Events and jobs
Senior Phage Display Scientist: Antibodies – Cambridgeshire, England – Paramount Recruitment

General microbiome
Metagenomic mining of regulatory elements enables programmable species-selective gene expression – Nathan I Johns – Nature Methods

Pregnancy and early life
Seeding of the Fetal Gut Microbiome: Insights Into Origins and Significance – LF Stinson – Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Evidence of dysbiosis in the intestinal microbial ecosystem of children and adolescents with primary hyperlipidemia and the potential role of regular hazelnut intake. – Giorgio Gargari – Fems Microbiology Ecology

Elevated Fecal pH Indicates a Profound Change in the Breastfed Infant Gut Microbiome Due to Reduction of Bifidobacterium over the Past Century – Bethany M Henrick – Msphere

Multi-site human microbiome
Microbiome-host systems interactions: protective effects of propionate upon the blood-brain barrier. – Lesley Hoyles – Microbiome

Human vaginal microbiome
Cervical microbiome is altered in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia after loop electrosurgical excision procedure in China – Hongwei Zhang – Scientific Reports

Human nearly-sterile sites (blood, organs, brain)

Human gut microbiome
The current state and future direction of DoD gut microbiome research: a summary of the first DoD gut microbiome informational meeting – Steven Arcidiacono – Standards in Genomic Sciences

Gut Microbial Dysbiosis in Indian Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. – Joby Pulikkan – Microbial Ecology

An Aberrant Microbiota is not Strongly Associated with Incidental Colonic Diverticulosis. – Roshonda B Jones – Scientific Reports

Untargeted metabolomics identifies trimethyllysine, a TMAO-producing nutrient precursor, as a predictor of incident cardiovascular disease risk. – Xinmin S Li – Jci Insight

Gut Microbiota Composition and Fecal Metabolic Phenotype in Patients With Acute Anterior Uveitis – Xinyue Huang – IOVS

Microbial interactions
Cell death as a trigger for morphogenesis. – Boris Aguilar – Plos One

Horizontal Gene Transfer Building Prokaryote Genomes: Genes Related to Exchange Between Cell and Environment are Frequently Transferred – Apuã C. M. Paquola – Journal of Molecular Evolution

Animal experiments
Preprint: Social communication between microbes colonizing the social honey bee Apis mellifera – Irene Newton – bioRxiv

Dietary butyrate glycerides modulate intestinal microbiota composition and serum metabolites in broilers – Xiaojian Yang – Scientific Reports

Bacterial lactase genes diversity in intestinal mucosa of mice with dysbacterial diarrhea induced by antibiotics – Chengxing Long – 3 Biotech

Allelic variation in a single genomic region alters the microbiome of the snail Biomphalaria glabrata. – Euan R O Allan – The Journal Of Heredity

Tall oil fatty acid inclusion in the diet improves performance and increases ileal density of Lactobacilli spp. in broiler chickens. – K Vienola – British Poultry Science

Effects of dietary Bacillus amyloliquefaciens supplementation on growth performance, intestinal morphology, inflammatory response, and microbiota of intra-uterine growth retarded weanling piglets – Yue Li – Journal Of Animal Science And Biotechnology

Temperature-Dependent Effects of Cutaneous Bacteria on a Frog’s Tolerance of Fungal Infection. – Matthew J Robak – Frontiers In Microbiology

Predominant gut Lactobacillus murinus strain mediates anti-inflammaging effects in calorie-restricted mice. – Fengwei Pan – Microbiome

Animal microbiome
Review: The mosquito holobiont: fresh insight into mosquito-microbiota interactions – Morgane Guégan – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Soil pH correlates with the co-occurrence and assemblage process of diazotrophic communities in rhizosphere and bulk soils of wheat fields – Kunkun Fan – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Seasonal Effects on Microbial Community Structure and Nitrogen Dynamics in Temperate Forest Soil – Tomohiro Yokobe – forests

High-throughput sequencing of microbial community diversity in soil, grapes, leaves, grape juice and wine of grapevine from China. – Yu-Jie Wei – Plos One

Drought Legacy Effects on the Composition of Soil Fungal and Prokaryote Communities. – Annelein Meisner – Frontiers In Microbiology

Vanillic acid changed cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) seedling rhizosphere total bacterial, Pseudomonas and Bacillus spp. communities. – Xingang Zhou – Scientific Reports

Review: Microbial modulation of plant ethylene signaling: ecological and evolutionary consequences. – Mohammadhossein Ravanbakhsh – Microbiome

Trees, fungi and bacteria: tripartite metatranscriptomics of a root microbiome responding to soil contamination. – E Gonzalez – Microbiome

Rhizosphere Microbiome Modulators: Contributions of Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria towards Sustainable Agriculture – Nicholas Ozede Igiehon – Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health

Vascular plant-mediated controls on atmospheric carbon assimilation and peat carbon decomposition under climate change – Konstantin Gavazov – Global Change Biology

Water and extremophile microbiome
Preprint: Dynamics and interactions of highly resolved marine plankton via automated high frequency sampling – David M. Needham – bioRxiv

Bioremediation of PCB-contaminated shallow river sediments: The efficacy of biodegradation using individual bacterial strains and their consortia. – Hana Horváthová – Chemosphere

Quantitative isotope incorporation reveals substrate partitioning in a coastal microbial community – Xavier Mayali – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Built environment
Community Structure Analysis and Biodegradation Potential of Aniline-Degrading Bacteria in Biofilters – Luanfeng Hou – Current Microbiology

Food microbiology
Review: The influence of diet on anti-cancer immune responsiveness – Laura Soldati – Journal of Translational Medicine

The Efficacy of a Chewing Gum Containing Phyllanthus emblica Fruit Extract in Improving Oral Health. – Ya-Ting Chuang – Current Microbiology

Review: The Microbial Diversity of Sherry Wines – Gustavo Cordero-Bueso – Fermentation

Probiotics / prebiotics / antibiotics
The impact of Rhodiola rosea on the gut microbial community of Drosophila melanogaster – Khachik E. Labachyan – Gut Pathogens

Bacillus clausii inhibits bone loss by skewing Treg-Th17 cell equilibrium in postmenopausal osteoporotic mice – Hamid Y. Dar – Nutrition

Prebiotic Potential of Herbal Medicines Used in Digestive Health and Disease. – Christine Tara Peterson – Journal Of Alternative And Complementary Medicine (New York, N.Y.)

Phages and viruses
Identification of Novel Viruses in Amblyomma americanum, Dermacentor variabilis, and Ixodes scapularis Ticks – Rafal Tokarz – Msphere

Microbes in the news
Skin spray heals US woman’s flesh-eating bacteria wounds – Alice Klein – New Scientist