Microbe-related centres and organizations

Working on active research to understand and categorize Australia's microbial communities. 

Non-profit collective that supports microbiome research by connecting scientists and medical institutes.

Maintain a worldwide microbe researching community, including the optimization of funding and the increase of public knowledge about microbes.

Spearheading research in the field of microbial ecology, including ecophysiology, genomics, and evolution. Also researching interactions between microbes and the environment.

Performs research in areas related to the human microbiome, focusing on the regions of intestines, mouth and skin, as well as its interactions with the microbiomes of the environment

Develop new technologies and tools aimed at increasing the exploitation of plant and microbial resources as well as a more efficient detection of airborne and environmental pathogens.

Focus on research and development topics related to advances of processes for the Biotechnology industry in Austria and abroad, with foci including microbial strain development, DNA-based markers for disease, and bioinformatics tools.

Focuses on microbiomes and translation of results into new biotechnological concepts for our environment as well as for plant and human health.

Specializes in mixed bacterial environments, including applications in healthcare, microbial ecology, and engineering.

Harnessing microbiome science to deliver a spectrum of transformative health solutions that can be effectively applied throughout an individual’s life to not only treat, but prevent, intercept and cure disease.

Dedicated to the preservation, storage and distribution of microorganisms and associated information, as well as taxonomic characterization and identification, thus contributing to scientific, technological and industrial development.

Develop synthetic biology practices and technologies and apply them to solve emerging needs in environmental protection, sustainable manufacturing, agriculture, food production and drug development

Provides extensive expertise and knowledge on microbiome sequencing and bioinformatic.

Study microbe illness, host-pathogen interactions, and potential treatments for various microbe-caused diseases.

Specialize in finding new antibacterial medications and helping to solve the global antimicrobial resistance crisis.

Research aimed at understanding viruses & other pathogens, their respective disease pathogenesis, and host immune responses. 

Investigate microbiomes of humans, animals, plants, and the physical environment, including applications in healthcare and waste management.

Integrates current and emerging sequencing technologies to develop comprehensive approaches for studying the genetic makeup, gene expression, and gene function in microbial organisms and within microbial communities

Specialize in mechanisms of microbial pathogens, host defence against these mechanisms (including immunity), and novel approaches to treatment of microbial disease.

Championed extensive studies and collaborations in the fields of probiotics, microbiome and next-generation sequencing, including research in female health. 

Carry out basic, strategic and prospective research in the areas of microbial resources, microbial biotechnology and pathogenic microbiology and immunology to meet national needs in industrial upgrading, agricultural development, human health, environmental protection.

A hub for multiple other centres involved in microbiology, this interdisciplinary organization promotes research into a variety of fields related to microbiology, including the human microbiome, environmental microbiology, microbial safety and health, and fungi.

Interdisciplinary research environment where microbial physiology, evolution, and ecology are studied, with an end goal of understand the role of microorganisms in nature, including their interaction with other organisms and with the environment, how we can use them for sustainable and technical solutions, and how they affect the health of plants, animals and humans. 

By co-cultivating human cells and bacteria, we investigate host-pathogen interactions and try to elucidate why certain bacteria cause problematic infections and how they survive standard antibiotic treatment. 

Support research in fields related to microbes, including host-pathogen interactions, the human microbiome, and microbial genomics. 

Understanding how food and microbes interact within the human gut to promote health and prevent disease.

An Imperial College research collective to investigate the role of microbiomes in human health, disease, the environment, and general life.

Promotes academic and industrial innovation in microbiome science encompassing the fundamental biology of microbial communities and their impact on human and animal health.

Seeks to unravel how microbes underpin human health and disease by furthering microbiome science and research.

Supporting microbiologists involved in addressing challenges that vary from urgent problems demanding immediate solutions, such as new and emerging diseases, through to long-term issues, like antimicrobial drug resistance, food security and environmental sustainability. 

Fosters a creative, curiosity-driven approach to fundamental questions in bio-science, with a view to translating that into societal benefits.

Apply new technologies to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients in partner hospitals, with a focus on resistant bacteria and the microbiome.

Investigates Helicobacter pylori (HP) and its role in the development of liver diseases.

Aim to develop theory and methods to make better sense of the complex relations between microbes, humans, and the environment. 

To design, carry out, and manage collaborative projects in the fields of microbiology and infectious diseases with industrial R&D to improve the care of patients and populations.

Research collective which focuses on microbes, especially the human microbiome and its effects on human health.

Studies microorganisms to understand and improve functioning of microorganisms and microbial ecosystems in human and animal health, and food safety.

Establish interdisciplinary connections between researchers to achieve a functional understanding of microbe-host interactions in health and disease.

