Category Archives: Animal microbiome

December 27, 2016

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Cockatiel microbiome, a hibernating frog, Baltic Sea, a book about starter cultures, microbial divisions of labor.

Human oral/respiratory microbiome

Mycobiome in the Lower Respiratory Tract – a Clinical Perspective – Robert Krause – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: A Review of Analytical Techniques and Their Application in Disease Diagnosis in Breathomics and Salivaomics Research – David J. Beale – Int J Mol Sci

Human gut microbiome

Impact of Amoxicillin/Clavulanate and Autologous Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) on the Fecal Microbiome and Resistome – Christopher Bulow – Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Review: The Development of Our Organ of Other Kinds—The Gut Microbiota – Shirong Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Food Additives and Contaminants: Effects on Human Gut Microbiota—A Review – Paula Roca-Saavedra – Preprints

Animal experiments

Generation of Germ-Free Ciona intestinalis for Studies of Gut-Microbe Interactions – Brittany A. Leigh – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Emerging Sponge Models of Animal-Microbe Symbioses – Lucia Pita – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Exploring the methanogen and bacterial communities of rumen environments: solid adherent, fluid and epimural – Thijs De Mulder – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Diversity of the Bacterial Microbiota of Anopheles Mosquitoes from Binh Phuoc Province, Vietnam – Chung T. Ngo – Frontiers in Microbiology

Evaluating the Contribution of Gut Microbiota to the Variation of Porcine Fatness with the Cecum and Fecal Samples – Maozhang He – Frontiers in Microbiology

* Exploring the cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus) fecal microbiome, bacterial inhabitants of a worldwide pet – Luis David Alcaraz – PeerJ

* Functional analysis for gut microbes of the brown tree frog (Polypedates megacephalus) in artificial hibernation – Francis Cheng-Hsuan Weng – BMC Genomics

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Long-term effects of aided phytostabilization on microbial communities of metal-contaminated mine soil– Olatz Garaiyurrebaso – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Dynamics in the Strawberry Rhizosphere Microbiome in Response to Biochar and Botrytis cinerea Leaf Infection – Caroline De Tender – Frontiers in Microbiology

Expanding the Repertoire of Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing Metallo-ß-Lactamases by Functional Metagenomic Analysis of Soil Microbiota – Dereje D. Gudeta – Frontiers in Microbiology

High Diversity of Planctomycetes in Soils of Two Lichen-Dominated Sub-Arctic Ecosystems of Northwestern Siberia – Anastasia A. Ivanova – Frontiers in Microbiology

Editorial: Microbiota of Grapes: Positive and Negative Role on Wine Quality – Giuseppe Spano – Frontiers in Microbiology

Aspect has a greater impact on alpine soil bacterial community structure than elevation – Jieyun Wu – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

* Local Environmental Conditions Shape Generalist But Not Specialist Components of Microbial Metacommunities in the Baltic Sea – Markus V. Lindh – Frontiers in Microbiology

A High-Level Fungal Diversity in the Intertidal Sediment of Chinese Seas Presents the Spatial Variation of Community Composition – Wei Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Viral induced microbial mortality in Arctic hypersaline spring sediments – Jesse Colangelo-Lillis – Frontiers in Microbiology

Stable and Variable Parts of Microbial Community in Siberian Deep Subsurface Thermal Aquifer System Revealed in a Long-Term Monitoring Study – Yulia A. Frank – Frontiers in Microbiology

Marine Subsurface Microbial Community Shifts Across a Hydrothermal Gradient in Okinawa Trough Sediments – Leah D. Brandt – Archaea

Waste and pollution microbiology

Temporal dynamics of microbial communities in microcosms in response to pollutants – Shuo Jiao – Molecular Ecology

Cultural heritage microbiology

Sloth: Survey of the state of conservation of the Mylodon listai (Xenarthra-Mylodontidae) skin fragment from the Pleistocene of Argentina kept at the Museum of La Plata (Argentina) – Daniela Silvana Nitiu – Ge-conservación

Food microbiology

* Book: Starter Cultures in Food Production – Barbara Speranza

Biofilm microbiome

Molecular methods resolve the bacterial composition of natural marine biofilms on galvanically coupled stainless steel cathodes – Athenia L. Oldham – Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Characterization of Uncultured Genome Fragment from Soil Metagenomic Library Exposed Rare Mismatch of Internal Tetranucleotide Frequency – Yunpeng Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

RiboTagger: fast and unbiased 16S/18S profiling using whole community shotgun metagenomic or metatranscriptome surveys – Chao Xie – BMC Bioinformatics

More microbiology

Review: Chronic infections with viruses or parasites: breaking bad to make good – Andrew Godkin – Immunology

Biocontrol of Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria and bacterial phytopathogens by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus – Damian McNeely – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Fitness Impact of Obligate Intranuclear Bacterial Symbionts Depends on Host Growth Phase – Chiara Bella – Frontiers in Microbiology

* Review: Understanding Microbial Divisions of Labor – Zheren Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbes in the news

How Does a Fatty Acid Protect Pathogenic Bacteria Against Antibiotics? – Nicola M. Parry – Contagion Live

How Microcosms help us understand ecology – James MacDonald – JSTOR Daily

Takuji Yamada – Early cancer intervention with gut bacteria – Tokyo Tech Researchers

How Probiotics Could Help Prevent Atopic Dermatitis – Kenneth Bender – Specialty Pharmacy Times

December 26, 2016

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Prevotella and host genetics’ roles in vaginal microbiota, saliva microbiota and dental caries, microbes on tree stumps, fungi in Hammams, and a new  CRISPR–Cas system.

