Events and jobs

QC Supervisor, Quality Control (Microbiology) – Bausch & Lomb Company Location Seal Beach, CA, US

Microbiology Lab Technician – Apex Life Sciences • Dublin Ohio, OH

General microbiome

Genome-Wide Search for Genes Required for Bifidobacterial Growth under Iron-Limitation – Lanigan N – Front Microbiol

Preprint: Phenotypic consequences of RNA polymerase dysregulation in Escherichia coli – Paramita Sarkar – bioRxiv

EsaB is a core component of the Staphylococcus aureus Type VII secretion system – M. Guillermina Casabona – bioRxiv

Multi-site human microbiome

Dysbiosis in chronic periodontitis: Key microbial players and interactions with the human host – Deng ZL – Sci Rep

Human gut microbiome

Torpor: The Rise and Fall of 3-Monoiodothyronamine from Brain to Gut-From Gut to Brain? – Glossmann HH – Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)

Bacterial Diversity of Intestinal Microbiota in Patients with Substance Use Disorders Revealed by 16S rRNA Gene Deep Sequencing – Xu Y – Sci Rep

Gut Microbiome and Bone: to Build, Destroy, or Both? – Yan J – Curr Osteoporos Rep

From clinical uncertainties to precision medicine: the emerging role of the gut barrier and microbiome in small bowel functional diseases – Marlicz W – Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol

Gut microbiota composition strongly correlates to peripheral insulin sensitivity in obese men but not in women – Most J – Benef Microbes

Animal experiments

Bovine antibodies targeting primary and recurrent Clostridium difficile disease are a potent antibiotic alternative – Hutton ML – Sci Rep

Intestinal metabolites are profoundly altered in the context of HLA-B27 expression and functionally modulate disease in a rat model of spondyloarthropathy – Asquith M – Arthritis Rheumatol

Dietary advanced glycation end products modify gut microbial composition and partially increase colon permeability in rats – Qu W – Mol Nutr Food Res

The scales of the zebrafish: host–microbiota interactions from proteins to populations – Adam R Burns – Curr Opin Microbiol

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Ecological diversity and co-occurrence patterns of bacterial community through soil profile in response to long-term switchgrass cultivation – He S – Sci Rep

Characterization of microbial communities in Chinese rice wine collected at Yichang city and Suzhou city in China – Lyu Y – J Microbiol Biotechnol

Diversity of endophytic mycobiota of tropical tree Tectona grandis Linn.f.: Spatiotemporal and tissue type effects – Singh DK – Sci Rep

Understanding and exploiting plant beneficial microbes – Finkel OM – Curr Opin Plant Biol

Water and extremophile microbiome

ELIXIR pilot action: Marine metagenomics – towards a domain specific set of sustainable services – Robertsen EM – F1000Res

Built environment

Graphene Nanolayers as a New Method for Bacterial Biofilm Prevention: Preliminary Results – Dybowska-Sarapuk Ł – J AOAC Int

Probiotics / prebiotics

Probiotic guidelines and physician practice: a cross-sectional survey and overview of the literature – Draper K – Benef Microbes

Techniques

Toward a genetic tool development pipeline for host-associated bacteria – Matthew C Waller – Curr Opin Microbiol

Microbes in the news

Bacteria eaters’ set to transform pig treatment – Lauren Dean – FG|Insight

Bacteria Hysteria

Wash your phones, too – Daily Republic – Onome Johnson