80 questions for UK biological security

Kemp, Luke; Aldridge, David C.; Booy, Olaf; Bower, Hilary; Browne, Des; Burgmann, Mark; Burt, Austin; Cunningham, Andrew A.; Dando, Malcolm; Dick, Jaimie T. A.; Dye, Christopher; Evans, Sam Weiss; Gallardo, Belinda; Godfray, H. Charles J.; Goodfellow, Ian; Gubbins, Simon; Holt, Lauren; Jones, Kate E.; Kandil, Hazem; Martin, Philip A.; McCaughan, Mark; McLeish, Caitríona; Meany, Thomas; Millett, Kathryn; ÓhÉigeartaigh, Seán S.; Patron, Nicola J.; Rhodes, Catherine; Roy, Helen E.; Shackelford, Gorm E.; Smith, Derek J.; Spence, Nicola; Steiner, Helene; Sundaram, Lalitha; Voeneky, Silja; Walker, John R.; Watkins, Harry; Whitby, Simon M.; Wood, James; Sutherland, William J.

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“…Key questions exist at a societal level concerning the mismatch between public perception of biosecurity risk and expert assessment, the capacity for codes of conduct to influence behaviour and the ability to communicate information between policymakers, researchers, and the public. Industry-specific technical questions also exist concerning the risks associated with importing soil for planting, the materials used in packaging for construction projects, 70 or to what extent novel microbial pests and diseases might influence assisted colonisation programmes or substitutions for keystone species die-off.…”

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Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure: a bioscience roadmap for urban ecosystem health

Robinson¹,

Watkins²,

Man³

et al. 2021

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Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure (MIGI) was recently proposed as an integrative system to promote healthy urban ecosystems through multidisciplinary design. Specifically, MIGI is defined as nature-centric infrastructure restored, designed, and managed to enhance health-promoting interactions between humans and environmental microbiomes while sustaining microbially mediated ecosystem functionality and resilience. MIGI also aims to stimulate a research agenda that focuses on considerations for the importance of urban environmental microbiomes.In this article, we provide details of what MIGI entails from a bioscience and biodesign perspective, highlighting the potential dual benefits for human and ecosystem health. We present ‘what is known’ about the relationship between urban microbiomes, green infrastructure, and environmental factors that may affect urban ecosystem health - taken here to mean ecosystem functionality and resilience, as well as human health. We discuss how to start operationalising the MIGI concept based on current available knowledge and present a horizon-scan of emerging and future considerations in research and practice.We conclude by highlighting challenges to implementing MIGI and propose a series of workshops to discuss multi-stakeholder needs and opportunities. This research will enable urban landscape managers to incorporate initial considerations for the microbiome in their development projects to promote human and ecosystem health. However, overcoming the challenges to operationalising MIGI will be essential to furthering its practical development. Although the research is in its infancy, there is considerable potential for MIGI to help deliver sustainable urban development driven by considerations for reciprocal relations between humans and the foundations of our ecosystems – the microorganisms.

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Section: Emerging Biosecurity Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure: a bioscience roadmap for urban ecosystem health

Robinson¹,

Watkins²,

Man³

et al. 2021

Arq

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“…Key questions exist at a societal level, concerning the mismatch between public perception of biosecurity risk and expert assessment, the capacity for codes of conduct to influence behaviour and the ability to communicate information between policy makers, researchers and the public. Industry-specific technical questions also exist concerning the risks associated with importing soil for planting, the materials used in packaging for construction projects (Kemp et al 2021), or to what extent novel microbial pests and diseases might influence assisted colonisation programmes or substitutions for keystone species die-off.…”

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confidence: 99%

Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure (MIGI): A Bioscience Roadmap for Urban Ecosystem Health

Robinson¹,

Watkins²,

Man³

et al. 2021

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Background: Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure (MIGI) was recently proposed as an integrative system to promote healthy urban ecosystems, through multidisciplinary design. Specifically, MIGI is defined as nature-centric infrastructure restored and/or designed and managed to enhance health-promoting interactions between humans and environmental microbiomes, whilst sustaining microbially-mediated ecosystem functionality and resilience. MIGI also aims to stimulate a research agenda that focuses on considerations for the importance of urban environmental microbiomes. Objectives: In this paper we provide details of what MIGI entails from a bioscience and biodesign perspective, highlighting the potential dual benefits for human and ecosystem health. We present ‘what is known’ about the relationship between urban microbiomes, green infrastructure and environmental factors that may affect urban ecosystem health (ecosystem functionality and resilience as well as human health). We discuss how to start operationalising the MIGI concept based on current available knowledge, and present a horizon scan of emerging and future considerations in research and practice. We conclude by highlighting challenges to the implementation of MIGI and propose a series of workshops to discuss multi-stakeholder needs and opportunities. Discussion: This article will enable urban landscape managers to incorporate initial considerations for the microbiome in their development projects to promote human and ecosystem health. However, overcoming the challenges to operationalising MIGI will be essential to furthering its practical development. Although the research is in its infancy, there is considerable potential for MIGI to help deliver sustainable urban development driven by considerations for reciprocal relations between humans and the foundations of our ecosystems –– the microorganisms.

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“…Therefore, preventing and solving biosafety threats is a genuine and urgent issue facing every country. Many countries have already enrolled biosafety in the national development strategies, advocating multidisciplinary cooperation aiming to rapidly develop the biosafety research [15] . Notably, with the steady development of chemistry and material science, numerous novel chemicals and multi-functional materials have already been created, which could be possible to help solve biosafety-related problems [7] , [8] , [14] .…”

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Biosafety chemistry and biosafety materials: A new perspective to solve biosafety problems

Ding

Zhou

et al. 2022

Biosafety and Health

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The Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has rapidly swept around the globe since its first emergence near 2020. However, people have failed to fully understand its origin or mutation. Defined as an international biosafety incident, COVID-19 has again encouraged worldwide attention to reconsider the importance of biosafety due to the adverse impact on personal well-being and social stability. Most countries have already taken measures to advocate progress in biosafety-relevant research, aiming to prevent and solve biosafety problems with more advanced techniques and products. Herein, we propose a new concept of biosafety chemistry and reiterate the notion of biosafety materials, which refer to the interdisciplinary integration of biosafety and chemistry or materials. Here, we attempt to illustrate the exquisite association that chemistry and material science possess with biosafety fields and we hope to provide a pragmatic perspective on approaches to utilize the knowledge of these two subjects to handle specific biosafety issues such as detection and disinfection of pathogenic microorganisms, personal and collective protective equipment, vaccine adjuvants and specific drugs, preservation of biogenetic resources for human, animals, and plants. In addition, we hope to convey and promote the idea of multidisciplinary cooperation to strengthen biosafety research and development of relevant products for establishing possibly specific majors to defend national security in the future.

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80 questions for UK biological security

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Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure: a bioscience roadmap for urban ecosystem health

Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure: a bioscience roadmap for urban ecosystem health

Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure (MIGI): A Bioscience Roadmap for Urban Ecosystem Health

Biosafety chemistry and biosafety materials: A new perspective to solve biosafety problems

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