March 14, 2025

Happy Friday and see you next week at MVIF 37!

Just announced #MVIF 37 on Microbiomes in Extreme Environments!Don't miss this special event w/our guests🇩🇪 Nicole Dublier🇳🇱 Henk Bolhuis🇺🇸 Rachael Morgan-Kiss 🇺🇸 Kasthuri Venkateswaran 🇮🇹 Fabiana Canini 🇺🇸 Diana Ayala-Muñoz🇮🇹 Luca Tonietti cassyni.com/s/mvif-37

Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2025-03-06T14:14:27.441Z

Women’s health

Vaginal microbiota changes during a natural menstrual cycle in the Women4Health cohort highlights specific features of the Italian population – Elena Vinerbi – bioRxiv

Review: Menopausal shift on women’s health and microbial niches – Maria R. Nieto – npj Women’s Health

1/ 🚨 🧪New Research: #Menopause, #Microbiome & #WomensHealth Menopause reshapes health through hormonal, microbial, and physiological changes. 🧪📖 Explore the study: rdcu.be/d5725⬇️ Let’s dive into the key insights:

Aurea Simon-Soro (@aureasimon-soro.bsky.social) 2025-01-23T12:57:47.907Z

Gut microbiome

Review: The gut microbiota-immune-brain axis: Therapeutic implications – Kenneth J. O’Riordan – Cell Reports Medicine

Effects of oral supplementation of probiotics on body weight and visceral fat in obese patients: a meta-analysis and systematic review – Manhou Guo – Scientific Reports

Longitudinal phage–bacteria dynamics in the early life gut microbiome – Michael J. Tisza – Nature Microbiology 

Skin microbiome

Absolute quantification of the living skin microbiome overcomes relic-DNA bias and reveals specific patterns across volunteers – Deepan Thiruppathy – Microbiome 

Animal experiments

Maternal undernutrition exacerbates microbiota-driven growth stunting through pre and postnatal effects – Yadeliz A. Serrano Matos – bioRxiv

Excited to share my lab's latest preprint and very proud of the whole team for their hard work. Check it out if you're interested in the #microbiome #maternalhealth or #undernutrition. http://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1…

Carrie Cowardin (@ccowardin.bsky.social) 2025-03-10T13:21:21.537Z

Animal microbiome

Rumen microbiome associates with postpartum ketosis development in dairy cows: a prospective nested case–control study – Fanlin Kong – Microbiome 

Functional Insights Into the Effect of Feralisation on the Gut Microbiota of Cats Worldwide – Ostaizka Aizpurua – Molecular Ecology

Endometrial microbiome in mares with and without clinical endometritis – Lulu Guo – bioRxiv

Spatial segregation and cross-kingdom interactions drive stingless bee hive microbiome assembly – Lílian Caesar – bioRxiv

New preprint out! 🐝🦠 Among the incredible diversity of bees, only a few have evolved a highly social lifestyle—honey bees and stingless bees (Apidae). We characterize for first time, using metagenomics/microbial experiments, the microbiome of a stingless bee colony

Lilian Caesar (@liliancaesar.bsky.social) 2025-03-11T08:00:43.662Z

Food microbiome

The core microbiomes and associated metabolic potential of water kefir as revealed by pan multi-omics – Samuel Breselge – Communications Biology

Fantastic to see this comprehensive study of water kefir pangenomes, led by Samuel Breselge, now published “The core microbiomes and associated metabolic potential of water kefir as revealed by pan multi-omics". @teagasc.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social rdcu.be/ec7GT

Paul Cotter (@pauldcotter.bsky.social) 2025-03-11T20:35:16.288Z

Antimicrobial resistance

Effects of cigarette-derived compounds on the spread of antimicrobial resistance in artificial human lung sputum medium, simulated environmental media and wastewater – Peiju Fang – Environmental Health Perspectives

🚬🧬🚬🧬🚬🧬Proud to present the newest study of my PhD students Peiju and Diala in Environmental Health PerspectivesEffects of cigarette-derived compounds on the spread of #AMR in artificial human lung sputum medium, simulated environmental media and wastewaterdoi.org/10.1289/EHP1…1/9#microsky

Uli Klümper (@ulikluemper.bsky.social) 2025-03-04T15:03:48.183Z

Drinking water plumbing systems are a hot spot for antimicrobial resistant pathogens – Claire Hayward – Journal of Hospital Infection

