Events and jobs
Assistant Professor in Food Microbiology/Safety – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley – Close Date: 12/3/2017
Assistant Professor Microbiology – University of New Haven, Connecticut
Microbiology Technician On-Call – Battle Creek, MI – Michigan
General microbiome
Closely related methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from retail meat, cows with mastitis, and humans in Japan – T Sato – PLoS One
Letter:A global resource allocation strategy governs growth transition kinetics of Escherichia coli – DW Erickson – Nature
Inter-species population dynamics enhance microbial horizontal gene transfer and spread of antibiotic resistance – RM Cooper – eLife
Pregnancy and early life
Gut microbiome of mothers delivering prematurely shows reduced diversity and lower relative abundance of Bifidobacterium and Streptococcus – C Dahl – PLoS One
Human vaginal microbiome
Association of high-risk sexual behaviour with diversity of the vaginal microbiota and abundance of Lactobacillus. – JM Wessels – PLoS One
Associations between sexual habits, menstrual hygiene practices, demographics and the vaginal microbiome as revealed by Bayesian network analysis – N Noyes – bioRxiv
Opinion: Committee Opinion No. 725: Vaginal Seeding – KR Wharton – Obstetrics and Gynecology
Human gut microbiome
“Omic” investigations of protozoa and worms for a deeper understanding of the human gut “parasitome”. – V Marzano – PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Comparison of the human gastric microbiota in hypochlorhydric states arising as a result of Helicobacter pylori-induced atrophic gastritis, autoimmune atrophic gastritis and proton pump inhibitor use – BN Parsons – PLoS Pathogens
Modeling the temporal dynamics of the gut microbial community in adults and infants – L Shenhav – bioRxiv
The ethnic distribution of sessile serrated polyps in the United States is inversely associated with Helicobacter pylori prevalence – A Sonnenberg – Colorectal Disease
Gut microbiome in gestational diabetes: A Cross-sectional study of mothers and offspring 5 years post-partum. – S Hasan – Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica
Protective Roles of Intestinal Microbiota derived Short Chain Fatty Acids in Alzheimer’s Disease-type Beta-Amyloid Neuropathological Mechanisms. – L Ho – Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
Animal experiments
Microbiota control immune regulation in humanized mice – E Gülden – Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight
Effects of essential oils from Liquidambar orientalis Mill. leaves on growth performance, carcass and some organ traits, some blood metabolites and intestinal microbiota in broilers. – A Altop – British Poultry Science
PD-1 deficiency protects experimental colitis via alteration of gut microbiota. – SJ Park – Journal of biochemistry and molecular biology.
The Mouse Model of Infection with Citrobacter rodentium – N Bouladoux – Current Protocols in Immunology
Glyphosate has limited short-term effects on commensal bacterial community composition in the gut environment due to sufficient aromatic amino acid levels. – LN Nielsen – Environmental Pollution
Animal microbiome
Strong responses of Drosophila melanogaster microbiota to developmental temperature – NN Moghadam – Fly (Austin)
Amphibian skin defences show variation in ability to inhibit growth of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis isolates from the Global Panzootic Lineage. – RE Antwis – Microbiology (Reading, England)
Midgut Bacterial Diversity of Wild Populations of Phlebotomus (P.) papatasi, the Vector of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ZCL) in Turkey. – M Karakuş – Scientific Reports
Rapid regrowth and detection of microbial contaminants in equine fecal microbiome samples – KF Beckers – PLoS One
Plant, root and soil microbiome
Deinococcus hibisci sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere of Hibiscus syriacus L. (mugunghwa flower). – G Moya – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Priority effects can persist across floral generations in nectar microbial meta-communities – T Hirokazu – Oikos
Endosphere microbiome comparison between symptomatic and asymptomatic roots of Brassica napus infected with Plasmodiophora brassicae – Y Zhao – PLoS One
Microbial community-level regulation explains soil carbon responses to long-term litter manipulations – K Georgiou – Nature Communications
Water microbiome and extremophiles
Cultivation and genomics of the first freshwater SAR11 (LD12) isolate – MW Hinson – bioRxiv
Lessons from simple marine models on the bacterial regulation of eukaryotic development – A Woznica – bioRxiv
Chapter: Sponge Disease and Climate Change – HM Luter – Climate Change, Ocean Acidification and Sponges
Probiotics / prebiotics
Lactobacillus plantarum HNU082-derived improvements in the intestinal microbiome prevent the development of hyperlipidaemia – Y Shao – Food & Function
Can Probiotic Supplements Improve Outcomes in Rheumatoid Arthritis? – A Schorpion – Current Rheumatology Reports
Techniques
A novel baiting microcosm approach used to identify the bacterial community associated with Penicillium bilaii hyphae in soil – B Ghodsalavi – PLoS One
Bacterium-triggered remodeling of chromatin identifies BasR, a novel regulator of fungal natural product biosynthesis – J Fischer – bioRxiv
Transcriptome analysis of sheep oral mucosa response to Orf virus infection – H Jia – PLoS One
A mechanism for prime-realignment during influenza A virus replication – J Oymans – bioRxiv
Microbes in the news
How caries-causing bacteria can survive in dental plaque – EurekAlert
Nicotine’s hold: What the gut and gender have to do with it – Phys.org
‘Big Chicken’ Connects Poultry Farming To Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria – npr
Microbiology: Crowdsourcing Earth’s microbes – Nature
Fresh off the petri dish: Spend your Thursdays creating art with bacteria – FSU Torch
Non-microbiology picks
Nigritoxin is a bacterial toxin for crustaceans and insects – Y Labreuche – Nature Communications
The Polycomb group protein CBX6 is an essential regulator of embryonic stem cell identity – A Santanach – Nature Communications
