September 22, 2015

Effect of hookworm infection on microbiome of celiac subjects, neutrophil ageing, altering the bone niche, and a personal microbial cloud.

Pregnancy and birth

Influence of a combination of probiotics on bacterial infections in very low birthweight newborns – Zlatka Kanic – Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

Microbiome of death

High-throughput nucleotide sequence analysis of diverse bacterial communities in leachates of decomposing pig carcasses – Seung Hak Yang – Genetics and Molecular Biology

Human respiratory tract microbiome

Investigation of bacterial repopulation after sinus surgery and perioperative antibiotics – Leah J. Hauser – International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology

Human oral microbiome

Comparison of Subgingival and Peri-implant Microbiome in Chronic Periodontitis – Zhang, Qian – Chinese Journal of Dental Research

The novel association between red complex of oral microbe and body mass index in healthy Japanese: a population based cross-sectional study – Kanae Matsushita – Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition

Human gut microbiome

The relationship between faecal-associated and mucosal-associated microbiota in irritable bowel syndrome patients and healthy subjects – I. Rangel – Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Experimental hookworm infection and escalating gluten challenges are associated with increased microbial richness in celiac subjects – Paul Giacomin – Scientific Reports

Effect of administering a multi-species probiotic mixture on the changes in fecal microbiota and symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial – Hyuk Yoon – Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition

Review: Improving healthspan via changes in gut microbiota and fermentation – Michael J. Keenan – AGE

Review: Gastric Microbiota – Gianluca Ianiro – Helicobacter

Thesis: High-resolution analysis of the human intestinal microbiota stability landscape – Tineka Blake – Aalto University

Animal models

An integrated metabonomics and microbiology analysis of host-microbiota metabolic interactions in rats with Coptis chinensis-induced diarrhea – Yemeng Li – RCS Advances

Microbiota from Obese Mice Regulate Hematopoietic Stem Cell Differentiation by Altering the Bone Niche – Yubin Luo – Cell Metabolism

The levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system is associated with delayed endocervical clearance of Chlamydia trachomatis without alterations in vaginal microbiota – E.R. Liechty – Pathogens and Disease

Goldfish: Correlations of Gut Microbial Community Shift with Hepatic Damages and Growth Inhibition of Carassius auratus Induced by Pentachlorophenol Exposure – Haifeng Kan – Environmental Science & Technology

Neutrophil ageing is regulated by the microbiome – Dachuan Zhang – Nature

Animal microbiome

Diversity analysis of diazotrophs associated with corals from Xisha and Sanya, South China Sea – Qingsong Yang – Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management

Characterization of the Skin Microbiota in Italian Stream Frogs (Rana italica) Infected and Uninfected by a Cutaneous Parasitic Disease – Ermanno Federici – Microbes and Environments

Microbial diversity and activity in the Nematostella vectensis holobiont: insights from 16S rRNA gene sequencing, isolate genomes, and a pilot-scale survey of gene expression
Jia Y. Har – Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Endophytic bacterial communities associated with two explant sources of Eucalyptus benthamii Maiden & Cambage – Natalia Pimentel Esposito-Polesi – World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Endospores, prokaryotes, and microbial indicators in arable soils from three long-term experiments – Paulina Tamez-Hidalgo – Biology and Fertility of Soils

Namib Desert dune/interdune transects exhibit habitat-specific edaphic bacterial communities – Sandra Ronca – Frontiers in Microbiology

Responses of aromatic-degrading microbial communities to elevated nitrate in sediments
Meiying Xu – Environmental Science & Technology

Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts – Scott Ferrenberg – PNAS

Water / Extremophile microbiome

Patchy-distributed ciliate (Protozoa) diversity of eight polar communities as determined by 454 amplicon pyrosequencing – Jae-Ho Jung – Animal Cells and Systems

Protist communities in a marine oxygen minimum zone off Costa Rica by 454 pyrosequencing – H. Jing – Biogeosciences Discussions

Built environment microbiome

Humans differ in their personal microbial cloud – James F. Meadow – PeerJ

Waste microbiology

Relationship between bacterial diversity and environmental parameters during composting of different raw materials – Xueqin Wang – Bioresource Technology

The sociality of bioremediation: Hijacking the social lives of microbial populations to clean up heavy metal contamination – Siobhan O’Brien, Angus Buckling – EMBO Reports

Culturing oil sands microbes as mixed species communities enhances ex situ model naphthenic acid degradation – Marc A. Demeter – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Ecology

Predicting microbial traits with phylogenies – Marta Goberna and Miguel Verdú – The ISME Journal

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Metagenomic reconstructions of bacterial CRISPR loci constrain population histories – Christine L Sun – The ISME Journal

CCLasso: correlation inference for compositional data through Lasso – Huaying Fang – Bioinformatics

Computational methodology for predicting the landscape of the human–microbial interactome region level influence – Edgar D. Coelho – Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Techniques

