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

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