Provides support for microbiology research while providing a large diversity of microbes.

Understand and quantify the diversity and function of microorganisms, including applications in human health and soil.

Research the microorganism population in ocean and marine environments, including diversity, characteristics, and symbiosis which have applications for the climate and environmental health.

Aims to develop personalised, microbiome-based treatment strategies to prevent and treat decompensated cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver failure and reduce mortality by investigating the human gut microbiome.

Identifying key microbiota from the environment, which trigger our health, develop strategies to promote the abundance of those microbiota in urban and indoor environments and analyze consequences for our health.

Formation of an interdisciplinary network that investigates the interactions of specific microbial communities with multicellular host organisms, particularly looking at how and why microbiomes form long-term connections with their hosts.

Acquiring in-depth knowledge of the ecological relationships controlling the functioning of microbial ecosystems, combining observations in natural environments, lab and field experiments with mathematical modelling and apply ecological concepts to verify, support and explain their findings. 

Aim to perform groundbreaking research into the interactions between microorganisms and the innate immune system, in particular at border surfaces with the environment

Gaining insight into the principles of microbial life and providing tools needed to tap the potential of microorganisms in modern biotechnology.

Assembled a team of over 55 scientists to allow for key microbial research in the areas of protein structure and function, microbiology of pathogens, especially relating to disease, and microbial taxonomy and metagenomics.

Bringing talented researchers, clinicians and industry together to develop microbiome based knowledge, solutions and products to tackle societal challenges and support economic growth.

Researchers are harnessing the power of microbial diversity to develop new drugs, understand trends in global ecology, study the surprising roles of microbes in chemotherapy-resistant cancer, provide solutions to malaria, and address the global food crisis.

Study multiple microorganisms, plants, and animals within a highly collaborative, creative environment, and in work teams that combine biology, chemistry, mathematics, computing, and engineering. Try to achieve 

Conducts frontier research related to the study of bacteria beneficial to the environment and agriculture. The bacterial ability to promote the growth of plants, studies of antagonism and bioremediation of toxic compounds are some scopes explored in our group. 

Generates research examining microbes and their relationship to human health, including the utilization of microbes to deter insect vectors.

Performs and supports research in various fields related to microbiology, including genomic biotechnology, bioprocesses, and environmental and agricultural biotechnology to find solutions to today's problems.

Research-focused organization that enables interdisciplinary practices, including promotion of research in microbiology, bioremediation, and cellular biology.

Promotes research related to biotechnology, including research into microorganisms and their relationship with plants, the utilization of microorganisms for environmental cleanup, 

Fund and promote research in a variety of areas, including microbiology, with a focus on microbial diversity, cellular bases of fungal development, and the health implications of microbes.

Promoting research that allows the use of the biodiversity of microorganisms and biotechnologies to solve agricultural, ecological, environmental, human and animal health social problems, as well as the training of human resources, both postgraduate and undergraduate. 

Searching for new knowledge to contribute to the social and economic development of Campeche with focuses in microbial biotechnology, environmental microbiology and to a lesser extent biotechnology plant and pharmacognosy.

Multidisciplinary research center that responds to problems of the food sector, often finding solutions with biotechnology or utilizing microorganisms.

Applied genomics to study the evolution, adaptability, and resilience of microbes through isolation of genes and analysis of genomic data.

Carries out a variety of research related to immunology and food microbiology in humans and animals, including work investigating microflora.

Improve our understanding of bacterial infections, analyze the role bacteria plays in our day-to-day health, and promote development of innovative therapies.

Aim to facilitate collaboration and increase both discovery and translational microbiome research across human and animal health and the environment.

Investigating microbes, with a strong emphasis on microbial diversity, microbial function and adaptation, and microbial applications.

Identifying key interactions between the human microbiome and its genome with the diet and host genome, including influence in autoimmune disease, communication, and development of dietary policy.

Research and investigate the role of microbes in human infection, including microbial pathology and characterization.

Aims to better understand the contribution of the human microbiome to physiology and pathophysiology with the goal to open opportunities for development of novel therapies in the area of gastroenterology, reproductive health, neonatology and cancer.

Leaping to a new level of understanding that enables rational manipulation of microbiomes for health, environmental and engineering applications, integrating computational and bioinformatics approaches to achieve this goal.

Facilitates all aspects of Microbiome research; from study design, sampling, DNA extraction and sequencing to data analysis and interpretation.

Foster scientific excellence and advances in microbiome research at the international forefront in order to deliver new treatment strategies, new markers for maintaining health and make use of the natural strengths of micro-organisms during people’s lives.​​​

Unites experts in the fields of health, environment and biotechnology in order to share knowledge and discover new microorganisms and processes.

