microbiome engineering
- Special Issue Perspective | Synthetic BiologyReconciling Ecological and Engineering Design Principles for Building Microbiomes
Simplified microbial communities, or “benchtop microbiomes,” enable us to manage the profound complexity of microbial ecosystems. Widespread activities aiming to design and control communities result in novel resources for testing ecological theories and also for realizing new biotechnologies.
- Special Issue Perspective | Novel Systems Biology TechniquesToward 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.