Events and jobs

Doctoral researcher in Microbiology/Virology – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ – Germany

General microbiome

Review: Role of Gut Microbiota in Rheumatoid Arthritis – Y. Maeda – Journal of Clinical Medicine
Review: The Mycobiome: Impact on Health and Disease States –  N. El-Jurdi – Microbiology Spectrum

Pregnancy and early life

Review: Early-Life Host–Microbiome Interphase: The Key Frontier for Immune Development – N. Amenyogbe – Frontiers in Pediatrics

Human skin microbiome

Temporal Dynamics Of Relative Abundances And Bacterial Succession In Chronic Wound Communities – C.D. Tipton – Wound Repair and Regeneration

Human vaginal microbiome

Therapeutic Opportunities in the Vaginal Microbiome – G. Reid – Microbiology Spectrum

Human gut microbiome

Review: Microbial Impact on Host Metabolism: Opportunities for Novel Treatments of Nutritional Disorders? – H. Plovier – Microbiology Spectrum
Nickel-resistant bacteria isolated in human microbiome – E.A. Lusi – New Microbes and New Infections

Animal experiments

Keratin 8 reduces colonic permeability and maintains gut microbiota homeostasis, protecting against colitis and colitisassociated tumorigenesis – C. Liu – Oncotarget
Evolution of commensal bacteria in the intestinal tract of mice – A. Sousa – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis in Postweaning Piglets: Understanding the Keys to Health – R. Gresse – Trends in Microbiology
Diet shifts provoke complex and variable changes in the metabolic networks of the ruminal microbiome – S.M. Wolff – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Community analysis of Persian oak fungal microbiome under dust storm conditions – N.H. Doust – Fungal Ecology
Maternal effects on phenotype, resistance and the structuring of fungal communities in Eucalyptus grandis – M. Vivas – Environmental and Experimental Botany
Review: Iron and Immunity – E.H. Verbon – Annual Review of Phytopathology
Dispersal enhances beta diversity in nectar microbes – R.L. Vannette – Ecology Letters

Water and extremophile microbiome

Application of long amplicon propidium monoazide-PCR to assess the effects of temperature and background microbiota on pathogens in river water – A. Banihashemi – Journal of Water and Health

Microbes in the news

Gut bacteria can stop cancer drugs from working – S. Reardon – Nature News
Fungi revive starving bacteria – K. Evans – Labroots
Did the microbiome help drive human evolution? – S.E. Erdman – STAT news