September 11, 2026

See you at the Seerave & MVIF Symposium next week!

Seerave Foundation and #MVIF invite you to their symposium, Microbiome Modifiers and Cancer Immunotherapy, a two-part event designed to move the field from evidence to action.It's free to join, just bring your questions and your curiosity!🔗 cassyni.com/s/mvif-oncobiome20261/3

Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2026-09-10T07:27:19.792Z

General

Integrating multi-omics technologies to decipher microbiome functions – Tim Van Den Bossche – Nature Communications

Phylogenetic measures of the core microbiome – Bewick, S.A., Camper, B.T. – Microbiome

Gut microbiome

Gut microbiota composition outperforms chronological age in predicting systemic inflammation and incident disease risk – Carsten Eriksen – Nature Communications 

Multi-kingdom gut microbiota analyses identify biomarkers of different types of pediatric short bowel syndrome – Qing-Qing Wu – mSystems

Maternal influences on infant gut microbiome and health – Trishla Sinha – Nature

Baseline gut microbiome and metabolome profiles predict weight loss after a structured lifestyle intervention – Benjamin Seethaler – Microbiome

Impact of pig farming activities on the gut microbiome and resistome of farmers: insights from metagenomics and Escherichia coli genomics – Tiejun Zhang – Microbiome

Oral microbiome

Mouth-to-gut microbial transmission signatures enable robust, non-invasive diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancers – Lae-Guen Jang – Cell Host & Microbe

Vaginal microbiome

Species and strain sharing in the vaginal microbiome of mothers and their adult daughters – Maria Pinedo-Bardales – Cell Reports

Bacterial community structure shapes the vaginal resistome during pregnancy – Nassim Boutouchent – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Modeling the human vaginal microbiome and its protection against pathogens using the replicator framework for invasion – Tomás Ferreira Amaro Freire – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Probiotic and postbiotic treatment improves coral health and promotes specific metabolic and microbiome changes in situ during a heatwave – Erika P. Santoro – Cell Reports

Distinct gut viral communities across life stages in dairy cattle – Ryan Cook – Microbiome

Happy to see the last parts of my PhD with @milja001.bsky.social now published in @microbiomej.bsky.social (many thanks to all involved!)link.springer.com/article/10.1…

Ryan Cook (@ryancook94.bsky.social) 2026-08-27T08:12:45.454Z

Animal experiments

Lactobacillus gasseri postbiotics ameliorate age-related decline in endometrial receptivity – Meng Li – Cell Host & Microbe

Bioinformatics

Ground-truth in silico spike-ins reveal limits of microbiome biomarker recovery in colorectal cancer – André Salgado – bioRxiv

In harmony? A scoping review of methods to combine multiple 16S amplicon datasets – Zone Li – AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology

Not every gene is special: Modelling scale controls the false discovery rate when analysing high-throughput sequencing data – Scott J. Dos Santos – PLOS Computational Biology

Have you listened to the #MVIFconversations podcast?There is a new episode where @cpavloud.bsky.social and I talked to @merenbey.bsky.social about open source, mentoring, and believe me it's a GREAAAT one!!

Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic (@svetlanaup.bsky.social) 2026-03-31T09:26:53.662Z

May 29, 2026

See you next week at MVIF!

June is right around the corner and the #MVIF 50 program is officially out! 🤩Highlights:🇧🇩 Dipto Kundu🇸🇪 @joseecologist.bsky.social Keynote:🇺🇸 @julesdeep.bsky.social Talks:🇺🇸 Samuel Degregori🇺🇸 Anna Samarra🇨🇳 Dehan Cai

Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2026-05-20T19:52:38.426Z

Global microbiome

Advancing microbial ecology, microbiomes, and One Health in Africa: From regional initiatives to pan-African flagship programs – Mohamed Hijri – The ISME Journal

Gut microbiome

Divergent Resilience of Bacterial and Fungal Gut Microbiota After Colorectal Surgery: Insights From a Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study – Simon Wetzel – MedComm

Epigenetic phase variation in the gut microbiome enhances bacterial adaptation – Mi Ni – Cell Host & Microbe