Targeted single molecule mutation detection with massively parallel sequencing – Mark T. Gregory – Nucleic Acids Research

Micelle PCR reduces chimera formation in 16S rRNA profiling of complex microbial DNA mixtures – Stefan A. Boers – Scientific Reports

Virome Capture Sequencing Enables Sensitive Viral Diagnosis and Comprehensive Virome Analysis – Thomas Briese – mBio

Microbes in the news

Wherever You Go, Your Personal Cloud Of Microbes Follows – Rob Stein – NPR

Former CEO knew about contamination, wrote “Just ship it”: 28 years for salmonella: Peanut exec gets groundbreaking sentence – Moni Basu – CNN

UGA microbiology researchers identify potential mechanism for neurodegenerative diseases – News Medical

Researchers find novel signature in the brains of children with cerebral malaria – EurekAlert

Science, publishing, and career

About annoying invitations to write papers in questionable journals and strategies how to handle those: You are invited to submit… – David Moher and Anubhav Srivastava – BMC Medicine

Bik’s Picks

8 trillion microbeads pollute U.S. aquatic habitats daily – Jareen Imam – CNN

Science Says This Is the Sound Giraffes Make – Alexandra Sifferlin – Time

I Am the Walrus: What 35,000 Walruses Tell Us About Our Future in Warming World – Miyoko Sakashita – Huffington Post

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September 21, 2015

Microbiome Digest is back!

Today’s digest features nasal microbiomes of infants, oral microbiome of denture wearers, skin microbiome composition and outcome of infection, Atacama desert soil microbiome, and a comprehensive tree of life.

General microbiome

Viewpoint: The Human Microbiome and the Future Practice of Medicine – David A. Relman – JAMA

Review: Understanding Microbiome Data: A Primer for Clinicians – Seksik P. – Digestive Diseases

Pregnancy and birth microbiome

Minimally Invasive Sampling Method Identifies Differences in Taxonomic Richness of Nasal Microbiomes in Young Infants Associated with Mode of Delivery – Meghan H. Shilts – Host Microbe Interactions

Review: Microbiome and pediatric atopic dermatitis – Claire E. Powers – The Journal of Dermatology

Editorial: Metaproteomic analysis adds a functional glimpse into host-microbe succession in an infant’s GI – Joshua E. Elias – Proteomics

Human oral microbiome

The Oral Microbiome of Denture Wearers Is Influenced by Levels of Natural Dentition – Lindsay E. O’Donnell – PLOS ONE

Forensic Identification in Teeth with Caries – Esther Alia-García – Forensic Science International

Review: Oral Microbiome Metabolism: From “Who Are They?” to “What Are They Doing?” – N. Takahashi – Journal of Dental Research

Review: Polymicrobial Candida biofilms: friends and foe in the oral cavity – Lindsay E. O’Donnell – FEMS Yeast Research
Review: Defining periodontal health – Angelo Mariotti and Arthur F Hefti – BMC Oral Health

Review: Can oral infection be a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease? – Ingar Olsen and Sim K. Singhrao – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Review: The commensal microbiota and the development of human disease – an introduction – Philip D. Marsh – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Human skin microbiome

The Human Skin Microbiome Associates with the Outcome of and Is Influenced by Bacterial Infection – Julia J. van Rensburg – mBio

Review: Turning the inside out: The microbiology of atopic dermatitis – Harald Brüssow – Environmental Microbiology

Review: Microbiome and pediatric atopic dermatitis – Claire E. Powers – The Journal of Dermatology

Human gut microbiome

Decompensated cirrhosis and microbiome interpretation – Jasmohan S. Bajaj – Nature

The role of whole-grain barley on human fecal microbiota and metabolome – Maria De Angelis – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Experimental hookworm infection and escalating gluten challenges are associated with increased microbial richness in celiac subjects – Paul Giacomin – Scientific Reports

Intestinal microbiota and anastomotic leakage of stapled colorectal anastomoses: a pilot study – Jasper B. van Praagh – Surgical Endoscopy

Dysbiosis in the Gut Microbiota of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis, with a Striking Depletion of Species Belonging to Clostridia XIVa and IV Clusters – Sachiko Miyake – PLOS ONE

Identification of key taxa that favor intestinal colonization of Clostridium difficile in an adult Chinese population – Silan Gu- Microbes and Infection

Long Term Development of Gut Microbiota Composition in Atopic Children: Impact of Probiotics – N. B. M. M. Rutten – PLOS ONE

Review: Does the buck stop with the bugs?: an overview of microbial dysbiosis in rheumatoid arthritis – Pulukool Sandhya – International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases

Review: Potential role of gut microbiota and tissue barriers in Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Xin Fang – International Journal of Neuroscience

Editorial: Did you know that your cravings might be microbes controlling your mind?
A. Zakrisson – Acta Physiologica

Human reproductive tract microbiome

Vaginal microbiome and metabolome highlight specific signatures of bacterial vaginosis
B. Vitali – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