Researching a variety of topics related to microbe-host interactions, including mechanisms of disease and the beneficial relationship between bacteria and humans or animals.

Understanding the mechanisms involved in secretion of proteins and fungal growth and development through interdisciplinary research.

Advancing research and education on the gut microbiome with the goal of improving human health

Research microbiomes, find rules that can be applied across all microbial communities.

Understand microbial communities that live on or within the human body and their impact on human health and disease. 

Translates new knowledge about the human microbiome in different areas of medicine by pursuing metagenomic and microbiome research related to the care of women and children.

Focuses on the genomics of unculturable bacteria, allowing for classification of evolutionary history and biochemical properties of microbes.

Brings together scientists from various disciplines to research microbiomes and their applications in global change, metabolism, and biomedicine.

Promotes further understanding of host-microbiome interactions in health and disease, emphasizing a focus on function to define causative effects of the microbiota in vivo and to harness this knowledge in developing new therapies, diagnostics and further commercial applications.

Connect scientists from various disciplines to research microbe communities and their connection to and effect on the environment.

Funding from the Zuckerberg family allows for research into infectious disease, including virus interactions and replication research.

Providing a variety of services to researchers engaged in discovery about the human microbiome and its applications in healthcare.

Research the human microbiota to offer new insight into disease processes, the history of disease, and treatment and prevention of microbial disease.

Studies all aspects of beneficial and pathogenic interactions between bacteria, fungi, viruses, and their plant and animal hosts.

Stimulate research and growth in the field of cell biology, including research opportunities for undergraduates and graduate students.

Advancing microbe research to benefit military personnel, veterans, and their families through research in healthcare and the environment.

The Center for Advanced Microbial Processing's mission is to identify and isolate the genetic components responsible for the generation of the target molecules in non-model organisms and to engineer them for insertion into model bacterial hosts with the ultimate goal being the efficient and cost-effective production of the target molecule.

Addressing the rapidly expanding interest in the pervasive role of microbiomes in human health and the environment by cultivating and supporting microbiome science.

Supports research into mechanisms used by bacteria and viruses to persist and replicate within the host, including novel methods to identify antibiotic compounds to kill resistant bacteria.

Bringing together researchers to define the mechanistic interactions between the microbiome and other systems that influence normal physiology and pathophysiology of diseases.

Supports collaborative research in the fields of molecular and microbial ecology and evolution and biomedical sciences. Studying human microbiomes and interactions with human disease.

Researching sustainable control of microbial dynamics in the context of human and environmental health.

Researches the molecular basis of life-threatening infectious disease, with an emphasis on viruses.

Expands our understanding of the human microbiome to improve population health, through basic research, translation, policy, education, and outreach

By providing an organizational focal point for microbial sciences, with strong links to existing departments and schools at Harvard University, MSI encourages broad interactions among researchers and also connects work on microbial sciences to ongoing work in related areas including molecular biology, biogeochemistry, oceanography, and environmental engineering.

Performs research in fields important in human health with microbiology, including characterization of microbes and microbe diversity.

Researching microbiomes in humans, specifically with applications in human health.

Looking to bacteria as solutions to today's problems, including food and fuel production, healthcare, and climate change.

Harnessing the power of microbes to solve our most urgent environmental, water, and energy challenges.

Aims to understand and control the microscopic organisms that live on plant roots to support sustainable bioenergy

Supporting the long-term advancement of microbiome science by connecting scientists and date.

Studying questions about the relationship between the microbiome and health and disease.

Performing research about the connection between the human microbiome and overall health, including disease and inflammation development.

Promotes education and collaborative investigations among the next generation of scientists and doctors who are passionate about the potential of microbiome research and therapeutics

Aims to understand the role of the human microbiome in health and disease and to translate these findings to improve health.

Gathers infectious disease and microbiome scientists into a multi-disciplinary environment, allowing for research in microbiomes and health.

Seeking to facilitate the investigation of microbial transmission, pathogenesis, evolution and antimicrobial resistance to support discoveries and interventions in medicine, science and public health to address current and prepare for future infectious disease threats.

Empowers microbial research in a diverse set of fields, including animals, plants, and the environment. Also offers community events to spread microbiome science.

Building a regional community of microbiome researchers.

Understanding microbiomes' role in the environment and connecting with scientists to form interdisciplinary collaborations.

Working to understand how plants, microbes, and algae function in a way that helps predict their response to environmental change and their potential for energy production.

Catalyze collaboration across disciplines to foster new research focused on the human microbiome.

Developing the knowledge and tools required to predict and control microbiomes for improved health, economic benefit, and environmental sustainability.

