Microbiomics Dimensions, Applications, and Translational Implications of Human and Environmental Microbiome Research Translational and Applied Genomics Series

Microbiomics: Dimensions, Applications, and Translational Implications of Human and Environmental Microbiome Research describes a new, holistic approach to microbiomics. International experts provide in-depth discussion of current research methods for studying human, environmental, viral and fungal microbiomes, as well as the implications of new discoveries for human health, nutrition, disease, cancer research, probiotics and in the food and agricultural industries. Distinct chapters covering culturomics and sub-microbiomes, such as the viriome and mycetobiome, provide an integrative framework for the expansion of microbiomics into new areas of application, as well as crosspollination between research areas.

Detailed case studies include the use of microbiomics to develop natural products with antimicrobial properties, microbiomic enhancements in food and beverage technology, microbes for bioprotection and biopreservation, microbial tools to reduce antibiotic resistance, and maintenance and cultivation of human microbial communities.

1. Introduction: The Microbiome as a Concept: Vogue or Necessity?

Part I. Classes and Kinds of Microbiomes 2. Bacteriome and Archaeome: The Core Family under the Microbiomic Roof 3. Myc(et)obiome: The Big Uncle in the Family 4. Virome: The Prodigious Little Cousin of the Family

Part II. The Study of Microbiotes and Microbiomes 5. Identifying Microbiotes: Genomic, Mass-Spectrometric and Serodiagnostic Approaches 6. Panmicrobial Microarrays 7. Metagenomics in Microbiomic Studies 8. Culturomics: The Alternative from the Past 9. NGS: The Enabler and the Way Ahead

Part III. Novel and Legacy Fields of Microbial Applications 10. A Prerequisite for Health I: Cancer Microbiomatics 11. A Prerequisite for Health II: Probiotics 12. Microbiomic Prospects in Fermented Food and Beverage Technology 13. Legacy and Innovative Treatment: Projected Modalities for Antimicrobial Intervention 14. Electromagnetism and the Microbiome(s) 15. Microbiomics: A Focal Point in GCBR and Biosecurity 16. Epilogue

Active researchers, basic and translational scientists, clinicians, postgraduates, and students in the areas of genetics, human genomics, pathology, cellular biology, organismal biology, molecular biology; bioinformatics; infectious disease experts, public health scientists, oral disease specialists, gastroenterologists, as well as students and trainees in these areas

• Provides an integrated approach for realizing the potential of microbiomics across the life, environmental, food and agricultural sciences
• Includes thorough analysis of human, environmental, viral and mycetol microbiomes, as well as methods and technology for identifying microbiotes
• Features chapter contributions from international leaders in microbiomic methods, technology and applications