In situ metabolism in halite endolithic microbial communities of the hyperarid Atacama Desert – Alfonso F. Davila – Frontiers in Microbiology

Pervasive Effects of Wildfire on Foliar Endophyte Communities in Montane Forest Trees
Yu-Ling Huang – Plant Microbe Interactions

Interrelated effects of mycorrhiza and free-living nitrogen fixers cascade up to aboveground herbivores – Botir Khaitov – Ecology and Evolution

Soil Parameters Drive the Structure, Diversity and Metabolic Potentials of the Bacterial Communities Across Temperate Beech Forest Soil Sequences – M. Jeanbille – Soil Microbiology

Composition of fungal soil communities varies with plant abundance and geographic origin – Vanessa Reininger – AoB Plants

Analysis of a Pool of Small Plasmids from Soil Heterotrophic Cultivable Bacterial Communities – Maria Cristiana Papaleo – The Open Microbiology Journal

Water microbiome

Influence of streambed substratum composition on stream microbial communities exposed to the fungicide tebuconazole – Florence Donnadieu – Freshwater Biology

Built environment microbiome

Microbial Density on Electronic Devices – Sulan Kith – Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci

Food microbiology

The microbiota of high-moisture mozzarella cheese produced with different acidification methods – Angela Guidone – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Review: Metagenomic insights into the dynamics of microbial communities in food
Gilles Kergourlay – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Improved metagenome assemblies and taxonomic binning using long-read circular consensus sequence data – Jeremy A. Frank – BioRxiv

More microbes

Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life – Cody E. Hinchliff – PNAS

Single cell activity reveals direct electron transfer in methanotrophic consortia
Shawn E. McGlynn – Nature

Linking microbial community structure and microbial processes: an empirical and conceptual overview – Raven L. Bier – FEMS Microbial Ecology

Microbes in the news

Russian scientists make progress on secret of eternal life: Living bacteria found in permafrost – ‘3.5 million years old’ – is ‘scientific sensation’ which allows ‘mice grannies’ to reproduce. – The Siberian Times

Bacteria light up Rome’s Colosseum in ‘message of peace’ – Isla Binnie – Reuters

Son takes up fight against bacteria that took father’s leg – Daphne Chen – Washington Times

The frightening spread of antibiotic resistance around the world, visualized- Amy X. Wang – Quartz

Electron transport between species discovered in deep-sea research – Marilyn Malara – UPI

Feeding the world with microbacterial agriculture – Wendy Zukerman – The Saturday Paper
The bacteria-fighting super element that’s making a comeback in hospitals: copper – Lena H. Sun – Washington Post

St. Petersburg home brewer pushes the limits with wild bacteria beers – Michelle Stark – Tampa Bay

Scientists Create 1st ‘Tree of Life’ for Around 2.3 mn Species – TV Newsroom

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September 13, 2015

General microbiome

Prediction of relevant biomedical documents: a human microbiome case study – Paul Thompson – BioData Mining

Pregnancy and birth

High frequencies of antibiotic resistance genes in infants’ meconium and early fecal samples – M. J. Gosalbes – Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Human gut microbiome

A Metagenomic Investigation of the Duodenal Microbiota Reveals Links with Obesity – Emmanouil Angelakis – PLOS ONE

Gut microbiota diversity predicts immune status in HIV-1 infection – Nowak, Piotr – AIDS

The human gut mycobiome: pitfalls and potentials-a mycologist’s perspective – Mallory J Suhr – Mycologia

Animal microbiome

Cloacal Microbiome Structure in a Long-Distance Migratory Bird Assessed Using Deep 16sRNA Pyrosequencing – Jakub Kreisinger – PLOS ONE

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Stimulate Vegetative Growth and Asexual Reproduction of Kalanchoe daigremontiana – Yong-Soon Park – The Plant Pathology Journal

Water / Extremophile microbiome

Activity and community structures of sulfate-reducing microorganisms in polar, temperate and tropical marine sediments – Alberto Robador – The ISME Journal

Ecology and application of haloalkaliphilic anaerobic microbial communities – João A.B. Sousa – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Microbiological characterization of aquatic microbiomes targeting taxonomical marker genes and antibiotic resistance genes of opportunistic bacteria – Johannes Alexander – Science of the Total Environment

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Predicting Microbial Interactions Using Vector Autoregressive Model with Graph
Regularization – Xingpeng Jiang – , IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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September 12, 2015

Human gut microbiome reshaping by antibiotics, human gut microbiome and  blood lipids, periodontal disease in dogs, and microbial diversity in the presence of sequencing errors.

