Cervical microbiome during cancer, distinct gut microbiome in kidney stone formers? (unclear due to vaguely formulated control group), culturing marine microbes in artificial seawater, codon usage to predict pathogenicity.
Events
Science Diplomats to present ‘Trust Your Gut: How Helpful Bacteria Impact Health’ – Free talk given 3 times at Yale in May
Pregnancy and birth
News & Views: Immunology: Mum’s microbes boost baby’s immunity – Mihir Pendse & Lora V. Hooper – Nature
Human respiratory microbiome
Culture based: Microbiology of peritonsillar abscess in the South Estonian population – Risto Vaikjärv – Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease
Human reproductive tract microbiome
Cervical Microbiome and Cytokine Profile at Various Stages of Cervical Cancer: A Pilot Study – Astride Audirac-Chalifour – PLOS ONE
Human gut microbiome
Note that the control group is poorly described: Evidence for a distinct gut microbiome in kidney stone formers compared to non-stone formers – Joshua M. Stern – Urolithiasis
Review: Macrobiota — helminths as active participants and partners of the microbiota in host intestinal homeostasis – William C Gause – Current Opinion in Microbiology
Review: The possible mechanisms of the human microbiome in allergic diseases – Kagan Ipci – European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
Review: Towards a functional hypothesis relating anti-islet cell autoimmunity to the dietary impact on microbial communities and butyrate production – David Endesfelder – Microbiome
Animal and bioreactor models
Biochar, Bentonite and Zeolite Supplemented Feeding of Layer Chickens Alters Intestinal Microbiota and Reduces Campylobacter Load – Tanka P. Prasai – PLOS ONE
Applying theories of microbial metabolism for induction of targeted enzyme activity in a methanogenic microbial community at a metabolic steady state – Jutta Speda – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
A humanized microbiota mouse model of ovalbumin-induced lung inflammation – Marie-Claire Arrieta – Gut Microbes
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Gall-ID: tools for genotyping gall-causing phytopathogenic bacteria – Edward W. Davis II – PeerJ Preprint
Water and extremophile microbiome
Artificial Seawater Media Facilitate Cultivating Members of the Microbial Majority from the Gulf of Mexico – Michael W. Henson – mSphere
Salinity shapes microbial diversity and community structure in surface sediments of the Qinghai-Tibetan Lakes – Jian Yang – Scientific Reports
Genomic resolution of a cold subsurface aquifer community provides metabolic insights for novel microbes adapted to high CO2 concentrations – Alexander J. Probst – Environmental Microbiology
Metabolome-mediated biocryomorphic evolution promotes carbon fixation in Greenlandic cryoconite holes – J.M. Cook – Environmental Microbiology
Pollution and waste microbiology
Microbial density and diversity in constructed wetland systems and the relation to pollutant removal efficiency – Yang Zhang – Water Science & Technology
A mesophilic anaerobic digester for treating food waste: process stability and microbial community analysis using pyrosequencing – Lei Li – Microbial Cell Factories
Microbial ecology
Inhibitory interactions promote frequent bistability among competing bacteria –
Erik S. Wright – Nature Communications
Bioinformatics and metagenomics
Protocol: Big Data, Evolution, and Metagenomes: Predicting Disease from Gut Microbiota Codon Usage Profiles – Maja Fabijani – Data Mining Techniques for the Life Sciences
Review: High definition for systems biology of microbial communities: metagenomics gets genome-centric and strain-resolved – Dmitrij Turaev – Current Opinion in Biotechnology
Microbes in the news
Elizabethkingia: The bacteria strain that could kill you. Or cure malaria. Small Science: Genomic data is showing us how little we know – Lisa Margonelli – Houston Chronicle
New Anti-Biofilm Nano Coating Prevents Bacterial Growth on Metal Surfaces – Azo Nano
Quick mapping of our microbiomes and metabolomes – Science Daily
Viral Skin Infections – Tomislav Meštrović – News Medical
Bacteria pill is ‘better than statins’ in the war on cholesterol, say researchers – Joe Smith – Mirror UK
Bacterial virulence is stimulated by burns – EurekAlert
Science, publishing, and career
Meet The New CEO Of The $22 Billion Genomics Company You’ve Never Heard Of: Francis deSouza to lead Illumina – Christina Farr – Fast Company
What Happened When I Pushed Myself to Interview More Women: Increasing the breadth of sources in journalism – John R. Platt – Motherboard
Speak up about subtle sexism in science: Female scientists face everyday, often-unintentional microaggression in the workplace, and it won’t stop unless we talk about it – Tricia Serio – Nature
Bik’s Picks
Effects of a Closed Space Environment on Gene Expression in Hair Follicles of Astronauts in the International Space Station – Masahiro Terada – PLOS ONE