May 1, 2016

Events

Bioinformatics for the Microbiome – Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine – May 27, 2016

General microbiome

Microbiome sequencing: challenges and opportunities for molecular medicine – Thomas Clavel – Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Human skin microbiome

An In vitro Model for Bacterial Growth on Human Stratum Corneum – Danique A. van der Krieken – Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Human respiratory microbiome

Launching into the Deep: Does the Pulmonary Microbiota Promote Chronic Lung Inflammation and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Pathogenesis? – Marc A. Sze – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Human gut microbiome

Targeting the gut to protect the bladder: Oral Phage therapy approaches against urinary Escherichia coli infections? – Harald Brüssow – Environmental Microbiology

Characterization of gut microbiota profiles in coronary artery disease patients using data mining analysis of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism: gut microbiota could be a diagnostic marker of coronary artery disease – Takuo Emoto – Heart and Vessels

Review: Gut microbiota: an Indicator to Gastrointestinal Tract Diseases – Trupti Patel – Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Review: Gut microbiome and kidney disease: a bidirectional relationship – Souhaila Al Khodor – Pediatric Nephrology

Animal models

Akkermansia Muciniphila Protects Against Atherosclerosis by Preventing Metabolic Endotoxemia-Induced Inflammation in Apoe-/- Mice – Jin Li – Circulation

The effects of maternal and post-weaning diet on gut microbiota and glucose metabolism in mice offspring – Jia Zheng – Bioscience Reports

Effect of Dietary Starch Source and Concentration on Equine Fecal Microbiota – Brittany E. Harlow – PLOS ONE

Faecal bacterial composition in dairy cows shedding Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in faeces in comparison with nonshedding cows – Marija Kaevska – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Molecular exploration of fecal microbiome in quinoa-supplemented obese mice – Jose F. Garcia-Mazcorro – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Lingonberries alter the gut microbiota and prevent low-grade inflammation in high-fat diet fed mice – Lovisa Heyman-Lindén – Food and Nutrition Research

The influence of fishmeal-free diets on microbial communities in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar recirculation aquaculture systems – Victor Schmidt – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Insights into the biodiversity of the gut microbiota of broiler chickens – Leonardo Mancabelli – Environmental Microbiology

Maternal exposure to a Western-style diet causes differences in intestinal microbiota composition and gene expression of suckling mouse pups – Wilma T. Steegenga – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Animal microbiome

Environmental filtering decreases with fish development for the assembly of gut microbiota – Qingyun Yan- Environmental Microbiology

Global microbialization of coral reefs – Andreas F. Haas – Nature Microbiology

Comparison of Varroa destructor and Worker Honeybee Microbiota Within Hives Indicates Shared Bacteria – Jan Hubert – Microbial Ecology

Review: Diagnosis and interpretation of intestinal dysbiosis in dogs and cats – Jan Suchodolski – The Veterinary Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Selective isolation of potentially phosphate-mobilizing, biosurfactant-producing and biodegradative bacteria associated with a sub-Arctic, terricolous lichen, Peltigera membranacea – Margrét Auður Sigurbjörnsdóttir – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Soil Protists in Three Neotropical Rainforests are Hyperdiverse and Dominated by Parasites – Frederic Mahe – bioRxiv

Edaphic properties override the influence of crops on the composition of the soil bacterial community in a semiarid agroecosystem – Luke D. Bainard – Applied Soil Ecology

Effects of land use change on the composition of soil microbial communities in a managed subtropical forest – Xiaoping Guo – Forest Ecology and Management

Bioprospecting of Plant Growth Promoting Bacilli and Related Genera Prevalent in Soils of Pristine Sacred Groves: Biochemical and Molecular Approach – Nathaniel A. Lyngwi – PLOS ONE

Aligning molecular studies of mycorrhizal fungal diversity with ecologically important levels of diversity in ecosystems – Ian R Sanders – The ISME Journal

Dynamics of microbial community composition and soil organic carbon mineralization in soil following addition of pyrogenic and fresh organic matter – Thea Whitman – The ISME Journal

Deterministic assembly processes govern bacterial community structure in the Fynbos, South Africa – I. Moroenyane – Microbial Ecology

Plant nitrogen-use strategy as a driver of rhizosphere archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidiser abundance – Cécile E. Thion – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Ecological restoration alters microbial communities in mine tailings profiles – Yang Li – Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

Co-occurrence analysis of microbial taxa in the Atlantic Ocean reveals high connectivity in the free-living bacterioplankton – Mathias Milici – Frontiers in Microbiology

Identification of Free-living and Particle-Associated Microbial Communities Present in Hadal regions of the Mariana Trench – Jonathan Tarn – Frontiers in Microbiology

Variation in coastal Antarctic microbial community composition at sub-mesoscale: spatial distance or environmental filtering? – Mario Moreno-Pino – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Microbial communities and arsenic biogeochemistry at the outflow of an alkaline sulfide-rich hot spring – Zhou Jiang – Scientific Reports

Comparative activity and functional ecology of permafrost soils and lithic niches in a hyper-arid polar desert – J. Goordial – Environmental Microbiology

Built environment microbiome

Melding the Old with the New: Trends in Methods Used to Identify, Monitor, and Control Microorganisms on Cultural Heritage Materials – Patricia Sanmartín – Microbial Ecology

Food microbiology

Overlap of spoilage microbiota between meat and meat processing environment in small-scale vs large-scale retail distribution – Giuseppina Stellato – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Fermentative capabilities and volatile compounds produced by Kloeckera/Hanseniaspora and Saccharomyces yeast strains in pure and mixed cultures during Agave tequilana juice fermentation – Ivonne Wendolyne González-Robles – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Pollution and waste microbiology

The effects of salinity on nitrification using halophilic nitrifiers in a Sequencing Batch Reactor treating hypersaline wastewater – Scientific Reports – You-Wei Cui

Metagenomic analysis of rapid gravity sand filter microbial communities suggests novel physiology of Nitrospira spp.– Alejandro Palomo – The ISME Journal

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Metaxa2 Diversity Tools: Easing microbial community analysis with Metaxa2 – Johan Bengtsson-Palme – Ecological Informatics

IPED: a highly efficient denoising tool for Illumina MiSeq Paired-end 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing data – Mohamed Mysara – BMC Bioinformatics

Minireview: Tracking strains in the microbiome: insights from metagenomics and models – Ilana L. Brito – Frontiers in Microbiology

Viruses and phages

Review: Endogenized viral sequences in mammals – Nicholas F. Parrish – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Probiotics

Probiotic Cream: Viability of Probiotic Bacteria and Chemical Characterization – Lutfiye Yilmaz-Ersan – Journal of Food Processing and Preservation

Transcriptomics

Use of Metatranscriptomics in Microbiome Research – Stavros Bashiardes – Bioinform Biol Insights

More microbiology

Complex molecular mixtures under cycling gradients as basis for lifes origins – Bert Poolman – bioRxiv

Phylogenomic analysis of lipid biosynthetic genes of Archaea shed light on the ‘lipid divide’ – Laura Villanueva – Environmental Microbiology

