Microbial Life: Ecology, Health, and Sustainability
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 32
Special Issue Editor
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will explore the diverse strategies microbes employ to thrive across natural, extreme, and human-associated environments, with an emphasis on how microbial functions shape both ecological balance and human health. We welcome contributions spanning multiple dimensions of microbial research, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Microbial diversity and ecology: Comparative analyses of microbial communities across natural, extreme, and anthropogenic ecosystems, highlighting adaptation strategies, resilience, and ecosystem services.
- Secondary metabolism and natural products: Biosynthetic gene clusters, metabolomics, and genome mining approaches that uncover novel metabolites with therapeutic, industrial, or ecological significance.
- Microbe–environment interactions: Mechanistic insights into how microbes adapt to stressors such as pollution, radiation, climate change, and built environments, with implications for sustainability and bioremediation.
- Microbe–host interactions: The role of microbial communities in shaping human health and disease, including gut microbiomes, immune modulation, and links to chronic conditions or therapeutic opportunities.
- Technological and computational advances: Cutting-edge methods in metagenomics, single-cell analysis, multi-omics integration, machine learning, and knowledge-graph approaches that expand our understanding of microbial life.
- Planetary and translational microbiology: Studies bridging microbiology with planetary health, space microbiology, and biotechnology applications for medicine, agriculture, and environmental stewardship.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Christopher E. Mason
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microbial diversity and ecology
- secondary metabolism and natural products
- microbe–environment interactions
- microbe–host interactions
- technological and computational advances
- planetary and translational microbiology
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