Human oral microbiome

* Exploration of bacterial species associated with the salivary microbiome of individuals with a low susceptibility to dental caries – Haruna Yasunaga – Clinical Oral Investigations

Human respiratory microbiome

Nasal Airway Microbiota Profile and Severe Bronchiolitis in Infants: A Case-Control Study – Hasegawa, Kohei – The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Review: The Lung Microbiome and Airway Disease – Susan V. Lynch – Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Human bladder microbiome

Is there a link between urinary microbiota and bladder cancer? – Didier Raoult – European Journal of Epidemiology

Human vaginal microbiome

* Prevotella as a Hub for Vaginal Microbiota under the Influence of Host Genetics and Their Association with Obesity – Jiyeon Si – Cell Host & Microbe

Human gut microbiome

Differences in Metabolism of Ellagitannins by Human Gut Microbiota ex Vivo Cultures
– Jakub P. Piwowarski – Journal of Natural Products

Probiotic properties of Oxalobacter formigenes: an in vitro examination – Archives of Microbiology

The effects of administration of the Lactobacillus gasseri strain CP2305 on quality of life, clinical symptoms and changes in gene expression in patients with irritable bowel syndrome – K. Nobutani – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Review: The microbiome, immunity, and schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – Faith Dickerson – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Review: Emerging role of intestinal microbiota and microbial metabolites in metabolic control – Hilde Herrema – Diabetologia

Review: Microbial Dysbiosis in Common Variable Immune Deficiencies: Evidence, Causes, and Consequences – Roos-Marijn Berbers – Trends in Immunology

Review: Health benefits of fermented foods: microbiota and beyond – Maria L Marco – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Animal experiments

Individual differences in stress vulnerability: the role of gut pathobionts in stress-induced colitis – Dominik Langgartner – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Impact of prebiotics on metabolic and behavioral alterations in a mouse model of metabolic syndrome – Lourdes Fernández de Cossío – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

I assume this one was done in animals but not clear: Prenatal stress affects placental cytokines and neurotrophins, commensal microbes, and anxiety-like behavior in adult female offspring – Tamar L. Gur – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Animal microbiome

First characterization of viruses from freshwater snails of the genus Biomphalaria, the intermediate host of the parasite Schistosoma mansoni – Richard Galinier – Acta Tropica

Fish: Effects of microbe- and mussel-based diets on the gut microbiota in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) – Andreas Nyman – Aquaculture Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Interaction of chiral herbicides with soil microorganisms, algae and vascular plants – Muhammad Asad Ullah Asad – Science of the Total Environment

Mineral type and tree species determine the functional and taxonomic structure of forest soil bacterial communities – Y. Colin – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

* Colonization of Fungi and Bacteria in Stumps and Roots of Scots Pine after Thinning and Treatment with Rotstop – Katarzyna Kubiak – Journal of Phytopathology

Built environment microbiology

* Indoor fungal contamination of traditional public baths (Hammams) – Leyla Benammar – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Waste and pollution microbiology

Alkaline Technosol contaminated by former mining activity and its culturable autochthonous microbiota – A. Šimonovičová – Chemosphere

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

* New CRISPR–Cas systems from uncultivated microbes – David Burstein – Nature

A small-sample multivariate kernel machine test for microbiome association studies
– Xiang Zhan – Genetic Epidemiology

Recycler: an algorithm for detecting plasmids from de novo assembly graphs –
Roye Rozov – Bioinformatics

A general framework for association analysis of microbial communities on a taxonomic tree – Zheng-Zheng Tang – Bioinformatics

Introducing EzBioCloud: A taxonomically united database of 16S rRNA and whole genome assemblies – Seok-Hwan Yoon – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Genomic sequencing illuminates recent Shigella outbreaks in California. Researchers identify genes associated with toxin production and antibiotic resistance – Science Daily

Raw meat: Eating so-called ‘cannibal sandwiches’ can be deadly, health official says.Consumption of uncooked beef poses a health risk – Dave Delozier – Channel3000

Ancient Chinese malaria remedy may help fight TB – Deccan Chronicle

The natural history of cheese mites – Scott Chimileski – American Society for Microbiology

The throwaway scope: A way to ditch superbugs? – Chad Terhune – Seacoast Online

Science, publishing, and career

Life Science Controversies of 2016 – Jef Akst – The Scientist

The world’s favourite lab animal has been found wanting, but there are new twists in the mouse’s tale – The Economist

December 23, 2016

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Resistant starch diets, mass spectrometry imaging, viruses in coral health and disease, mitochondrial and chloroplast blocking clamps to identify plant-associated microbiomes, vitamin D and the gut, microbes in pores, uBiome Microbiome Impact Grant winner.

Pregnancy and early life

Starter formula enriched in prebiotics and probiotics ensures normal growth of infants and promotes gut health: a randomized clinical trial – Michael Radke – Pediatric Research

Human skin microbiome

The balance of metagenomic elements shapes the skin microbiome in acne and health – Emma Barnard – Scientific Reports

Microbiome of nearly sterile sites

Correspondence: Blood microbiota as a potential non-invasive diagnostic biomarker for liver fibrosis in severely obese patients: Choose carefully – Zongxin Ling – Hepatology

Human gut microbiome

 * Diets high in resistant starch increase plasma levels of trimethylamine-N-oxide, a gut microbiome metabolite associated with CVD risk – Nathalie Bergeron – British Journal of Nutrition

Fecal Microbiota Transplant in Severe and Severe-Complicated Clostridium difficile: A Promising Treatment Approach – Monika Fischer – Gut Microbes

Evaluation of clinical safety and beneficial effects of stachyose-enriched α-galacto-oligosaccharides on gut microbiota and bowel function in humans – Ting Li – Food & Function

Low abundance of colonic butyrate-producing bacteria in HIV infection is associated
with microbial translocation and immune activation – Stephanie M. Dillon – AIDS

Meta-analysis: Pretreatment with antibiotics may enhance the efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation in ulcerative colitis: a meta-analysis – A H Keshteli – Mucosal Immunology

Meta-analysis: Lower Level of Bacteroides in the Gut Microbiota Is Associated with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Meta-Analysis – Yingting Zhou – BioMed Research International

Viewpoint: The Microbiome and Risk for Obesity and Diabetes – Anthony L. Komaroff – JAMA

