Highlights!

A microbiota-modulated checkpoint directs immunosuppressive intestinal T cells into cancers – Marine Fidelle – Science 

Using gut microbiota as a diagnostic tool for colorectal cancer: machine learning techniques reveal promising results – Fang Lu – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Outer membrane utilisomes mediate glycan uptake in gut Bacteroidetes – Joshua B R White – Nature

Human and General Microbiome

Skin maturation from birth to 10 years of age: Structure, function, composition and microbiome – Georgios N Stamatas – Experimental Dermatology

Ecological principles of fecal microbiota transplantation – Francisco Dini-Andreote – Trends in Microbiology

Human Genetics Influences Microbiome Composition Involved in Asthma Exacerbations despite Inhaled Corticosteroid Treatment – Javier Perez-Garcia – The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Gut bacterial metabolism contributes to host global purine homeostasis – Kazuyuki Kasahara – Cell Host & Microbe

The relative abundance of fecal bacterial species belonging to the Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes phyla is related to plasma levels of bile acids in young adults – Francisco J Osuna-Prieto – Metabolomics

The effect of vitamin D supplementation on the gut microbiome in older Australians – Results from analyses of the D-Health Trial – Hai Pham – Gut Microbes

Impaired flux of bile acids from the liver to the gut reveals microbiome-immune interactions associated with liver damage – Howell Leung – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Gut microbiota dysbiosis promotes the development of epithelial ovarian cancer via regulating Hedgehog signaling pathway – Xinyue Hu – Gut Microbes

Preprint: Microbes with higher metabolic independence are enriched in human gut microbiomes under stress – Iva Veseli – bioRxiv

Review: Evolutionary implications of host genetic control for engineering beneficial microbiomes – Lucas P Henry – Current Opinion in Systems Biology

Review: It’s all relative: analyzing microbiome compositions, its significance, pathogenesis and microbiota derived biofilms: Challenges and opportunities for disease intervention – Sahar Zaidi – Archives of Microbiology

Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiome helps honeybee (Apis mellifera) resist the stress of toxic nectar plant (Bidens pilosa) exposure: Evidence for survival and immunity – Qihe Tang – Environmental Microbiology

Regulation of host gene expression by gastrointestinal tract microbiota in Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) – Javad Sadeghi – Molecular Ecology

The impacts of ocean acidification, warming and their interactive effects on coral prokaryotic symbionts – Jinlong Li – Environmental Microbiome

Association analysis of gut microbiota-metabolites-neuroendocrine changes in male rats acute exposure to simulated altitude of 5500 m – Jianan Wang – Scientific Reports

Microbiomes of Blood-Feeding Triatomines in the Context of Their Predatory Relatives and the Environment – Hassan Tarabai – Microbiology Spectrum

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Probiotic interventions promote metabolic health in high fat-fed hamsters in association with gut microbiota and endocannabinoidome alterations – S Lacroix – Beneficial Microbes

Strains of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and its extracts reduce blood glucose levels, percent HbA1c, and improve glucose tolerance without causing hypoglycemic side effects in diabetic and prediabetic mice – John Kallassy – BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care

Effects of a low FODMAP diet on gut microbiota in individuals with treated celiac disease having persistent gastrointestinal symptoms – a randomized controlled trial – Anne Mari Herfindal – The British Journal of Nutrition

Designed α-sheet peptides disrupt uropathogenic E. coli biofilms rendering bacteria susceptible to antibiotics and immune cells – Alissa Bleem – Scientific Reports

Review: ‘Multi-omics’ data integration: applications in probiotics studies – Iliya Dauda Kwoji – NPJ Science of Food

Review: Micro-/bio-/nano-/syn-encapsulations and co-treatments of bioactive microbial feed supplementation in augmenting finfish health and aquaculture nutrition: a review – P Puri – Beneficial Microbes

Plant Microbiome

Taxonomic analysis reveals host preference of rare fungi in endophytes of Vitis vinifera from the Czech Republic – Miroslav Kolařík – Folia Microbiologica

Environmental Microbiome

Metaproteomics reveals functional partitioning and vegetational variation among permafrost-affected Arctic soil bacterial communities – Samuel E Miller – mSystems

Built Environment

A new approach of microbiome monitoring in the built environment: feasibility analysis of condensation capture – Jarrad T Hampton-Marcell – Microbiome

Microbiome Research Tools and Techniques

Preprint: A bioinformatics tool for identifying intratumoral microbes from the ORIEN dataset – Cankun Wang – bioRxiv

Preprint: DeepBiomarker2: Prediction of alcohol and substance use disorder risk in post-traumatic stress disorder patients using electronic medical records and multiple social determinants of health – Oshin Miranda – Research Square

Latent Dirichlet Allocation modeling of environmental microbiomes – Anastasiia Kim – PLoS Computational Biology

When does a Lotka-Volterra model represent microbial interactions? Insights from in vitro nasal bacterial communities – Sandra Dedrick – mSystems