Glad that our paper is out today in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social A baby received a routine course of amoxicillin. In that infant's #gut 💩, we could see something remarkable, already present **before** the antibiotic arriveda single strain 🦠 of #Akkermansia muciniphila was already running 1/n

Gang Fang (@gangfang.bsky.social) 2026-05-19T16:28:37.915Z

Dietary transition to an Indigenous Greenlandic diet induces instant shifts in gut microbiota composition – a pilot intervention study – Mads B. W. Bjørnsen – Frontiers in Microbiomes

Review: Next-generation probiotics: an outlook into current applications and future developments – Lara Kern – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Oral microbiome

Machine learning reveals microbiome differences by periodontitis severity – Soo Hyun Seo – PlosOne
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0349686

Animal microbiome

Integrated Responses: Multi-dimensional Evidence of Diet-Microbiome Coupling of Fish across a River Continuum in a Dry-Hot Valley – Yaqiu Liu – Global Ecology and Conservation

Our new study on how altitudinal gradients in river systems affect the #diet – #microbiome coupling in the #benthic stone #loach (#Schistura fasciolata) across the Yuanjiang-Red River Basin, #China [1/3]#SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky @hostmicrobelit.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1016/j.ge…

Kostas Kormas 🐟🦞🐚🦭💩🔬🧪🧬📝 ✈️ 🏳️‍🌈 (@kkormas.bsky.social) 2026-05-26T09:39:52.164Z

Ammonia oxidation and recalcitrant carbon degradation fuel mixotrophic growth in the symbiont community of a deep-sea sponge – Alessandro N. Garritano – Microbiome

Plant, root, soil microbiome

Low intra-microbiota antagonism underlies stable and protective barley root microbiota – Lisa Katharina Mahdi – bioRxiv

Here we show that low intra-microbiota antagonism underlies stable, protective barley root microbiota. Microbiota function cannot be predicted from beneficial traits of individual strains alone, but depends on compatibility among community members. #Microbiome #Plantwww.biorxiv.org/content/10.6…

Team_Zuccaro (@algazuccaro.bsky.social) 2026-05-24T14:31:30.515Z

Bioinformatics

Microbe Decoder uncovers functional traits of microbes in microbiome datasets – Timothy J Hackmann – Nucleic Acids Research

ZipStrain Enables Rapid and Precise Strain-Resolved Metagenomics – Parsa Ghadermaz – bioRxiv

The elusive resistome: a global comparison reveals large discrepancies among detection pipelines – Juan S. Inda-Díaz – bioRxiv 

We started with a simple question: which tool and db should we use for resistome profiling in the EMBARK project?That question sent us down a rabbit hole.Different ARG annotation pipelines don't just give different ARG numbers, they give you different resistome profiles.1/3

Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic (@svetlanaup.bsky.social) 2026-05-15T10:52:09.330Z

May 8, 2026

See you next week at MVIF!

#MVIF 49 program is out! 🤩 Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-49Highlights: 🇮🇱 Netta Barak 🇳🇬 Gandonu Selome Ruth⭐️ Sponsor spotlight by Dagmara Lewandowska #IntegraBiosciencesKeynote:🇩🇪 Georg ZellerTalks:🇲🇦 Suleiman Aminu🇨🇳 Hongbin Liu🇳🇱 Jiyang Chan

Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2026-04-30T09:34:17.767Z

Gut microbiome

Gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity to produce short-chain fatty acids are associated with acute stress reactivity in healthy adults – Thomas Karner – Neurobiology of Stress

In our new study at @univie.ac.at , gut microbiome composition was linked to stress reactivity. Higher microbial diversity and inferred butyrate-producing capacity were associated with stronger cortisol reactivity, which may reflect a more adaptive response. 🧠🦠

Thomas Karner (@thomaskarner.bsky.social) 2026-04-22T15:08:33.422Z

Non-concussive head impacts sustained during American football correlate with changes in gut microbiome diversity and composition – Zachary J. Pelland – PlosOne