Review: Are you my symbiont? Microbial polymorphic toxins and antimicrobial compounds as honest signals of beneficial symbiotic defensive traits – Kai Hillman – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Findings from the Gut—New Insights into the Human Microbiome – Karen Weintraub – Scientific American

What our gut tells us about the ‘hygiene hypothesis’ – Veronica Meade-Kelly – MedicalXpress

Russian scientists prove Antarctic bacteria brought from other continents – TASS

Beer made from belly button fluff has a bit of the brewer in every glass – Jenni Ryal – Mashable @7centBrewery

Yep, This Brewery Makes Beer Using Bacteria From People’s Belly Buttons: “7 cent Brewery” – Alec MacDonald – Elite Daily

Bacteria from Burning Tree mastodon survived 13,000 years – Laura Arenschield – Dispatch

Echo Bay woman caught harvesting bacteria at gardening event – Jeff Klassen – Soo Today

Weakened coral reefs are facing the threat of algae colonisation – Kemal Atlay – SBS Australia

Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too – How a steady diet of fertilizers has turned crops into couch potatoes – Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery – Nautilus

From running shoes to carbon sinks: four surprising uses for algae – ABC Future Tense

Science, publishing, and career

“Everyone” Downloads Research Papers Illegally – Science magazine just published a great piece on the utility of Sci-Hub. Unfortunately, its defense of its own business model is flawed – Justin Peters – Slate

April 28, 2016

A special issue of Science with 2 papers on lifestyle factors that determine composition of the stool microbiome in large human cohorts, variation in microbiome LPS immunogenicity contributes to autoimmunity, SEM analysis of cave speleothem microbial communities, and saliva bacteria in Chicha (Ecuadorian beer).

Jobs and Events

Early Career Microbiome Meal, during European Respiratory Society Meeting 2016 London, September 2016

Caporaso Lab is hiring a software engineer to work on QIIME and scikit-bio – Greg Caporaso – MicroBEnet

General microbiome

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IntroductionManipulating the Microbiota – Caroline Ash, Kristen Mueller  – Science

ReviewCross-species comparisons of host genetic associations with the microbiome – Julia K. Goodrich – Science

ReviewHow colonization by microbiota in early life shapes the immune system – Thomas Gensollen – Science

ReviewAntibiotic use and its consequences for the normal microbiome – Martin J. Blaser – Science

Review: The healthy human microbiome – Jason Lloyd-Price – Genome Medicine

Pregnancy and birth

Infant formula with galacto-oligosaccharides (OM55N) stimulates the growth of indigenous bifidobacteria in healthy term infants – T. Matsuki – Beneficial Microbes

Human oral microbiome

Comparison of Boiling and Robotics Automation Method in DNA Extraction for Metagenomic Sequencing of Human Oral Microbes – Junya Yamagishi – PLOS ONE

Human respiratory microbiome

[PDF] The impact of different methods of DNA extraction on microbial community measures of BALF samples based on metagenomic data – Yan Wen – Am J Transl Res

Human reproductive tract microbiome

[PDF] Barcoded sequencing reveals diverse intrauterine microbiomes in patients suffering with endometrial polyps – Rui-Li Fang – Am J Transl Res

Opinion: Cervicovaginal Microbiomes–Threats and Possibilities – Gregor Reid – Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism

Review: Foodomics as part of the host-microbiota-exposome interplay – Lorenza Putignani – Journal of Proteomics

Human gut microbiome

Population-level analysis of gut microbiome variation – Gwen Falony – Science

Population-based metagenomics analysis reveals markers for gut microbiome composition and diversity – Alexandra Zhernakova – Science

Durable coexistence of donor and recipient strains after fecal microbiota transplantation – Simone S. Li – Science

Review: Resurrecting the intestinal microbiota to combat antibiotic-resistant pathogens – Eric G. Pamer – Science

Associations between dietary flavonoid intake and gut microbiota in a group of adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) – L. Li – Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary Metabolism

Variation in Microbiome LPS Immunogenicity Contributes to Autoimmunity in Humans – Tommi Vatanen – Cell

Gut Bacteria Metabolism Impacts Immune Recovery in HIV-infected Individuals – Sergio Serrano-Villar – EBioMedicine

Serologic microbial associated markers can predict Crohn’s disease behaviour years before disease diagnosis – R. S. Choung – Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Impact of age and sex on the composition and abundance of the intestinal microbiota in individuals with and without enteric infections – Pallavi Singh – Annals of Epidemiology

Review: Human gut microbiota and healthy aging: Recent developments and future prospective – Manish Kumar – Nutrition an Healthy Aging

Animal and other models

Soluble and Insoluble Fiber Differentially Impact Canine Fecal Microbiome and Circulating Metabolome – Matthew Irick Jackson – The FASEB Journal

Germ-free and antibiotic-treated mice are highly susceptible to epithelial injury in DSS colitis – Cristina Hernández-Chirlaque – Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis

High intensity exercise training increases the diversity and metabolic capacity of the mouse distal gut microbiota during diet-induced obesity – Emmanuel Denou – American Journal of Physiology

Induction of Subacute Ruminal Acidosis Affects the Ruminal Microbiome and Epithelium – Joshua C. Mccann – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Oral microbial biofilm models and their application to the testing of anticariogenic agents – Christina P.C. Sim – Journal of Dentistry

Animal microbiome

Patterns of bacteria-host associations suggest different ecological strategies between two reef building cold-water coral species – Anne-Leila Meistertzheim – Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Characterizing and handling different kinds of AM fungal spores in the rhizosphere – Xueguang Sun – World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Illumina-based analysis of the rhizosphere microbial communities associated with healthy and wilted Lanzhou lily (Lilium davidii var. unicolor) plants grown in the field – Qianhan Shang – World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Microbial community structures and metabolic profiles response differently to physiochemical properties between three landfill cover soils – Xi-En Long – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

The effects of host age and spatial location on bacterial community composition in the English Oak tree (Quercus robur) – S. Meaden – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Universal indicators for oil and gas prospecting based on bacterial communities shaped by light-hydrocarbon microseepage in China – Chunping Deng – Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Performance of 16s rRNA primer pairs in the study of rhizosphere and endosphere bacterial microbiomes in metabarcoding studies – Bram Beckers – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophiles

The unexpected extremophile: Tolerance to fluctuating salinity in the green alga Picochlorum – Fatima Foflonker – Algal Research

Microbial communities in a range of carbon dioxide fluxes from a natural volcanic vent in Campo de Calatrava, Spain – Irena Fernández-Montiel – International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

On the use of high-throughput sequencing for the study of cyanobacterial diversity in Antarctic aquatic mats – Igor Stelmach Pessi – Journal of Phycology

Quorum sensing plays a complex role in regulating the enzyme hydrolysis activity of microbes associated with sinking particles in the ocean – Andreas Krupke – Frontier in Marine Science

Succession of bacterial community structure during the early stage of biofilm development in the Antarctic marine environment – Yung Mi Lee – Korean Journal of MIcrobiology

Using scanning electron microscopy to study microbial communities in speleothem samples collected from Iron Curtain Cave – Cohord Mason – The Journal of Experimental Microbiology & Immunology

Large differences in potential denitrification and sediment microbial communities across the Laurentian great lakes – Gaston E. Small – Biogeochemistry