Review: The Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Humoral Immunity to Pathogens and Vaccination in Early Infancy – Quang N. Nguyen – PLOS Pathogens

Review: Microbiota and prebiotics modulate uremic toxins generation – Laetitia Koppe – Panminerva Medica

Review: Influence of nutrition therapy on the intestinal microbiome – Monika A. Krezaleka

Review: A Possible Role of Intestinal Microbiota in the Pathogenesis of Ankylosing Spondylitis – Lianjun Yang – Int J Mol Sci

Review: Food allergy and the gut – Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

The Gut Microbiome and the Liver, special issue of Seminars in Liver Disease with lots of reviews:

 

Animal experiments

Western diet induces colonic nitrergic myenteric neuropathy and dysmotility in mice via saturated fatty acid- and LPS-induced TLR4 signaling – François Reichardt – Journal of Physiology

* Vitamin D Signaling through Induction of Paneth Cell Defensins Maintains Gut Microbiota and Improves Metabolic Disorders and Hepatic Steatosis in Animal Models – Danmei Su – Frontiers in Physiology

Vitamin D Improves Gut Microbiota, Study Finds – Sci-News

Animal microbiome

* Review: The role of viruses in coral health and disease – Michael Sweet – Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Diverse Profiles of AI-1 Type Quorum Sensing Molecules in Cultivable Bacteria from the Mangrove (Kandelia obovata) Rhizosphere Environment – Zhi P. Ma – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bioaccumulation of metals in reeds collected from an acid mine drainage contaminated site in winter and spring – Lin Guo – Environmental Technology

* Identifying the plant associated microbiome across aquatic and terrestrial environments: the effects of amplification method on taxa discovery – Sara L. Jackrel – Molecular Ecology Resources

* Microbial competition in porous environments can select against rapid biofilm growth – Katharine Z. Coyte – PNAS

Water microbiome

Local and Regional Diversity Reveals Dispersal Limitation and Drift as Drivers for Groundwater Bacterial Communities from a Fractured Granite Formation – E. D. Beaton – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Community of High Arsenic Groundwater in Agricultural Irrigation Area of Hetao Plain, Inner Mongolia – Yanhong Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Disturbance Increases Microbial Community Diversity and Production in Marine Sediments – Pierre E. Galand – Frontiers in Microbiology

Waste and pollution microbiology

Seafood-Processing Sludge Composting: Changes to Microbial Communities and Physico-Chemical Parameters of Static Treatment versus for Turning during the Maturation Stage – Iria Villa – PLOS ONE

Regional synchrony in full-scale activated sludge bioreactors due to deterministic microbial community assembly – James S Griffin – The ISME Journal

Metabolomics

* Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Complex Microbial Communities – Sage J. B. Dunham – Accounts Chemical Research

Techniques

* Mitochondrial and chloroplast blocking clamps: Identifying the plant associated microbiome across aquatic and terrestrial environments: the effects of amplification method on taxa discovery – Sara L. Jackrel – Molecular Ecology Resources

Microbial ecology

Probabilistic adaptation in changing microbial environments – Yarden Katz – PeerJ

Microbes in the news

* UCSF Researcher to Investigate Diabetes and the Microbiome in Filipino Populations with uBiome Microbiome Impact Grant – PR Web

An interesting year – Nature Microbiology

Microbiota: Reseeding the gut – Liam Drew – Nature

Danish researchers uncover bacteria’s secret code language – News Medical

New CRISPR-Cas Enzymes Discovered – Kerry Grens – The Scientist

Move over Cas9, CRISPR-Cas3 might hold the key to solving the antibiotics crisis – Sarah Buhr – Tech Crunch

Gut bacteria may hold key to treating autoimmune diseases – EurekAlert
The Secret To Treating Autoimmune Disease May Lie In The Gut – The Huffington Post

Science, publishing and career

The lives they lived: Ruth Hubbard. She was grateful simply to be a female biologist — until she got mad about needing to be grateful – Sara Corbett – New York Times

 

December 22, 2016

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Hand washing and drying hygiene, wild and managed geese,  juvenile alpine plants.

uBiome blog

We’re Dreaming of a Brown Christmas + Winter Sale: Celebrate the holiday season with a flurry of festive feces factoids – Julie Taylor – uBiome blog

Human skin microbiome

Cleanliness in context: reconciling hygiene with a modern microbial perspective – Roo Vandegrift – bioRxiv

Human mouth microbiome

Oral Biofluid Biomarker Research: Current Status and Emerging Frontiers – Austin Wang – Diagnostics

Human gut microbiome

Hypothesis: The gut–brain connection: triggering of brain autoimmune disease by commensal gut bacteria – Hartmut Wekerle – Rheumatology

Animal microbiology

* Metagenomic profiling of gut microbial communities in both wild and artificially reared Bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) – Wen Wang – Microbiology Open

Application of genomic technologies to measure and monitor antibiotic resistance in animals – Jian-Qiang Su – Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbial activity promoted with organic carbon accumulation in macroaggregates of paddy soils under long-term rice cultivation – Yalong Liu – Biogeosciences

Ozone and Nitrogen Effects on Juvenile Subalpine Plants: Complex Interactions with Species and Colonization by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) – Seraina Bassin – Water, Air, & Soil Pollution

Food microbiology

Developing a microbial time–temperature indicator to monitor total volatile basic nitrogen change in chilled vacuum-packed grouper fillets – Hsin-I Hsiao- Journal of Food Processing and Preservation

Waste and pollution microbiology

Biological Treatment of Landfill Leachate at Elevated Temperature in the Presence of Polyurethane Foam of Various Porosity – Justyna Koc-Jurczyk – Clean Soil Air Water

Built environment microbiology

Investigation of the microbial communities colonizing prepainted steel used for roofing and walling – Tran T. Huynh – Microbiology Open

Bioinformatics, modeling, ecology and statistics

Using rarefaction to isolate the effects of patch size and sampling effort on beta diversity – Adrian C. Stier – Ecosphere

