Monthly Archives: March 2026

March 31,2026

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Human Microbiome

The interplay between Peptostreptococcus and Fusobacterium as novel signatures in colorectal cancer recurrence – Yunhui Zhang – microbime

Dysbiosis of the nasal microbiome is associated with prospective acute exacerbation of COPD – Cristian Roca – microbiome

Water–vapor treatment of shower systems in healthcare facilities: reshaping built-environment microbiomes to improve Legionella control and protect at-risk patients – Tian You – microbiome

Animal Microbiome

Limosilactobacillus reuteri enhances production performance and ovarian function via modulation of the gut-ovary axis in laying hens – Yanchao Geng – microbiome

Heat stress suppresses lactation through potential rumen-mammary communication mediated by extracellular vesicles: integrated analysis of microbiome, metabolome, and miRNA profiles – Qi Huang – microbiome

Characterization of age-related changes in the gut microbiome and metabolome of Kunming dogs and their associations with police performance – Le Xu – microbiome

plant microbiome

Differential contributions of an antimicrobial effector from Verticillium dahliae to virulence and tomato microbiota assembly across natural soils – Wilko Punt – microbiome

Environmental & Data Microbiome

Microbiome Datahub: an open-access platform integrating environmental metadata, taxonomy, and functional annotation for comprehensive metagenome-assembled genome datasets – Hiroshi Mori – mi9crobiome

March 20, 2026

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See you next week at MVIF!

See you next week at #MVIF 47! Heads up ⏰ due to daylight saving time, start times shift by 1 hour in some regions:1 hour earlier for Atlantic, 1 hour later for Pacific!

— Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T09:09:52.170Z

Gut microbiome

Gut microbiota modulation via repeated donor fecal transplantation improves motor and gastrointestinal symptoms in drug-naïve Parkinson’s disease: a randomized phase 2 trial – Rui Zhang – Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 

Clinical Review: Advances in the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of celiac disease – John B Doyle – BMJ

Circulating gut microbial metabolites and risk of coronary heart disease: A prospective multi-stage metabolomics study – Yulu Zheng – Plos Medicine

Nasal microbiome

Composition and dynamics of the adult nasal microbiome – Cindy M. Liu – Microbiome

Respiratory tract microbiome

Mass azithromycin distribution and antibiotic resistance in the gut and nasopharynx: a cluster-randomized trial – Thuy Doan – Nature Medicine 

Animal microbiome

Microbial communities associated with two populations of the sponge Chondrilla nucula under present and projected climate conditions in the Aegean Sea – Gioti Anastasia – ARPHA Preprints

Comparative analysis of stress markers, metabolic health, and gut microbiota in healthy and disabled dogs in long-term shelters in Thailand – Adul Saengthong – Plos One

Priority effects drive strain-level community composition of honeybee gut microbiota – Aiswarya Prasad – The ISME Journal

Animal experiments

Estropausal gut microbiota transplant improves measures of ovarian function in adult mice – Minhoo Kim – Nature Aging 

Plant, root, soil microbiome

Breeding effects on the root-associated microbiome of Zea mays L. are linked to plant-induced variation in soil water potentials – Nicolas Tyborski – ISME Communications

🤩 Now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Comms!#NicolasTyborski and our wonderful #Rhizotraits team unravel how old landraces and modern varieties of maize distinctly modulate their #rhizosphere #microbiomes under drought via soil water potentials!🌽🥵🦠Thanks to #BayCEER #Rhizo4Bio #bmftr_bund

— Tillmann Lueders (@luederslab.bsky.social) 2026-03-19T14:42:21.506Z

Food microbiome

Leveraging publicly available datasets and machine learning approaches for predicting the health benefits of fermented foods – Elizabeth A. McDaniel – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

MATRIX: Rapid Quantification of Total and Active Microbial Cells with Single Cell Phenotypes for Environmental Microbiomes – Milena Gonzalo – bioRxiv

So thrilled to share episode 2 of #MVIFconversations with you all!Getting to sit down with @bykriscampbell.bsky.social was such a privilege! If you're curious about where microbiome science is headed and why rigorous science communication matters more than ever, this one's for you.1/2

— Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic (@svetlanaup.bsky.social) 2026-02-24T09:48:59.589Z

