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The emergence of microbiome centres

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As microbiome science expands, academic centres scramble to fill many needs, from service provider to industry liaison. A newly created network aims to share strategies and accelerate knowledge transfer, and invites others to join the efforts.

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  1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

    Jennifer B. H. Martiny

  2. Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

    Katrine L. Whiteson

  3. Department of Environmental Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

    Brendan J. M. Bohannan

  4. Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

    Brendan J. M. Bohannan

  5. Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Lawrence A. David & John F. Rawls

  6. Center for Genomics and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Lawrence A. David

  7. Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Nicole A. Hynson & Margaret McFall-Ngai

  8. Duke Microbiome Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    John F. Rawls

  9. Michigan Microbiome Project, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Thomas M. Schmidt

  10. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Zaid Abdo

  11. Rutgers University Microbiome Program, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Martin J. Blaser

  12. Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Seth Bordenstein

  13. Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Seth Bordenstein

  14. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease & International Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

    Christian Bréchot

  15. Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Carolee T. Bull

  16. Skaggs School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Pieter Dorrestein

  17. Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Pieter Dorrestein, Jack Gilbert, Rob Knight & Daniel McDonald

  18. Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

    Jonathan A. Eisen

  19. Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

    Jonathan A. Eisen

  20. Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Ferran Garcia-Pichel

  21. Department of Marine Biology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Jack Gilbert

  22. Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA

    Kirsten S. Hofmockel

  23. Center for Microbiome Research, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Mary L. Holtz

  24. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Mary L. Holtz

  25. Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Rob Knight

  26. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Universityof California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Rob Knight

  27. Marine Biological Laboratory, The University of Chicago, Woods Hole, MA, USA

    David B. Mark Welch

  28. Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Barbara Methé

  29. DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Nigel J. Mouncey

  30. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Noel T. Mueller

  31. Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Catherine A. Pfister

  32. Former Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Coordinator at the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Lita Proctor

  33. Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

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Martiny, J.B.H., Whiteson, K.L., Bohannan, B.J.M. et al. The emergence of microbiome centres. Nat Microbiol 5, 2–3 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0644-x

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