Microbes without borders: uniting societies for climate action

J T Lennon^{1

2

3}, L S Bittleston^{3

4}, Q Chen^{5

6}, V S Cooper^{3

7}, J Fernández^{8

9}, J A Gilbert^{10

11}, M M Häggblom^{12

13}, L V Harper¹¹, J K Jansson^{14

15}, N Jiao^{5

6}, E M Kuurstra¹³, R S Peixoto^{16

17}, R Rappuoli^{18

19}, M A Schembri^{20

21}, A Ventosa^{13

22}, D L Vullo^{23

24}, C Zhang^{6

25}, N K Nguyen^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States.
² American Academy for Microbiology, Washington, DC, United States.
³ American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, United States.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States.
⁵ Innovation Research Center for Carbon Neutralization, Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
⁶ Global Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions Program, Xiamen, China.
⁷ Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
⁸ Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CCT La Plata-CONICET, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁹ Sociedad Argentina de Investigaciones en Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁰ Department of Pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.
¹¹ Applied Microbiology International, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹² Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.
¹³ Federation of European Microbiological Societies, Delft, The Netherlands.
¹⁴ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States.
¹⁵ The Soil Stars, Applied Microbiology International, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹⁶ Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁷ International Society of Microbial Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
¹⁸ Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena, Siena, Italy.
¹⁹ International Union of Microbiological Societies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
²⁰ Institute for Molecular Bioscience, and School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
²¹ Australian Society for Microbiology, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
²² Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
²³ Environmental Biotechnology Lab, Área Química, Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²⁴ Sociedad Argentina de Microbiología General, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²⁵ Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Geo-Omics of Archaea, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

PMID: 40986398
PMCID: PMC12456277
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaf084

Microbes without borders: uniting societies for climate action

J T Lennon et al. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2025.

. 2025 Sep 22;101(10):fiaf084.

doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiaf084.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States.
² American Academy for Microbiology, Washington, DC, United States.
³ American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC, United States.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States.
⁵ Innovation Research Center for Carbon Neutralization, Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
⁶ Global Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions Program, Xiamen, China.
⁷ Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
⁸ Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CCT La Plata-CONICET, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁹ Sociedad Argentina de Investigaciones en Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁰ Department of Pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.
¹¹ Applied Microbiology International, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹² Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.
¹³ Federation of European Microbiological Societies, Delft, The Netherlands.
¹⁴ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States.
¹⁵ The Soil Stars, Applied Microbiology International, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹⁶ Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁷ International Society of Microbial Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
¹⁸ Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena, Siena, Italy.
¹⁹ International Union of Microbiological Societies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
²⁰ Institute for Molecular Bioscience, and School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
²¹ Australian Society for Microbiology, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
²² Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
²³ Environmental Biotechnology Lab, Área Química, Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²⁴ Sociedad Argentina de Microbiología General, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²⁵ Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Geo-Omics of Archaea, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

PMID: 40986398
PMCID: PMC12456277
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaf084

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Microbes without borders: uniting societies for climate action

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