Obesity in Korean adolescents, banana rhizosphere, rare taxa and Deepwater Horizon spill, leaking septic tanks, and visualization of ‘omics data.
Events
BioMicroWorld 2015: International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology, 28-30 October 2015, Barcelona, Spain – Has a workshop called: “Modelling bacterial dynamics using the R software”
Human oral and gut microbiome
Oral and faecal microbiota in volunteers with hypertension in a double blind, randomised placebo controlled trial with probiotics and fermented bilberries – Jie Xu – Journal of Functional Foods
Obesity Alters the Microbial Community Profile in Korean Adolescents – Hae-Jin Hu – PLOS ONE
Microbiome models
Rescue of Fructose-Induced Metabolic Syndrome by Antibiotics or Faecal Transplantation in a Rat Model of Obesity – Blanda Di Luccia – PLOS ONE
Plants, roots, and soil microbiome
Manipulating the banana rhizosphere microbiome for biological control of Panama disease – Chao Xue – Scientific Reports
Review: Roots Shaping Their Microbiome: Global Hotspots for Microbial Activity – Barbara Reinhold-Hurek – Annual Review of Phytopathology
Effect of Agricultural Amendments on Cajanus cajan (Pigeon Pea) and Its Rhizospheric Microbial Communities – A Comparison between Chemical Fertilizers and Bioinoculants – Rashi Gupta – PLOS ONE
Effect of genetically modified rice producing resveratrol on the soil microbial communities – Soo-In Sohn – Journal of the Korean Society for Applied Biological Chemistry
Water microbiome
Diverse, rare microbial taxa responded to the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea hydrocarbon plume – Sara Kleindienst – The ISME Journal
Linking fecal bacteria in rivers to landscape, geochemical, and hydrologic factors and sources at the basin scale – Marc P. Verhougstraete – PNAS
Toolbox approaches using molecular markers and 16S rDNA amplicon datasets for the identification of fecal pollution in surface water – W. Ahmed – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Bioinformatics
Anvi’o: An advanced analysis and visualization platform for ‘omics data – A. Murat Eren – Peer J
InteMAP: Integrated metagenomic assembly pipeline for NGS short reads – Binbin Lai – BMC Bioinformatics
MiRKAT peeks at associations between the microbiome and disease – JM Kocarnik – Fred Hutch
Fungi and microbiomes
Noisy neighbourhoods: quorum sensing in fungal polymicrobial infections – Emily F. Dixon – Cellular Microbiology
Metabarcoding analysis of home composts reveals distinctive fungal communities with a high number of unassigned sequences – Adrian Langarica-Fuentes – Microbiology
More microbes
Review: Next-generation sequencing for pathogen detection and identification – Kenneth G. Frey – Methods in Microbiology
Microbes in the news
University of Missouri hosts open house at DNA sequencing center – Megan Favignano – Columbia Tribune
Detective work traces bacteria in Michigan rivers back to leaky septic tanks – Rebecca Williams – Michigan Radio
Bacteria that may cause spotty liver disease in chickens identified – Farmers Weekly
Bik’s Picks
World’s first ant map launched in Hong Kong:geographic locations of nearly 15,000 types of ant – Business Insider
Seeds That Defied Romans, Pirates, and Nazis – Robert Krulwich – National Geographic
The dark side of the moon sails across Earth in new NASA video – Deborah Netburn – Los Angeles Times
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