Gut microbiome is associated with recurrence-free survival in patients with resected high-risk melanoma receiving adjuvant immune checkpoint blockade – Mykhaylo Usyk – Cell

Genome-wide sweeps create ecological units in the human gut microbiome – Xiaoqian Annie Yu – Nature

Gut microbiome features associated with Bifidobacterium colonization predict personalized probiotic persistence patterns – Tarini Shankar Ghosh – Nature Communications

Biogeography-associated emergence of enhanced oxygen tolerance in the abundant human gut commensal Segatella copri – Youssef El Mouali – Cell Host & Microbe 

Review: The impact of artificial sweeteners on bacterial physiology and the microbiome – Ciaram Staber – Trends in Microbiology 

Habitual coffee intake shapes the gut microbiome and modifies host physiology and cognition – Serena Boscaini – Nature Communications

If you missed it earlier this week check out the video on new research led by APC's @jfcryan.bsky.social & @moloneyger.bsky.social where they reveal for the first time how #coffee influences communication between the gut and the brain. buff.ly/x884r4f #GutBrainAxis #Microbiome #CoffeeScience

APC Microbiome Ireland (@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social) 2026-04-24T12:54:33.975Z

Urinary microbiome

Fatty acid auxotrophy as driver of Lactobacillus symbiosis in the female urinary tract – Michael L. Neugent – BioRxiv

Oral microbiome

Integrative host–microbiome modeling uncovers the implication of oral–gut translocation in advanced cirrhosis – Yi Jin – iMeta

Strain-level translocation and enrichment dynamics of oral bacteria in the lower gastrointestinal tract of stunted children – Simon Yersin – Gut Microbes

📢 new paper alert! 📢Do we find the same #bacteria in the mouth and in the gut of stunded children?Go find out: doi.org/10.1080/1949…#microbiome #gut #gutmicrobes #metagenomicWith @vonaeschlab.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social

Simon Yersin (@yersim.bsky.social) 2026-04-07T12:42:09.651Z

Plant microbiome

The Anna Karenina principle in the assembly of plant microbiome under pathogen stress – Da Li – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Bioinformatics

Evaluating Reference-Independent Pipelines for the Detection of Spreading Organisms in Metagenomic Datasets – Nikolay Sergeevich Popov – BioRxiv

Learning the Language of the Microbiome with Transformers – Neythen J Treloar – BioRxiv

Holobiont

Viewing ourselves as nature: Holobiont literacy influences nature connectedness – Jake M. Robinson – Ambio

What happens when people learn that humans are not standalone organisms, but walking ecosystems?Our new paper explored whether learning about the #holobiont concept – humans are symbiotic assemblages of a host & trillions of microbes – influences nature connectedness.1/

Jake Robinson (@jake1.bsky.social) 2026-05-06T22:07:54.693Z

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

January 14, 2026

See you at MVIF next week!

Start 2026 with us! Join us in discussing microbiome science: register here → cassyni.com/s/mvif-45

Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T08:16:08.069Z


Gut microbiome

Early-life colonization by aromatic-lactate-producing bifidobacteria lowers the risk of allergic sensitization – Pernille Neve Myers – Nature Microbiology 

Improving operative outcomes in patients with stomas – Stella M. Dilke – medRxiv

🎉🎉🎉 New preprint to start the new year 🎉🎉🎉Patients recovering from bowel surgery may have stomas formed to divert the flow of faeces to the opening on the skin, away from healing intestinal tissue. The visible sign of this process is an ileostomy or colostomy bag. /1#surgerysky #medsky

Professor Lesley Hoyles (@bugsinyourguts.bsky.social) 2026-01-07T11:02:35.631Z

Gut microbiota induces mammary gland sIgA production to alleviate S. aureus mastitis – Zhaoqi He – Cell Reports

Microbial signature of pediatric Crohn’s disease: Differentiation from functional gastrointestinal disorders and relationship with increased disease activity – Jeremiah Levine – Physiological Reports

Gut micro-organisms associated with health, nutrition and dietary interventions – Francesco Asnicar – Nature

I'm very happy to share our latest manuscript published today in @nature.com !! ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415…We analyzed data from over 34,000 participants in the US and UK, revealing strong associations between specific gut bacteria and markers of cardiometabolic health and dietary habits.

