State of the Art of Gut Microbiota in Italy (2025, 2026)
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Gut Microbiota".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human intestinal microbiota; prebiotic; probiotic; foodborne microorganism; genomics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The past decades have witnessed a significant surge in research on the human gut microbiota, driven by its increasingly recognized importance in maintaining human health. This expanding field spans multiple disciplines, including culturomics, metagenomics, genomics, metabolomics, and metatranscriptomics. This vast and intricate microbial community plays a pivotal role in the host's overall wellness through interactions with the immune system and the regulation of metabolism. The gut microbiota is highly diverse, and it is influenced by genetic, nutritional, and environmental factors. Imbalances in microbiota can trigger a variety of diseases, including metabolic, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, neurologic disorders, and cancer. It indirectly influences the success of therapeutic interventions, such as immunotherapy treatments. Therapeutic strategies targeting gut microbial ecosystems, such as fecal microbiota transplantation or probiotic, prebiotic, symbiotic, and postbiotic supplementation emerge as promising interventions for several diseases. Italian research groups have been pioneers in several areas of microbiota research, notably in the isolation and characterization of Bifidobacterium species and their development as probiotics. With this Special Issue of Microorganisms, we aim to showcase the state of the art of Italian studies on the gut microbiota and highlight novel or innovative approaches. We invite authors from diverse fields to contribute their work and help provide a comprehensive overview of this rapidly evolving and highly relevant topic.
Dr. Maddalena Rossi
Dr. Francesco Candeliere
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metagenomics
- genomics
- gut microbiota
- probiotics
- microbial ecology
- microbial biotechnology
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