Inferring human microbial dynamics from temporal metagenomics data: Pitfalls and lessons – Hong-Tai Cao – BioAssays

A review of simulation and modeling approaches in microbiology – A.I. Klimenko – Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research

Lifestyles of rarity: understanding heterotrophic strategies to inform the ecology of the microbial rare biosphere – Ryan J. Newton – Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Microbes in the news

* Book: Understanding the Gut Microbiota – Gerald W. Tannock

Scientists build bacteria-powered battery on single sheet of paper – Science Daily

Study: Manuka honey kills more bacteria than all available antibiotics – Amy Goodrich – Natural News

UT Southwestern researchers find new way to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria in burn injuries – News-Medical

Xylariaphilia. A blog about fungi, science, and art – Roo Vandegrift

Microbiomes Gain Momentum in Indiana’s Life Sciences – Kylie Veleta – Inside Indiana Business

December 20, 2016

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Events

Registration open: Environmental Microbial Biofilms and Human Microbiomes: Drivers of Future Sustainability – Singapore, 12-15 February 2017

Pregnancy and early life

Sensitive Quantitative Analysis of the Meconium Bacterial Microbiota in Healthy Term Infants Born Vaginally or by Cesarean Section – Ravinder Nagpal – Frontiers in Microbiology

Remodeling of the gut microbiota and structural shifts in Preeclampsia patients in South China – J. Liu – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Human respiratory microbiome

Same-day diagnostic and surveillance data for tuberculosis via whole genome sequencing of direct respiratory samples – Antonina A Votintseva – bioRxiv

Human oral microbiome

Effect of 12-month weekly professional oral hygiene care on the composition of the oral flora in dentate, dependent elderly residents: A prospective study
Maude Wikström – Gerodontology

Human gut microbiome

Roles of the gut in the metabolic syndrome: an overview – L. Fändriks – Journal of Internal Medicine

Review: Microbiome and chronic inflammatory bowel diseases – Jan Wehkamp – Journal of Molecular Medicine

Animal experiments

Resetting microbiota by Lactobacillus reuteri inhibits T reg deficiency–induced autoimmunity via adenosine A2A receptors – Baokun He – Journal of Experimental Medicine

Press: Replacing missing gut bacteria could help treat children with rare autoimmune disease – News Medical

Characterization of meningeal type 2 innate lymphocytes and their response to CNS injury – Sachin P. Gadani – Journal of Experimental Medicine

Press: Team discovers powerful defenders of the brain—with big implications for disease – Medical Xpress

Examination of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis mixed genotype infections in dairy animals using a whole genome sequencing approach – Fraser W. Davidson – PeerJ

Insights into Broilers’ Gut Microbiota Fed with Phosphorus, Calcium, and Phytase Supplemented Diets – Daniel Borda-Molina – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Fecal microbiota of three bactrian camels (Camelus ferus and Camelus bactrianus) in China by high throughput sequencing of the V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene – Lei Yuan – Journal of Arid Land

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Metagenomic assembly unravel microbial response to redox fluctuation in acid sulfate soil – Jian-Qiang Su – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Effect of New Auxin Herbicide Formulations on Control of Herbicide Resistant Weeds and on Microbial Activities in the Rhizosphere – Vijay K. Nandula – American Journal of Plant Sciences

Screening of rhizobacteria from rhizosphere of healthy chili to control bacterial wilt disease and to promote growth and yield of chili – Yulmira Yanti – Biodiversitas

Mycorrhizal colonization of chenopods and its influencing factors in different saline habitats, China – Yinan Zhao – Journal of Arid Land

Water and extremophile microbiome

Degradation of a fluoroquinolone antibiotic in an urbanized stretch of the River Tiber – Anna Barra Caracciolo – Microchemical Journal

Spatial distribution of planktonic bacterial and archaeal communities in the upper section of the tidal reach in Yangtze River – Limin Fan – Scientific Reports

Biological Potential of Chitinolytic Marine Bacteria – Sara Skøtt Paulsen – Marine Drugs
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Microbial Diversity of Extreme Regions: An Unseen Heritage and Wealth – Saxena AK –
Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources

Stable and Variable Parts of Microbial Community in Siberian Deep Subsurface Thermal Aquifer System Revealed in a Long-Term Monitoring Study – Yulia A. Frank – Frontiers in Microbiology

A theoretical basis for a nanomolar critical oxygen concentration – E. J. Zakem – Limnology & Oceanography

Bacteria can survive in oxygen-free marine environments – Sumaya Aamir – i4u.com
Simons Foundation Supports Study That Finds Bacteria Can Survive In Oxygen-Free Marine Environments – Philanthropy New York
DNA markers distinguish between harmless, deadly bacteria – Jennifer Chu – Phys.org

Waste and pollution microbiology

Bacterial community structure within an activated sludge reactor added with phenolic compounds – Selene Gómez-Acata – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Microbial ecology

Editorial: Development of microbial ecological theory: stability, plasticity and evolution of microbial ecosystems – Shin Haruta – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Borborygmus: The Rumble in your Tummy. Video about the microbiome for kids. Eat your veggies, kids. Do it for Borborygmus.

6 Things We Learned About Gut Health And The Microbiome In 2016 – Cayla Dengate – Huffington Post

Research highlight: Rhythm and bacteria – Ashley York – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Baylor investigates antibiotic use, children’s improved autism symptoms – Healio

 

Microbes on the market

How bacteria from your stomach can fight disease. Start-up secures £8m to develop novel therapies – Matt Gooding – Cambridge News

Spin-out seeks to be world leader leveraging microbiome biology’s potential – The PharmaLetter

Sanger Spins Out Microbiotica to Develop Bacteriotherapies – GenEngNews

Science, publishing, and career

Evidence of the Superiority of Female Doctors. New research estimates that if all physicians were female, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year – James Hamblin – The Atlantic

December 18, 2016

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Virome of the human respiratory tract, vendor effects on mouse gut, soils under beech and spruce, variations in Scottish soils, portable pathogen detection.

