The urgent need for microbiology literacy in society.

• Timmis K Institute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.
• Cavicchioli R School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
• Garcia JL Department of Environmental Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB) (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
• Nogales B Grupo de Microbiologia, Dept. Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, and Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados 8IMEDEA, UIB-CSIC), Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
• Chavarría M Escuela de Química, Centro de Investigaciones en Productos Naturales (CIPRONA), Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica & Centro Nacional de Innovaciones Biotecnológicas (CENIBiot), CeNAT-CONARE, San José, Costa Rica.
• Stein L Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
• McGenity TJ School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
• Webster N Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville and Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Singh BK Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia.
• Handelsman J Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA.
• de Lorenzo V Systems Biology Program, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
• Pruzzo C Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e della Vita (DISTAV), Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy.
• Timmis J Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Martín JLR Estación Experimental del Zaidín-CSIC, Granada, Spain.
• Verstraete W Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Ghent University, Belgium.
• Jetten M Department of Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• Danchin A Institut Cochin INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR8104, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
• Huang W Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• Gilbert J Dept. of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Lal R Department of Zoology, Molecular Biology Laboratory, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
• Santos H Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal.
• Lee SY Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
• Sessitsch A Bioresources Unit, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Tulln, Austria.
• Bonfante P Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Italy.
• Gram L Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
• Lin RTP Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Ron E School of Molecular Cell Biology & Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
• Karahan ZC Department of Medical Microbiology, Ankara University, Turkey.
• van der Meer JR Institut de Microbiologie Fondamentale, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Artunkal S Department of Clinical Microbiology, Haydarpaşa Numune Training Hospital, lstanbul, Turkey.
• Jahn D Institute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.
• Harper L Society for Applied Microbiology, London, UK.

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