Human skin microbiome

Very small and not quite original study: Microbial Forensic Analysis of Bacterial Fingerprint by Sequence Comparison of 16S rRNA Gene – So-Yeon Lee – Forensic Research

Human gut microbioma

The initial state of the human gut microbiome determines its reshaping by antibiotics – Frédéric Raymond – The ISME Journal

The Gut Microbiome Contributes to a Substantial Proportion of the Variation in Blood Lipids – Jingyaun Fu – Circulation Research

Microbiome and Potential Targets for Chemoprevention of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma – Antonio Galvao Neto, M – Seminars in Oncology

Review: Gut Microbiome and the Development of Food Allergy and Allergic Disease – Benjamin T. Prince – Pediatrics Clinics of North America

Review: The Microbiome and Its Potential as a Cancer Preventive Intervention
Scott J. Bultman – Seminars in Oncology

Animal microbiome

A longitudinal assessment of changes in bacterial community composition associated with the development of periodontal disease in dogs – Corrin Wallis- Veterinary Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbiote shift in the Medicago sativa rhizosphere in response to cyanotoxins extract exposure – Fatima El Khalloufi – Science of the Total Environment

Bacterial endophytes of sweet potato tuberous roots affected by the plant genotype and growth stage – Joana Montezano Marques – Applied Soil Ecology

Impact of grazing abandonment on plant and soil microbial communities in an Atlantic mountain grassland – A. Aldezabal – Applied Soil Ecology

Phyllosphere and carposphere bacterial communities in olive plants subjected to different cultural practices – Silvia Pascazio

Maize biochar addition rate influences soil enzyme activity and microbial community composition in a fluvo-aquic soil – Xiubin Wang – Applied Soil Ecology

Water microbiome

Microscopy- or DNA-based analyses: Which methodology gives a truer picture of stream-dwelling decomposer fungal diversity? – Isabel Fernandes – Fungal Ecology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Ten Simple Rules for a Computational Biologist’s Laboratory Notebook – Santiago Schnell – PLOS Computational Biology

Estimating and comparing microbial diversity in the presence of sequencing errors – Chun-Huo Chiu, Anne Chao – PeerJ Preprint

Poster abstract: How to design an efficient and robust pipeline for 16S rRNA-gene sequence analysis to improve our understanding on microbial communities? – Lucas Auer – Journées Ouvertes Biologie Informatique Mathématiques

Techniques

Another blast from the past: Simple fools guide to PCR v1 – Jonathan Eisen – Microbenet

Microbes in the news

Link between microbiota 
and piglet performance – All About Feed

Researchers compare the gut viromes of Malawian children with severe acute malnutrition – Christopher Packham – Medical Xpress

Keeping gut bacteria in balance could help delay age-related diseases, study finds – Stuart Wolpert – Medical Xpress

Gut Microbes Associated With HDL, Triglycerides, and BMI – Becky McCall – MedScape

How Bacteria Control Your Cholesterol – Alice Park – Time

Why You Should Not Wear Contact Lenses – Health Impact News

Science, publishing, and career

Eva Harris: making science democratic, and sustainable – The Lancet

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September 9, 2015

Gut virome of Malawian twins, equine grass sickness, and high-throughput microfluidics.

Pregnancy and birth

Significant increase of oral bacteria in the early pregnancy period in Japanese women – Natsumi Fujiwara – Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry

Human gut microbiome

From the Jeff Gordon lab: Gut DNA viromes of Malawian twins discordant for severe acute malnutrition – Alejandro Reyes – PNAS

Research Highlight: Gut microbiota, host genetics and diet interact to affect the risk of developing obesity and the metabolic syndrome – Claire Greenhill – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Animal microbiome

Understanding Intestinal Microbiota in Equine Grass Sickness: Next Generation Sequencing of Faecal Bacterial DNA – Leng J. – Equine Veterinary Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Soil organic carbon and microbial communities respond to vineyard management – F. Zehetner – Soil Use and Management

Bioinformatics

Sparse Zero-Sum Games as Stable Functional Feature Selection – Nataliya Sokolovska – PLOS ONE

Techniques

Spatiotemporal microbial single-cell analysis using a high-throughput microfluidics cultivation platform – Alexander Grünberger – Cytometry Part A

Microbes in the news

Twins Study Explores Gut Virome Role in Severe Acute Malnutrition Risk – Genome Web

Study shows characterization of lung micro-organisms could help lung cancer patients – Medical Express

Pediatric antibiotic administration can have long-term effects on child development – BioTechInAsia

10 Mysteries of the Human Microbiome Revealed – Mental Floss

Microbes and art

3D Printed clothing house microorganisms: The wearable gut. An intestine-inspired tutu – with video – Nature Biotechnology

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September 8, 2015

How Bifidobacterium species digest human milk oligosaccharides, yeast species in floral nectar, and microbes of the cryosphere.

