1. Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory, Center for Environmental Engineering Research, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, 99077 Hong Kong, China
2. Microbiome Research Centre, St George and Sutherland Clinical School, University of New South Wales, 2052 Sydney, Australia
3. School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, 519082 Zhuhai, China
4. State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Microorganism Application and Risk Control, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, F518055 Shenzhen, China
5. State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, 999077 Hong Kong, China
6. Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks, New Territories, 99077 Hong Kong, China
7. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, United States
8. Environmental Microbial Genomics, CNRS UMR 5005 Laboratoire Ampère, École Centrale de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, Université de Lyon, 69130 Écully, France
9. Department of Biology, Maynooth University, Maynooth, R51 Co. Kildare, Ireland
10. Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden, Institute for Hydrobiology, 01217 Dresden, Germany
11. Wellcome Trust, NW1 2BE London, U.K.
12. Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, 817 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, H3A 0C3 Quebec, Canada
13. Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, L8N 3Z5 Ontario, Canada
14. Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management (UESM)-Microbiology, North-West University, 2531 Potchefstroom, South Africa
15. Medical Microbiology Department, Paulo de Góes Microbiology Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 21941-902 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
16. Department of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, 110016 New Delhi, India
17. Center for Microbial Communities, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, 9210 Aalborg, Denmark
18. School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072 Queensland, Australia
19. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Bilinga, 4225 Queensland, Australia
20. Molecular Ecology Group (MEG), Water Research Institute, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRSA), 28922 Verbania, Italy
21. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Nireas International Water Research Center, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
22. Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 6047 Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
23. Centre for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology-Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), 3721 Bilthoven, The Netherlands
24. Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, 2628 Delft, the Netherlands
25. Department of Systems Biotechnology and Center for Antibiotic Resistome, Chung-Ang University, 17546 Anseong, Republic of Korea
26. The Charles Edward Via, Jr., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 24060 Virginia, United States
27. Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany
28. Department of Soil Chemistry, Plant Nutrition and Microbiology, Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, The Volcani Institute, Agricultural Research Organization, 7528809 Rishon LeZion, Israel
29. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100085 Beijing, China
30. Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 361021 Xiamen, China
31. Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
32. School of Engineering, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K.
33. School of Natural Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2109 New South Wales, Australia
34. University of Exeter Medical School, Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, TR10 9FE Cornwall, U.K.
35. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CBQF-Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina-Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal
36. Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, the Netherlands
37. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, 77005 Texas, United States
38. Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, 08854 New Jersey, United States
39. Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824 Michigan, United States
40. London Research and Development Centre (LRDC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, N5V 4T3 Ontario, Canada