Events

Poster submission started: 3rd Annual Translational Microbiome Conference – April 11-13, 2017, Boston, USA

Pregnancy and early life

Microbiota network and mathematic microbe mutualism in colostrum and mature milk collected in two different geographic areas: Italy versus Burundi – Lorenzo Drago – The ISME Journal

Review: Pathogenesis of NEC: Impact of an altered intestinal microbiome – Josef Neu – Seminars in Perinatology

Human oral microbiome

Changes in the oral ecosystem induced by the use of 8% arginine toothpaste – British Dental Journal

Human respiratory microbiome

* Review: The Virome of the Human Respiratory Tract – Kristine M. Wylie – Clinics in Chest Medicine

Human vaginal microbiome

Comparison of Culture-dependent and Culture-Independent Molecular Methods for Characterisation of Vaginal Microflora – Shirali Pandya – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Distinct microbiome-neuroimmune signatures correlate with functional abdominal pain in children with autism spectrum disorder – Ruth Ann Luna – CMGH Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Alterations of the gut microbiome in Chinese patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Zhixing He – Gut Pathogens

Altered Gut Microbiota in Patients With Chronic Pancreatitis is Associated With Gut Barrier Dysfunction and Metabolic Abnormalities – Rupjyoti Talukdar

Dietary Changes Impact the Gut Microbe Composition in Overweight and Obese Men with Prostate Cancer Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy – Andrew D. Frugé – Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

The human intestinal microbiota of constipated-predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients exhibits anti-inflammatory properties – Alain P. Gobert – Scientific Reports

The Interactions Between Gut Microbiota and Lynch Syndrome – Xiao-juan Lu – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Review: Enterosalivary nitrate metabolism and the microbiome: intersection of microbial metabolism, nitric oxide and diet in cardiac and pulmonary vascular health – Carl D Koch – Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Review: Community metabolic modeling approaches to understanding the gut microbiome: bridging biochemistry and ecology – Helena Mendes-Soares – Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Review: Microbiota Small RNAs in Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Anca T. Filip – Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Review: Intestinal Microbiome, Akkermansia muciniphila, and Medicinal Nutrition Therapy – Jeffrey Bland – integrative Medicine

Review: Using the Human Gastrointestinal Microbiome to Personalize Nutrition Advice: Are Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Ready for the Opportunities and Challenges? – Ruth Harvie – Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Review: Bacterial Biofilms in Colorectal Cancer Initiation and Progression – Shan Li – Trends in Molecular Medicine

Animal experiments

* Vendor Effects on Murine Gut Microbiota Influence Experimental Abdominal Sepsis – Tobias Hilbert – Journal of Surgical Research

The critical role of microbiota within cecal crypts on the regenerative capacity of the intestinal epithelium following surgical stress – Alexander Zaborin – American Journal of Physiology Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Source of supplemental dietary copper, zinc, and manganese affects fecal microbial relative abundance in lactating dairy cows – M.J. Faulkner – Journal of Dairy Science

Deciphering upper respiratory tract microbiota complexity in healthy calves and calves that develop respiratory disease using shotgun metagenomics – Natália C. Gaeta – Journal of Dairy Science

Animal microbiology

Riptortus pedestris and Burkholderia symbiont: an ideal model system for insect–microbe symbiotic associations – Kazutaka Takeshita – Research in Microbiology

Bird: Helminth burden and ecological factors associated with alterations in wild host gastrointestinal microbiota – Lindsay K Newbold – The ISME Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

* Fine Spatial Scale Variation of Soil Microbial Communities under European Beech and Norway Spruce – Heiko Nacke – Frontiers in Microbiology

Nutrient availability shapes the microbial community structure in sugarcane bagasse compost-derived consortia – Bruno L. Mello – Scientific Reports

The biogeography of soil archaeal communities on the eastern Tibetan Plateau – Yu Shi – Scientific Reports

Depth-resolved microbial community analyses in two contrasting soil cores contaminated by antimony and arsenic – Enzong Xiao – Environmental Pollution

Comprehensive Virus Detection Using Next Generation Sequencing in Grapevine Vascular Tissues of Plants Obtained from the Wine Regions of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) – Aleš Eichmeier – PLOS ONE

* Scottish soil: It is elemental: Soil nutrient stoichiometry drives bacterial diversity – Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo – Environmental Microbiology

Microbial soil community analyses for forensic science: Application to a blind test – Sandrine Demanèche – Forensic Science International

Review: Mycorrhiza: The Oldest Association Between Plant and Fungi – Jagnaseni Barman – Resonance

Book Chapter: Bioprospecting Soil Metagenomes for Antibiotics – Chiara Borsetto – Bioprospecting

Water and extremophile microbiome

The Distribution Pattern of Sediment Archaea Community of the Poyang Lake, the Largest Freshwater Lake in China – Yantian Ma – Archaea

Characterization of the first cultured representative of a Bacteroidetes clade specialized on the scavenging of cyanobacteria – Wajdi Ben Hania – Environmental Microbiology

Book chapter: Bioprospecting Archaea: Focus on Extreme Halophiles – André Antunes – Bioprospecting

Food microbiology

Analysis of the bacterial biodiversity of peaches under refrigerated storage after treatment by high hydrostatic pressure – Maria José Grande Burgos – Food and Bioproducts Processing

Bioreactor, biotechnology, and pollution microbiology

Correlating methane production to microbiota in anaerobic digesters fed synthetic wastewater – K. Venkiteshwaran – Water Research

Profiling bacterial communities associated with sediment-based aquaculture bioremediation systems under contrasting redox regimes – Georgina Robinson – Scientific Reports

Trace Elements Induce Predominance among Methanogenic Activity in Anaerobic Digestion – Babett Wintsche – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Quantitative Comparison of Abundance Structures of Generalized Communities: From B-Cell Receptor Repertoires to Microbiomes – Mohammadkarim Saeedghalati – arXiv