Pregnancy and birth

Comparative transcriptomics reveals key differences in the response to milk oligosaccharides of infant gut-associated bifidobacteria – Daniel Garrido – Scientific Reports

Human oral microbiome

Dental caries-not just holes in teeth! A perspective – William H. Bowen – Molecular Oral Microbiology

Progress in oral personalized medicine: contribution of ‘omics’ – Ingrid Glurich – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Editorial: Modeling the Context-Dependent Associations between the Gut Microbiome, Its Environment, and Host Health – Thomas J. Sharpton – mBio

Review: Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis in Obesity-Linked Metabolic Diseases and Prebiotic Potential of Polyphenol-Rich Extracts – Fernando F. Anhê – Current Obesity Reports

Review: The gut microbiota and host health: a new clinical frontier – Julian R Marchesi – Gut

Animal models

Distinct but Spatially Overlapping Intestinal Niches for Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium and Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae – Silvia Caballero – PLOS Pathogens

An Overview of Typical Infections of Research Mice: Health Monitoring and Prevention of Infection – James R. Fahey – Current Protocols in Mouse Biology

Editorial: The bug eye bandits – Yvonne Bordon – Nature Reviews Immunology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Species coexistence in simple microbial communities: unravelling the phenotypic landscape of co-occurring Metschnikowia species in floral nectar – María I. Pozo – Environmental Microbiology

Unveiling the metabolic potential of two soil-derived microbial consortia selected on wheat straw – Diego Javier Jiménez – Scientific Reports

Crop rotation of flooded rice with upland maize impacts the resident and active methanogenic microbial community – Björn Breidenbach – Environmental Microbiology

Water microbiome

Methane and microbial dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico water column – Chrisoulla Rakowski – Frontiers in Marine Science

Transformation of Organic Matter by Microbial Community in Sediments of Lake Baikal under Experimental Thermobaric Conditions of Protocatagenesis – Olga N. Pavlova – Geomicrobiology Journal

Extremophiles

Metagenomic analysis reveals that modern microbialites and polar microbial mats have similar taxonomic and functional potential – Richard A. White III – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Microbial ecology of the cryosphere: sea ice and glacial habitats – Antje Boetius – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

ConStrains identifies microbial strains in metagenomic datasets – Chengwei Luo – Nature Biotechnology

Review: High-throughput bacterial functional genomics in the sequencing era – Andrew N Gray – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Techniques

Uniform and accurate single-cell sequencing based on emulsion whole-genome amplification – Yusi Fu – PNAS

Microbes in the news

Seal fur and Arctic bacteria leach toxic mercury into waters – Joshua Sokol – New Scientist

Time to Give Up Showers and Spray Yourself With a Coating of Live Bacteria
Madeleine Davies – Jezebel

A Look Inside the Lunch Boxes of Diet & Exercise Researchers – Ann Marie Awad – WRKF

Poo transplants can eliminate two superbugs from the gut: mice study – Eliza Berlage – The Conversation

Genetic Factors Drive Roles of Gut Bacteria in Diabetes and Obesity – News Wise

Bik’s Picks

Mercury offloaded in Northern elephant seal hair affects coastal seawater surrounding rookery – Jennifer M. Cossaboon – PNAS

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September 6, 2015

General microbiome

Recurrent antibiotic exposure may promote cancer formation – Another step in understanding the role of the human microbiota? – Ben Boursi – European Journal of Cancer

Pregnancy and birth microbiome

Clinical chorioamnionitis at term VI: acute chorioamnionitis and funisitis according to the presence or absence of microorganisms and inflammation in the amniotic cavity – Roberto Romero – Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Pregnancy-related changes in the maternal gut microbiota are dependent upon the mother’s periconceptional diet – Wajiha Gohir – Gut Microbes

Potential NICU Environmental Influences on the Neonate’s Microbiome: A Systematic Review – Hartz, Lacey E. – Advances in Neonatal Care

Human oral microbiome

Analysis of the Microbiota of Black Stain in the Primary Dentition – Yue Li – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

Furry pets modulate gut microbiota composition in infants at risk for allergic disease
Merja Nermes – The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Gut microbiome in Chronic Kidney Disease – Maria R. Wing – Experimental Physiology

Editorial: Microbial growth dynamics and human disease – Julia A. Segre – Science

Animal microbiome

Review: Heterogeneity of the gut microbiome in mice: guidelines for optimizing experimental design – Debby Laukens – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

454 Pyrosequencing-based assessment of bacterial diversity and community structure in termite guts, mounds and surrounding soils – Huxley M. Makonde – Springer Plus

Fish: Study of the microbiome of the intestine of the Comephorus dybowski korotneff, 1904 – N. L. Bel’kova – Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

An analysis of Pseudomonas genomic diversity in take-all infected wheat fields reveals the lasting impact of wheat cultivars on the soil microbiota – T.H. Mauchline – Environmental Microbiology

Selection of biological indicators appropriate for European soil monitoring – D. Stone – Applied Soil Ecology

Effects of silver nanoparticles on soil microorganisms and maize biomass are linked in the rhizosphere – Wouter Sillen – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis in viticulture: a review – Sophie Trouvelot – Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Soil particle size fractions harbour distinct microbial communities and differ in potential for microbial mineralisation of organic pollutants – Michael Hemkemeyer – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Differential responses of total and active soil microbial communities to long-term experimental N deposition – Zachary B. Freedman – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Environmental changes affect the assembly of soil bacterial community primarily by mediating stochastic processes – Ximei Zhang – Global Change

