the Microbiome and the Host Immune System To Decipher Mechanisms of Disease

    In recent years, there has been a deluge of papers linking altered microbiome compositions to a myriad of diseases. Mechanistic insight into microbial drivers of disease phenotypes is essential for translation to novel therapies.

    Catherine A. Lozupone
    6 Mar 2018
  • The Who, Why, and How of Small-Molecule Production in Invertebrate Microbiomes: Basic Insights Fueling Drug Discovery
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    The Who, Why, and How of Small-Molecule Production in Invertebrate Microbiomes: Basic Insights Fueling Drug Discovery

    Bacteria have supplied us with many bioactive molecules for use in medicine and agriculture. However, rates of discovery have decreased as the biosynthetic capacity of the culturable biosphere has been continuously mined for many decades.

    Jason C. Kwan
    13 Mar 2018
  • Can Diet Influence Our Health by Altering Intestinal Microbiota-Derived Fecal Metabolites?
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Can Diet Influence Our Health by Altering Intestinal Microbiota-Derived Fecal Metabolites?

    The human gastrointestinal tract harbors a diverse, highly mutualistic microbial flora which could produce a myriad of specialized metabolites. These specialized metabolites are the chemical cellphones that gut microflora use to communicate with their human host and could potentially be used to cure diseases.

    Qiang Lyu, Cheng-Chih Hsu
    20 Mar 2018
  • On the Road to Strain-Resolved Comparative Metagenomics
    Special Issue Perspective | Novel Systems Biology Techniques
    On the Road to Strain-Resolved Comparative Metagenomics

    Metagenomics has transformed microbiology, but its potential has not been fully expressed yet. From computational methods for digging deeper into metagenomes to study designs for addressing specific hypotheses, the Segata Lab is pursuing an integrative metagenomic approach to describe and model human-associated microbial communities as collections of strains.

    Nicola Segata
    13 Mar 2018
  • Data and Statistical Methods To Analyze the Human Microbiome
    Special Issue Perspective | Clinical Science and Epidemiology
    Data and Statistical Methods To Analyze the Human Microbiome

    The Waldron lab for computational biostatistics bridges the areas of cancer genomics and microbiome studies for public health, developing methods to exploit publicly available data resources and to integrate -omics studies.

    Levi Waldron
    13 Mar 2018
  • Microbial Eukaryotes: a Missing Link in Gut Microbiome Studies
    Special Issue Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology
    Microbial Eukaryotes: a Missing Link in Gut Microbiome Studies

    Human-associated microbial communities include prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms across high-level clades of the tree of life. While advances in high-throughput sequencing technology allow for the study of diverse lineages, the vast majority of studies are limited to bacteria, and very little is known on how eukaryote microbes fit in the overall microbial ecology of the human gut.

    Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Marie-Claire Arrieta
    13 Mar 2018
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