Microbiomics

Dr. Manousos E. Kambouris serves as a Scientific Advisor for the Golden Helix Foundation, Craven House, London, UK, an international non-profit research organization aiming to advance research and education in the area of genomic and personalized medicine and as a Post Doc Researcher in the Laboratory of Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras. Dr. Kambouris has long participated in different aspects and applications of microbiology, human genomics, biosecurity and cancer research. In his own work, he pursues an integrative approach to microbiomics, employing various -omics-driven approaches and realizing their application in human health, selective and personalized medicine, and panbiosurveillance among other areas. He has published widely in such peer-reviewed journals as OMICS-JIB, Hemoglobin, Medical Mycology, FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology, Public Health Genomics, and Future Microbiology. Dr. Aristea Velegraki is Associate Professor of Mycology at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. She is founder and curator of the Hellenic Collection for Pathogenic Fungi http://www.eccosite.org/ (UOA/HCPF under Greece), and specializes in aspects and applications of mycology, from clinical infectious disease to toxicology, with extensive applied experience in microbiomic identification and sequencing technologies. She has served as Vice President of the International Society of Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM) from 2006 to 2012, and has published widely in peer reviewed journals as Medical Mycology, OMICS, Clinical Microbiology and Infection, PLOS pathogens, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Natural Product Communications, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Fungal Genetics and Biology, and the American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

"Microbiomics is a broad and still developing field. As the authors point out in the preface, the future of the field is largely unknown. This volume provides a solid overview of the current state of the field and points to multiple areas of likely development. The individual chapters are well sourced with large numbers of appropriate references and occasional suggestions for additional reading." --Doody

• 1. Introduction: The Microbiome as a Concept: Vogue or Necessity?Part I. Classes and Kinds of Microbiomes2. Bacteriome and Archaeome: The Core Family under the Microbiomic Roof3. Myc(et)obiome: The Big Uncle in the Family4. Virome: The Prodigious Little Cousin of the FamilyPart II. The Study of Microbiotes and Microbiomes5. Identifying Microbiotes: Genomic, Mass-Spectrometric and Serodiagnostic Approaches6. Panmicrobial Microarrays7. Metagenomics in Microbiomic Studies8. Culturomics: The Alternative from the Past9. NGS: The Enabler and the Way AheadPart III. Novel and Legacy Fields of Microbial Applications10. A Prerequisite for Health I: Cancer Microbiomatics11. A Prerequisite for Health II: Probiotics12. Microbiomic Prospects in Fermented Food and Beverage Technology13. Legacy and Innovative Treatment: Projected Modalities for Antimicrobial Intervention14. Electromagnetism and the Microbiome(s)15. Microbiomics: A Focal Point in GCBR and Biosecurity16. Epilogue