Enjoy your weekend with Saturdays microbiome digest. Lots of animal microbiome research out today, plus several human microbiome reviews and infant microbiome research.

Events and jobs

Molecular Scientist – Phage Display – Cambridge, UK

Research Officer Microbiology – Western Sydney, AUS

Research Assistant – Microbiology & Immunology – Illinois, USA

Medical Laboratory Scientist – Microbiology – Dunedin, New Zealand

General microbiome

Eco-Aging: stem cells and microbes are controlled by aging antagonist FoxO – Benedikt M Mortzfeld – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Gut–CNS-Axis as Possibility to Modulate Inflammatory Disease Activity—Implications for Multiple Sclerosis – Ann-Katrin Fleck – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Pregnancy and early life

Early intervention with Bifidobacterium lactis NCC2818 modulates the host-microbe interface independent of the sustained changes induced by the neonatal environment – Marie C. Lewis – Scientific Reports

Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance of Enterococci Isolated from Healthy Breastfed Infants – Landete José M – Microbial Drug Resistance

Association of Antibiotics, Airway Microbiome and Inflammation in Infants with Cystic Fibrosis – Jessica E Pittman – Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Nasopharyngeal microbiota in infants and changes during viral upper respiratory tract infection and acute otitis media – Tasnee Chonmaitree – PLOS One

Human respiratory microbiome

A reproducible microcosm biofilm model of subgingival microbial communities – M. Fernandez y Mostajo – Journal of Periodontal Research

Review – Microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Eduard Monsó – Annals of Translational Medicine

Review – More than just a gut feeling: constraint-based genome-scale metabolic models for predicting functions of human intestinal microbes – Kees C. H – Microbiome

Review – The respiratory microbiome in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis – Richard J. Hewitt – Annals of Translational Medicine

Human skin microbiome

Review – Cleanliness in context: reconciling hygiene with a modern microbial perspective – Roo Vandegrift – Microbiome

Human gut microbiome

High frequency of intestinal TH17 cells correlates with microbiota alterations and disease activity in multiple sclerosis – Ilaria Cosorich – Science Advances

Systematic review with meta-analysis: the efficacy of faecal microbiota transplantation for the treatment of recurrent and refractory Clostridium difficile infection – M. N. Quraishi – Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Animal experiments 

Preprint – Disentangling metabolic functions of bacteria in the honey bee gut – Lucie Kesnerova – BioRxiv

Prion disease pathogenesis in the absence of the commensal microbiota – Barry M. Bradford – Journal of General Virology

A bidirectional association between the gut microbiota and CNS disease in a biphasic murine model of multiple sclerosis – Sara L. Colpitts – Gut Microbes

Effects of Consuming Xylitol on Gut Microbiota and Lipid Metabolism in Mice – Takashi Uebanso – Nutrients

Polydextrose changes the gut microbiome and attenuates fasting triglyceride and cholesterol levels in Western diet fed mice – Ghulam Shere Raza – Scientific Reports

Formula diet driven microbiota shifts tryptophan metabolism from serotonin to tryptamine in neonatal porcine colon – Manish Kumar Saraf – Microbiome

Regulation by gut bacteria of immune response, Bacillus thuringiensis susceptibility and hemolin expression in Plodia interpunctella – Alonso A.Orozco-Flores – Journal of Insect Physiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Dynamics of culturable mesophilic bacterial communities of three fresh herbs and their production environment – Maria-Theresia Gekenidis – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Review – Insights into study design and statistical analyses in translational microbiome studies – Jyoti Shankar – Annals of Translational Medicine

Techniques

Assessing the impact of protein extraction methods for human gut metaproteomics – Xu Zhang – Journal of Proteomics

Microbes in the news

Micromotors are powered by bacteria, controlled by light  – Lisa Zyga – Phys.org