Francesco Asnicar (@fasnicar.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T17:26:39.522Z

Oral microbiome

Are you involved in oral microbiome research? 🧬We’re conducting a brief survey to understand how researchers report metadata for their oral microbiome studies. You must be 18 or older. To be eligible, you must have conducted research on the oral microbiome (past or currently).

Sterling L. Wright (@anthbyte.bsky.social) 2026-01-07T04:03:01.699Z

Animal microbiome

Impact of sequencing approach on ecological inference from highly variable bat gut microbiomes – Ostaizka Aizpurua – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Primate gut microbiota induce evolutionarily salient changes in mouse neurodevelopment – Alex R. DeCasien – PNAS

The maternal microbiome influence on pregnancy success: breeding comparison of germ-free and conventionalized mice – Chudan Xu – Gut Microbes

Our first paper of 2026 is outWhen we began this project, this was not the paper we set out to publishBut science has a way of redirecting us toward the questions we should be asking#Microbiome researchers-this one’s for youwww.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10….🧵

Prof Francine Marques (@fzmarques.bsky.social) 2026-01-13T00:45:36.844Z

Plant, soil, root microbiome

Bark microbiota modulate climate-active gas fluxes in Australian forests – Pok Man Leung – Science 

In this week’s @science.org cover article, we discover tree bark is a hidden habitat for abundant, diverse, and specialized microbial life that actively regulate our climate 🦠. Bark isn't just an inert armor of tree but an active interface for climate and biodiversitywww.science.org/eprint/7H9PX…

Bob Leung (@bobpmleung.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T20:37:13.725Z

Translational microbiomes in agriculture: microbial communities as tools to effect host and system health for improved crop production – Alex D. Vompe – Applied and Environmental Microbiology 

Extreme environments

Microbial Community Metagenomics in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone Reveals Functional Differences Along Biogeochemical Gradients – F. Gutierrez – Environmental Microbiology 

Bioinformatics

LAMPP: A benchmark for continuous evaluation of host phenotype prediction from shotgun metagenomic data – Netta Barak – bioRxiv

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

November 5, 2025

See you next week at MVIF!

🆕 #MVIF 43 program is out! Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-43⭐️ Highlights:🇵🇰 Muhammad Faheem Raziq🇺🇸 Fuqing Wu⭐️ Keynote:🇮🇳 Deepa Agashe @deepaagashe.bsky.social ‬⭐️ Talks:🇺🇸 Lukas Bethlehem🇵🇱 Kinga Zielinska🇸🇪 Eran Elhaik

Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2025-10-28T12:40:43.755Z

Human gut microbiome

Associations Between Gut Microbiome and 24-Hour Blood Pressure Variability: A Cross-sectional Study Highlighting Sex Differences and Potential Therapeutic Targets – Preeti Dinesh Virwani – bioRxiv

Infant gut microbiota in multi-child families converges with adults without a sibling-specific signature – Eveliina Hanski – bioRxiv 

Shaping the future of probiotics, live biotherapeutic products, and fecal microbiota transplantation: 30 scientific recommendations from the CHINAGUT Conference – Weihong Wang – iMeta 

A widespread hydrogenase supports fermentative growth of gut bacteria in healthy people – Caitlin Welsh – Nature Miicrobiology

Long-read metagenomics for strain tracking after faecal microbiota transplant – Yu Fan – Nature Microbiology

Excited to share our LongTrack study out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com today! Fecal microbiota transplant (FMT), donor 💩 => patients' gut, is an effective treatment for recurrent C. difficile infection & is being evaluated for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) & other conditions 1/📄 rdcu.be/eL8mR

Gang Fang (@gangfang.bsky.social) 2025-10-22T15:39:22.720Z

Host transcriptional responses to gut microbiome variation arising from urbanism – Sabrina Arif – bioRxiv

Soft Drink Consumption and Depression Mediated by Gut Microbiome Alterations – Sharmili  Edwin Thanarajah – JAMA Psychiatry

