Breastfeeding protects against antibiotics’ effect in infants, pediatric gut microbiome after surgery, microbial contribution to regional wine characteristics, microbial hotspots on glacial surfaces, foodwebs in your gut, and much more!
Pregnancy and birth
Association of Early-Life Antibiotic Use and Protective Effects of Breastfeeding –
Role of the Intestinal Microbiota – Katri Korpela – JAMA Pediatrics
Press: Antibiotics May Blunt Breast-Feeding’s Benefits – Infants given the drugs were prone to infections and obesity in childhood, researchers say – WebMD
Human gut microbiome
The pediatric intestinal mucosal microbiome remains altered after clinical resolution of inflammatory and ischemic disease – Minna M. Wieck – Surgery
Press: Culture Crash: How Common Pediatric Diseases Affect the Healthy Intestinal Microbiome – Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Systematic Review: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Ulcerative Colitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Yanqiang Shi – PLOS ONE
Animal and bioreactor experiments
Vancomycin Treatment Alters Humoral Immunity and Intestinal Microbiota in an Aged Mouse Model of Clostridium difficile Infection – Edward van Opstal – Journal of Infectious Diseases
The structural alteration of gut microbiota in low-birth-weight mice undergoing accelerated postnatal growth – Jingjing Wang – Scientific Reports
MALDI-TOF: Investigation of the interactions between Chrysanthemum morifolium flowers extract and intestinal bacteria from human and rat – Jin-hua Tao – Biomedical Chromatography
Substrate-driven convergence of the microbial community in lignocellulose-amended enrichments of gut microflora from the Canadian beaver (Castor canadensis) and North American moose (Alces americanus) – Mabel Ting Wong – Frontiers in Microbiology
Animal microbiome
Epimicrobiota Associated with the Decay and Recovery of Orbicella Corals Exhibiting Dark Spot Syndrome – Julie L. Meyer – Frontiers in Microbiology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Associations among Wine Grape Microbiome, Metabolome, and Fermentation Behavior Suggest Microbial Contribution to Regional Wine Characteristics – Nicholas A. Bokulich – mBio
Archaeal Community Changes Associated with Cultivation of Amazon Forest Soil with Oil Palm – Daiva Domenech Tupinambá – Archaea
Effects of Frangula alnus on soil microbial communities and biogeochemical processes in Wisconsin forests – Joel P. Stokdyk – Plant and Soil
Species-specific effects of plant invasions on activity, biomass, and composition of soil microbial communities – Anna M. Stefanowicz – Biology and Fertility of Soils
Water and extremophile microbiome
Review: Biofilms on glacial surfaces: hotspots for biological activity – Heidi J Smith – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes
Press: MSU doctoral student publishes research on microbial biofilms and carbon cycling on glacial surfaces – Montana State University
Diversity of culturable bacteria recovered from Pico Bolívar’s glacial and subglacial environments, at 4,950 m, in Venezuelan Tropical Andes – Johnma Rondón – Canadian Journal of Microbiology
Large differences in bacterial community composition among three nearby extreme waterbodies of the high Andean plateau – Pablo Aguilar – Frontiers in Microbiology
The Vertical Distribution of Sediment Archaeal Community in the “Black Bloom” Disturbing Zhushan Bay of Lake Taihu – Xianfang Fan – Archaea
Built environment microbiome / food microbiology
Metagenomic discovery of novel enzymes and biosurfactants in a slaughterhouse biofilm microbial community – Stephan Thies – Scientific Reports
Characterization of specific spoilage organisms (SSOs) in vacuum-packed ham by culture-plating techniques and MiSeq next-generation sequencing technologies – Agnieszka Piotrowska-Cyplik – Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
Metagenomics and bioinformatics
Linking comparative genomics and environmental distribution patterns of microbial populations through metagenomics – Tom O Delmont – bioRxiv
Species–function relationships shape ecological properties of the human gut microbiome – Sara Vieira-Silva – Nature Microbiology
Press: Unraveling the food web in your gut – The Flanders Institute for Biotechnology – EurekAlert
Protocol: A Brief Review on the Ecological Network Analysis with Applications in the Emerging Medical Ecology – Zhanshan (Sam) Ma – Part of the series Springer Protocols Handbook
Review: The evolution of genome mining in microbes – a review – Nadine Ziemert – Natural Product Reports
Transcriptomics, metabolomics
Integrative analysis of transcriptomic and metabolomic data via sparse canonical correlation analysis with incorporation of biological information – Sandra E. Safo – arXiv
More microbiology
Comparative genome-scale modelling of Staphylococcus aureus strains identifies strain-specific metabolic capabilities linked to pathogenicity – Emanuele Bosi – PNAS
Microbes in the news
Bill Gates, Jennifer Doudna Will Take Podium at ASM Microbe – Ingrid Hein – Medscape
Insights into the ecology of the microbiome: dynamics of the gut, mouth and skin microbiomes of healthy subjects – Science Daily
Podcast: Profile Of A Scientist: Personalized Medicine, Gut Microbes And The Biology Of Space Travel, with Stanford biologist Mike Snyder – WBUR
WPI students may have discovered three new viruses in Worcester soil – Michael D. Kane – MassLive
Electronic sensor that tells dead bacteria from live by measuring ‘osmoregulation’ is potential future tool for medicine and food safety – Purdue University
Oral microbiome rich environment for study, product development, event attendees told – Hank Schultz – Nutraingredients
Take Care of Your Microbiome and Your Microbiome Will Take Care of You – Aaron M. Renn – Urbanophile
Science, publishing, and career
How to make your article easy to review – Part 4 – 25 tips from experienced reviewers on what to look out for before submitting your article – Elsevier
Thank you for your Digest! I found the “How to make your article easy to review” series especially useful in this edition of Microbiome Digest.
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