Microbiome in rhinosinusitis patients, microbes in permafrost, and responses of soil to deforestation.
Meetings
London Microbiome Meeting 2015 (LMM2015), St. Thomas’ Hospital, 28 May 2015
Human respiratory microbiome
Sinus microbiota varies among chronic rhinosinusitis phenotypes and predicts surgical outcome – Vijay R. Ramakrishnan – Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Animal microbiome
Antimicrobial resistance in faecal samples from buffalo, wildebeest and zebra grazing together with and without cattle in Tanzania – A.A.S. Katakweba – Journal of Applied Microbiology
Soil and plant root microbiome
Soil microbiome responses to the short-term effects of Amazonian deforestation –
Acacio A. Navarrete – Molecular Ecology
Reconstructed metagenomes reveal changes of microbial functional profiling during PAHs degradation along a rice (Oryza sativa) rhizosphere gradient – B. Ma – Journal of Applied Microbiology
Profiling bacterial diversity in a limestone cave of the western Loess Plateau of China – Yucheng Wu – Frontiers in Microbiology
Extremophile microbiome
Structure, mineralogy, and microbial diversity of geothermal spring microbialites associated with a deep oil drilling in Romania – Cristian Coman – Frontiers in Microbiology
Shifts in methanogenic community composition and methane fluxes along the degradation of discontinuous permafrost – Mette M. Svenning – Frontiers in Microbiology
Bioreactor microbiome
Analysis of microbial community composition in a lab-scale membrane distillation bioreactor – Q. Zhang – Journal of Applied Microbiology
Food microbiology
Diffusion of solutes inside bacterial colonies immobilized in model cheese depends on their physicochemical properties: a time-lapse microscopy study – Juliane Floury – Frontiers in Microbiology
Metagenomics
It’s a dirty job — A robust method for the purification and de novo genome assembly of Cryptosporidium from clinical material – Sofia Andersson – Journal of Microbiological Methods
Bioinformatics and statistics
Power and Sample-Size Estimation for Microbiome Studies Using Pairwise Distances and PERMANOVA – Brendan J. Kelly – Bioinformatics
More microbe papers
Review: Tackling antibiotic resistance: the environmental framework – Thomas U. Berendonk – Nature Reviews Microbiology
Microbes in the news
You Should Know: Kristina Campbell and The Intestinal Gardener – DNLee – Scientific American
Link to blog: The Intestinal Gardener – Kristina Campbell
Video of the February VLAB meeting at Stanford: Gut-Feeling — Ventures into the Microbiome – Colleen Cutcliffe – VLAB videos
Chronic Rhinosinusitis Varies By Bacterial Microbiome – Vijay R. Ramakrishnan – Medical Research
Doctors: How gut bacteria affects obesity, diabetes, child health – Jondi Gumz – Santa Cruz Sentinel
The bacteria that could make your blue jeans greener – Michael Keller – Green Biz
Bacteria power up by using magnets as batteries – Catherine Brahic – New Scientist
Science, publishing and career
These scientists studied journalists covering science. Whoa, meta. – Suzanne Jacobs – Grist
Let’s compare the backgrounds of science writers for Fox and NPR – Boing Boing
Mind the (gender) gap: Kew’s records show fewer than 3% of land plant species published by women – Lauren Gardiner – Kew Royal Botanical Gardens
I’m an engineer, not a cheerleader. Let’s abandon silly rules about gender roles. – Sara Sakowitz – Washington Post
Bik’s Picks
Velvet Worms, Squirting Slime – James Gorman – New York Times
An apple a day may not keep the doctor away, study says – Lindsey Tanner – Big Story AP
Family income, parental education related to brain structure in children, adolescents – Science Daily
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