March 20, 2026

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

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