Events and jobs

Phd position in antimicrobial resistance development in biofilm communities – University of Leuven

Professor in Microbiome/Microbiota-Host Interactions – University of Alabama

Microbiology Lab Scientist – Lyneer Staffing

General microbiome

Impact of Brazilian microbiome for boosting agriculture, animal husbandry and human being: a book review – Arthur Prudêncio de Araujo Pereira, Journal of Cleaner Production

Are animals a source of Stenotrophomonas maltophiliain human infections? Contributions of a nationwide molecular study – Aurélie Jayol, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

The organization of bacterial genomes: Towards understanding the interplay between structure and function – Daan J.W. Brocken, Current Opinion in Systems Biology

Pregnancy and early life

Selective maternal seeding and environment shape the human gut microbiome – Katri Korpela, Genome Research

Ecological Shifts of Supragingival Microbiota in Association with Pregnancy – Wenzhen Lin, Frontiers in Cellular and Infectious Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Impaired diversity of the lung microbiome predicts progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis – Youhei Takahashi, Respiratory Research

Human gut microbiome

Methanogens in humans: potentially beneficial or harmful for health – Prem Prashant Chaudhary, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Gut microbiota alterations and dietary modulation in childhood malnutrition – The role of short chain fatty acids – Ceyda Tugba Pekmez, Clinical Nutrition

Differential human gut microbiome assemblages during soil-transmitted helminth infections in Indonesia and Liberia – Bruce A. Rosa, Microbiome

Market Integration Predicts Human Gut Microbiome Attributes across a Gradient of Economic Development – Keaton Stagaman, mSystems

A Review of Microbiota and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Future in Therapies – Bruno K. Rodiño-Janeiro, Advances in Therapy

Characterizing the metabolic phenotype of intestinal villus blunting in Zambian children with severe acute malnutrition and persistent diarrhea – Marta Farràs, PLOS one

Animal experiments

Differences in gut microbiota composition in finishing Landrace pigs with low and high feed conversion ratios – Zhen Tan, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Human milk oligosaccharides protect against the development of autoimmune diabetes in NOD-mice – Ling Xiao, Scientific Reports

TRIM31 Deficiency Is Associated with Impaired Glucose Metabolism and Disrupted Gut Microbiota in Mice – Jing Cheng, Frontiers in Physiology

Animal microbiome

Quantitative prediction of shrimp disease incidence via the profiles of gut eukaryotic microbiota – Jinbo Xiong, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Bioturbation activity of three macrofaunal species and the presence of meiofauna affect the abundance and composition of benthic bacterial communities – Élise Lacoste, Marine Environmental Research

Spatial Organization of the Gastrointestinal Microbiota in Urban Canada Geese – Sergei V. Drovetski, Scientific Reports

Skin microbiomes of California terrestrial salamanders are influenced by habitat more than host phylogeny – Alicia K. Bird, Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Recent Insights on Biological and Ecological Aspects of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi and Their Interactions – Antonietta Mello, Frontiers in Microbiology

Micro-decomposer communities and decomposition processes in tropical lowlands as affected by land use and litter type – Valentyna Krashevska, Oecologia

One-time phosphate fertilizer application to grassland columns modifies the soil microbiota and limits its role in ecosystem services – Israel Ikoyi, Science of The Total Environment

Size-Controlled Production of Gold Bionanoparticles Using the Extremely Acidophilic Fe(III)-Reducing Bacterium, Acidocella aromatica – Intan Nurul Rizki, Minerals

Nematicidal protease genes screened from a soil metagenomic library to control Radopholus similismediated by Pseudomonas fluorescens pf36 – Deqiang Chen, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

The structural and functional contributions of β-glucosidase-producing microbial communities to cellulose degradation in composting – Xiangyun Zang, Biotechnology for Biofuels

Diversity and contributions to nitrogen cycling and carbon fixation of soil salinity shaped microbial communities in Tarim Basin – Min Ren, Frontiers in Microbiology

Decomposer food web in a deciduous forest shows high share of generalist microorganisms and importance of microbial biomass recycling – Ruben López-Mondéjar, The ISME Journal

Soil bacterial community shifts driven by restoration time and steppe types in the degraded steppe of Inner Mongolia – Minjie Yao, CATENA

One-time phosphate fertilizer application to grassland columns modifies the soil microbiota and limits its role in ecosystem services – Israel Ikoyi, Science of The Total Environment

