Artículo
A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society
Autor/es | Timmis, Kenneth
Hallsworth, John Edward McGenity, Terry J. Armstrong, Rachel Colom, María Francisca Karahan, Zeynep Ceren Chavarría, Max Bernal Guzmán, Patricia Boyd, Eric S. Serna, Jéssica Gil |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Microbiología |
Fecha de publicación | 2024-05-27 |
Fecha de depósito | 2024-05-28 |
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Resumen | The biosphere of planet Earth is a micro-bial world: a vast reactor of countless microbiallydriven chemical transformations and energy trans-fers that push and pull many planetary geochemicalprocesses, including the cycling ... The biosphere of planet Earth is a micro-bial world: a vast reactor of countless microbiallydriven chemical transformations and energy trans-fers that push and pull many planetary geochemicalprocesses, including the cycling of the elements oflife, mitigate or amplify climate change (e.g., NatureReviews Microbiology, 2019, 17, 569) and impact thewell-being and activities of all organisms, including hu-mans. Microbes are both our ancestors and creatorsof the planetary chemistry that allowed us to evolve(e.g., Life's engines: How microbes made earth habit-able, 2023). To understand how the biosphere func-tions, how humans can influence its developmentand live more sustainably with the other organismssharing it, we need to understand the microbes. Ina recent editorial (Environmental Microbiology, 2019,21, 1513), we advocated for improved microbiologyliteracy in society. Our concept of microbiology liter-acy is not based on knowledge of the academic sub-ject of microbiology, with its multitude of componenttopics, plus the growing number of additional topicsfrom other disciplines that become vitally importantelements of current microbiology. Rather it is focusedon microbial activities that impact us–individuals/communities/nations/the human world–and the bio-sphere and that are key to reaching informed deci-sions on a multitude of issues that regularly confrontus, ranging from personal issues to crises of globalimportance. In other words, it is knowledge and un-derstanding essential for adulthood and the transi-tion to it, knowledge and understanding that mustbe acquired early in life in school. The 2019 Editorialmarked the launch of the International MicrobiologyLiteracy Initiative, the IMiLI. |
Cita | Timmis, K., Hallsworth, J.E., McGenity, T.J., Armstrong, R., Colom, M.F., Karahan, Z.C.,...,Serna, J.G. (2024). A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society. Microbial Biotechnology, 17 (5), e14456. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14456. |
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