Rachael E. Antwis, Sarah M. Griffiths, Xavier A. Harrison, Paz Aranega-Bou, Andres Arce, Aimee S. Bettridge, Francesca L. Brailsford, Alexandre de Menezes, Andrew Devaynes, Kristian M. Forbes, Ellen L. Fry, Ian Goodhead, Erin Haskell, Chloe Heys, Chloe James, Sarah R. Johnston, Gillian R. Lewis, Zenobia Lewis, Michael C. Macey, Alan McCarthy, James E. McDonald, Nasmille L. Mejia-Florez, David O’Brien, Chloé Orland, Marco Pautasso, William D. K. Reid, Heather A. Robinson, Kenneth Wilson, William J. Sutherland, Fifty important research questions in microbial ecology, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 93, Issue 5, May 2017, fix044, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fix044 This paper presents the results of a workshop attempting to determine questions of the most importance to the field of microbial ecology. The final 50 questions were subdivided into categories, these being host-microbe interaction, health and infectious diseases, human health and food security, microbial ecology in a changing world, environmental processes, functional diversity, evolutionary processes, and society and policy. I am including this in my citations because it gives me eight categories to narrow down my research into current microbiological research and possible future research.
BOUSKILL, KATHRYN E., and ELTA SMITH. Global Health and Security: Threats and Opportunities. RAND Corporation, 2019, www.jstor.org/stable/resrep19904. Accessed 13 Feb. 2020. This research report presents current threats to global health and possible strategies to combat these threats. This fits well into my plan of researching the categories presented in my previous source. Broderick, Nichole A. “Friend, Foe or Food? Recognition and the Role of Antimicrobial Peptides in Gut Immunity and Drosophila–Microbe Interactions.” Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, vol. 371, no. 1695, 2016, pp. 1–10., www.jstor.org/stable/24768780. Accessed 14 Feb. 2020. This article is an exploration of interactions between a species of fruit fly and the different microbes that colonize it and an attempt to learn more about why this species of fruit fly produces a particular antimicrobial peptide. This article is a good example of host-microbe interactions, something that I want to focus on in my project. This is one of the categories I want to research, but I am also particularly interested in it beyond this specific project.
Li, Jialin, et al. “Characteristics of Sediment Bacterial Community in Response to Environmental Impacts in a Sewage Polluted River.” Journal of Coastal Research, 2016, pp. 196–206. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43843039. Accessed 14 Feb. 2020. This article is a paper regarding the bacterial population in the Jiaolai River, a polluted river in China. It outlines the bacterial response to increased pollution, which includes changes in biomass, species diversity, and function. The intersection between microbiology and ecology is particularly important in the modern day due to the effects of climate change on microbes. This is a good introduction to one of my research categories, which is why I include it here.
Nakahara, Hiroki, et al. “Selection of Effective Non-Pathogenic Ralstonia Solanacearum as Biocontrol Agents against Bacterial Wilt in Eggplant.” Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, vol. 123, no. 3, 2016, pp. 119–124. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44754781. Accessed 14 Feb. 2020. This paper shows the results of inoculating plants with a version of a normally pathogenic bacteria engineered to be non-pathogenic. This method allowed for protection against the negative effects of the wild pathogen. This is particularly relevant to my project since the future of microbiology is likely to involve harnessing microbes against other microbes.