Selected Papers from the 9th Conference of the Hellenic Scientific Society MIKROBIOKOSMOS "Beneficial Microbes at the Heart of Mikrobiokosmos"
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 27527
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Interests: aquatic microbial ecology; diversity; food webs; biogeography
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Interests: gene regulation; horizontal transfer; plasmid biology; bacterial cell-cell signaling; bacterial genomics; microbial biotechnology; strain engineering
Interests: food microbiology; food safety; probiotics; microbiology of fermented foods; food microbial ecology
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Interests: water/wastewater microbiology; advanced disinfection processes; bioremediation; ecotoxicology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microorganisms have endured and thrived through the beginning of life on our planet and this makes them the most resourceful biology “story-tellers” of all living beings. They play key roles in biogeochemical cycling at different environmental compartments, with reciprocal and cascading effects in agriculture, animal, human and plant health. They are important for a sustainable agriculture, as microbial pesticides, biofertilisers or bioremediating agents, and mediate in environmental cleanup and biodepuration. They support life in lakes and oceans affecting all aquatic organism yields and have an overall impact on the climate; they indeed regulate climate change. They contribute to food production, preservation and safety, and thus in animal and human health and nutrition. They constitute an invaluable source of cellular and molecular materials for exploitation in biotechnology and bioenergy production. Last but not least, they constitute an important and integral part of all other living organisms: the microbiome. Thus, the role of the microbial world—mikrobiokosmos, in Greek—is considered more than ever crucial in the “One Health” and “One Planet” schools of thought, i.e., the emerging concepts advocating the intertwining of healthy global ecosystems with healthy living beings.
This Special Issue will include peer-reviewed articles that will be presented at the 9th Conference of the Hellenic Scientific Society Mikrobiokosmos “Beneficial microbes at the heart of Mikrobiokosmos” to be held on December 16–18, 2021, in Athens, Greece. However, we also welcome contributions relevant to the focus of the conference that may not be presented in the conference.
The conference, as highlighted by its title, will focus on the beneficial role of microorganisms in the following fields/sessions: Agriculture/Fisheries/Aquaculture, Food/Nutrition, Environment, Bioengineering, Biotechnology/Bioenergy. Advances in molecular mechanisms, model organisms, microbiome studies, “omic” approaches and bioinformatics tools, host-microbe associations and interactions are also included.
Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference and this Special Issue through submitting their research papers.
Dr. Hera Karayanni
Dr. Katherine Maria Pappas
Dr. Chrysoula Tassou
Dr. Danae Venieri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- beneficial microorganisms
- host-microbe (and plant-microbe
- animal-microbe) interactions
- aquatic and soil microbial habitats
- bioenergy
- bioengineering
- biotechnology
- microbiomes
- omics
- microbial ecology
- food microbiota
- viruses
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