A simple statistical test of taxonomic or functional homogeneity using replicated microbiome sequencing samples – Daniel H. Huson – Journal of Biotechnology

Inferring Aggregated Functional Traits from Metagenomic Data Using Constrained Non-negative Matrix Factorization: Application to Fiber Degradation in the Human Gut Microbiota – Sébastien Raguideau – PLOS Computational Biology

Now published: IMP: a pipeline for reproducible reference-independent integrated metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses – Shaman Narayanasamy – Genome Biology

Metabolomics

Evaluating metabolic response to light exposure in Lactobacillus species via targeted metabolic profiling – Mengyang Xu – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Review: Phytanic acid consumption and human health, risks, benefits and future trends: A review – P. Roca-Saavedra – Food Chemistry

Viruses and phages

Perspective: Viruses and the origin of microbiome selection and immunity – Steven D Quistad – The ISME Journal

Techniques

* Detection of ESKAPE bacterial pathogens at the point-of-care using isothermal DNA-based assays in a portable, de-gas microfluidic diagnostic assay platform
Lars D. Renner – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Press: Portable detection system can rapidly identify virulent, multi-drug resistant pathogens in remote areas – News-Medical

Synthetic spike-in standards for high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing – Dieter M. Tourlousse – Nucleic Acids Research

Microbes in the news

Gardening Etcetera: Life down under in northern Arizona – Cindy Murray – AZ Daily Sun

CSI: Chem trail: a new way for investigators to narrow down suspect pools using chemical traces found on cellphones – Kelly Kasulis – Boston Globe

China expresses alarm as chilli ‘conspiracy’ heats up Indonesians – South China Morning Post

Adapting and adopting microbiome data into clinical practice – Silvio Pitlik & Omry Koren- BioMed Central

Bacteria that boost insulin-producing cells could yield new diabetes approaches – Arlene Weintraub – Fierce Biotech

Microbes in the market

Research focused on the human microbiome market worth 658 million USD by 2023 – Whatech

AOBiome Launches Phase 2 Clinical Trial Using Novel Bacterial Platform for Treatment of Hypertension – PR Newswire

Live Stock Coverage: What’s Ahead for Seres Therapeutics Inc After Today’s Huge Increase? – Linda Rogers- Frisco Fastball

 

December 17, 2016

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Periodontal pathogens in crack users, the human gut microbiome in health and disease, iron availability during polymicrobial infection, ecology of soil microorganisms, lake diurnal dynamics.

Human oral microbiome

* “Cut that ivory into skinny pieces, then she clean it with her face” (The Weeknd – Starboy lyrics):  RT-PCR quantification of periodontal pathogens in crack users and non-users – M Casarin

The Subgingival Microbiome, Systemic Inflammation and Insulin Resistance: The Oral Infections, Glucose Intolerance and Insulin Resistance Study (ORIGINS) – Ryan T. Demmer – Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Human gut microbiome

Prospective Randomized Controlled Study on the Effects of Saccharomyces boulardii CNCM I-745 and Amoxicillin-Clavulanate or the Combination on the Gut Microbiota of Healthy Volunteers – Toufic A Kabbani – Gut Microbes

Modulation of a Circulating Uremic Solute via Rational Genetic Manipulation of the Gut Microbiota – A. Sloan Devlin – Cell Host & Microbe
Preview: Microbial Modulation of a Uremic Toxin – Sarah M. Skye – Cell Host & Microbe

Host–microbiome interactions in human type 2 diabetes following prebiotic fibre (galacto-oligosaccharide) intake – Camilla Pedersen – British Journal of Nutrition

Poster abstract: In vitro study of the interaction between human gut microbiota and herbal extracts using willow bark extract as an example – EM Pferschy-Wenzig – Planta Medica

Poster abstract: Metabolic fate of ellagitannins in human gut microbiota ex vivo cultures – JP Piwowarski – Planta Medica

Commentary: Do diverticula provide a unique niche for microbiota which can lead to activation of the innate immune system? – Robin C Spiller – Gut

* Review: The Human Intestinal Microbiome in Health and Disease – Susan V. Lynch – The New England Journal of Medicine

Animal and in vitro experiments

* Microbial Community Composition Impacts Pathogen Iron Availability during Polymicrobial Infection – Apollo Stacy – PLOS Pathogens

A genome-wide screen of bacterial mutants that enhance dauer formation in C. elegans – Amit Khanna – Scientific Reports

Research in worms provides a model to study how the microbiome influences disease in humans – Phys.org

Identification and Characterization of Trimethylamine-N-oxide Uptake and Efflux Transporters – Wendy A. Teft – Molecular Pharmaceutics

Hydrolysis of Dicaffeoylquinic Acids from Ilex kudingcha Happens in the Colon by Intestinal Microbiota – Minhao Xie – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Bacterial Communities Differ among Drosophila melanogaster Populations and Affect Host Resistance against Parasitoids – Mariia Chaplinska – PLOS ONE

Animal microbiome

Amphibian gut microbiota shifts differentially in community structure but converges on habitat-specific predicted functions – Molly C. Bletz – Nature Communications

The genome of Rhizobiales bacteria in predatory ants reveals urease gene functions but no genes for nitrogen fixation – Minna-Maria Neuvonen – Scientific Reports

Poster abstract: How to fight against the decay- the burying beetle and its gut microbiota – P Heise – Planta Medica

Poster abstract: Latrunculid sponges, their microbial communities and secondary metabolites: connecting conserved bacterial symbionts to pyrroloiminoquinone production – RA Dorrington – Planta Medica

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

* Editorial: Special thematic issue on the ecology of soil microorganisms – Petr Baldrian – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Soil DNA metabarcoding and high-throughput sequencing as a forensic tool: considerations, potential limitations and recommendations – J. M. Young – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Distinctive Feature of Microbial Communities and Bacterial Functional Profiles in Tricholoma matsutake Dominant Soil – Seung-Yoon Oh – PLOS ONE