Built environment microbiome

Ecological succession of the microbial communities of an air conditioning cooling coil in the tropics – Enzo Acerbi – Indoor Air

Web Alert: Microbiology in archaeology: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology – Lawrence P. Wackett – Environmental Microbiology

Food microbiology

Bacteria associated with human saliva are major microbial components of Ecuadorian indigenous beers (chicha) – Ana L. Freire – PeerJ

A method to isolate bacterial communities and characterize ecosystems from food products: Validation and utilization in as a reproducible chicken meat model – Amélie Rouger – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

BaitFisher: A Software Package for Multispecies Target DNA Enrichment Probe Design – Christoph Mayer – Molecular Biology and Evolution

Microbial ecology

The Evolution of Quorum Sensing as a Mechanism to Infer Kinship – Jonas Schluter – PLOS Computational Biology

Co-existence facilitates interspecific biofilm formation in complex microbial communities – Jonas S Madsen – Environmental Microbiology

Viruses and phages

Molecular evolution of epizootic hemorrhagic disease viruses in North America based on historical isolates using motif fingerprints – W. C. Wilson – Virus Genes

Techniques

[Video Protocol] Efficient Nucleic Acid Extraction and 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing for Bacterial Community Characterization – Melis N. Anahtar – Journal of Visualized Experiments

Comparison of Boiling and Robotics Automation Method in DNA Extraction for Metagenomic Sequencing of Human Oral Microbes – Junya Yamagishi – PLOS ONE

The impact of different methods of DNA extraction on microbial community measures of BALF samples based on metagenomic data – Yan Wen – Am J Transl Res

Microbes in the news

Your gut bacteria are more than what you eat – Elizabeth Pennisi – Science

With quotes from me! New research confirms thriving gut bacteria is linked to a healthier body – Russell Brandom – The Verge

Want more good bugs in your gut? Try yogurt. And coffee – Patrick Skerrett – STAT News

This Bacteria Strain Offers a Curious Mix of Hope and Danger. The Elizabethkingia strain could cure malaria, but it’s also sickened dozens in Wisconsin – Lisa Margonelli – Slate

Bacteria beneficial to plants have spread across California – UC Riverside study shows spread of Bradyrhizobium has important implications for biofertilizers – EurekAlert

The Benefits of Slathering Your Newborn Baby with Vaginal Bacteria – Rebecca Schiller – Vice Broadly

A Timely Gut Check. At the American Museum of Natural History, meet your microbiome – Ralph Gardner – The Wall Street Journal

A Comprehensive Survey of Pre-Clinical Microbiology Curricula Among United States Medical Schools – Dora Melber – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Mayo Clinic Ventures Firm Explores Commercialization Of Gut Microbe Treatment – Don Jacobson – Twin City Business

Microbes and art

Quilting with soil: soil microorganisms had “painted” their efforts on the cloth in an unexpected variety of colors. – Martha Pings – Soils

Science, publishing, and career

Is most published research really false? – Jeffrey T Leek, Leah R Jager – bioRxiv

Who’s downloading pirated papers? Everyone. In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website – John Bohannon – Science

The frustrated science student behind Sci-Hub – John Bohannon – Science

Plagiarism: A worm poking holes into the quality of our academic work – Christine Osae – The New Times

Bik’s Picks
Doctor ready to perform first human head transplant – Ross Kenneth Urken – News Week

April 27, 2016

Cervical microbiome during cancer, distinct gut microbiome in kidney stone formers? (unclear due to vaguely formulated control group), culturing marine microbes in artificial seawater, codon usage to predict pathogenicity.

Events

Science Diplomats to present ‘Trust Your Gut: How Helpful Bacteria Impact Health’ – Free talk given 3 times at Yale in May

Pregnancy and birth

News & Views: Immunology: Mum’s microbes boost baby’s immunity – Mihir Pendse & Lora V. Hooper – Nature

Human respiratory microbiome

Culture based: Microbiology of peritonsillar abscess in the South Estonian population – Risto Vaikjärv – Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease

Human reproductive tract microbiome

Cervical Microbiome and Cytokine Profile at Various Stages of Cervical Cancer: A Pilot Study – Astride Audirac-Chalifour – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

Note that the control group is poorly described: Evidence for a distinct gut microbiome in kidney stone formers compared to non-stone formers – Joshua M. Stern – Urolithiasis

Review: Macrobiota — helminths as active participants and partners of the microbiota in host intestinal homeostasis – William C Gause – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Review: The possible mechanisms of the human microbiome in allergic diseases – Kagan Ipci – European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Review: Towards a functional hypothesis relating anti-islet cell autoimmunity to the dietary impact on microbial communities and butyrate production – David Endesfelder – Microbiome

Animal and bioreactor models

Biochar, Bentonite and Zeolite Supplemented Feeding of Layer Chickens Alters Intestinal Microbiota and Reduces Campylobacter Load – Tanka P. Prasai – PLOS ONE

Applying theories of microbial metabolism for induction of targeted enzyme activity in a methanogenic microbial community at a metabolic steady state – Jutta Speda – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

A humanized microbiota mouse model of ovalbumin-induced lung inflammation – Marie-Claire Arrieta – Gut Microbes

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Gall-ID: tools for genotyping gall-causing phytopathogenic bacteria – Edward W. Davis II – PeerJ Preprint

Water and extremophile microbiome

Artificial Seawater Media Facilitate Cultivating Members of the Microbial Majority from the Gulf of Mexico – Michael W. Henson – mSphere

Salinity shapes microbial diversity and community structure in surface sediments of the Qinghai-Tibetan Lakes – Jian Yang – Scientific Reports

Genomic resolution of a cold subsurface aquifer community provides metabolic insights for novel microbes adapted to high CO2 concentrations – Alexander J. Probst – Environmental Microbiology

Metabolome-mediated biocryomorphic evolution promotes carbon fixation in Greenlandic cryoconite holes – J.M. Cook – Environmental Microbiology

Pollution and waste microbiology

Microbial density and diversity in constructed wetland systems and the relation to pollutant removal efficiency – Yang Zhang – Water Science & Technology

A mesophilic anaerobic digester for treating food waste: process stability and microbial community analysis using pyrosequencing – Lei Li – Microbial Cell Factories

Microbial ecology

Inhibitory interactions promote frequent bistability among competing bacteria
Erik S. Wright – Nature Communications

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Protocol: Big Data, Evolution, and Metagenomes: Predicting Disease from Gut Microbiota Codon Usage Profiles – Maja Fabijani – Data Mining Techniques for the Life Sciences

Review: High definition for systems biology of microbial communities: metagenomics gets genome-centric and strain-resolved – Dmitrij Turaev – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Microbes in the news

Elizabethkingia: The bacteria strain that could kill you. Or cure malaria. Small Science: Genomic data is showing us how little we know – Lisa Margonelli – Houston Chronicle

New Anti-Biofilm Nano Coating Prevents Bacterial Growth on Metal Surfaces – Azo Nano

Quick mapping of our microbiomes and metabolomes – Science Daily

Viral Skin Infections – Tomislav Meštrović – News Medical

Bacteria pill is ‘better than statins’ in the war on cholesterol, say researchers – Joe Smith – Mirror UK