Built environment microbiome

Thesis: The building science of office surfaces: implications for microbial community succession – Mahnaz Zare – University of Toronto

Microbial Ecology

Dynamics of an experimental microbial invasion – Francisco Acosta – PNAS

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Bioinformatics

metaModules identifies key functional subnetworks in microbiome-related disease – Ali May – Bioinformatics

ISMapper: identifying transposase insertion sites in bacterial genomes from short read sequence data – Jane Hawkey – BMC Genomics

WiseScaffolder: an algorithm for the semi-automatic scaffolding of Next Generation Sequencing data – Gregory K. Farrant – BMC Bioinformatics

Inferring microbial interaction network from microbiome data using RMN algorithm
Kun-Nan Tsai – BMC Systems Biology
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September 5, 2015

Events

The Individual Microbe: Single-cell Analysis and Agent-based Modeling – ASM conference – March 18-20, 2016, Washington DC, USA

R workshop for microbial ecology – Pat Schloss – Nov 2-4, 2015, Detroit – No link but can email Pat at: pschloss@umich.edu

General microbiome

Privacy-Preserving Microbiome Analysis Using Secure Computation – Justin Wagner – BioRxiv

Pregnancy and birth microbiome

Phylogenetic and Metabolic Tracking of Gut Microbiota during Perinatal Development – Federica Del Chierico – PLOS ONE

Human oral microbiome

The Effect of Fixed Orthodontic Appliances and Fluoride Mouthwash on the Oral Microbiome of Adolescents – A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial – Jessica E. Koopman – PLOS ONE

Review: Oral Paleomicrobiology: study of the ancient oral microbiome – Namrata Dagli

Human gut microbiome

The effect of dietary resistant starch type 2 on the microbiota and markers of gut inflammation in rural Malawi children – M. Isabel Ordiz – Microbiome

Gastrointestinal Microbiome Modulator Improves Glucose Tolerance in Overweight and Obese Subjects: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial – Candida J. Rebello – Journal of Diabetes and its Complications

Faecal proteomics: A tool to investigate dysbiosis and inflammation in patients with cystic fibrosis – Griet Debyser – Journal of Cystic Fibrosis

Review: Pathways and functions of gut microbiota metabolism impacting host physiology – Smitha Krishnan – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Review: Microbiome in Inflammatory Arthritis and Human Rheumatic Diseases – Jose U. Scher – Arthritis & Rheumatology

Review: The human microbiome: opportunities and challenges for clinical care – G. B. Rogers – Internal Medicine Journal

Human respiratory microbiome (see also gut microbiome above)

MRSA Colonization and the Nasal Microbiome in Adults at High Risk for Colonization and Infection – Mary T. Bessesen – Journal of Infection

Review: Cystic fibrosis lung microbiome: Opportunities to reconsider management of airway infection – Lindsay J. Caverly – Pediatric Pulmonology

Human other sites

In silico analyses of metagenomes from human atherosclerotic plaque samples – Suparna Mitra – Microbiome

Microbiome models

Distinct Shifts in Microbiota Composition during Drosophila Aging Impair Intestinal Function and Drive Mortality – Rebecca I. Clark – Cell Reports

Perspective: Metabolic labeling puts the microbiome under the microscope – Graham J Britton & Jeremiah J Faith – Nature Medicine

Animal microbiome

The composition of the zebrafish intestinal microbial community varies across development – W Zac Stephens – ISME Journal

Shifts in the Midgut/Pyloric Microbiota Composition within a Honey Bee Apiary throughout a Season – Jane Ludvigsen – Microbes and Environments

The genome of Aiptasia, a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis – Sebastian Baumgarten – PNAS

Special Issue: The Mammalian Microbiome and Its Importance in Laboratory Animal Research – André Bleich and James G. Fox – ILAR Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Predicting Ecological Roles in the Rhizosphere Using Metabolome and Transportome Modeling – Peter E. Larsen – PLOS ONE

Microbiome change by symbiotic invasion in lichens – Wedin Mats – Environmental Microbiology

Plant-associated microbiomes in arid lands: diversity, ecology and biotechnological potential – Asma Soussi – Plant and Soil

Geological connectivity drives microbial community structure and connectivity in polar, terrestrial ecosystems – Belinda C. Ferrari – Environmental Microbiology

Water microbiome

Anthropogenic activities drive the microbial community and its function in urban river sediment – Xu Zhang – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Built environment microbiome

Bacterial Communities and Midgut Microbiota Associated with Mosquito Populations from Waste Tires in East-Central Illinois – Chang-Hyun Kim – Journal of Medical Entomology

