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Modern microbiology: Embracing complexity through integration across scales

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Eren,  A. Murat
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Eren, A. M., & Banfield, J. F. (2024). Modern microbiology: Embracing complexity through integration across scales. CELL, 187(19), 5151-5170. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2024.08.028.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-F1AC-C
Abstract
Microbes were the only form of life on Earth for most of its history, and they still account for the vast majority of life's diversity. They convert rocks to soil, produce much of the oxygen we breathe, remediate our sewage, and sustain agriculture. Microbes are vital to planetary health as they maintain biogeochemical cycles that produce and consume major greenhouse gases and support large food webs. Modern microbiologists analyze nucleic acids, proteins, and metabolites; leverage sophisticated genetic tools, software, and bioinformatic algorithms; and process and integrate complex and heterogeneous datasets so that microbial systems may be harnessed to address contemporary challenges in health, the environment, and basic science. Here, we consider an inevitably incomplete list of emergent themes in our discipline and highlight those that we recognize as the archetypes of its modern era that aim to address the most pressing problems of the 21st century.