Bacterial virulence is stimulated by burns – EurekAlert

Science, publishing, and career

Meet The New CEO Of The $22 Billion Genomics Company You’ve Never Heard Of: Francis deSouza to lead Illumina – Christina Farr – Fast Company

What Happened When I Pushed Myself to Interview More Women: Increasing the breadth of sources in journalism – John R. Platt – Motherboard

The quiet revolutionary: How the co-discovery of CRISPR explosively changed Emmanuelle Charpentier’s life. The microbiologist spent years moving labs and relishing solitude. Then her work on gene-editing thrust her into the scientific spotlight – Alison Abbott – Nature

Speak up about subtle sexism in science: Female scientists face everyday, often-unintentional microaggression in the workplace, and it won’t stop unless we talk about it – Tricia Serio – Nature

Bik’s Picks

Effects of a Closed Space Environment on Gene Expression in Hair Follicles of Astronauts in the International Space Station – Masahiro Terada – PLOS ONE

April 26, 2016

Gut microbiome in preterm infants, the bee microbiome, monitoring of surfaces in the ISS, and a database-independent approach to OTU picking.

Jobs and events

Assistant/Associate Professor in Microbiome Studies – University of Arizona

I am one of the judges! 2016 MoBio Microbiome Awards – Deadline May 31

General microbiome

CommentA multi-omic future for microbiome studies – Janet K. Jansson – Nature Microbiology

Pregnancy and birth

Gut Microbiome Developmental Patterns in Early Life of Preterm Infants: Impacts of Feeding and Gender – Xiaomei Cong – PLOS ONE

Human oral microbiome

Microbiota-based Signature of Gingivitis Treatments: A Randomized Study – Shi Huang – Scientific Reports

Complementary clinical effects of red complex bacteria on generalized periodontitis in a caucasian population – E Lanza – Oral Diseases

Human blood ‘microbiome’

(also stool microbiome) Alteration of the serum microbiome composition in cirrhotic patients with ascites – Alba Santiago – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG Intake Modifies Preschool Children’s Intestinal Microbiota, Alleviates Penicillin-Associated Changes, and Reduces Antibiotic Use – Katri Korpela – PLOS ONE

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Using Upper Gastrointestinal Tract for the Treatment of Refractory or Severe Complicated Clostridium difficile Infection in Elderly Patients in Poor Medical Condition: The First Study in an Asian Country – Tae-Geun Gweon – Gastroenterology Research and Practice

Review: A healthy gastrointestinal microbiome is dependent on dietary diversity – Mark L. Heiman – Molecular Metabolism

Review: Mediterranean diet and faecal microbiota: a transversal study – Isabel Gutiérrez-Díaz – Food & Function

Editorial to a special Issue: Gut Microbiota and Metagenomic Advancement in Digestive Disease – Jinsheng Yu – Gastroenterology Research and Practice

Review: Efficacy and Mechanisms of Action of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Ulcerative Colitis: Pitfalls and Promises From a First Meta-Analysis – F. Scaldaferri – Transplantation Proceedings

Animal and other models

Sex steroid deficiency–associated bone loss is microbiota dependent and prevented by probiotics – Jau-Yi Li – the Journal of Clinical Investigation

Commentary: From the gut to the strut: where inflammation reigns, bone abstains – Jameel Iqbal – The Journal of Clinical Investigation

Acute dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis promotes gut microbial dysbiosis in mice – Peris Mumbi Munyaka – Journal of Basic Microbiology

Effects of low-level dietary microalgae supplementation on the distal intestinal microbiome of farmed rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum) – Philip P Lyons – Aquaculture Research

The evolution of cooperation within the gut microbiota – Seth Rakoff-Nahoum – Nature

Gut microbiota-associated bile acid deconjugation accelerates hepatic steatosis in ob/ob mice – Mi-Young Park – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Effect of in ovo administration of an adult-derived microbiota on establishment of the intestinal microbiome in chickens – Adriana A. Pedroso – American Journal of Veterinary Research

Animal microbiome

First Comparative Analysis of the Community Structures and Carbon Metabolic Pathways of the Bacteria Associated with Alvinocaris longirostris in a Hydrothermal Vent of Okinawa Trough – Qing-lei Sun – PLOS ONE

The Bee Microbiome: Impact on Bee Health and Model for Evolution and Ecology of Host-Microbe Interactions – Philipp Engel – mBio

Masters thesis, pdf: Geographic influences on the skin microbiome of humpback whales – Kevin Charles Bierlch – Duke University

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Metabarcoding of Bacteria Associated with the Acute Oak Decline Syndrome in England – Melanie Sapp – MDPI Forests

Conservation tillage increases soil bacterial diversity in the dryland of northern China – Ziting Wang – Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Temporal dynamic of parasite-mediated linkages between the forest canopy and soil processes and the microbial community – Ana Mellado – New Phytologist

A watering manipulation in a semiarid grassland induced changes in fungal but not bacterial community composition – Theresa A. McHugh – Pedobiologia

Vertical micro-distribution of microbial communities living in Sphagnum fallax – Lihong Song – Inter-Research Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Bacterial Rhizosphere Biodiversity from Several Pioneer Desert Sand Plants Near Jizan, Saudi Arabia – Jorge R. Osman – The Open Conference Proceedings Journal

Water microbiome

Nutrient uplift in a cyclonic eddy increases diversity, primary productivity and iron demand of microbial communities relative to a western boundary current – Martina A. Doblin – PeerJ

Proteomic Stable Isotope Probing Reveals Taxonomically Distinct Patterns in Amino Acid Assimilation by Coastal Marine Bacterioplankton – Samuel Bryson – mSystems

Phylogenetic structure of bacterial assemblages co-occurring with Ostreopsis cf. ovata bloom – Silvana Vanucci – Harmful Algae

Persistence, loss and appearance of bacteria upstream and downstream – Lisa Dann – Marine and Freshwater Research

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in water columns and sediments of a highly eutrophic plateau freshwater lake – Yuyin Yang – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Doctoral thesis: Characterization and comparison of microbial communities from different tourist ports in Mediterranean Sea and evaluation of applicability of bioremediation treatments – Enrica Bullita – Università di Cagliari

Built environment microbiome

Four-year bacterial monitoring in the International Space Station—Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” with culture-independent approach – Tomoaki Ichijo – MPJ Microgravity

Food microbiology

The microbiological quality of pasteurized milk sold by automatic vending machines – Apostolos S. Angelidis – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Waste and pollution microbiology

Seasonal monitoring of bacteria and archaea in a full-scale thermophilic anaerobic digester treating food waste-recycling wastewater: correlations between microbial community characteristics and process variables – Joonyeob Lee – Chemical Engineering Journal

Effect of increased load of high-strength food wastewater in thermophilic and mesophilic anaerobic co-digestion of waste activated sludge on bacterial community structure – Hyun Min Jang – Water Research

Performance of a new suspended filler biofilter for removal of nitrogen oxides under thermophilic conditions and microbial community analysis – Li Han – Science of The Total Environment

Viruses and phages

Deciphering the virus-to-prokaryote ratio (VPR): insights into virus–host relationships in a variety of ecosystems – Kaarle J. Parikka – Biological Reviews

