Charting a path for microbial conservation in the IUCN: report on “Conservation in a Microbial World” meeting

Academic meeting report summarising outcomes from the 2025 “Conservation in a Microbial World” meeting and pathways for integrating microbes into IUCN conservation frameworks.

Emily Kunselman, Vanessa Minnis, Sho Kodera, Mary M Buschmann, Adam Jones, Alexander Dehgan, Amber Hartman Scholz, Antje Boetius, Axel Hochkirch, Chris Dupont, Chris Walzer, Colin Averill, Drew Endy, Fabrice Stephenson, Fengping Wang, Gregory Mueller, Janet K Jansson, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Karsten Zengler, Kent H Redford, Louis-Patrick Haraoui, Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello, Miguel Lurgi, Nadine Lamberski, Neil Cox, Raquel Peixoto, Rob Knight, Robert Friedman, Ryan Phelan, Sean M Gibbons, Suzanne Lynn Ishaq, Thomas Brooks, Valeria Souza, Jack Gilbert, Sarah Michelle Allard, Charting a path for microbial conservation in the IUCN: report on “Conservation in a Microbial World” meeting in San Diego, CA, May 2025, Sustainable Microbiology, Volume 2, Issue 4, 2025, qvaf026