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  "abstract": "Consortia of microbial isolates, also known as synthetic communities (SynComs), are increasingly used to study and harness microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions. Since “synthetic” potentially evokes negative connotations, we propose adopting the term “Defined Microbial Community” for practical applications.",
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    "Bioresources Unit, Center for Health & Bioresources, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Tulln an der Donau, Austria. Hanna.Koch@univie.ac.at",
    "Division of Microbial Ecology, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Hanna.Koch@univie.ac.at",
    "Functional Microbiome Research Group, Institute of Medical Microbiology, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany",
    "Bioresources Unit, Center for Health & Bioresources, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Tulln an der Donau, Austria",
    "Division of Microbial Ecology, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria",
    "Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Helmholtz, Oberschleissheim, Germany",
    "Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland",
    "Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, National Research Council (IATA-CSIC), Paterna-Valencia, Spain",
    "Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK",
    "Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology & Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA",
    "KMUTT, King Mongkut's University of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand",
    "LL-BioEconomy, Research & Advisory, Valby, Denmark",
    "Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, UMR1319 Institut MICALIS, Jouy-en-Josas, France",
    "Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands",
    "Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands",
    "UNLOCK, Wageningen University & Research and Delft University of Technology, Wageningen and Delft, The Netherlands",
    "Plant-Microbe Interactions, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands",
    "Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel",
    "Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada",
    "Department of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Grugliasco, Torino, Italy",
    "Microbiology of Agroforestry Ecosystems, Department Soil and Plant Microbiology, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EEZ-CSIC), Granada, Spain",
    "European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK",
    "Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Laboratory of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece",
    "CABI, Ascot, Berkshire, UK",
    "Unit of Microbiome Science and Biotechnology, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT), Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy",
    "APC Microbiome, Cork, Ireland",
    "Teagasc Food Research Centre, Cork, Ireland",
    "VistaMilk, Cork, Ireland",
    "Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria",
    "Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB), Potsdam, Germany",
    "Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Sevilla, Spain",
    "Department of Plant and Soil Science, Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance (IGCAST), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA",
    "Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada",
    "School of Agriculture and Environment, The UWA Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia",
    "Bioresources Unit, Center for Health & Bioresources, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Tulln an der Donau, Austria. Angela.Sessitsch@ait.ac.at"
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