Metagenomics, phylogeny, and bioinformatics

Application of a Database-Independent Approach To Assess the Quality of Operational Taxonomic Unit Picking Methods – Patrick D. Schloss – mSystems

Deconvoluting simulated metagenomes: the performance of hard- and soft- clustering algorithms applied to metagenomic chromosome conformation capture (3C) – Matthew Z. DeMaere – PeerJ Preprint

From Sample to Multi-Omics Conclusions in under 48 Hours – Robert A. Quinn – mSystems

Microbes in the news

An emerging fungal disease is killing snakes in the US – Anand Jagatia – Microbe Post

Gut feeling: Research examines link between stomach bacteria, PTSD – Science Daily

Converting perchlorate into oxygen: Students colonise Mars with E. coli bacteria – Alpha Galileo

Are multidrug-resistant bacteria spread through sewage water? – Universität Bonn

Fermentation festival leads to rapid response system at Center for Microbiome Innovation – Science Codex

Changes in ‘microbiome’ during canine atopic dermatitis could lead to antibiotic-free therapies for human and canine disease – EurekAlert

More Than A Gut Feeling: Can Gut Microbiome Be Used To Treat Mental Disorders? – Catherine Cabral-Isabedra – Tech Times

Gut microbiome alteration may improve survival in graft-versus-host disease – Corinne Foley – 2MinuteMedicine

Your lungs are full of microorganisms … and that’s a good thing – Ian Hall – The Conversation

The new trillion-dollar market opportunity: Video with Jessica Richman – Anne Stych – BizJournals

Malaria, mosquitoes, and microbiota control – Jason Tetro – PopSci

Some Nonantibiotics Disrupt Biofilms in Endometritis Cases – Alexandra Beckstett – The Horse

A serious stomach bug: Norovirus costs billions of dollars of lost productivity – Ike Swetlitz – STAT News

April 25, 2016, back in Cali

Arrived back at SFO, and enough material for another digest. Longitudinal assessment of sputum microbiome, patient perspectives on FMT,  blue whale feces, and decontamination of amplicon datasets.

Events

Microbiome & Mice 2016, Advancing Microbiome Research Symposium – April 26, New York

Human oral microbiome

Longitudinal assessment of sputum microbiome by sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene in non-CF bronchiectasis patients – Michael J Cox – bioRxiv preprint

The gut and oral microbiome in HIV disease: a workshop report – DL Moyes – Oral Diseases

Modulation of the orodigestive tract microbiome in HIV-infected patients – D Saxena – Oral Diseases

Human vaginal microbiome

Molecular assessment of bacterial vaginosis by Lactobacillus abundance and species diversity – Joke A. M. Dols – BMC Infectious Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Patient Perspectives on Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Clostridium Difficile Infection – Caroline Zellmer – Infectious Diseases and Therapy

Animal models

Effects of a diet high in resistant starch on fermentation end-products of protein and mucin secretion in the colons of pigs – Liping Zhou – Starch

Extensive Mobilome-Driven Genome Diversification in Mouse Gut-Associated Bacteroides vulgatus mpk – Anna Lange – Genome Biology and Evolution

Animal microbiome

Analysis of the microbial diversity in faecal material of the endangered blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus – Olivia Guass – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Water microbiome

Effects of land use on the structure and function of leaf-litter microbial communities in boreal streams – Caroline E. Emilson – Freshwater Biology

Biological responses to environmental heterogeneity under future ocean conditions – Philip W. Boyd – Global Change Biology

Techniques

Decontamination of 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequence datasets based on bacterial load assessment by qPCR – Vladimir Lazarevic – BMC Microbiology

Microbes in the news

“Amazing. If I ever want to know what city I’m in, all I need is a microscope!” Study: Cities Have Unique ‘Bacterial Fingerprints’ – American Voices – The Onion
Cities Are Microbial Wastelands Built On Dead Skin – Laurie Winkless – Forbes

How researchers teach bacteria new behaviors – Science Daily

A Very Precious Free Gift For a Newborn Baby – Toni Harman – Huffington Post

Have exploding cells blown up MV dogma? – Naomi Attar – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Science, publishing and career

BMJ editor Fiona Godlee takes on corruption in science – CBC News

April 23, 2016

Pint of Science, oral microbiome dynamics, rheumatoid arthritis, mineral turnover in the rhizosphere, and the subzero microbiome.

Events

Pint of Science San Francisco Bay Area (also in other cities all over the world): 23-25 May 2016, combining beer and science

Pregnancy and birth

Microbiome and Fetus: A Relationship for Life – Janet Teodori – Journal of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health

The Tree(s) of Life: The Human Placenta and My Journey to Learn More about It – Carolyn B. Coyne – PLOS Pathogens

Human oral microbiome

Ultra-deep and quantitative saliva proteome reveals dynamics of the oral microbiome – Niklas Grassl – Genome Biology

Human vaginal microbiome

Effects of low dose estrogen therapy on the vaginal microbiomes of women with atrophic vaginitis – Jian Shen – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Plasmid metagenomics reveals multiple antibiotic resistance gene classes among the gut microbiomes of hospitalised patients – Tossawan Jitwasinkul – Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Bifidobacteria Abundance-Featured Gut Microbiota Compositional Change in Patients with Behcet’s Disease – Jun Shimizu – PLOS ONE

An expansion of rare lineage intestinal microbes characterizes rheumatoid arthritis – Jun Chen – Genome Medicine

Microbial Culturomics to Map Halophilic Bacterium in Human Gut: Genome Sequence and Description of Oceanobacillus jeddahense sp. Nov. – Khelaifia Saber – OMICS

Review: Bugging inflammation: role of the gut microbiota – Sj Shen – Clinical & Translational Immunology

Review: Modulating Composition and Metabolic Activity of the Gut Microbiota in IBD Patients – Mario Matijašić – MDPI Int J Mol Sci

Animal models

Effect of Dietary Carboxymethyllysine on glucose and insulin sensitivity, cecal fatty acids and the plasma metabolome in mice fed the Total Western Diet – Robert Edwin Ward – The FASEB Journal

Animal microbiome

The Microbiome of Animals: Implications for Conservation Biology – Simon Bahrndorff – International Journal of Genomics

Review: Herbivore dung as food for dung beetles: elementary coprology for entomologists – Peter Holter – Ecological Entomology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Plant–Microbiota Interactions as a Driver of the Mineral Turnover in the Rhizosphere – R. Alegria Terrazas – Advances in Applied Microbiology

Dynamics of endophytic bacteria in plant in vitro culture: quantification of three bacterial strains in Prunus avium in different plant organs and in vitro culture phases – Mona Quambusch – Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC)

Evaluating the lingering effect of livestock grazing on functional potentials of microbial communities in Tibetan grassland soils – Mengmeng Wang – Plant and Soil

Nitrogen fertilization affects bacteria utilizing plant-derived carbon in the rhizosphere of beech seedlings – Silvia Gschwendtner – Plant and Soil

Temporal dynamic of parasite-mediated linkages between the forest canopy and soil processes and the microbial community – Ana Mellado – New Phytologist

Rhizosphere priming effect on soil organic carbon decomposition under plant species differing in soil acidification and root exudation – Xiaojuan Wang – New Phytologist