Hospital’s Hidden Environmental Hazards: Probing the Microbiome – BioScience

Pyrosequencing analysis of bacterial communities in biofilms from different pipe materials in a city drinking water distribution system of East China – Hongxing Ren – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Food microbiology

The genomics of microbial domestication in the fermented food environment
John G Gibbons – Current Opinion in Genetics & Development

Bioinformatics

Functional Basis of Microorganism Classification – Chengsheng Zhu – PLOS Computational Biology

ReproPhylo: An Environment for Reproducible Phylogenomics – Amir Szitenberg – PLOS Computational Biology

MetaBAT, an efficient tool for accurately reconstructing single genomes from complex microbial communities – Dongwan D. Kang – PeerJ

More Microbiology

Evolution of coexistence in a crowded microplate well – J. Arjan G. M. de Visser – PNAS

The rpb2 gene represents a viable alternative molecular marker for the analysis of environmental fungal communities – Tomáš Větrovský – Molecular Ecology Resources

Microbes in the news

Microbial diversity insights are often strongly biased – Suffield Times
Small advances: understanding the microbiome – Amanda Smith – ABC Australia

Science, publishing and career

When science fails a scientist – Kim Hunter-Schaedle – Science

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September 1, 2015

General microbiome

Perspective: Better together: engineering and application of microbial symbioses – Stephanie G Hays – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Pregnancy and birth

Maternal use of probiotics during pregnancy and effects on their offspring’s health in an unselected population – Nicole Rutten – European Journal of Pediatrics

Impact of maternal bifidobacteria and the mode of delivery on Bifidobacterium microbiota in infants – S. Sirilun – Beneficial Microbes

Human Milk Oligosaccharides in Premature Infants: Absorption, Excretion and Influence on the Intestinal Microbiota – Mark A. Underwood – Pediatric Research

The influence of impact delivery mode, lactation time, infant gender, maternal age and rural or urban life on total number of Lactobacillus in breast milk Isfahan – Iran – Mansoureh Taghizadeh – Advanced Biomedical Research

Review: Maternal Microbiome and Pregnancy Outcomes That Impact Infant Health: A Review – Anne L Dunlop – Advances in Neonatal Care

Human gut microbiome

Characterization of the gut microbiota of Kawasaki disease patients by metagenomic analysis – Akiko Kinumaki – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Microbiome Disturbances and Autism Spectrum Disorders – Cheryl S. Rosenfeld – Drug Metabolism & Disposition

Review: Investigation of Host–Gut Microbiota Modulation of Therapeutic Outcome – Lian Yee Yip – Drug Metabolism & Disposition

Perspective: Could gut microbiota protect against sclerosing cholangitis? – Hanns-Ulrich Marschall – Hepatology

Models of microbiome research

Probiotic Bifidobacterium longum alters gut luminal metabolism through modification of the gut microbial community – Hirosuke Sugahara – Scientific Reports

Microbial community profiles of the colon from steers differing in feed efficiency – Phillip R Myer – Springer Plus

Distinct Shifts in Microbiota Composition during Drosophila Aging Impair Intestinal Function and Drive Mortality – Rebecca I. Clark – Cell Reports

Impact of Fishmeal Replacement in Diets for Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata) on the Gastrointestinal Microbiota Determined by Pyrosequencing the 16S rRNA Gene – G. Estruch – PLOS ONE

Lean rats gained more body weight than obese ones from a high-fibre diet – Shaoting Li – British Journal of Nutrition

Microbiota RORgulates intestinal suppressor T cells – Ahmed N. Hegazy – Science

Review: Heterogeneity of the gut microbiome in mice: guidelines for optimizing experimental design – Debby Laukens – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Animal microbiome

Temporal variation selects for diet–microbe co-metabolic traits in the gut of Gorilla spp – Andres Gomez – The ISME Journal

Domestication and cereal feeding developed domestic pig-type intestinal microbiota in animals of suidae – Kazunari Ushida – Animal Science Journal

Rapid Change of Microbiota Diversity in the Gut but Not the Hepatopancreas During Gonadal Development of the New Shrimp Model Neocaridina denticulata – Man Kit Cheung – Marine Biotechnology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

The Effect of Long-Term Continuous Cropping of Black Pepper on Soil Bacterial Communities as Determined by 454 Pyrosequencing – Wu Xiong – PLOS ONE

A metagenomic window into carbon metabolism at 3 km depth in Precambrian continental crust – Cara Magnabosco – The ISME Journal

A review: What is the spermosphere and how can it be studied? – Séverine Schiltz – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

glmgraph: An R Package for Variable Selection and Predictive Modeling of Structured Genomic Data – Li Chen – Bioinformatics

Discovery of phosphonic acid natural products by mining the genomes of 10,000 actinomycetes – Kou-San Ju – PNAS

Techniques

Mass Spectrometry-based PhyloProteomics (MSPP): A novel microbial typing Method – Andreas Erich Zautner – Scientific Reports

