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Title: Toward a Predictive Understanding of Earth’s Microbiomes to Address 21st Century Challenges

Abstract

Microorganisms have shaped our planet and its inhabitants for over 3.5 billion years. Humankind has had a profound influence on the biosphere, manifested as global climate and land use changes, and extensive urbanization in response to a growing population. The challenges we face to supply food, energy, and clean water while maintaining and improving the health of our population and ecosystems are significant. Given the extensive influence of microorganisms across our biosphere, we propose that a coordinated, cross-disciplinary effort is required to understand, predict, and harness microbiome function. From the parallelization of gene function testing to precision manipulation of genes, communities, and model ecosystems and development of novel analytical and simulation approaches, we outline strategies to move microbiome research into an era of causality. These efforts will improve prediction of ecosystem response and enable the development of new, responsible, microbiome-based solutions to significant challenges of our time.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [8];  [9]; ORCiD logo [10]
  1. New York Univ. School of Medicine, New York, NY (United States)
  2. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (United States)
  3. Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
  4. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
  5. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (United States)
  6. Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR (United States)
  7. Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
  8. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  9. Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA (United States)
  10. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1580015
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
mBio (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: mBio (Online); Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2150-7511
Publisher:
American Society for Microbiology
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Citation Formats

Blaser, Martin J., Cardon, Zoe G., Cho, Mildred K., Dangl, Jeffrey L., Donohue, Timothy J., Green, Jessica L., Knight, Rob, Maxon, Mary E., Northen, Trent R., Pollard, Katherine S., and Brodie, Eoin L. Toward a Predictive Understanding of Earth’s Microbiomes to Address 21st Century Challenges. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1128/mBio.00714-16.
Blaser, Martin J., Cardon, Zoe G., Cho, Mildred K., Dangl, Jeffrey L., Donohue, Timothy J., Green, Jessica L., Knight, Rob, Maxon, Mary E., Northen, Trent R., Pollard, Katherine S., & Brodie, Eoin L. Toward a Predictive Understanding of Earth’s Microbiomes to Address 21st Century Challenges. United States. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00714-16
Blaser, Martin J., Cardon, Zoe G., Cho, Mildred K., Dangl, Jeffrey L., Donohue, Timothy J., Green, Jessica L., Knight, Rob, Maxon, Mary E., Northen, Trent R., Pollard, Katherine S., and Brodie, Eoin L. Fri . "Toward a Predictive Understanding of Earth’s Microbiomes to Address 21st Century Challenges". United States. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00714-16. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1580015.
@article{osti_1580015,
title = {Toward a Predictive Understanding of Earth’s Microbiomes to Address 21st Century Challenges},
author = {Blaser, Martin J. and Cardon, Zoe G. and Cho, Mildred K. and Dangl, Jeffrey L. and Donohue, Timothy J. and Green, Jessica L. and Knight, Rob and Maxon, Mary E. and Northen, Trent R. and Pollard, Katherine S. and Brodie, Eoin L.},
abstractNote = {Microorganisms have shaped our planet and its inhabitants for over 3.5 billion years. Humankind has had a profound influence on the biosphere, manifested as global climate and land use changes, and extensive urbanization in response to a growing population. The challenges we face to supply food, energy, and clean water while maintaining and improving the health of our population and ecosystems are significant. Given the extensive influence of microorganisms across our biosphere, we propose that a coordinated, cross-disciplinary effort is required to understand, predict, and harness microbiome function. From the parallelization of gene function testing to precision manipulation of genes, communities, and model ecosystems and development of novel analytical and simulation approaches, we outline strategies to move microbiome research into an era of causality. These efforts will improve prediction of ecosystem response and enable the development of new, responsible, microbiome-based solutions to significant challenges of our time.},
doi = {10.1128/mBio.00714-16},
journal = {mBio (Online)},
number = 3,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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