Water and extremophile microbiome

Viral metabolic reprogramming in marine ecosystems – Bonnie L Hurwitz – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Review: The subzero microbiome: Microbial activity in frozen and thawing soils – Mrinalini P. Nikrad – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Gene expression profiling of microbial activities and interactions in sediments under haloclines of E. Mediterranean deep hypersaline anoxic basins – Virginia P Edgcomb – The ISME Journal

Waste and pollution microbiology

Effect of thermal pretreatment on the biogas production and microbial communities balance during anaerobic digestion of urban and industrial waste activated sludge – Hajer Ennouri – Bioresource Technology

The Arsenite Oxidation Potential of Native Microbial Communities from Arsenic-Rich Freshwaters – Stefano Fazi – Microbial Ecology

Microbial communities from different subsystems in biological heap leaching system play different roles in iron and sulfur metabolisms – Yunhua Xiao – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Community Structure in Methanogenic Enrichments Provides Insight into Syntrophic Interactions in Hydrocarbon-Impacted Environments – S. Jane Fowler – Frontiers in Microbiology

Food microbiology

The Potential of the Incorporation of Essential Oils and Their Individual Constituents to Improve Microbial Safety in Juices: A Review – Evandro Leite de Souza – Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

The Metagenomic Pizza: a simple recipe to introduce bioinformatics to the layman – Marie-Claude Blatter – EMBnet

MOCAT2: a metagenomic assembly, annotation and profiling framework – Jens Roat Kultima – Bioinformatics

Temporal microbiome road-maps guided by perturbations – Beatriz García-Jiménez – bioRxiv

Fundamental Limits of Pooled-DNA Sequencing – A. Najafi – ArXiv

A perspective on 16S rRNA operational taxonomic unit clustering using sequence similarity – Nam-Phuong Nguyen – NPJ Biofilms

Microbial Ecology

Influence of dormancy on microbial competition under intermittent substrate supply: insights from model simulations – Konstantin Stolpovsky – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Viruses and phages

Giant viruses at the core of microscopic wars with global impacts – Adrien Villai – Current Opinion in Virology

Environmental surveillance of viruses by tangential flow filtration and metagenomic reconstruction – V Furtak – Eurosurveillance

Metabolomics

Review: Microbial metabolism of dietary components to bioactive metabolites: opportunities for new therapeutic interventions – Linda S. Zhang – Genome Medicine

Microbes in the news

Your office is a veritable petri dish of bacteria – Sarah Kaplan – The Washington Post

We’re home to trillions of cells that aren’t ours and they’re keeping us alive – Katherine Ellen Foley – Quartz

These oral bacteria are linked to an increased chance of getting pancreatic cancer – Laurie McGinley – The Washington Post

April 20, 2016

Posting from SJC: The reproductive tract microbiome from heterosexual couples, olfactory epithelium changes in GF mice, and life in the twilight zone.

Jobs

Post doc positions in human microbiome research in the Lynch Lab at #UCSF – Jonathan Eisen – MicroBEnet

Human respiratory microbiome

Culture-Independent Identification of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Cystic Fibrosis Respiratory Samples – Lindsay J. Caverly – PLOS ONE

Human reproductive tract microbiome

Rationale and Safety Assessment of a Novel Intravaginal Drug-Delivery System with Sustained DL-Lactic Acid Release, Intended for Long-Term Protection of the Vaginal Microbiome – Hans Verstraelen – PLOS ONE

Bacterial communities in penile skin, male urethra, and vaginas of heterosexual couples with and without bacterial vaginosis – Marcela Zozaya – Microbiome

Human gut microbiome

Review: Antibiotics, obesity and the link to microbes – what are we doing to our children? – Olli Turta – BMC Medicine

Review: Microbiome mediation of infections in the cancer setting – Ying Taur – Genome Medicine

Review: Moody microbes or fecal phrenology: what do we know about the microbiota-gut-brain axis? – Paul Forsythe – BMC Medicine

Animal models

Olfactory epithelium changes in germfree mice – Adrien François – Scientific Reports

Association between Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Gut Microbiota – Yanjie Guo – PLOS ONE

Effect of fidaxomicin versus vancomycin on susceptibility to intestinal colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci and Klebsiella pneumoniae in mice – Abhishek Deshpande – Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Intestinal microbiota and oral administration of Enterococcus faecium associated with the growth performance of new-born piglets – Y.B. Wang – Beneficial Microbes

Animal microbiome

Impact of the Chromatin Remodeling Factor CHD1 on Gut Microbiome Composition of Drosophila melanogaster – Johanna Sebald – PLOS ONE

MinireviewLower Termite Associations with Microbes: Synergy, Protection, and Interplay – Brittany F. Peterson – Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Volatile compounds emitted by diverse phytopathogenic microorganisms promote plant growth and flowering through cytokinin action – Ángela María Sánchez-López – Plant, Cell & Environment

Quantifying the associations between fungal endophytes and biocontrol-induced herbivory of invasive purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L.) – Aaron S David – Mycologia

Effect of CaMSRB2-Expressing Transgenic Rice Cultivation on Soil Microbial Community – Soo-In Sohn – Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Water microbiome

Marine protist associations and environmental impacts across trophic levels in the twilight zone and below – VP Edgcomb – Current Opinion in Microbiology

The Arsenite Oxidation Potential of Native Microbial Communities from Arsenic-Rich Freshwaters – Stefano Fazi – Microbial Ecology

Probiotics

Review: Probiotic approach to prevent antibiotic resistance – Arthur C. Ouwehand – Annals of Medicine

Infection microbiology

Metataxonomic and Metagenomic Approaches vs. Culture-Based Techniques for Clinical Pathology – Sarah K. Hilton – Frontiers in Microbiology

More microbiology
A Generalized Spatial Measure for Resilience of Microbial Systems – Ryan S. Renslow – Frontiers in Microbiology

Community assembly and coexistence in communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi – Kriszta Vályi – The ISME Journal

Microbes in the news

Exploding bacteria could help in our battle against superbugs: Aussie researchers have discovered that some bacteria explode to share useful resources with others, causing the whole group to become nastier. – Signe Dean – SBS

Phylo.io: interactive viewing and comparison of large phylogenetic trees on the web – Oscar Robinson – Molecular Biology and Evolution

April 18, 2016

Tongue coating and halitosis, mucosa and Crohn’s, biography in American forests diazotrophs, and microbes on parchment documents.

Events

Submit your microbial artwork and win the ISMEJ cover competition! – The ISME Journal

Human oral microbiome

Tongue Coating and the Salivary Microbial Communities Vary in Children with Halitosis – Wen Re – Scientific Reports

Human respiratory microbiome

Clinical impact of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus on bacterial pneumonia: cultivation and 16S ribosomal RNA gene analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid – Toshinori Kawanami – BMC Infectious Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Mucosa-attached bacterial community in Crohn’s Disease coheres with the Clinical Disease Activity Index – Holger Schäffler – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Animal microbiome

Impact of gut microbiota on the fly’s germ line – Michael Elgart – Nature Communications

Caribbean corals house shared and host-specific microbial symbionts over time and space – Nathaniel D. Chu – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Biogeographic Patterns of Soil Diazotrophic Communities across Six Forests in the North America – Qichao Tu – Molecular Ecology

Unique Organic Matter and Microbial Properties in the Rhizosphere of a Wetland Soil – Daniel I. Kaplan – Environ. Sci. Technol.