Microbes and art

Made of Bacteria, This Living Type Morphs Into New Letterforms: Ori Elisar’s project Living Language blurs the lines between designer and mad scientist with his Hebrew symbols grown in petridishes – Meg Miller – FastcoDesign

Microbes in the news

Unusual throat (and mouth) germs linked to schizophrenia, says two new studies – Amy Ellis Nutt – Washington Post

Some Sexually Transmitted Microbes Might Be Good for You – Marissa Fessenden – Smithsonian

How Does Your Microbiome Grow? The reproduction rates of the bacteria in one’s gut may be a good indicator of health or disease – Health Canal

How Do We Build Our Microbiomes? Exhibition “The Secret World Inside You” opens November 7 – American Museum of Natural History

New Yeast And Bacterial Starters Developed For Truly Wild European Wines – Eurasia Review

Bacteria Hysteria

Are your kid’s backpacks a magnet for bacteria? – Anna Zook – WJHL.com

Bik’s Picks

Acoustic shadows help gleaning bats find prey, but may be defeated by prey acoustic camouflage on rough surfaces – Elizabeth L Clare – eLIFE
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Pregnancy and birth

Fecal Microbial Community Structure Is Stable over Time and Related to Variation in Macronutrient and Micronutrient Intake in Lactating Women – Janae M Carrothers – The Journal of Nutrition

Human oral microbiome

Comparison between Clinical Aspects and Salivary Microbial Profile of Children with and without Early Childhood Caries: A Preliminary Study – Neves AB – Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry

Human gut microbiome

Systematic review: microbial dysbiosis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease – A. Wieland – Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Animal and bioreactor models

Effect of Bifidobacterium thermophilum RBL67 and fructo-oligosaccharides on the gut microbiota in Göttingen minipigs – Sabine A. Tanner – British Journal of Nutrition

Interactions between Drosophila and its natural yeast symbionts—Is Saccharomyces cerevisiae a good model for studying the fly-yeast relationship? – Don Hoang – PeerJ

Differential responses of gut microbiota to the same prebiotic formula in oligotrophic and eutrophic batch fermentation systems – Wenmin Long – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

Structure of Manila Clam (Ruditapes philippinarum) Microbiota at the Organ Scale in Contrasting Sets of Individuals – Guillaume Meisterhans – Invertebrate Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbiome change by symbiotic invasion in lichens – Wedin Mats – Environmental Microbiology

Comparison of soil microbial communities inhabiting vineyards and native sclerophyllous forests in central Chile – Luis E. Castañeda – Ecology and Evolution

Diversity and distribution of bacterial community in the coastal sediments of Bohai Bay, China – Liping Wang – Acta Oceanologica Sinica

The impact on the soil microbial community and enzyme activity of two earthworm species during the bioremediation of pentachlorophenol-contaminated soils – Zhong Lin – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Water microbiome

Terrestrial origin of bacterial communities in complex boreal freshwater networks – Clara Ruiz-González – Ecology Letters

How are microbial and detrital sources partitioned among and within gastropods species at East Pacific Rise hydrothermal vents? – Sylvie M. Gaudro – Marine Ecology

Extremophile microbiome

Geological connectivity drives microbial community structure and connectivity in polar, terrestrial ecosystems – Belinda C. Ferrari – Environmental Microbiology

Adaptation strategies of endolithic chlorophototrophs to survive the hyperarid and extreme solar radiation environment of the Atacama Desert – Jacek Wierzchos – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial biogeography of permafrost thaw ponds across the changing northern landscape – Jérôme Comte – Ecography

Food microbiology

Microbiota of Minas cheese as influenced by the nisin producer Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis GLc05 – Luana Martins Perin – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Built Environment microbiology

Microbiome interplay: plants alter microbial abundance and diversity within the built environment – Alexander Mahnert – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Escher: A Web Application for Building, Sharing, and Embedding Data-Rich Visualizations of Biological Pathways – Zachary A. King – PLOS Biology

Microbes in the news

Scientists Send Kombucha to Space in Search for Extraterrestrial Life – Kasandra Brabaw – Space.com

How Fats Influence the Microbiome – Kate Yandell – The Scientist

Fish oil diet modifies gut bacteria to boost health – News Medical

Soupy bacteria clogs Missisquoi Bay: “When it rots, it stinks bad” – Joel Banner Baird – Burlington Free Press

Bacteria Hysteria

Caveat: Sponsored by a make-up company. I cannot find any publication associated with this article either. Out of date make-up can contain lethal bacteria, London Met scientist finds – London Metropolitan University

‘There’s no way of knowing what fungus or bacteria is left on it’: Medical expert slams bizarre website that buys USED make-up from beauty lovers – before selling it again – Catherine Townsend – Daily Mail

Science, publishing, and career

The most important tasks for peer reviewers evaluating a randomized controlled trial are not congruent with the tasks most often requested by journal editors – Anthony Chauvin – BMC Medicine
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