Bookedited by Lianhong Sun, Wenying Shou.
Contents:
Recent progress in engineering human-associated microbiomes / Stephanie J. Yaung, George M. Church, and Harris H. Wang
Constructing synthetic microbial communities to explore the ecology and evolution of symbiosis / Adam James Waite and Wenying Shou
Combining engineering and evolution to create novel metabolic mutualisms between species / Lon Chubiz, Sarah Douglas, and William Harcombe
Design, construction, and characterization methodologies for synthetic microbial consortia / Hans C. Bernstein and Ross P. Carlson
An observation method for autonomous signaling-mediated synthetic diversification in Escherichia coli / Ryoji Sekine, Shotaro Ayukawa, and Daisuke Kiga
Integration-free reprogramming of human somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) without viral vectors, recombinant DNA, and genetic modification / Boon Chin Heng and Martin Fussenegger
Transformation of Bacillus subtilis / Xiao-Zhou Zhang, Chun You, and Yi-Heng Percival Zhang
Culturing anaerobes to use as a model system for studying the evolution of syntrophic mutualism / Sujung Lim, Sergey Stolyar, and Kristina Hillesland
Therapeutic microbes for infectious disease / Choon Kit Wong [and six others]
Quantitative measurement and analysis in a synthetic pattern formation multicellular system / Xiongfei Fu and Wei Huang
Transcriptome analysis of a microbial coculture in which the cell populations are separated by a membrane / Kazufumi Hosoda [and three others]
Identification of mutations in laboratory-evolved microbes from next-generation sequencing data using breseq / Daniel E. Deatherage and Jeffrey E. Barrick
3D-fluorescence in situ hybridization of intact, anaerobic biofilm / Kristen A. Brileya, Laura B. Camilleri, and Matthew W. Fields
The characterization of living bacterial colonies using nanospray desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry / Brandi S. Heath, Matthew J. Marshall, and Julia Laskin
Modeling community population dynamics with the open-source language R / Robin Green and Wenying Shou
Simulating microbial community patterning using Biocellion / Seunghwa Kang, Simon Kahan, and Babak Momeni.