Water microbiology

Characterization of microbial associations with methanotrophic archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria through statistical comparison of nested Magneto-FISH enrichments – Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert – PeerJ

Air microbiology

Assessment of microbial communities in PM1 and PM10 of Urumqi during winter – Huange Gou – Environmental Pollution

Waste and pollution microbiology

Geochemical and temporal influences on the enrichment of acidophilic iron-oxidizing bacterial communities – Yizhi Sheng – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

ReviewInsights into microbial diversity in wastewater treatment systems: How far have we come? – Isabel Ferrera – Biotechnology Advances

Built environment microbiology

Evaluation of a Parchment Document, the 13th Century Incorporation Charter for the City of Krakow, Poland, for Microbial Hazards – Tomasz Lech – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Extraction of Aerosol-Deposited Yersinia pestis from Indoor Surfaces To Determine Bacterial Environmental Decay – Ian M. Gut- Applied and Environmental Microbiology

More microbiology

Mechanisms of Bacterial (Serratia marcescens) Attachment to, Migration along, and Killing of Fungal Hyphae – Tal Hover – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Principles for designing synthetic microbial communities – Nathan I Johns – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Microbes and art

Bacteria Rule Everything Around Me – Geoff Manaugh – BLDG blog

‘Financial Growth’ reveals just how much coins and money can communicate, transfer and exchange – Heidi Hinder

Microbes in the news

In Dutch, with quotes from me: Ineens zit je wel en wee in je darm – Sander Voormolen – NRC

The Endurance of Microbiology: An Interview with Mike Jetten, Mark Martin, Ute Römling, and Victor Torres – Trends in Microbiology

‘We have never been this close’: The campaign to eradicate polio takes a giant step forward – Helen Branswell – STAT News

Antarctica research published – Mike Henson – Thrash Lab

Q&A with Councilor Eva Harris on battle against Zika – American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Creating a biobank of the Flagstaff community: Me and my microbiota – Tom Carpenter – AZ Daily Sun

The Human Body’s Complicated Relationship With Fungi – Bret Stetka – WCQS

Queens University student discovers a virus strain – News Observer

Researchers chew over the differences in mouth bacteria in horses – HorseTalk

Newly discovered microbe keeps teeth healthy: Bacteria may offer a new way to prevent cavities – Society for Science

Next job for the microbiome: Tagging criminals – Andrew Porterfield – Genetic Literacy Project

Great Barrier Reef: the scale of bleaching has the most sober scientists worried – James Woodford – The Guardian

Viruses Find Love In A Boiling Place – Inside Science

UB establishes Center for Microbiome Research – University at Buffalo

Cow’s milk has vital prebiotic for a healthy baby’s microbiome – New Scientist

Mainstreaming the Microbiome – Susan K Finston – Biotech blog

Study: Jet Hand Dryers Blast Bacteria Around Bathrooms with Terrifying Force – Ed Jones – Modern Readers

April 13, 2016

Thematic issue on effect of antibiotics on microbiomes, limited effect of probiotics on stool proteomics, culex mosquito development, ocean acidification, and new technique to determine microbial growth.

General microbiome

Thematic Issue: the effects of anthropogenic use of antibiotics on the microbiomes in various ecosystems and the implications for human health. Guest edited by Prof. Kornelia Smalla, the articles included in this issue are freely available to read til 11th May 2016. Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Review: Network-based metabolic analysis and microbial community modeling – Cesar Cardona – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Review: The importance of the microbiome in epidemiologic research – Blake M. Hanson – Annals of Epidemiology

Editorial: Microbiome: Eating for trillions – Derrick M. Chu – Nature

Pregnancy and birth

Preview: Another Reason to Thank Mom: Gestational Effects of Microbiota Metabolites – Seth Rakoff-Nahoum – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: The interplay of host immunity and environment on risk for bacterial vaginosis and associated reproductive health outcomes – Kerry Murphy – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Human respiratory microbiome

Enrichment of the lung microbiome with oral taxa is associated with lung inflammation of a Th17 phenotype – Leopoldo N. Segal – Nature Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Faecal Metaproteomic Analysis Reveals a Personalized and Stable Functional Microbiome and Limited Effects of a Probiotic Intervention in Adults – Carolin A. Kolmeder – PLOS ONE

Review: The gut microbiota and metabolic disease: current understanding and future perspectives – T. Arora – Journal of Internal Medicine

Animal models

A Host-Produced Autoinducer-2 Mimic Activates Bacterial Quorum Sensing – Anisa S. Ismail – Cell Host & Microbe

Depletion of Butyrate-Producing Clostridia from the Gut Microbiota Drives an Aerobic Luminal Expansion of Salmonella – Fabian Rivera-Chávez – Cell Host & Microbe

Lipocalin 2 Protects from Inflammation and Tumorigenesis Associated with Gut Microbiota Alterations – Alexander R. Moschen – Cell Host & Microbe

Animal microbiome

Culex pipiens Development Is Greatly Influenced by Native Bacteria and Exogenous Yeast – Leonardo M. Díaz-Nieto – PLOS ONE

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Convergence of soil microbial properties after plant colonization of an experimental plant diversity gradient – Katja Steinauer – BMC Ecology

Bacterial community associated to the pine wilt disease insect vectors Monochamus galloprovincialis and Monochamus alternatus – Marta Alves – Scientific Reports

Relationship between presence of the desert shrub Haloxylon ammodendron and microbial communities in two soils with contrasting textures – Yanfeng Cao – Applied Soil Ecology

Network analysis reveals functional redundancy and keystone taxa amongst bacterial and fungal communities during organic matter decomposition in an arable soil – Samiran Banerjee – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Belowground response to drought in a tropical forest soil. I. Changes in microbial functional potential and metabolism – Nick Bouskill – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Vibrio spp. within the Sydney Harbour Estuary – Nachshon Siboni – Frontiers in Microbiology

Assimilation of microbial and plant carbon by active prokaryotic and fungal populations in glacial forefields – Thomas Rime – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Implications of Ocean Acidification for Marine Microorganisms from the Free-Living to the Host-Associated – Paul A. O’Brien – Frontiers in Marine Science

Waste and pollution microbiology

Shifts in microbial community structure and diversity in a MBR combined with worm reactors treating synthetic wastewater – Jia Liu – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Biomineralization of atrazine and analysis of 16S rRNA and catabolic genes of atrazine degraders in a former pesticide mixing site and a machinery washing area – James F. Douglass – Journal of Soils and Sediments

The effect of seasonality upon the development of lotic biofilms and microbial biostabilisation – Holger Schmidt – Freshwater Biology

Review: The importance of sewer biofilms – Henriette Jensen – Water

Food microbiology and functional foods

Lactobacillus plantarum TWK10 Supplementation Improves Exercise Performance and Increases Muscle Mass in Mice – Yi-Ming Chen – MDPI Nutrients

