The second Bay Area Microbiome Meetup, urban finches have more feather-damaging bacteria than rural birdies, metagenomic analysis of children with IBD, airborne fungi in a hospital.
Events
Second San Francisco Bay Area Microbiome Meetup @Illumina. January 31, 2017, San Francisco. Theme: Tools & Techniques. Sign up for this free event.
Pregnancy and early life microbiome
Letter: Alterations in human milk leptin and insulin are associated with early changes in the infant intestinal microbiome – Martin Gotteland – The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Human eye microbiome
Review: Gut microbiota as a source of a surrogate antigen that triggers autoimmunity in an immune privileged site – Carlos R Zárate-Bladés – Gut Microbes
Human respiratory microbiome
Eosinophilic airway inflammation in asthma is associated with an altered airway microbiome – Asger Sverrild- Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Anaerobic Bacteriological Microbiota in Surface and Core of Tonsils in Chronic Tonsillitis – Meera Niranjan Khadilkar – Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Human urinary tract microbiome
Review: Microbiota in 2016: Associating infection and incontinence with the female urinary microbiota – Linda Brubaker – Nature Reviews Urology
Human gut microbiome
* Gut microbiota differs between children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and healthy siblings in taxonomic and functional composition – a metagenomic analysis – Rebecca Luise Knoll – American Journal of Physiology – Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
Irritable Bowel Syndrome-Like Symptoms Following Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: A Possible Donor-Dependent Complication – Bianca W Chang – American Journal of Gastroenterology
Review: The potential impact of gut microbiota on your health: Current status and future challenges – Stitaya Sirisinha – Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology
Review: Gut microbiome, surgical complications and probiotics – George Stavrou – Annals of Gastroenterology
Review: Perceptions of fecal microbiota transplantation for Clostridium difficile infection: factors that predict acceptance – Leslie Park – Annals of Gastroenterology
Review: Analysis of Gut Microbiota – an ever changing landscape – Michael J. Sadowsky – Gut Microbes
Animal experiments
GAS6 is a key homeostatic immunological regulator of host–commensal interactions in the oral mucosa – Maria Nassar – PNAS
Bacteria isolated from lung modulate asthma susceptibility in mice – Aude Remot – The ISME Journal
Epimural bacterial community structure in the rumen of Holstein cows with different responses to a long-term subacute ruminal acidosis diet challenge – S.U. Wetzels – Journal of Dairy Science
Effect of faecal microbiota transplantation on mouse gut colonization with carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli – R. Mahieu – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Changes in Intestinal Motility and Gut Microbiota Composition in a Rat Stress Model
Murakami T – Digestion
Animal microbiome
* House finches: Plumage micro-organisms and preen gland size in an urbanizing context – Mathieu Giraudeau – Science of The Total Environment
Impacts of canine distemper virus infection on the giant panda population from the perspective of gut microbiota – Na Zhao – Scientific Reports
From Seoul Zoo: Comparison of fecal microbiota of three captive carnivore species inhabiting Korea – Choa AN – Journal of Veterinary Medical Science
Yeast: An Overlooked Component of Bactrocera tryoni (Diptera: Tephritidae) Larval Gut Microbiota – Ania T. Deutscher – Journal of Economic Entomology
Symbiotic bacterial communities in ants are modified by invasion pathway bottlenecks and alter host behavior – Philip J. Lester – Ecology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Microbial Response to Soil Liming of Damaged Ecosystems Revealed by Pyrosequencing and Phospholipid Fatty Acid Analyses – Ramya Narendrula-Kotha – PLOS ONE
Microbial taxa and functional genes shift in degraded soil with bacterial wilt – Hongchun Zhang – Scientific Reports
Review: Can plant microbiome studies lead to effective biocontrol of plant diseases? – Jeffrey Ellis – Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Water and extremophile microbiome
