December 05, 2025

See you at MVIF next week!

Join us in December for #MVIF 44!We will discuss diverse #microbiome topics:human urinary, gut, oral and nasal microbiomes, extreme environments, anda new sequence alignment tool.

Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2025-11-24T10:34:26.363Z

General microbiome

Consensus Statement: STREAMS guidelines: standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies – Julia M. Kelliher – Nature Microbiology

Urinary microbiome

Urinary biochemical ecology reveals microbiome-metabolite interactions and metabolic markers of recurrent urinary tract infection – Michael L. Neugent – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Thrilled to share that our recent work is out in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 🧵 (1/4)www.nature.com/articles/s41…

Mike Neugent PhD (@mikeneugent.bsky.social) 2025-11-24T17:49:26.272Z

Vaginal microbiome

Microbial and seminal traces of sexual intercourse and forensic implications – Sarah Ahannach – Microbiome

Ambient temperature affects the composition of the vaginal microbiome, and temperature-sensitive vaginal microbes influence assisted reproductive technology outcomes – Zheng Liu –  – Microbiome

Gut microbiome

HGMT: a database of human gut microbiota for tumors and immunotherapy response – Jinxin Liu – Genome Biology

Review: Circadian rhythms as a modulator of gut microbiota-tumor microenvironment crosstalk – Qinglong Xu – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Dynamics of gut metabolome and microbiota maturation during early life – Anna-Katariina Aatsinki – iScience

Assembly of the infant gut microbiome and resistome are linked to bacterial strains in mother’s milk – Pamela Ferretti – Nature Communications

Animal microbiome

Core rumen microbes are functional generalists that sustain host metabolism and gut ecosystem function – Omar E. Tovar-Herrera – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Longitudinal changes in gut microbiota across reproductive states in wild baboons – Chelsea A. Southworth – bioRxiv

Probiotic effect of B. subtilis PS-216 in broiler chickens: modulation of weight, feed conversion, short chain fatty acids, microbiota and meat quality – Katarina Šimunović – Animal Microbiome

Animal experiments

The microbial metabolite imidazole propionate modulates hypothalamic activity and stress-induced behaviors – Gulistan Agirman – Cell Host & Microbe

Excited to share new work by Guli Agirman + co that identifies a direct mechanism linking gut microbial imidazole propionate to stress! 🧠🦠 Btw this image was made by Nano Banana Pro 🍌. First time I've gotten a model to accurately generate a science graphic 🤯 authors.elsevier.com/a/1mA5M6t8JE…

Elaine Hsiao (@pipethero.bsky.social) 2025-11-25T17:45:03.571Z

Using gnotobiotic mice to decipher effects of gut microbiome repair in undernourished children on tuft and goblet cell function – Yi Wang – PNAS

Selection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behavior – Taichi A. Suzuki – Nature Communications

Postbiotics

Review: Postbiotics as microbial-derived therapeutics for wound healing disorders: from molecular mechanisms to future application – Miroslav Dinić – Home  Cell Communication and Signaling

Phages and viruses

Unveiling the global urban virome through wastewater metagenomics – Nathalie Worp – Nature Communications 

Soil, root and plant microbiome

Rare taxa modulate the emergence of dominants in microbial communities – Jianing Wang – mBio

Integrated effects of anaerobic soil disinfestation and beneficial microbes in strawberry production – Baker D. Aljawasim – PlosOne

Food microbiome

Exploring diversity and functional contribution of the microbiome of traditional Italian dry-cured hams – Giulia Longhi – Current Research in Microbial Sciences

Environmental microbiome

The Microflora Danica atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes – C. M. Singleton – Nature

Microflora Danica: What can you learn from collecting and sequencing 10,000+ samples from a single country? Check out our new paper in @nature.com to find out. Incredible work led by Caitlin Singleton, Thomas B. N. Jensen, and Mads Albertsen from @aau.dk. 🦠🧫🧬www.nature.com/articles/s41…

Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm (@mkddueholm.bsky.social) 2025-12-03T20:50:16.284Z

Bioinformatics

TAGINE: Fast Taxonomy-based Feature Engineering for Microbiome Analysis – Shiri Baum – bioRxiv

Creating unity: linking 16S rRNA gene sequence information to the core taxonomy of genomes – Hilde Vinje – Environmental Microbiome

LorBin: efficient binning of long-read metagenomes by multiscale adaptive clustering and evaluation – Wei Xue – Nature Communications

cFMD v1.3.0 is here! 🚀We're thrilled to announce the release of the latest version of the curatedFoodMetagenomicData (cFMD) github.com/SegataLab/cFMDWhile we're keeping the same core datasets & samples, we've packed this release w/ significant improvements under the hood.1/4

Segata Lab (@cibiocm.bsky.social) 2025-11-26T13:09:52.484Z

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