A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society

作者：Kenneth N. Timmis, John E. Hallsworth, Terry J. McGenity, Rachel Armstrong, María Francisca Colom, Zeynep Ceren Karahan, Max Chavarría, Patricia Bernal, Eric S. Boyd, Juan L. Ramos, Martin Kaltenpoth, Carla Pruzzo, Gerard Clarke, Purificación López‐García, Michail M. Yakimov, Jessamyn I. Perlmutter, Chris Greening, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Willy Verstraete, Olga C. Nunes, O. R. Kotsyurbenko, Pablo I. Nikel, Paola Scavone, Max M. Häggblom, Rob Lavigne, Frédérique Le Roux, James Kenneth Timmis, Vı́ctor Parro, Carmen Michán, José L. Garcı́a, Arturo Casadevall, Shelley M. Payne, Joachim Frey, Omry Koren, James I. Prosser, Leo Lahti, Rup Lal, Shailly Anand, Utkarsh Sood, Pierre Offre, Casey Bryce, Allen Y. Mswaka, Joerg Jores, Betül Kaçar, Lars M. Blank, Nicole Maaßen, Phillip B. Pope, Horia Leonard Banciu, Judith P. Armitage, Sang Yup Lee, Fengping Wang, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Jack A. Gilbert, Thomas K. Wood, Branka Vasiljević, Mário Soberón, Zulema Udaondo, Fernando Rojo, Jyoti Prakash Tamang, Tatiana Giraud, Jeanne Ropars, Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji, Volker Müller, Hirofume Danbara, Beate Averhoff, Angela Sessitsch, Laila P. Partida‐Martínez, Wei E. Huang, Søren Molin, Pilar Junier, Ricardo Amils, Xiao‐Lei Wu, Eliora Z. Ron, Hüseyin Erten, Elaine Cristina Pereira De Martinis, Alexander Rapoport, Maarja Öpik, Wilbur Donald Raymond Pokatong, Courtney W. Stairs, Mohammad Ali Amoozegar, Jéssica Gil-Serna · 发表于：Microbial Biotechnology · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1111/1751-7915.14456 · 被引用次数：37 · 研究领域：Alexander von Humboldt Studies、Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research、Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Microbes are all pervasive in their distribution and influence on the functioning and well-being of humans, life in general and the planet. Microbially-based technologies contribute hugely to the supply of important goods and services we depend upon, such as the provision of food, medicines and clean water. They also offer mechanisms and strategies to mitigate and solve a wide range of problems and crises facing humanity at all levels, including those encapsulated in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) formulated by the United Nations. For example, microbial technologies can contribute in multiple ways to decarbonisation and hence confronting global warming, provide sanitation and clean water to the billions of people lacking them, improve soil fertility and hence food production and develop vaccines and other medicines to reduce and in some cases eliminate deadly infections. They are the foundation of biotechnology, an increasingly important and growing business sector and source of employment, and the centre of the bioeconomy, Green Deal, etc. But, because microbes are largely invisible, they are not familiar to most people, so opportunities they offer to effectively prevent and solve problems are often missed by decision-makers, with the negative consequences this entrains. To correct this lack of vital knowledge, the International Microbiology Literacy Initiative-the IMiLI-is recruiting from the global microbiology community and making freely avail...