The impact of root hairs on rhizosphere soil structure, gut virome dynamics in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, an art installation made from bacteria found in a 300-year-old copy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Events and jobs
Assistant/Associate Professor of Soil Microbiomes – Colorado State University
Research Lab Tech Intermediate – University of Michigan Center for Microbial Systems Molecular Biology Laboratory
Content, Lead bioRxiv – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
General microbiome
Perspective: The evolution of the host microbiome as an ecosystem on a leash – Kevin R Foster – Nature
Animal experiments
Gut Microbiota Modifies Olfactory-Guided Microbial Preferences and Foraging Decisions in Drosophila – Adam Chun-Nin Wong – Current Biology
Cxcr2 signaling and the microbiome suppress inflammation, bile duct injury, and the phenotype of experimental biliary atresia – Junbae Jee – PLOS ONE
Commensal microbiota-induced microRNA modulates intestinal epithelial permeability through a small GTPase ARF4 – Kazuaki Nakata – Journal of Biological Chemistry
Early life antibiotic exposure causes intestinal dysbiosis and exacerbates skin and lung pathology in experimental systemic sclerosis – Heena Mehta – Journal of Investigative Dermatology
16S rRNA genes Illumina sequencing revealed differential cecal microbiome in specific pathogen free chickens infected with different subgroup of avian leukosis viruses – Xinxin Ma – Veterinary Microbiology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
High-resolution synchrotron imaging shows that root hairs influence rhizosphere soil structure formation – Nicolai Koebernick – New Phytologist
Genome-Wide Sensitivity Analysis of the Microsymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti to Symbiotically Important, Defensin-Like Host Peptides – Markus F F Arnold – mBio
Water and extremophile microbiome
Preprint: Metabolic roles of uncultivated bacterioplankton lineages in the northern Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone” – J Cameron Thrash – bioRxiv
Food microbiology
Fate of Listeria innocua during production and ripening of smeared hard cheese made from raw milk – P Hammer – Journal of Dairy Science
Probiotics/prebiotics
Review: Systematic review: probiotics for functional constipation in children – Katarzyna Wojtyniak – European Journal of Pediatrics
Phages and viruses
The eukaryotic gut virome in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: new clues in enteric graft-versus-host disease – Jérôme Legoff – Nature Medicine
Metabolomics
The Opportunities of Metabolomics in Drug Safety Evaluation – Pengcheng Wang – Current Pharmacology Reports
More microbes
SnapShot: Electrochemical Communication in Biofilms – Dong-yeon D Lee – Cell
Microbes in the news
Microbiome: Does it really matter to our health? – Jo Seed – Imperial College London
Lovers Share Colonies of Skin Microbes, Study Finds – Aneri Pattani – New York Times
Scientists map the distribution of antimicrobial resistance across Chinese major cities – EurekAlert
Bacteria could be key to freeing South Pacific of mosquitoes – Emma Maris – Nature
Microbiology: The case of the mysterious messenger – Kaitlin Johnson – Nature
Microbes on the market
World’s First DNA and Microbiome Platform Enters the UK Market – Business Wire
Bacteria art
Bacteria from 300-year-old Ovid poetry volume inspires ‘bio-artist’ – Maev Kennedy – The Guardian
Science, career, and publishing
Preprint: The reproducibility of research and the misinterpretation of P values – David Colquhoun – bioRxiv
Preprint: The GSS is an unreliable indicator of biological sciences postdoc population trends – Christopher L Pickett – bioRxiv
The Plan to End Science’s Sexist #manel Problem – Sarah Scoles – WIRED
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Non-microbiology picks
Proteins evolve on the edge of supramolecular self-assembly – Hector Garcia-Seisdedos – Nature
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