Oral microbiome

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

Urinary tract microbiome


Daily and Weekly Fluctuations in the Microbiome of the Urinary Tract of Postmenopausal Women with No History of Urinary Tract Infections – Jacob Hogins – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Microbial succession at weaning is guided by microbial metabolism of host glycans – Jean-Bernard Lubin – Microbiome 

Animal microbiome

Temporal establishment of the colon microbiota in Angus calves from birth to post-weaning – Michelle M. Stafford – PlosOne

Viruses and phages

Phage diversity mirrors bacterial strain diversity in the honey bee gut microbiota – Malick Ndiaye – Nature Communications

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Host species and geographic location shape microbial diversity and functional potential in the conifer needle microbiome
– Robert M. Bowers – Microbiome

Soil bacterial, fungal, and protistan assembly processes across a 1300 km climate and land-use transect – Mingming Du – Catena 

Are you curious about the whether soil microbial distribution is predictable?🤔 The key takeaway:Bacteria 🦠→ predictable! 😊 Fungi & Protists 🍄💧 → harder to predict 😭 #SoilEcology #Microbiome #CommunityAssembly #SoilScience #Microbeswww.sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

Mingming Du (@mingming0105.bsky.social) 2025-11-04T08:18:30.583Z

Drinking water microbiome

Microbial drinking water quality deterioration during distribution and household usage, determined together with citizen scientists – Paul W. J. J. van der Wielen – PlosOne

Bioinformatics

annoSnake: a Snakemake workflow for taxonomic and functional annotation of metagenomes and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) – Bastian Heimburger  – bioRxiv

October 3, 2025

See you at the MVIF 42!

NEW #MVIF program is out! 🤩Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-42⭐️ Highlights:🇦🇺 @gbouras13.bsky.social🇺🇸 Danica Schmidtke⭐️ Keynote:🇺🇸 Peter Turnbaugh⭐️ Talks: 🇸🇬 Minghao Chia🇺🇸 @arzamasovalex.bsky.social 🇳🇿 Brooke Wilson

Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2025-09-23T14:27:57.484Z

Human gut microbiome

Micro-scale spatial metagenomics: revealing high-resolution spatial biogeography of gut microbiomes – Carlotta Pietroni – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Capturing global pet dog gut microbial diversity and hundreds of near-finished bacterial genomes by using long-read metagenomics in a Shanghai cohort – Anna Cuscó – bioRxiv

Finally, the results of my postdoc at the @bigdatabiology.bsky.social lab in Shanghai see the light! The work includes my three favorite things research-wise: 🦠 microbiome, 🧬 long-reads, and 🐶 dogs.See our new preprint:www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1…

Anna Cusco (@annacusco.bsky.social) 2025-09-23T11:23:52.836Z

Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals microbiome diversity across 48 tick species – Li-Feng Du – Nature Microbiology

The selective culture and enrichment of major rumen bacteria on three distinct anaerobic culture media – Alice M. Buckner – Microbiology Spectrum

Animal experiments

The microbiota extends the reproductive lifespan by safeguarding the ovarian reserve – Sarah K. Munyoki – bioRxiv

Comment: From gut to gamete: how the microbiome influences fertility and preconception health – Sarah K. Munyoki – Microbiome

Review: Microbiome in heritage: how maternal microbiome transmission impacts next generation health – Clara Delaroque & Benoit Chassaing – Microbiome

Water microbiome

Metagenomics reveal allopatric speciation and higher connectivity among coastal vs. inland hypersaline lakes and solar salterns – Tomeu Viver – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

microbetag: simplifying microbial network interpretation through annotation, enrichment tests, and metabolic complementarity analysis – Haris Zafeiropoulos – Genome Biology

our software, microbetag, for the annotation of microbial co-occurrence networks with phenotypic traits & metabolic complementarities was just publishedA Cytoscape app is also available to make your life easier (and prettier)#microbiome #metabolic-modeling #networks

Haris Zafeiropoulos (@hariszaf.bsky.social) 2025-09-23T09:42:39.741Z

A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data – Laura A. Hug – Nature Microbiology