Investigation of the activity of the microorganisms in a Reblochon-style cheese by metatranscriptomic analysis – Christophe Monnet – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Prebiotics as a modulator of gut microbiota in paediatric obesity – A. C. Nicolucci – Pediatric Obesity

Techniques

Stable isotope probing with 18O-water to investigate microbial growth and death in environmental samples – Egbert Schwartz – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Review: A priori Considerations When Conducting High-Throughput Amplicon-Based Sequence Analysis – Aditi Sengupta – Agricultural & Environmental Letters

Microbial ecology

Lack of functional redundancy in the relationship between microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning – Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

Influence of dormancy on microbial competition under intermittent substrate supply: Insights from model simulations – Konstantin Stolpovsky – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

More microbiology

Metabolic Requirements of Escherichia coli in Intracellular Bacterial Communities during Urinary Tract Infection Pathogenesis – Matt S. Conover – mBio

Biostatistics

Reinventing Biostatistics Education for Basic Scientists – Tracey L. Weissgerber – PLOS Biology

Microbes in the news

MSU professor Gemma Reguera making tiny innovations with a big impact – Erin F. Wasinger – Lansing State Journal

SCSU prof Elizabeth Lewis Roberts discovers fungus, bacteria help grass (really) – Anna Bisaro – New Haven Register

Probiotics for Livestock – Reducing Antibiotic Reliance – Alex Alexiev – MicroBEnet

Taking Cues From Human Nutrition To Reduce Antibiotic Use In Livestock – Amy Mayer – NPR

Why bacteria can’t get any bigger—or smaller – Elizabeth Pennisi – Science

Digestion of lignin in the gut – Science Daily

“Truly exciting”: Probiotic may increase muscle mass, energy & performance – Stephen Daniells – Nutraingredients

Breakthrough at Binghamton furthers development of bacteria-powered energy – The Engineer

Vibrio: Aggressive infectious bacteria species found in Sydney Harbour – Daisy Dumas – Sydney Morning Herald

Science, publishing, and career

Do interventions to reduce misconduct actually work? Maybe not, says new report – Alison McCook – Retraction Watch

$250 million, 300 scientists and 40 labs: Sean Parker’s revolutionary project to ‘solve’ cancer – Ariana Eunjung Cha – Washington Post

Science fairs are as flawed as my solar-powered hot dog cooker – Carl Zimmer – STATnews

The dark side of Guardian comments: part of a series on the rising global phenomenon of online harassment – the Guardian

How one lab challenged a grant rejection and won €5 million – Ewen Callaway – Nature

April 12, 2016, the late one

Events

Standards for Microbiome Measurements Workshop – August 9-10, NIST, Gaithersburg, Md

General microbiome

Review: Network-based metabolic analysis and microbial community modeling – Cesar Cardona – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Review: The importance of the microbiome in epidemiologic research – Blake M. Hanson – Annals of Epidemiology

Moving microbiota research towards establishing causal associations that represent viable targets for effective public health interventions – Volker Mai – Annals of Epidemiology

Evolution of Koch’s postulates: towards a twenty-first century understanding of microbial infection – Guido Antonelli – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Thematic Issue: Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Human oral microbiome

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104727971630076XThe Effects of Family, Dentition and Dental Caries on the Salivary Microbiome – Betsy Foxman – Annals of Epidemiology

Red fluorescent biofilm: the thick, the old, and the cariogenic – Catherine M.C. Volgenant – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

DNA from fecal immunochemical test can replace stool for microbiota-based colorectal cancer screening – Nielson T Baxter – BioRxiv Preprint

Changes in Korean Adult Females’ Intestinal Microbiota Resulting from Kimchi Intake – Kim JY – Omics Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences

Review: The Fiber Gap and the Disappearing Gut Microbiome: Implications for Human Nutrition – Edward C. Deehan – Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism

Animal model microbiome

Gut microbiome remodeling induces depressive-like behaviors through a pathway mediated by the host’s metabolism – P Zheng – Molecular Psychiatry

Temperate phages enhance pathogen fitness in chronic lung infection – Emily V Davies – The ISME Journal

Bacteraemia before during and after tooth extraction in horses in the absence of antimicrobial administration – I. Kern – Equine Veterinary Journal

Animal microbiome

Population and individual level dynamics of intestinal microbiota of a small primate – Tuomas Aivelo – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The nasopharyngeal microbiota in feedlot cattle and its role in respiratory health – Edouard Timsit – Animal Frontiers

Review: Gut microbiome and omics: a new definition to ruminant production and health – Nilusha Malmuthuge – Animal Frontiers

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Structural and functional differentiation of the root-associated bacterial microbiomes of perennial ryegrass – Lin Chen – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Assessing microbial activities in metal contaminated agricultural volcanic soils – An integrative approach – C. Parelho – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Review: The role of locally adapted mycorrhizas and rhizobacteria in plant-soil feedback systems – Daniel Revillini – Functional Ecology

Water microbiome

Metagenomic analysis of nitrogen and methane cycling in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone – Claudia Lüke – PeerJ

Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during coastal spring algae blooms – Hanno Teeling

Transporting Ocean Viromes: Invasion of the Aquatic Biosphere – Yiseul Kim – PLOS ONE

Seasonal changes in microbial community composition in river water studied using 454-pyrosequencing – Marija Kaevska – SpringerPlus

Response of bacterial communities from California coastal waters to alginate particles and an alginolytic Alteromonas macleodii strain – Maximilian Mitulla – Environmental Microbiology

Waste and pollution microbiology

Substantial Variability of Multiple Microbial Communities Collected at Similar Acidic Mine Water Outlets – Lukáš Falteisek – Microbial Ecology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Chapter: Improving Bloom Filter Performance on Sequence Data Using kk-mer Bloom Filters – David Pellow – Research in Computational Molecular Biology

Microbial ecology

A Game Theoretical Approach to Microbial Coexistence – Monica Abrudan – Advances in Dynamic and Evolutionary Games

The ecologist’s field guide to sequence-based identification of biodiversity
Simon Creer – Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Microbes in the news

MSU professor Gemma Reguera making tiny innovations with a big impact – Erin F. Wasinger – Lansing State Journal

Mind the fibre gap: The case of the vanishing gut microbiome – Will Chu – NutraIngredients

uBiome Opens Voting to all Citizen Scientists to Select $100k Microbiome Research Grant Winner – uBiome

Here’s the mounting evidence against using antibacterial soaps; Few pros, but cons include upped risk of infection, microbiome changes, drug resistance – Beth Mole – Ars Technica

Six-step hand-washing technique most effective for reducing bacteria in hospitals – Glasgow Chamber of Commerce

Hacking Gut Bacteria Could Be The Future Of Medicine. MIT biologists are reprogramming gut bacteria as “live therapeutics.” – Carolyn Gregoire – Huffington Post

Feeding Bacteria to Livestock Could Cut Antibiotic Use – Amy Mayer – Iowa Public Radio

Drug-resistant bacteria found scattered in soil – V. Nilesh – Deccan Chronicle

Sweet Siren call of surface lures bacteria to their death – Anthony King – Chemistry World

New Tree of Life Beautifully Illustrates the Enormous World of Bacteria – Kate Horowitz – Mental Floss