Brings together researchers to investigate connections between the human microbiome and nutrition and how these two factors affect overall health and diseases.

Enabling and connecting an interdisciplinary network of scientists and leveraging the most advanced technologies to rapidly realize the biomedical potential of the human microbiome.

Advance discovery in human immunology, including the interplay between the human microbiome and disease

Serves as an academic hub of microbiome-related research in the UB community, facilitating collaborations and supporting inter-disciplinary projects through our clinical, laboratory and analytical research infrastructure.

Brings together researchers and students interested in immunology and microbiology.

Promoting microbe-based solutions for the health of humans and the environment. 

Promote, grow and transform microbiome related research throughout UC Davis.

Seeks to create cross-discipline collaboration to discover universal principles about microbiomes across all systems. 

Brings together UCLA investigators from different departments and schools interested in the human microbiome, representing a wide spectrum of expertise, spanning from oral biology, mucosal inflammation, metabolism, skin, to brain gut interactions.

Advance the science of microbiomes and bring greater understanding of useful applications in areas such as health care, agriculture, food production and environmental restoration.

Draw interdisciplinary teams of researchers together and push the boundaries of the human understanding of microbiomes

Supports asking of fundamental questions about microbial systems and capabilities by leveraging facilities and coordinating research in the microbial world.

Strengthening ongoing research and exploration on microbiomes in animals and plants, especially in function and diversity.

Promotes research in many areas related to microbiology through the University of Colorado, including microbial diversity and physiology, drug development and immunology, and genomics and metagenomics.

Design and conduct novel research, broker partnerships, increase diversity of human resources, implement education and outreach programs, and utilize comprehensive information about microbial life in the sea

Performing cutting-edge microbiome research by leveraging the unique ecology, geography and cultures of Hawaiʻi to better understand and model microbiome dynamics.

Promote research and education on microbiome topics, focusing on microbiome relationships with human health.

Studying how communities of microbes originate, function, and evolve so that we can purposefully intervene and engineer them for the benefit of human and environmental health.

Enhance research, mentoring and infrastructure support for microbial pathogenesis and immunity. 

Melding the theoretical rigor of community ecology and population biology with the experimental elegance of our gnotobiotic fish models and exploit innovations in sequencing technology and imaging to investigate the membership and dynamics of host-associated microbial communities and corresponding host responses. 

Leverages genomic approaches to understand how microbes influence human and animal health, including disease and the bacterial microbiome.

Enabling a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the role of the microbiome in health and disease and to apply this knowledge to develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

Merging and integrating interdisciplinary researchers and departments from the University of South Florida (USF), USF Health, and Moffitt Cancer Center, with a special working focus on microbiomes studies in soil, water, plant, animals, food and human health.

Supports researchers interested in microbiomes and microbial metagenomics.

Understanding the dynamic interactions between the microbiome and our own human cells, to advancing the development of microbiome-based biotherapeutics to treat or prevent disease, and to educating the community about the importance of the microbiome in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Use combinations of -omics, computational biology, experiments, field work, and simulations to advance our understanding of how microbiomes function and how we can harness them to improve the quality of life for humans and the health of the environment. 

Produces research, education, and outreach that accelerate basic, translational, and clinical sciences, spur new aspects of law and and philosophy, and expose a microbial world astonishing in its universality and diversity.

Study prokaryotic and eukaryotic biology, ecology, genetics, genomics, metabolism, and pathology; using these insights to create superior industrial microbes and microbial products, and to develop new ways to fight resistant pathogenic microbes.

A central hub where students and faculty bring diverse perspectives and expertise to push the boundaries of microbiology, especially in healthcare and the environment.

Enabling personalized health care by expanding our understanding of host-microbiome interactions and their implications in shaping health of individuals, communities, and populations.

Facilitate microbiome-related research and promote its integration with the education and training activities in UTMB, as well as to improve infectious diseases and chronic health disorders by understanding the effects of the microbiome in both fundamental mechanisms and translation into therapeutics to improve the well-being of human health.

An efficient, cutting-edge, multi-omic microbiome research and service center that will empower clinicians and researchers to integrate microbiome analysis into cancer-based research studies.

Accelerating our understanding of how microbes promote health and prevent disease and to leverage this information to develop novel, effective treatment paradigms bringing them to patients in the shortest possible time.

Providing the research community with the facilities and expertise to characterize complex microbial communities and microbial interactions

Dedicated to fostering microbial discovery for a better tomorrow through evidence-based participatory research, art, and education initiatives.

Advancing genome research to benefit human health and the environment through the use of CRISPR cas9. Microbes are frequent targets of gene editing, allowing for a diverse use case in environmental and health applications.