Endemicity of the cosmopolitan mesophilic chemolithoautotroph Sulfurimonas at deep-sea hydrothermal vents – Sayaka Mino – ISME Journal
Earth analogues for past and future life on Mars: isolation of perchlorate resistant halophiles from Big Soda Lake – Toshitaka Matsubara – International Journal of Astrobiology
Bacterial growth tolerance to concentrations of chlorate and perchlorate salts relevant to Mars – Amer F. Al Soudi – International Journal of Astrobiology
Built environment microbiome
* High diversity of airborne fungi in the hospital environment as revealed by meta-sequencing-based microbiome analysis – Xunliang Tong – Scientific Reports
Food microbiology
Effect of postharvest practices including degreening on citrus carpoplane microbial biomes – A Gomba – Journal of Applied Microbiology
Waste and pollution microbiology
Heavy metal bioleaching and sludge stabilization in a single stage reactor using indigenous acidophilic heterotrophs – Akanksha Mehrotra – Environmental Technology
Integrated Anaerobic-Aerobic Biodegradation of Multiple Contaminants Including Chlorinated Ethylenes, Benzene, Toluene, and Dichloromethane – Miho Yoshikawa – Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
Arsenic resistance genes of As-resistant purple nonsulfur bacteria isolated from As-contaminated sites for bioremediation application – Phitthaya Nookongbut – Journal of Basic Microbiology
Metagenomics and bioinformatics
Assessment of Common and Emerging Bioinformatics Pipelines for Targeted Metagenomics – Léa Siegwald – PLOS ONE
Negative binomial mixed models for analyzing microbiome count data – Xinyan Zhang – BMC Bioinformatics
Metabolomics
Impact of Glycosidic Bond Configuration on Short Chain Fatty Acid Production from Model Fermentable Carbohydrates by the Human Gut Microbiota – Hannah C. Harris – Nutrients
The Fumarate Reductase of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, unlike That of Escherichia coli, Is Configured so that It Does Not Generate Reactive Oxygen Species – Zheng Lu – mBio
Microbial ecology
The impact of resource dependence of the mechanisms of life on the spatial population dynamics of an in silico microbial community – Aisling J. Daly – Chaos
Review: Multispecies Swarms of Social Microorganisms as Moving Ecosystems – Eshel Ben-Jacob – Trends in Microbiology
Population cycles and species diversity in dynamic Kill-the-Winner model of microbial ecosystems – Sergei Maslov – Scientific Reports
Prebiotics and probiotics
Extensively hydrolysed casein formula containing L. rhamnosus GG reduces the occurrence of other allergic manifestations in children with cow’s milk allergy: 3-year randomized controlled trial – Roberto Berni Canani – Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Techniques
Application of Stochastic Labeling with Random-Sequence Barcodes for Simultaneous Quantification and Sequencing of Environmental 16S rRNA Genes – Tatsuhiko Hoshino – PLOS ONE
Microbes in the news
Roadkill Animals Are Surprising Sources of Drug Discovery – Jamie Durrani – Scientific American
Inspecting the genomic link between Archaea and Eukaryota – Tom O. Delmont – Meren Lab
Mealworms’ gut bacteria possible plastic pollution reduction solution, specialist says – Olivier Rey – ReddirtReport
‘The Doctors’ star talks about good gut bacteria – Alyssa Harvey – BG Daily News
How the brain helps the body fight bacteria – Jesmond Dalli – The Conversation
Will the Bacteria Wear Hardhats? – Charles Osgood – The Osgood File
Indigestion pills taken by millions of Britons could triple stomach bug risk by reducing acid that help fight off the bacteria – Victoria Allen – Daily Mail
Book review: Microbe, 2nd edition (2016) – ASM Science
Bacteria Hysteria
Microbes on the market
uBiome Appoints Boston Children’s Hospital Genomics Expert, Dr. Olaf Bodamer, to its Advisory Board – Benzinga
uBiome Review: What Does Your Gut Have to Say About You? – Sally Jones – Exploring Life’s Mysteries
French Microbiome Biotech enters its First Clinical Trial – Labiotech
CosmosID Launches Metagenomic and Antibiotic Resistance Application in Thermo Fisher Cloud – Benzinga
AOBiome Partners with iCarbonX and Secures $30 Million Investment for Drug Development – PR Newswire
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