Events and jobs

ASM Journals Fellowship – American Society for Microbiology

General microbiome

A mechanistic Individual-based Model of microbial communities – Pahala Gedara Jayathilake – PLoS ONE

Human vaginal microbiome

Group B Streptococcus and the vaginal microbiota – Geoffrey H Rosen – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Animal experiments

The microbial metabolite desaminotyrosine protects from influenza through type I interferon – Ashley L. Steed – Science

Development of Inflammatory Bowel Disease is Linked to a Longitudinal Restructuring of the Gut Metagenome in Mice – Thomas Sharpton – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbial Communities as Ecological Indicators of Ecosystem Recovery Following Chemical Pollution – Stéphane Pesce – Microbial Ecotoxicology

Assessment of rhizosphere processes for removing water-borne macrolide antibiotics in constructed wetlands – Yiping Tai – Plant and Soil

Poor-Soil Rhizosphere Enriched with Different Microbial Activities Influence the Availability of Base Elements – Faten Dhaw – Open Journal of Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Impacts of leachates from livestock carcass burial and manure heap sites on groundwater geochemistry and microbial community structure – Man Jae Kwon – PLoS ONE

Built environment

Lignocellulose-Degrading Microbial Communities in Landfill Sites Represent a Repository of Unexplored Biomass-Degrading Diversity – Emma Ransom-Jones – mSphere

Probiotics / prebiotics

Utilization of Pyrosequencing to Monitor the Microbiome Dynamics of Probiotic Treated Poultry (Gallus gallus domesticus) during Downstream Poultry Processing – Vamsy Priya Guttala – Agricultural Sciences

Lactobacillus casei CCFM419 attenuates type 2 diabetes via a gut microbiota dependent mechanism – Gang Wang – Food & Function

Bioinformatics

Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information – Albert Barberán – mSphere

Techniques

Isolation of bacteriophages from air using vacuum filtration technique: An improved and novel method – Bhagyashree Magare – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Exploring the Equine Microbiome – Stacey Oke – The Horse

Study: Kitchen sponges carry more bacteria than a toilet – Darren Sweeney – Fox8 Cleveland