“The Holobiont Imperative – Discovery of an Invisible World”

Recently, a day devoted to the discussion of the holobiont imperative, a revolutionary scientific view on multicellular life as a functional symbiosis between hosts and their colonizing microorganisms, took place at Kiel University. All animals and plants are inhabited by microbial organisms. Together, they form a metaorganism that shapes most life processes and ultimately determines health and disease. Science only recently began to increasingly accept this holobiont principle as a defining factor of life.

Professor Thomas Bosch, speaker of the priority research area Kiel Life Science and Founding Chair of the CRC 1182 “Origin and Function of Metagorganisms” at Kiel University, held his lecture “The Holobiont Imperative – Discovery of an Invisible World” to an audience of colleagues and friends in life sciences in Kiel. Looking back on his more than 20-year career at Kiel University and looking forward to future perspectives, Bosch shared his thoughts on an important research field that continues to gain importance as a fundamental concept in the life sciences.

More information:
https://www.kls.uni.kiel.de
https://www.metaorganism-research.com