Events and jobs
Microscopist Asbestos/Microbiology – EMSL Analytical, Seattle, WA

Technician (Microbiology Team) – AsureQuality (AQ), Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Laboratory Technician I (Microbiology & Genetics) – IDEXX, Columbia, MO, US

Associate Scientist Molecular Microbiology – CheckMark Labrecruitment, South Holland

Human respiratory microbiome
Review: Infection-mediated asthma: etiology, mechanisms and treatment options, with focus on Chlamydia pneumoniae and macrolides – Wilmore C. Webley – Respiratory Research

Human gut microbiome
Review: The bidirectional gut-brain-microbiota axis as a potential nexus between traumatic brain injury, inflammation, and disease – Mark Sundman – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Clinical Trial Watch: ‘Targeting the gut-liver axis in liver disease’ – Reiner Wiest – Journal of Hepatology

Gluten-degrading bacteria are present in the human small intestine of healthy volunteers and celiac patients – Alexandra R. Herran – Research in Microbiology

The sialate O-acetylesterase EstA from gut Bacteroidetes species enables sialidase-mediated cross-species foraging of 9-O-acetylated sialoglycans – Lloyd S. Robinson – Journal of Biological Chemistry

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Seasonal soil microbial responses are limited to changes in functionality at two Alpine forest sites differing in altitude and vegetation – José A. Siles A. Siles – Scientific Reports

Review: Evolutionary Ecology of Multitrophic Interactions between Plants, Insect Herbivores and Entomopathogens – Ikkei Shikano – Journal of Chemical Ecology

Pseudomonas chlororaphis produces two distinct R-tailocins that contribute to bacterial competition in biofilms and on roots – Robert J. Dorosky – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome
Review: A multiomics approach to study the microbiome response to phytoplankton blooms – Liyan Song – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Antibiotics/probiotics/prebiotics
The Resistome Of Important Human Pathogens – Christian Munck – bioRxiv

Phages and viruses
Embracing the enemy: the diversification of microbial gene repertoires by phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer – Marie Touchon – Current Opinion in Microbiology
Part of a themed issue on MGE-HGT in prokaryotes

Bioinformatics
StrainSeeker: fast identification of bacterial strains from raw sequencing reads using user-provided guide trees – Märt Roosaare – PeerJ

Microbes in the news
Bacteria could lead to cleaner methane power – Jon Fingas – Engadget

Luminous bacteria will help to measure radioactivity – Siberian Federal University – EurekAlert!

A ‘Superbug’ Fungus Is Spreading Across The US – Kristen V. Brown – Gizmodo

Research shows that gut bacteria tells their hosts what to eat – Cordis News

Indian researchers use a novel route to kill TB bacteria – R. Prasad – The Hindu

Bacteria Hysteria
Cash is even grosser than you knew: Dangerous bacteria survive on paper money, study finds – James Dennin – AOL