Reference-guided assembly of metagenomes with MetaCompass – Tu Luan – Cell Reports Methods

👏 “To promote more inclusive scientific discussions with international colleagues at our conferences, virtual delegates based in Lower and Middle-Income Countries can register for free”

Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic (@svetlanaup.bsky.social) 2025-09-30T07:09:00.327Z

September 19, 2025

prepared by Bugembe Allan

Gut microbiome

Iron-saturated bovine lactoferrin preserves microbiota diversity and healthy ageing-associated taxa in an in vitro colon model of elderly gut microbiota – María Ruiz-Rico – PLOS ONE

Repopulation of the gut microbiota after a screening colonoscopy – Yezaz A. Ghouri – PLOS ONE

Gut microbiome signatures in iNPH: Insights from a shotgun metagenomics study – Rahel Park – PLOS ONE

Animal microbiome

Bacterial assemblages on eggs reflect nesting strategies in wetland-associated birds – Wouter F. D. van Dongen – PLOS ONE

Substrate degradation and black soldier fly larvae bioconversion performance profile on co-digested oil palm biomass-based feedstock – Mulki Salendra Kusumah – PLOS ONE

Soil microbiome

Mycelial traits and GRSP in enhancing soil stability on cold region highway slopes: Comparative effects of three shrub species – Yibo Li – PLOS ONE

Food microbiome

Investigation of bacterial community and histamine production in fresh mackerel at low temperature storage – Grace Margareta – PLOS ONE

Combinatorial effects of Zingiber officinale and Citrus limon juices: Hypolipidemic and antioxidant insights from in vivo, in vitro, and in silico investigations – Oussama Bekkouch – PLOS ONE

Human Health & Disease

Maternal-infant rotavirus-specific antibody kinetics to inform timing of vaccine boosting in Malawi: An observational study – Jonathan Mandolo – PLOS Medicine

Mother-child autonomic nervous system interaction as an indication of parental stress: 24-hour cross recurrence plot analysis – Jiarui Li – PLOS ONE

Pre-infection cerebral cortex structure predicts murine sepsis outcome – Robert M. Gallant – PLOS ONE

Optimized processing of Gardenia Fruits with ginger juice: Unveiling therapeutic mechanisms for cholestatic liver injury through TLR4/NF-κB, FXR/PPAR-α, and PI3K/AKT/GSK-3β – Chenzi Lyu – PLOS ONE

Pathogens & Virulence

How Klebsiella pneumoniae controls its virulence – To Nguyen Thi Nguyen – PLOS Pathogens

Coronavirus M protein impairs cilium during early infection by enhancing the AurA-HDAC6 axis – Tenghan Zhuang – PLOS Pathogens

Virulence gene profile and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Aeromonas hydrophila in farmed catfishes – Farjana Ferdousi – PLOS ONE

Chimeric PRR T-cell-engager targeting cell surface β-1,3-glucan for invasive candidiasis – Yu Fang Sun – PLOS Pathogens

September 5, 2025

See you next week at #GloMiNe2025!

Program for #GloMiNe2025 "Preservation of microbial diversity” by @microbiotavault.bsky.social ‬and #MVIF is OUT:cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomi…1/3

Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2025-08-22T11:42:37.937Z

Gut microbiome

Gut fungi are associated with human genetic variation and disease risk – Emily P. Van Syoc – Plos Biology

The resident gut microbiome modulates the effect of synbiotics on the immunogenicity after SARS-COV-2 vaccination in elderly and diabetes patients – Lin Zhang – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Subspecies of the human gut microbiota carry implicit information for in-depth microbiome research – Matija Tričković – Cell Host & Microbe

New paper out: Subspecies of the human gut microbiota carry implicit information for in-depth microbiome research.

