Lessons from Microbes: What Can We Learn about Equity from Unculturable Bacteria?

ABSTRACT Many microbiologists exhibit a fascination with unculturable bacteria. This intrigue can be expressed through curiosity about nutrient needs, as well as about parameters such as optimal temperature, oxygen levels, minimum and optimal light, or other such environmental factors. Microbiologis...

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Autor principal:	Beronda L. Montgomery
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Publicado:	American Society for Microbiology 2020
Materias:	bacterial culture equity inclusion microbiology Microbiology QR1-502
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5a5994af588a4881962c3740538664242021-11-15T15:30:59ZLessons from Microbes: What Can We Learn about Equity from Unculturable Bacteria?10.1128/mSphere.01046-202379-5042https://doaj.org/article/5a5994af588a4881962c3740538664242020-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.01046-20https://doaj.org/toc/2379-5042ABSTRACT Many microbiologists exhibit a fascination with unculturable bacteria. This intrigue can be expressed through curiosity about nutrient needs, as well as about parameters such as optimal temperature, oxygen levels, minimum and optimal light, or other such environmental factors. Microbiologists study organisms’ genetic language, as well as their environment of origin, for clues about essential factors or organisms’ need for coculture to support growth and thriving. We can learn many lessons about equity and stewardship-based engagement from the ways that microbiologists seek to understand how to cultivate unculturable bacteria, including the importance of understanding an organism’s language and community, replicating aspects of the environment of origin, an organism’s occasional need to transform aspects of its environment to persist, and the critical needs to provide a range of culture conditions to support diverse organisms. These lessons from the bacterial world provide guidance applicable to addressing human inequity in scientific communities, and beyond.Beronda L. MontgomeryAmerican Society for Microbiologyarticlebacterial cultureequityinclusionmicrobiologyMicrobiologyQR1-502ENmSphere, Vol 5, Iss 5 (2020)
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description	ABSTRACT Many microbiologists exhibit a fascination with unculturable bacteria. This intrigue can be expressed through curiosity about nutrient needs, as well as about parameters such as optimal temperature, oxygen levels, minimum and optimal light, or other such environmental factors. Microbiologists study organisms’ genetic language, as well as their environment of origin, for clues about essential factors or organisms’ need for coculture to support growth and thriving. We can learn many lessons about equity and stewardship-based engagement from the ways that microbiologists seek to understand how to cultivate unculturable bacteria, including the importance of understanding an organism’s language and community, replicating aspects of the environment of origin, an organism’s occasional need to transform aspects of its environment to persist, and the critical needs to provide a range of culture conditions to support diverse organisms. These lessons from the bacterial world provide guidance applicable to addressing human inequity in scientific communities, and beyond.
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title	Lessons from Microbes: What Can We Learn about Equity from Unculturable Bacteria?
title_short	Lessons from Microbes: What Can We Learn about Equity from Unculturable Bacteria?
title_full	Lessons from Microbes: What Can We Learn about Equity from Unculturable Bacteria?
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Lessons from Microbes: What Can We Learn about Equity from Unculturable Bacteria?

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