Microbes without borders: uniting societies for climate action

Jay T Lennon^{1

2

3}, Leonora S Bittleston^{3

4}, Quanrui Chen^{5

6}, Vaughn S Cooper^{3

7}, Julieta Fernández^{8

9}, Jack A Gilbert^{10

11}, Max M Häggblom^{12

13}, Lucy V Harper¹¹, Janet K Jansson^{14

15}, Nianzhi Jiao^{5

6}, Elise M Kuurstra¹³, Raquel S Peixoto^{16

17}, Rino Rappuoli^{18

19}, Mark A Schembri^{20

21}, Antonio Ventosa^{13

22}, Diana L Vullo^{23

24}, Chuanlun Zhang^{6

25}, Nguyen K Nguyen^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, United States.
² American Academy for Microbiology, Washington, DC 20036, United States.
³ American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC 20036, United States.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, United States.
⁵ Innovation Research Center for Carbon Neutralization, Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361012, China.
⁶ Global Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions Program, Xiamen, Fujian 361105, China.
⁷ Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, 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, Provincia de 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 92093, United States.
¹¹ Applied Microbiology International, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹² Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States.
¹³ Federation of European Microbiological Societies, Delft, The Netherlands.
¹⁴ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, 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 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁷ International Society of Microbial Ecology, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
¹⁸ Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena, 53100 Siena, SI, 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, QLD 4067, Australia.
²¹ Australian Society for Microbiology, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia.
²² Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, 41009 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, Guangdong Province, 518055, China.

PMID: 40991823
PMCID: PMC12459658
DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wraf199

Microbes without borders: uniting societies for climate action

Jay T Lennon et al. ISME J. 2025.

. 2025 Jan 2;19(1):wraf199.

doi: 10.1093/ismejo/wraf199.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, United States.
² American Academy for Microbiology, Washington, DC 20036, United States.
³ American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC 20036, United States.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, United States.
⁵ Innovation Research Center for Carbon Neutralization, Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361012, China.
⁶ Global Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions Program, Xiamen, Fujian 361105, China.
⁷ Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, 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, Provincia de 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 92093, United States.
¹¹ Applied Microbiology International, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹² Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States.
¹³ Federation of European Microbiological Societies, Delft, The Netherlands.
¹⁴ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, 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 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁷ International Society of Microbial Ecology, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
¹⁸ Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena, 53100 Siena, SI, 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, QLD 4067, Australia.
²¹ Australian Society for Microbiology, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia.
²² Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Seville, 41009 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, Guangdong Province, 518055, China.

PMID: 40991823
PMCID: PMC12459658
DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wraf199

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