I’m sick at home but my inbox is exploding with new papers, so I scraped myself together for a new Microbiome Digest.
Precision medicine and the microbiome, salivary microbiome of Tsimane mothers and infants, food emulsifiers promote colon cancer in mice, microplastics in urban rivers, and a hypothetical silver Nobel prize for Jeffrey Gordon.
Events
SF Bay Area Microbiome meetup – a new LinkedIn group for people in the San Francisco area interested in all things microbiome!
Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) Webinar – Probiotics: Understanding The Microbiome And The Role Of Probiotics In Long Term Health – Wednesday, December 7 at 12:00 p.m. EST
This one is about me: Stanford Microbiome Pioneer Elisabeth Bik Becomes New Science Editor at uBiome – uBiome
General microbiome
Introducing the Microbiome into Precision Medicine – Thomas M. Kuntz, Jack A. Gilbert – Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
Can They Make It on Their Own? Hosts, Microbes, and the Holobiont Niche – Sarah M. Kopac – Frontiers in Microbiology
Opinion: Do antibodies select a healthy microbiota? – Jason L. Kubinak & June L. Round – Nature Reviews Immunology
Editorial: Complexity at the sub-genus level – Andrea Du Toit – Nature Reviews Microbiology
Human oral microbiome
Salivary microbiomes of indigenous Tsimane mothers and infants are distinct despite frequent premastication – Cliff S. Han – PeerJ
A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Oral Microbiome and Dental Health in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma – Polla, Daniel – Journal of Glaucoma
Sputum microbiology predicts health status in COPD – DCW Braeken – International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Human respiratory microbiome
Assessing the Airway Microbiota in Cystic Fibrosis – Jordana E. Hoppe – Clinical Microbiology Newsletter
Review: The microbiome-metabolome crosstalk in the pathogenesis of respiratory fungal diseases – Samuel M. Gonçalves – Virulence
Human vaginal microbiome
Effects of pelvic organ prolapse ring pessary therapy on intravaginal microbial flora – Kazuaki Yoshimura – International Urogynecology Journal
Review: Why do lactobacilli dominate the human vaginal microbiota? – SS Witkin – BJOG
Human gastric microbiome
Characterization of the Gastric Microbiota in a Pediatric Population According to Helicobacter pylori Status – Llorca, Laura – The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Human gut microbiome
Shotgun Metagenomics of 250 Adult Twins Reveals Genetic and Environmental Impacts on the Gut Microbiome – Hailiang Xie – Cell Systems
Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics – Jean-Christophe Lagier – Nature Microbiology
Impact of Cystic Fibrosis Disease on Archaea and Bacteria Composition of Gut Microbiota – Francesco Miragoli – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Animal models
Systems-level metabolism of the altered Schaedler flora, a complete gut microbiota
– Matthew B Biggs – The ISME Journal
Gut microbiota induce IGF-1 and promote bone formation and growth – Jing Yan – PNAS
Dietary emulsifier-induced low-grade inflammation promotes colon carcinogenesis – Emilie Viennois – Cancer Research
- Common Food Additive Promotes Colon Cancer In Mice, Georgia State University Researchers Find – Georgia State University
- This Common Processed Food Ingredient Causes Cancer in Mice – Alice Park – Time
- Common food additive promotes colon cancer in mice – Science Daily
- Food additive alters gut bacteria to cause colorectal cancer – Ana Sandoiu – Medical News Today
Chronic Opisthorchis viverrini Infection Changes the Liver Microbiome and Promotes Helicobacter Growth – Upsornsawan Itthitaetrakool – PLOS ONE
Sex-specific modulation of the gut microbiome and behavior in Siberian hamsters – Kristyn E. Sylvia – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
Animal microbiome
Optimised scat collection protocols for dietary DNA metabarcoding in vertebrates – Julie C. McInnes – Methods in Ecology and Evolution
High-throughput sequencing highlights the significant influence of seasonal housing and teat preparation on the raw milk microbiota – Conor J Doyle – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Metagenomic analysis reveals the influences of milk containing antibiotics on the rumen microbes of calves – Wei Li – Archives of Microbiology
Repeated sampling of white syndrome-affected corals reveals distinct microbiome at disease lesion fronts – F. Joseph Pollock – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Relationships between soil fungal and woody plant assemblages differ between ridge and valley habitats in a subtropical mountain forest – Cheng Gao – New Phytologist
AMF, phylogeny, and succession: specificity of response to mycorrhizal fungi increases for late-successional plants – Liz Koziol – Ecosphere
Microbial Community Functional Potential and Composition Are Shaped by Hydrologic Connectivity in Riverine Floodplain Soils – William A. Argiroff – Microbial Ecology
Effect of disturbance by oil pollution on the diversity and activity of bacterial communities in biological soil crusts from the Sultanate of Oman – Raeid M.M. Abed – Applied Soil Ecology
Book chapter: Root-Microbe Interactions in Response to Soil Conditions – Anil Somenahally – Global Soil Security
Water and extremophile microbiome
Microplastic in surface waters of urban rivers: concentration, sources, and associated bacterial assemblages – Amanda R. McCormick – Ecosphere
Evidence for microbial mediation of subseafloor nitrogen redox processes at Loihi Seamount, Hawaii – Jason B. Sylvan – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Microbial communities and their predicted metabolic characteristics in deep fracture groundwaters of the crystalline bedrock at Olkiluoto, Finland – Malin Bomberg – Biogeosciences
Extremophile microbiomes in acidic and hypersaline river sediments of Western Australia
– Shipeng Lu – Environmental Microbiology Reports
Review: Microbial Community Assessment in Wetlands for Water Pollution Control: Past, Present, and Future Outlook – Kela P. Weber – Water
Bioinformatics and metagenomics
Alternative for PiCRUST: Piphillin: Improved Prediction of Metagenomic Content by Direct Inference from Human Microbiomes – Shoko Iwai – PLOS ONE
Measurement of bacterial replication rates in microbial communities – Christopher T Brown – Nature Biotechnology
Microbes in the news
If there was a Nobel silver medal, I’d award it to Jeffrey Gordon and our gut microbes – Tim Spector – The Conversation
Gut Instincts: The Link Between Diet, the Gut Microbiota and the Brain – Kiana West – Imperial College London
Q&A with Stanford statistics Professor Susan Holmes: Statistics in the era of big data – Stanford News
Conference report: Gut microbes linked to immunotherapy response in melanoma patients – EurekAlert
Gut bacteria ‘may help drugs fight cancer’ – James Gallagher – BBC
Assistant professor Joanna Slusky recognized for work with antibiotic-resistant bacteria – The University Daily Kansan
Three Soundcloud episodes by the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine on the microbiome, to accompany their September issue:
- Microbiome: Episode I: history of the field, current techniques used in microbiome research, and how the microbiome influences our health
- Microbiome: Episode IIMicrobiome: Episode II: Dr. Martin Kriegel discusses articles published in our issue, – Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
- Microbiome: Episode III: Dr. Camille Konopnicki, talks about current on going research on the microbiome here at Yale and how microbiome research is evolving and changing.
Companies Bet on Designer Bacteria as New Way to Treat Disease – MIT Technology Review
About Bethany Rader: Researcher studying squid-human bacteria connection – Tim Crosby – The Southern Illinoisan
Horrible title, but nice student work: Students create Frankenstein’s monster of bacteria to detect toxic chemicals – New Atlas
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