Variations in Soil Microbial Biomass Carbon and Soil Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Re-Vegetation of Hilly Slopes with Purple Soil – Ning Yang – PLOS ONE

Disentangling the influence of earthworms in sugarcane rhizosphere – Lucas P. P. Braga – Scientific Reports

Poster abstract: 3D-Plant2cells project: Spatial metabolomic, spatial metagenomic, and 3D mass spectrometry imaging, to explore the impact of pesticides on plant metabolome and microbiota – LF Nothias – Planta Medica

Poster abstract: Stromatolite microbial communities as a source of new bioactive secondary metabolites – PM Flatt – Planta Medica

Water and pollution microbiome

* Lake bacterioplankton dynamics over diurnal timescales – Lorena M. Grubisic – Freshwater Biology

Dynamics of Heterocapsa sp. and the associated attached and free-living bacteria under the influence of dispersed and undispersed crude oil – T. Severin – Letters in Applied Microbiology

More microbiology

Microbial Ecology: Where are we now? – Lisa Boughner and Pallavi Singh – PostDoc Journal

Microbes in the news

Video: Meet Prof Gisèle LaPointe: how microbes play a big role in our health and what she finds most exciting about her research – YouTube

Video: The Microbiology of Beer – Microbes After Hours. With Charles Bamforth, University of California, Davis and Rebecca Newman, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery – ASM – YouTube

The ancient viruses of the Arctic – Manchester Metropolitan University

Bacteria, viruses, fungi…oh my! – Jennifer Gonsoulin – ABC3340

7 Benson High School individuals test positive for tuberculosis bacteria – KETV

December 16, 2016

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General microbiome

Forging new links between the microbiome and cancer – Bryn Nelson – Cancer Cytopathology

Pregnancy and early life

Review: Planting the seed: Origins, composition, and postnatal health significance of the fetal gastrointestinal microbiota – Lisa F. Stinson – Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Review: The respiratory tract microbiome and lung inflammation: a two-way street – G B Huffnagle – Mucosal Immunology

Human gut microbiome

Influence of potassium-competitive acid blocker on the gut microbiome of Helicobacter pylori-negative healthy individuals – Taketo Otsuka – Gut

High Prevalence of Gut Microbiota Colonization with Broad-Spectrum Cephalosporin Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in a Tunisian Intensive Care Unit – Elaa Maamar – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Linking Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Composition and Function – Amy M. Sheflin – Gut Microbes

Review: The role of the gastrointestinal tract in the pathogenesis of rheumatic diseases – Francesco Ciccia – Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology

Animal experiments

Alteration in the Gut Microbiota Provokes Susceptibility to Tuberculosis – Nargis Khan – Frontiers in Immunology

Animal microbiome

Faecal virome of red foxes from peri-urban areas – Ivana Lojkić – Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis

The Underlying Ecological Processes of Gut Microbiota Among Cohabitating Retarded, Overgrown and Normal Shrimps – Jinbo Xiong – Microbial Ecology

Faecal virome of red foxes from peri-urban areas – Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Vertical stratification of the foliar fungal community in the world’s tallest trees – Joshua G. Harrison – American Journal of Botany

Impact of mowing management on nitrogen mineralization rate and fungal and bacterial communities in a semiarid grassland ecosystem – Jiangye Li – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Long-Term Application of Bioorganic Fertilizers Improved Soil Biochemical Properties and Microbial Communities of an Apple Orchard Soil – Lei Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Temporal Variations in Diazotrophic Communities and nifH Transcripts Level Across the Agricultural and Fallow Land at Jaipur, Rajasthan, India – Sushma Sharma – Indian Journal of Microbiology

Microbiology Meets Archaeology: Soil Microbial Communities Reveal Different Human Activities at Archaic Monte Iato (Sixth Century BC) – Rosa Margesin – Microbial Ecology

Primer Sets Developed for Functional Genes Reveal Shifts in Functionality of Fungal Community in Soils – S. Emilia Hannula – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Life in deep subsurface – Grégoire Galès – E2S Web of Conferences

Microbiology of cultural heritage

Microbial Life and Death in a Foxing Stain: a Suggested Mechanism of Photographic Prints Defacement – Maria Carla Sclocchi – Microbial Ecology

Microbiology of death

Artful decomposition: the microbial necrobiome – Kevin Lyons – People, peas and pathogens

Microbes in the news

It takes guts: Lawrence David explains unconventional research on microbiome – Jackie Dillon – Duke Chronicle

Water filters could increase bacteria in Flint water, researchers say – Oona Goodin-Smith – Mlive

How is the gut microbiome established? – Philip Dube – Taconic

Soil Bacteria Could Help Absorb Natural Gas Leaks – Aaron Sidder – EOS

Microbes on the market

The Microbiome Defined and Understood Using A.I. – Nanalyze

Microbiome Therapeutics Market Size To Reach USD 433.5 Million By 2025: Grand View Research, Inc. – SAT PR News

December 15, 2016

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Preannouncement of the second SF Bay Area Microbiome Meetup in January, enteric dysfunction in Malawian children, gastric microbiota in twins, Antarctic fish, soil of a medieval foundry.

Events

Preannouncement: 2nd SF Bay Area Microbiome Meetup – January 31, 2017 – Illumina, San Francisco – SF Biome

3rd Translational Microbiome Conference – April 11-13, 2017, Boston

Human gut microbiome

Environmental Enteric Dysfunction and the Fecal Microbiota in Malawian Children – M. Isabel Ordiz – Am J Trop Med Hyg

Characterization of Gastric Microbiota in Twins – Quanjiang Dong – Current Microbiology

Faecal Carriage of Gram-Negative Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria among Patients Hospitalized in Two Centres in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia – Bayaraa Baljin – PLOS ONE

Lifestyle and geographic insights into the distinct gut microbiota in elderly women from two different geographic locations – Ji-Hee Shin – Journal of Physiological Anthropology

Ability of Lactobacillus kefiri LKF01 (DSM32079) to colonize the intestinal environment and modify the gut microbiota composition of healthy individuals – Marco Toscano – Digestive and Liver Disease

