This article "A blueprint for contemporary studies of microbiomes" is published in Microbiome.

Author:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laure B. Bindels⁠

Journal:Microbiome

Year:2025

Podcast type:Short

The authors are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

• Laure B. Bindels, 
• Joy E. M. Watts, 
• Kevin R. Theis, 
• Víctor J. Carrion, 
• Adam Ossowicki, 
• Jana Seifert, 
• Julia Oh, 
• Yongqi Shao, 
• Markus Hilty, 
• Purnima Kumar, 
• Falk Hildebrand, 
• Connie Lovejoy, 
• Paul Wigley, 
• Ke Yu, 
• Meiling Zhang, 
• Tong Zhang, 
• Jens Walter, 
• Mahesh S. Desai, 
• Sharon Ann Huws, 
• Lynn M. Schriml, 
• Jacques Ravel, 
• W. Florian Fricke, 
• Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh, 
• Charles K. Lee & 
• Thomas Clavel 

Affiliations:

1

Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group, Louvain Drug Research Institute,

UCLouvain, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. 2

Welbio

Department, WEL Research Institute, Wavre, Belgium. 3

School of Environment

and Life Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK. 4

Department

of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Wayne State University

School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA. 5

Departamento de Microbiología, Facul-

tad de Ciencias, Campus Universitario de Teatinos s/n, Universidad de Málaga,

Málaga, Spain. 6

Departamento de Protección de Cultivos, Instituto de Horto-

fruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Campus Universitario de

Teatinos, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientí-

ficas (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Málaga, Spain. 7

Institute of Biology, Leiden University,

Leiden, The Netherlands. 8

Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands

Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands. 9

HoLMiR –

Hohenheim Center for Livestock Microbiome Research, Functional Microbiol-

ogy of Livestock, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. 10

Department

of Dermatology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. 11

Faculty of Agriculture,

Life and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. 12

Insti-

tute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. 13

Depart-

ment of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, University

of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 14

Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich

Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7UQ, UK. 15

Earlham Institute, Norwich

Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7UQ, UK. 16

Département de Biologie

and Institut de Biologie Intégrative Et Des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec,

QC, Canada. 17

Bristol Veterinary School, Langford Campus, University of Bristol,

Bristol, UK. 18

Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen, China.

19

School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241,

China. 20

Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Labora-

tory, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University

of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. 21

School of Public Health, The University

of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China. 22

APC Microbiome Ireland,

School of Microbiology, and Department of Medicine, University College Cork,

Cork, Ireland. 23

Nutrition, Microbiome and Immunity Group, Department

of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Esch‑Sur‑Alzette,

Luxembourg. 24

School of Biological Sciences, Institute for Global Food

Security, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. 25

Department of Epidemiology

and Public Health, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland

School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 26

Center for Advanced Microbiome

Research and Innovation, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Mary-

land School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 27

Department of Microbiology

and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD,

USA. 28