March 19, 2026

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Gut microbiome

Antibiotic use and gut microbiome composition links from individual-level prescription data of 14,979 individuals – Gabriel Baldanzi – Nature Medicine

Spatial transcriptomics maps host–gut microbiome biogeography at high resolution – Ioannis Ntekas – Nature Microbiology

Respiratory Microbiome

Empiric azithromycin alters the upper respiratory microbiome and resistome without anti-inflammatory benefit in COVID-19 – Abigail Glascock – Nature Microbiology

Dysbiosis of the nasal microbiome is associated with prospective acute exacerbation of COPD – Cristian Roca – Microbiome

Animal Microbiome

Towards standardization in pig microbiome research based on a comprehensive twenty-year review – Samuel Onyilokwu Enokela – Animal Microbiome

Longitudinal source-sink dynamics of fecal litter and farm indoor environmental resistomes in broiler chicken and Cherry Valley ducks – Peter Fauszt –  Animal Microbiome

Oral Microbiome

Denture-associated oral microbiome in dentate and edentulous older adults living in long-term care facilities – Muhammed Manzoor – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Shotgun metagenomic analysis of the tongue-coating microbiome reveals oral microbes and their functions in older adults with dementia – Jun Hyung Cha – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Water Microbiome

Water mass specific genes dominate the Southern Ocean microbiome – Emile Faure – Nature Communications

Plant Microbiome

Impacts of climate extremes on plant pathogens, microbiomes and plant health – Chao Xiong – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Heritability of the Pinus radiata root microbiome – Natalie Graham – Frontiers in Plant Science

Bioinformatics

DynaBiome: interpretable unsupervised learning of gut microbiome dysbiosis via temporal deep models – Awais Qureshi – BMC Bioinformatics

RP3Net: a deep learning model for predicting recombinant protein production in Escherichia coli – Evgeny Tankhilevich – Bioinformatics

MetaFX: feature extraction from whole-genome metagenomic sequencing data – Artem Ivanov – Bioinformatics

March 3rd ,2026

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Human Microbiome

Early risperidone exposure impairs cognitive function by perturbation of the gut microbiome and bile acids/tyrosine-PTP1B axis – Huaiyu Ye – microbiome

Human DNA levels in feces reflect gut inflammation and associate with presence of gut species in IBD patients across the age spectrum -Chiara Mazzoni – microbiome

Animal Microbiome

Probiotic efficacy of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens TL106 from Tibetan pigs in metabolic syndrome: modulation of gut microbiota and metabolic in sows and suckling piglets – Wangyuan Yao – microbiome

Enhancing the fiber degradation efficiency in dairy cattle rumen through engineered bacterial communities – Jiayi Zhang – microbiome

Gut T cell-microbiota crosstalk orchestrates antibacterial immunity and mucosal homeostasis in teleost – Ming Geng – microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Host-driven evolution shapes the polysaccharide utilization profiles of alga-associated Flavobacteriaceae – Guanjing Cai – microbiome

Ecology-guided Bacillus SynCom from a rice–duckweed core reveals division of labor for concurrent growth promotion and sheath blight suppression – Yingjie Song – microbiome

Mikania micrantha invasion restructures rhizosphere nitrogen cycling through enzyme activation, microbial recruitment, and allelopathic regulation – Ruonan Wang – microbiome

Marine and Aquatic Environmental Microbiome

Reconstruction of coral holobionts and elucidation of the causal relationships among symbiodiniaceae, bacteria, and coral through single-cell raman spectroscopy metabolomics – Yang Shu – microbiome

Unlocking the unexplored AMPSphere in marine rare species – Shen Fan – microbiome

Potential survival strategies of novel comammox and nitrite-oxidizing Nitrospira synthesizing osmoprotectants in a wastewater microbiome treating high-ammonia brackish landfill leachate – Shohei Yasuda – microbiome

Stress-induced enrichment of Pseudomonas sp. stimulates the adaptive response of Auxenochlorella pyrenoidosa and antibiotic-resistant proliferation -Qian Liu – microbiome

Built Environment and Cultural Heritage Microbiome

Unraveling the microbiomes contributing to biodeterioration dynamics of limestone heritage at the Longmen Grottoes archeological site – Xiaoying Zhang – microbiome