DRAMMA: a multifaceted machine learning approach for novel antimicrobial resistance gene detection in metagenomic data – Ella Rannon – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

LEMMIv2: Benchmarking Framework for Metagenomic and 16S Amplicon Profilers with a Catalogue of Evaluated Tools – M. Seppey – bioRxiv 

A high-quality genomic catalog of the human oral microbiome broadens its phylogeny and clinical insights – Jun Hyung Cha – bioRxiv

Microbial network inference for longitudinal microbiome studies with LUPINE – Saritha Kodikara, Kim-Anh Le Cao – Microbiome

Challenges in capturing the mycobiome from shotgun metagenome data: lack of software and databases – Ekaterina Avershina – Microbiome

🥁We are happy to announce the release of a new version of curatedFoodMetagenomicData (cFMD)🔗 Get it here: github.com/SegataLab/cFMD🧵👇1/5

Segata Lab (@cibiocm.bsky.social) 2025-03-12T13:56:24.948Z

March 2, 2025

Hello, have a nice Sunday! In this Digest, we have some highlights from the literature during this week. 

Human/General Microbiome

Gastrointestinal Tract

Microbiome analysis of gut microbiota in patients with colorectal polyps and healthy individuals – Dayi Deng – Scientific Reports

Fecal bacterial biomarkers and blood biochemical indicators as potential key factors in the development of colorectal cancer – Ping Cai – mSystems

Multi-omics analysis reveals associations between gut microbiota and host transcriptome in colon cancer patients – Yuling Qin – mSystems

Insights into diversity, host-range, and temporal stability of Bacteroides and Phocaeicola prophages – Nejc Stopnisek – BMC Microbiology

Review: Helicobacter pylori, microbiota and gastric cancer – principles of microorganism-driven carcinogenesis – Jonas Wizenty – Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Skin

Clonal Candida auris and ESKAPE pathogens on the skin of residents of nursing homes – Diana M Proctor – Nature

Oral – Respiratory Tract

A gut Eggerthella lenta-derived metabolite impairs neutrophil function to aggravate bacterial lung infection – Le-Le Wang – Science Translational Medicine

Involvement of propionate, citrulline, homoserine, and succinate in oral microbiome metabolite-driven periodontal disease progression – Chikako Ishihara – Scientific Reports

Regulation of tryptophan-indole metabolic pathway in Porphyromonas gingivalis virulence and microbiota dysbiosis in periodontitis – Jing Ding – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Unveiling familial aggregation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Insights from oral microbiome dysbiosis – Ying Liao – Cell Reports. Medicine

Exploring oral microbiome in oral squamous cell carcinoma across environment-associated sample types – Zizheng Wang – Microbiology Spectrum

Other Sites

Characterization of vaginal microbiomes in clinician-collected bacterial vaginosis diagnosed samples – Hayden N Brochu – Microbiology Spectrum

Bacteria in the brain: do they have a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease? – Arnav Bhattacharya – Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Microbiome modulation of implant-related infection by a novel miniaturized pulsed electromagnetic field device – João Gabriel S Souza – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Enterocloster clostridioformis protects against Salmonella pathogenesis and modulates epithelial and mucosal immune function – Benjamin S Beresford-Jones – Microbiome

Antibacterial activity and impact on keratinocyte cell growth of Cutibacterium acnes bacteriophages in a Cutibacterium acnes IA(1)- colonized keratinocyte model – Juan C Farfán-Esquivel – Current Research in Microbial Sciences

Microbiota-derived urolithin A in monoclonal gammopathies and multiple myeloma therapy – Alba Rodríguez-García – Microbiome

Environmental Microbiome / Ecology

The International Space Station has a unique and extreme microbial and chemical environment driven by use patterns – Rodolfo A Salido – Cell

Residence Time Structures Microbial Communities Through Niche Partitioning – Emmi A Mueller – Ecology Letters

Shared environments complicate the use of strain-resolved metagenomics to infer microbiome transmission – Reena Debray – Microbiome

Microbiome Analysis: Resources, Tools and Techniques

Tandem metabolic reaction-based sensors unlock in vivo metabolomics – Xuanbing Cheng – PNAS

Review: Antarctic bacterial natural products: from genomic insights to drug discovery – William Medeiros – Natural Product Reports