Beneficial bacteria in the nose suppress pathogenic bacteria, gut microbiome and Entamoeba histolytica infection, viromes of the Earth.
Jobs
Assistant/Associate Professor in Microbiology & Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago – Science Careers
Internship: Coral microbiome under ocean acidification – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology – Saudi Arabia
Pregnancy and birth
Microbiota in Breast Milk of Chinese Lactating Mothers – Olga Sakwinska – PLOS ONE
Human skin microbiome
Review: Factors shaping the composition of the cutaneous microbiota – K. Szabó – British Journal of Dermatology
Human respiratory microbiome
Staphylococcus aureus Shifts toward Commensalism in Response to Corynebacterium Species – Matthew M. Ramsey – Frontiers in Microbiology
Press: New findings detail how beneficial bacteria in the nose suppress pathogenic bacteria– Science Daily
Human gut microbiome
Disease Severity and Immune Activity Relate to Distinct Interkingdom Gut Microbiome States in Ethnically Distinct Ulcerative Colitis Patients – Jordan S. Mar – mBio
Stool microbiome reveals diverse bacterial ureases as confounders of oral urea breath testing for Helicobacter pylori and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Bamako, Mali – Mamoudou Maiga – Journal of Breath Research
Review: Antibiotics as deep modulators of gut microbiota: between good and evil – Gianluca Ianiro – Gut
Review: The Intestinal Bacterial Microbiome and E. histolytica Infection – Stacey L. Burgess – Curr Trop Med Reports
Review: The microbiome and immune regulation after transplantation – Tabibian, James H. – Transplantation
Review: Experimental design considerations in microbiota/inflammation studies – Robert J Moore – Clin Transl Immunology
Animal experiments
Wolbachia Endosymbionts Modify Drosophila Ovary Protein Levels in a Context-Dependent Manner – Steen Christensen – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Composition of the Cockroach Gut Microbiome in the Presence of Parasitic Nematodes – Cláudia S. L. Vicente – Microbes and Environments
Animal microbiome
Link of a ubiquitous human coronavirus to dromedary camels – Victor M. Corman – PNAS
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Changes in the composition of the RNA virome mark evolutionary transitions in green plants – Arcady Mushegian – BMC Biology
Review: Identifying the role of soil microbes in plant invasions – Wayne Dawson – Journal of Ecology
Water microbiome
Uncovering Earth’s virome – David Paez-Espino – Nature
Press: Unveiled: Earth’s Viral Diversity. Environmental datasets help researchers double the number of microbial phyla known to be infected by viruses.- Joint Genome Institute
Researchers complete unprecedented study of the global virome – Katherine Lindemann – Research Gate Blog
290 Metagenome-assembled Genomes from the Mediterranean Sea: Ongoing Effort to Generate Genomes from the Tara Oceans Dataset – Benjamin J Tully – bioRxiv
The Microbiome and Mental Health: Looking Back, Moving Forward with Lessons from Allergic Diseases – Alan C. Logan
Extremophile microbiome
Yeasts from macroalgae and lichens that inhabit the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica –
Alysson Wagner Fernandes Duarte – Environmental Microbiology Reports
Bioinformatics and metagenomics
Comparison of bacterial genome assembly software for MinION data and their applicability to medical microbiology – Kim Judge – Microbial Genomics
Fast comparison of genomic and meta-genomic reads with alignment-free measures based on quality values – Matteo Comin – BMC Medical Genomics
Gifted microbes for genome mining and natural product discovery – Richard H. Baltz – Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
Microbial Ecology
Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality – Santiago Soliveres – Nature
Extrapolating abundance curves has no predictive power for estimating microbial biodiversity – Amy Willis – PNAS
Synergistic elimination of bacteria by phage and the immune system – Chung Yin (Joey) Leung – bioRxiv
Microbes in the news
The Counterintuitive Way That Microbes Survive in Antarctica – And what it could mean for the search for life on other worlds – Ed Yong – The Atlantic
Human Cells Make Up Only Half Our Bodies. A New Book Explains Why – Jonathan Weiner – New York Times
Mouse microbes may make scientific studies harder to replicate – Kelly Servick – Science Mag
Biome, Genome, Microbiome…Houdinisome? – Jason Tetro – Germ Guy
Tiny Stanford invention purifies water in minutes using the sun – CNET
The importance of quality pre-analytical factors and their impact on microbiome analysis – Lisa Gamwell – DNA Genotek’s Microbiome Collection and Stabilization Blog
Behind paywall: Brazilian Researchers Profile Microbiome of Rio Before, During, After Olympic Games – Genome Web
Rio 2016 organizers are confident everything is fine. I’m not reassured – Sally Jenkins – Washington Post
Science, publishing, and career
Stanford programs prepare underrepresented high schoolers for careers in science, engineering and medicine – Victoria Chesley – Stanford News