Today’s highlights in our Microbiology picks: Antibacterial activity of nested concentric patterns, relationship between the microbiota epitopes and antigenic epitopes, a book chapter on N-Acetyl transferase microbes, core microbiota for de novo IBD, soil microbes and disease suppression, fungi of office dust, microbes of potable water from the Himalayan region, articles from ‘Techniques’ section.
Today’s highlights in our non-microbes picks: Epidemiology is important, recent on-goings on harassment, mental health awareness in academia, mimicking the prebiotic chemistry using flow chemistry, step taken by Wellcome Trust against misconduct in academia including harassment, Horizon 2020 budget for 2021-27.
Events and jobs
Laboratory Manager : New York, NY, United States – Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Deadline: 18 May 2018
General microbiome
Supramolecular Kandinsky circles with high antibacterial activity – H Wang – Nature Communications
Microbiota epitope similarity either dampens or enhances the immunogenicity of disease-associated antigenic epitopes – SC Pro – PLoS One
Genomic evolution of Staphylococcus aureus isolates colonizing the nares and progressing to bacteremia – JB Benoit – PLoS One
Book chapter: N-Acetyltransferases Microorganisms – S Boukouvala – Arylamine N-acetyltransferases in Health and Disease:From Pharmacogenetics to Drug Discovery and Diagnostics
Human vaginal microbiome
Preprint: Metatranscriptome analysis of the vaginal microbiota reveals potential mechanisms for protection against metronidazole in bacterial vaginosis – Z-L Deng – bioRxiv
Human gut microbiome
Preprint: Variability of core microbiota in newly diagnosed treatment-naïve paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients – TGJ de Meij – bioRxiv
Animal experiments
Preprint: Bottlenecks in the transmission of Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV1) to naïve pigs and quasi-species variation during infection in partially immune pigs – M Cortey – bioRxiv
Lactobacillus gasseri PA-3 utilizes the purines GMP and guanosine and decreases their absorption in rats – N Yamada – Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids
An exclusive metabolic niche enables strain engraftment in the gut microbiota – ES Sheperd – Nature
Interleukin 1α-Deficient Mice Have an Altered Gut Microbiota Leading to Protection from Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Colitis – M Nunberg – mSystems
Animal microbiome
Low bacterial community diversity in two introduced aphid pests revealed with 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing – F Zepeda-Paulo – PeerJ
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Effect of land use and soil organic matter quality on the structure and function of microbial communities in pastoral soils: Implications for disease suppression – BEA Dignam – PLoS One
Relations between bacterial communities and enzyme functions of two paddy soils – X Luo – European Journal of Soil Science
Nematophagus fungi increasing phosphorus uptake and promoting plant growth – TSA Monteiro – Biological Control
Water and extremophile microbiome
Effect of elevated pressure on ferric iron reduction coupled to sulfur oxidation by biomining microorganisms – R Zhang – Hydrometallurgy
Halophilic & halotolerant prokaryotes in humans – EH Seck – Future Medicine
Preprint: Structural variability and functional association in the epiphytic bacteria assemblies of freshwater macrophytes (Myriophyllum spicatum) – L Xian – bioRxiv
Investigation of nutrients and faecal coliforms removal in wastewater using a hydroponic system – SF Ndulini – Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C
Built environment
Characterization of fungi in office dust: comparing results of microbial secondary metabolites, fungal ITS region sequencing, viable culture, and other microbial indices – J-H Park – Indoor Air
Phages and viruses
Preprint: First report on Bacterial Diversity of Potable Spring water of Indian Himalayan Region – AK Singh – bioRxiv
Preprint: “In plaque-mass spectrometry imaging” reveals a major metabolic shift towards odd-chain fatty acid lipids induced by host-virus interactions – G Schleyer – bioRxiv
Preprint: Adventitious viruses persistently infect three commonly used mosquito cell lines – J Weger-Lucarelli – bioRxiv
Techniques
Preprint: High-resolution ISR amplicon sequencing reveals personalized oral microbiome – C Mukherjee – bioRxiv
Preprint: Transcriptome Analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae During Natural Infection Reveals Differential Expression of Antibiotic Resistance Determinants Between Men and Women – K Nudel – bioRxiv
Designer cells programming quorum-sensing interference with microbes – F Sedlmeyer – Nature Communications
A comprehensive model for assessment of liver stage therapies targeting Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum – A Roth – Nature Communications
Preprint: Detection and quantification of the heterogeneity of S. aureus bacterial populations to identify antibiotic-induced persistence – MH Hasan – bioRxiv
Rapid isolation of fast-growing methanotrophs from environmental samples using continuous cultivation with gradually increased dilution rates – J Kim – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Microbes in the news
Stanley Falkow, Who Saw How Bacteria Cause Disease, Dies at 84 – NY Times
How the Bugs In Your Gut Could Affect Your Blood Vessels – Live Science
Faeces transplant: The best cure for severe diarrhoea may be more faeces – Times Live
Cancer-killing viruses show promise — and draw billion-dollar investment – Nature
Does where we live affect our skin microbiome? – Medical News Bulletin
Non-Microbiology Picks
Editorial: Epidemiology is a science of high importance – Nature Communications
Mimicking the surface and prebiotic chemistry of early Earth using flow chemistry – DJ Ritson – Nature Communications
I’d whisper to my student self: you are not alone – D Reay – Nature
Harassment should count as scientific misconduct – E Marín-Spiotta – Nature
€100-billion budget proposed for Europe’s next big research programme – I Vesper – Nature
Editorial: The #MeToo campaign is gaining ground in China – Nature
Editorial: What to do to improve postgraduate mental health – Nature
Report harassment or risk losing funding, says top UK science funder – H Else – Nature
78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest – C Shipton – Nature Communications
KACST Impact – Nature Communications