Review: The intestinal microbiota in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant and graft-versus-host disease – Anna Staffas – Blood

Review: A story of metformin-butyrate synergism to control various pathological conditions as a consequence of gut microbiome modification: Genesis of a wonder drug? –
Kunal Maniar – Pharmacological Research

Animal models

Selective photoantisepsis – David M. Harris – Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Press: Laser Treatments Shown Effective in Killing Bacteria That Cause Dental Disease – Photonics

Induction of FXR signaling in germ-free mice colonized with a human microbiota – Annika Wahlström – Journal of Lipid Research

Modulation of urinary siderophores by the diet, gut microbiota and inflammation in mice –
Xia Xiao – Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Value added by Spirulina platensis in two different diets on growth performance, gut microbiota, and meat quality of Japanese quails – Mohamed S. Yusuf – Veterinary World

Triatomine bugs, their microbiota and Trypanosoma cruzi: asymmetric responses of bacteria to an infected blood meal – Sebastián Díaz – Parasites & Vectors

Dietary Keratan Sulfate from Shark Cartilage Modulates Gut Microbiota and Increases the Abundance of Lactobacillus spp. – Qingsen Shang – Marine Drugs

New insights into the role of the porcine intestinal yeast, Kazachstania slooffiae, in intestinal environment of weaned piglets – Vladimir Urubschurov – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Animal microbiome

The Gut Microbial Community of Antarctic Fish Detected by 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis – Wei Song – BioMed Research International

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

It is elemental: Soil nutrient stoichiometry drives bacterial diversity – Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo – Environmental Microbiology

Probiotic Diversity Enhances Rhizosphere Microbiome Function and Plant Disease Suppression – Jie Hu – mBio

Composition of endophytic fungal community associated with leaves of maize cultivated in south Brazilian field – Vivian J. Szilagyi-Zecchin – Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica

Vegetation type and layer depth influence nitrite-dependent methane-oxidizing bacteria in constructed wetland – Mengxi Yang – Archives of Micobiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Nitrate addition has minimal short-term impacts on Greenland ice sheet supraglacial prokaryotes – Karen A. Cameron – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Insights into bacterioplankton community structure from Sundarbans mangrove ecoregion using Sanger and Illumina MiSeq sequencing approaches: A comparative analysis – Anwesha Ghosh – Genomics Data

Microbial community structure and dynamics in thermophilic composting viewed through metagenomics and metatranscriptomics – Luciana Principal Antunes – Scientific Reports

Pollution microbiology

Atmospheric Deposition-Carried Zn and Cd from a Zinc Smelter and Their Effects on Soil Microflora as Revealed by 16S rDNA – Feng Shen – Scientific Reports

Paleomicrobiology to investigate copper resistance in bacteria: Isolation and description of Cupriavidus necator B9 in the soil of a medieval foundry – David C. Gillan – Environmental Microbiology

More microbiology

Stochastic Model for Direction Changes of Swimming Bacteria – Guido Fier – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Pitt study links cystic fibrosis lung inflammation to opportunistic bacteria – Lydia Nuzum – BizJournals

December 13, 2016

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Top 25 Microbiology Blog and Website List for Microbiologists – What a great list! But I’m a bit sad that I did not make it. But, lots of other great blogs luckily are listed here. Meantime, I will just carry the “I did not make it” badge.

Jobs

Lecturer in Oral Microbiology – University of Bristol

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiome in children with enthesitis-related arthritis in a developing country and the effect of probiotic administration – A. Aggarwal – Clinical & Experimental Immunology

Review: Role of the Microbiota in Colorectal Cancer: Updates on Microbial Associations and Therapeutic Implications – Olivia I. Coleman – BioResearch

Paper Hopes To Link Diet, Gut Microbiome And Colorectal Cancer – Science2.0

Animal microbiome

Diet-induced changes of redox potential underlie compositional shifts in the rumen archaeal community  – Nir Friedman – Environmental Microbiology

Potential role of ectoparasites (Zeuxapta seriolae and Caligus lalandei) in the transmission of pathogenic bacteria in yellowtail kingfish Seriola lalandi, inferred from cultivable microbiota and molecular analyses – F A Sepúlveda – Journal of Fish Diseases

Microbe in the news

“Eight minutes of struggling arthropods set to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata” – Bacteria Help Pitcher Plants Trap Prey –  Elizabeth Preston – Discover Magazine

Orange ‘ooze’ in Beaver Brook a harmless bacteria, city officials say – Xander Landen – Sentinel Source

Why are we so passionate about the smiling poop emoji? – Samantha Selinger-Morris – ABC

Researcher rethinks lactic acid bacteria – Stevie Kenyon – Daily Cardinal

Video: The Microbiome and Outcomes After Allogeneic Transplant – Robert Jenq – Cancer Network

Digging Deep for New Bacteria – Scientists find a whole ecosystem in fracking water – Eric Betz – Discover

Your head or your gut? – Justin D. Glenn – Labnews

Make-up of equine gut bacteria altered by exercise, study shows – Horse Talk

Bacteria Beef Up New Tree of Life. The new tree of life includes previously unknown species throughout the bacterial branches – Jonathon Keats – Discover

Researchers’ findings offer clue on how to block biofilm shields of bacterial infections – Science Daily

Microbes on the market

 

Biofilm tech wins CTAQ award – Food Quality News

C3J Therapeutics Unveils Development of Two New Product Formulations of Lead Candidate C16G2 for Prevention of Dental Caries – Nasdaq

The Detox Me Action Kit by Silent Spring Institute – IndieGoGo

DNA Biohackers Are Giving The FDA A Headache With Glow-In-The-Dark Booze. A biohacker thought he could sell something cool without consequences. The FDA thought otherwise. – Stephanie M. Lee – Buzzfeed

Product News: Rainin Pos-D™ Pipettes Allow Environmental Microbiology Researchers to Investigate Biodegradation of Oil  – Select Science