Environmental Microbiology Crystal Balls

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Theory and the microbial world
Tom Curtis
Volume 9 Issue 1 Page 1 - January 2007 

The searchlight and the bucket of microbial ecology
Nicole Dubilier
Volume 9 Issue 1 Page 2 - January 2007

The human microbiome: eliminating the biomedical/environmental dichotomy in microbial ecology
Ruth E. Ley, Rob Knight, Jeffrey I. Gordon
Volume 9 Issue 1 Page 3 - January 2007

Riding giants 
Philip Hugenholtz
Volume 9 Issue 1 Page 5-5, January 2007 

The future of single-cell environmental microbiology
Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Bo Barker Jørgensen
Volume 9 Issue 1 Page 6 - January 2007

Single-cell genomics
Howard Ochman
Volume 9 Issue 1 Page 7 - January 2007

Moving to a higher level of abstraction 
Ross Overbeek
Volume 9 Issue 1 Page 7 - January 2007

The importance of individuals and scale: moving towards single cell microbiology
Les Dethlefsen, David A. Relman
Volume 9 Issue 1 Page 8 - January 2007

Data storm
Marc Strous
Volume 9 Issue 1 Page 10 - January 2007

Real-time microbial ecology
Forest Rohwer
Volume 9 Issue 1 Page 10 - January 2007

The physiological challenge
Heribert Cypionka
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 472 - April 2005

Will we ever harness microbes to supply energy and essential elements?
Paul Falkowski
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 472 - April 2005

Where are all the species?
Tom Fenchel
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 473 - April 2005

Between a rock and a hard place: geomicrobial electron transfer
Jim K. Fredrickson
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 475 - April 2005

The shape of microbial diversity
Steve Giovannoni
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 476 - April 2005

The roots of the 'species' concept must be quantified
J. Gijs Kuenen
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 475 - April 2005

The second coming of physics into (micro)biology
Víctor de Lorenzo
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 477 - April 2005

In silico biology meets in situ phenomenology
Derek R. Lovley
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 478 - April 2005

Getting a better picture of evolution
William Martin
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 479 - April 2005

With oceans of new data, to sink or to swim?
Karin A. Remington
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 480 - April 2005

The viriosphere: the greatest biological diversity on Earth and driver of global processes
Curtis Suttle
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 481 - April 2005

Systems biology: in the broadest sense of the word
David W. Ussery, Lars Juhl Jensen
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 482 - April 2005

The community level: physiology and interactions of prokaryotes in the wilderness
Michael Wagner
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 483 - April 2005

Think big: the international dimension of environmental microbiology
Rudolf Amann
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 3 - January 2002

The expanding interdisciplinary nature of environmental microbiology
Terry J. Beveridge
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 3 - January 2002

A need to retrieve the not-yet-cultured majority
John A Breznak
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 4 - January 2002

Crystal ball look to the future
Rita R Colwell
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 5 - January 2002

Re-birth of microbial physiology
Julian Davies
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 6 - January 2002

Towards the end of experimental (micro)biology?
V. de Lorenzo
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 6 - January 2002

Towards microbial systems science: integrating microbial perspective, from genomes to biomes
Edward F. DeLong
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 9 - January 2002

Diversity squared
Ford Doolittle
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 10 - January 2002

New unity, new opportunities
Abigail Salyers
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 10 - January 2002

Expanding the map of microbial metabolism
Larry Wackett
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 12 - January 2002

Microbial community analysis
David C. White
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 13 - January 2002

The future for culturing environmental organisms: a golden era ahead?
Stephen H Zinder
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 14 - January 2002

Anaerobic eukaryotes and their archaebacterial endosymbionts
T. Martin Embley
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 15 - January 2002

Microbial imprints as forensic tools in food production
B. F. Smets, W. H. Verstraete, S. D. Siciliano
Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 16 - January 2002

Is DNA the only code of life, or the first to be understood?
Douglas E. Caldwell, University of Saskatchewan
Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 3 - February 2000

The future of biocomplexity
Rita R. Colwell
Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 3 - February 2000

Acquisition of larger microbial genetic resources
Shige Harayama
Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 4 - February 2000

Communication systems as targets for biological control
Staffan Kjelleberg and Michael Givskov
Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 5 - February 2000

Environmental microbiology at the end of the second millennium
Soeren Molin, Alex T. Nielsen, Arne Heydorn, Tim Tolker-Nielsen and Claus Sternberg
Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 6 - February 2000

The future of geobiology
Kenneth Nealson
Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 7 - February 2000

Community interactions: towards a natural history of the microbial world
Norman R. Pace
Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 7 - February 2000

An organism is more than its genotype
Paul Rainey
Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 8 - February 2000

Appreciating microbial diversity: rediscovering the importance of isolation and characterization of microorganisms
Erko Stackebrandt and Brian J. Tindall
Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 9 - February 2000

Small instruments for the study of small life
David A. Stahl
Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 10 - February 2000