Silas Kieser (@silask.bsky.social) 2025-08-29T10:06:18.408Z

Impact of early life antibiotic and probiotic treatment on gut microbiome and resistome of very-low-birth-weight preterm infants – Raymond Kiu – Nature Communications

A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation – David Gopaulchan – Nature Microbiology

Gut microbiome alterations precede graft rejection in kidney transplantation patients – Johannes Holle – American Journal of Transplantation

Adolescent girls at familial risk for depression with more advanced adrenarche have altered gut microbiota – A. Kolobaric – bioRxiv

Effects of a combined energy restriction and vigorous-intensity exercise intervention on the human gut microbiome: A randomised controlled trial – Russell G. Davies – The Journal of Physiology

Resistome

Variation and prognostic potential of the gut antibiotic resistome in the FINRISK 2002 cohort – Katariina Pärnänen – Nature Communications

Oral microbiome

Complementary Predictors for Asthma Attack Prediction in Children: Salivary Microbiome, Serum Inflammatory Mediators, and Past Attack History – Shahriyar Shahbazi Khamas – Allergy

Profiles of oral microbiota and metabolites in periodontitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia patients: a pilot study – Cong Zhu – Microbiology Spectrum

SANA-Biome: A Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study on Oral Health, Diet, and the Oral Microbiome in Romania – Sterling L. Wright – Healthcare 

🧬🪥 Just published! Our new paper introduces the SANA-biome, a biocultural study exploring how diet, lifestyle, and the oral microbiome shape periodontal health in Romania.📰 Read the open-access protocol in Healthcare: 👉 http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/13…

Sterling L. Wright (@anthbyte.bsky.social) 2025-08-27T16:01:43.887Z

Animal microbiome

Metagenomics reveals fibre fermentation and AMR pathways in red grouse (Lagopus scotica) microbiota – Anum Ali Ahmad – BMC Microbiology

Thrilled that our new paper on the Red Grouse microbiota has now been published in BMC Microbiology: doi.org/10.1186/s128…! A really rewarding collaboration between our team and Nick Hesford and Kathy Fletcher from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust @gwct.org.uk.

Laura Glendinning (@microbes4ever.bsky.social) 2025-08-19T14:12:37.569Z

Establishment of the early gut microbiota in vaginally delivered infants: the influence of maternal gut microbiota outweighs vaginal microbiota – Haishan Xie – Microbiology Spectrum

Integrative multi-omics analysis of dietary fibre-induced modulations in the composition and function of chicken caecal microbiota – Anum Ali Ahmad – bioRxiv

Vaginal microbiome

Degradation of Resistant α-1,4-glucan by Vaginal Gardnerella Species is Associated with Bacterial Vaginosis – Rosanne Hertzberger – Current Microbiology 

Animal experiments

The microbiome is associated with obesity-related metabolome signature in the process of aging – Dana Binyamin – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Evidence for an indigenous female mouse urobiome – Sidra Sohail – bioRxiv 

Food microbiome 

Microbiome profiling of Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses reveals cheese-specific biomarkers, psychobiotic potential, and bioprotective activities – Vincenzo Valentino – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Metabolomics

Microbes release lower-value metabolites at higher rates – Snorre Sulheim – bioRxiv

So excited to share this new paper by @sulheim.bsky.social and others! It's rare that you find a pattern, propose a hypothesis and the more you look, the more data you find that fits! Snorre's intuition, hard work and rigour to put it all together have been inspiring! Let us know what you think…

Sara Mitri (@saramitri.bsky.social) 2025-08-22T14:05:47.584Z

Soil microbiome

236 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from rivers along a latitudinal gradient – Xiang Xiong – Scientific Data 

Bioinformatics

StrainFacts accurately quantifies both endogenous and live biotherapeutic product strain abundances in simulated and clinical vaginal microbiota samples – Johnathan Shih – bioRxiv

Comparison of iSeq and Miseq in 16S rRNA sequencing-based human gut microbiome analysis – Yanling Wang – bioRxiv 

Podcast

Biopolis – into the microbiome A young scientist is looking for answers in the human microbiome.

Food systems are teeming with complex microbial networks, carried from soil and water to crops, animals, and humans. Can we better track and steer these networks to enhance ecosystem health and food security? Find out more at this #FrontiersForum webinar ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/NfcCnmIEkWb

Paul Cotter (@pauldcotter.bsky.social) 2025-09-05T13:25:35.039Z