Enumeration of Culturable Endophytic Bacterial Population of Different Lycopersicum esculentum L. Varieties – Monika Singh, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Isolation and Characterization of Methanol Utilizing Microorganisms from Leguminous Crops – Umang Ahlawat, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Isolation of Mercury-Resistant Fungi from Mercury-Contaminated Agricultural Soil – Reginawanti Hindersah, Agriculture

Root-associated fungi shared between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal conifers in a temperate forest – Hirokazu Toju, Frontiers in Microbiology

Antagonistic Potential and Molecular Characterization of Trichoderma spp. against Rhizoctonia solani Infecting Ghost Pepper in Manipur, India – Khedarani Koijam, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Isolation of Biocontrol (Bacterial) Agents from Chickpea (Cicer arietinum linnaeus) – S. Vijaya Kumar, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Potentiality of Native Pseudomonas spp. in Promoting Sugarcane Seedling Growth and Red Rot (Colletotrichum falcatum went) Management – P. Kishore Varma, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Interactions between isolates of the fungus Beauveria bassiana and Zea mays – Aimee McKinnon, Lincoln University (thesis)

Metagenome Sequencing of Prokaryotic Microbiota from Two Hypersaline Soils of the Odiel Salt Marshes in Huelva, Southwestern Spain – Blanca Vera-Gargallo, Genome Anouncements

Degradation shaped bacterial and archaeal communities with predictable taxa and their association patterns in Zoige wetland at Tibet plateau – Yunfu Gu, Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

Survival of Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus in Synthetic Brines. Studying the Effects of Salt, Temperature and Sugar through the Approach of the Design of Experiments – Antonio Bevilacqua, Frontiers in Microbiology

Saccharolobus caldissimus gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic iron-reducing hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from an acidic terrestrial hot spring, and reclassification of Sulfolobus solfataricus as Saccharolobus solfataricus comb. nov. and Sulfolobus shibatae as Saccharolobus shibatae comb. nov. – Hiroyuki D. Sakai,  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Distinct Osmoadaptation Strategies in the Strict Halophilic and Halotolerant Bacteria Isolated from Lunsu Salt Water Body of North West Himalayas – Shivani Vaidya, Current Microbiology

Archaeal Viruses from High-Temperature Environments – Jacob H. Munson-McGee, Genes

Strategies of adaptation of microorganisms of the three domains of life to high salt concentrations – Nina Gunde-Cimerman, FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Tertiary treatment and dual disinfection to improve microbial quality of reclaimed water for potable and non-potable reuse: A case study of facilities in North Carolina – Emily S. Bailey, Science of The Total Environment

The Early Earth Geochemical and Isotope Record of Serpentinizing Environments from Archean Stichtite (Mg6Cr2(OH)16[CO3] · 4H2O) – Erik B. Melchiorre, Precambrian Research

Process performance and population dynamics of ammonium tolerant microorganisms during co-digestion of fish waste and manure – Linn Solli, Renewable Energy

Toxicity assessment of pharmaceutical compounds on mixed culture from activated sludge using respirometric technique: The role of microbial community structure – I.A. Vasiliadou, Science of The Total Environment

Divergent assemblage patterns of abundant and rare microbial sub-communities in response to inorganic carbon stresses in a simultaneous anammox and denitrification (SAD) system – Duntao Shu, Bioresource Technology

Pretreatment of saline antibiotic wastewater using marine microalga – Xueqing Shi, Bioresource Technology

Bioinformatics

Handling gene and protein names in the age of bioinformatics: the special challenge of secreted multimodular bacterial enzymes such as the cbhA/cbh9Agene of Clostridium thermocellum – Wolfgang H. Schwarz, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Techniques

Optimization of fecal sample processing for microbiome study — The journey from bathroom to bench – Wei-Kai Wu, Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

The Application of Omics Data to the Development of AOPs – Mary T. McBride, A Systems Biology Approach to Advancing Adverse Outcome Pathways for Risk Assessment

From correlation to causation: analysis of metabolomics data using systems biology approaches – Antonio Rosato, Metabolomics

Application of ensemble deep neural network to metabolomics studies – Taiga Asakura, Analytica Chimica Acta

Genome-reconstruction for eukaryotes from complex natural microbial communities – Patrick T West, Genome Research

Microbes in the news

Magnetic bacteria cause a stir – Christian Harding, Chemistry World

Federal Panel Passes Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Resolutions – Troy Brown, MedScape

Dangerous bacteria found in raw milk from Pennsylvania dairy – Coral Beach, Food Safety Network