The Lung Microbiome

Michael J. Cox is a microbial ecologist and postdoctoral research associate in the Genomic Medicine section of the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London (London, UK). He is a co-director of the recently established Microbiome@Imperial network. Markus J. Ege is a professor of clinical respiratory epidemiology at LMU Munich (Munich, Germany). Erika von Mutius is a professor of paediatric allergology. She is head of the Asthma and Allergy Department at the Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital in Munich (Germany). Since 2017, she has lead the Institute for Asthma and Allergy Prevention at Helmholtz Zentrum Munich – German Research Center for Environmental Health (Neuherberg, Germany).

Sampling; Techniques: culture, identification and 16S rRNA gene sequencing; Applying clinical metagenomics for the detection and characteristaion of respiratory infections; Applying ecological theories in research: lessons learned from microbial ecology and evolution?; The early-life microbiome: the key to respiratory health?; From culturomics to metagenomics: the mycobiome in chronic respiratory diseases; Viruses; Obstructive airways disease: potential pathogenetic roles; Chronic suppurative lung disease: cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis; Interstitial lung disease; The lung bacterial microbiome in community-acquired and nosocomial pneumonia; Compromised immunity: transplantation, cancer and HIV; The environmental microbiota and asthma; Challenges, impact and the future