Category Archives: Fungi

April 3, 2018

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Human Microbiome

Non-Ischemic Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Is Associated With Altered Intestinal Microbiota – Themistoklis Katsimichas – Circulation Journal

The impact of antibiotics on the Intestinal microbiota needs to be re-defined in order to optimize the antibiotic usage – Bryan Coburn – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

The direct and indirect association of cervical microbiota with the risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia – Chaoting Zhang – Cancer Medicine

Review: The use of probiotics in different phases of diverticular disease – Veronica Ojetti – Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials

Fecal microbiota transplantation and its potential therapeutic uses in gastrointestinal disorders – Ryan D. Heath – Northern clinics of Istanbul

Dysbiosis of the salivary microbiota in pediatric-onset primary sclerosing cholangitis and its potential as a biomarker – Kentaro Iwasawa – Scientific Reports

Microbiota Composition May Predict Anti-Tnf Alpha Response in Spondyloarthritis Patients: an Exploratory Study – Thomas Bazin – Scientific Reports

Research Highlight: Obesity: ANGPTL4 — the link binding obesity and glucose intolerance – Alan Morris – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Influence of intrauterine administration of Lactobacillus buchneri on reproductive performance and pro-inflammatory endometrial mRNA expression of cows with subclinical endometritis – S. Peter – Scientific Reports

Review: Overview of Current Concepts in Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia and Gastric Cancer – David S. Jencks – Gastroenterology & Hepatology

 

Animal Microbiome

Psychoneuroimmunology and immunopsychiatry of zebrafish – Murilo S.de Abreu – Psychoneuroendocrinology

Regulation of growth, intestinal microbiota, non-specific immune response and disease resistance of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Selenka) in biofloc systems – Jinghua Chen – Fish & Shellfish Immunology

Loss of microRNA-21 Influences the Gut Microbiota Causing Reduced Susceptibility in a Murine Model of Colitis – Daniel G W Johnston – Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis

Influence of Long-Term Feeding Antibiotics on the Gut Health of Zebrafish – Zhou Li – Zebrafish

Effects of Intestinal Microbiota on Brain Development in Humanized Gnotobiotic Mice – Jing Lu – Scientific Reports

Long-term Western diet fed apolipoprotein E-deficient rats exhibit only modest early atherosclerotic characteristics – Ida Rune – Scientific Reports

 

Methods

Guided Protocol for Fecal Microbial Characterization by 16S rRNA-Amplicon Sequencing – Ayelet Di Segni – Journal Of Visualized Experiments (It includes a video)

 

Food Microbes

Tetracycline resistance in lactobacilli isolated from Serbian traditional raw milk cheeses – Tijana Ledina – Journal of Food Science and Technology

 

Pathogens

Case Report: Successful Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in a Patient with Severe Complicated Clostridium difficile Infection after Liver Transplantation – Schneider K.M. – Case Reports in Gastroenterology

Review: Significance of Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus Association With Colorectal Cancer – Ewa Pasquereau-Kotula – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Helicobacter pylori the Latent Human Pathogen or an Ancestral Commensal Organism – Jackie Li –  Frontiers in Microbiology

Fungi-Induced Upper and Lower Respiratory Tract Allergic Diseases: One Entity – Aleksandra Barac – Frontiers in Microbiology

Genetic and Virulent Difference Between Pigmented and Non-pigmented Staphylococcus aureus – Jing Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Environmental Microbes

Exploring Biogeochemistry and Microbial Diversity of Extant Microbialites in Mexico and Cuba – Patricia M. Valdespino-Castillo – Frontiers in Microbiology

Direct and Indirect Effects of Penguin Feces on Microbiomes in Antarctic Ornithogenic Soils – Yudong Guo – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Other

Combination of peracetic acid and ultrasound reduces Salmonella Typhimurium on fresh lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa) – Luiza Oliveira Silveira – Journal of Food Science and Technology

Recent advances in the physiopathology of IgA nephropathy – Renato C. Monteiro – Néphrologie & Thérapeutique

 

April 2, 2018

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Have a good monday! Today, in Microbiome Digest: interesting papers about Clostridium difficile, the use of Fecal Microbiota Transplant, studies in mice model, effect of Lactobacillus on Candida, antibiotic-resistant bacteria in sewerage biofilms, and more!

 

Human/General Microbiome

Diet, gut microbiota composition and feeding behavior – Jiyoung S. Kim – Physiology & Behavior

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease- a Primer for the Internists – Gaurav Syal – The American Journal of Medicine

Oral microbiota maturation during the first 7 years of life in relation to allergy development – Majda Dzidic – Allergy

The tangled web of interactions between host, pathogen and microbiota in C. difficile infection – Anna Maria Seekatz – Gastroenterology

Analysis of Treatment Outcomes for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infections and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in a Pediatric Hospital – Aileen Aldrich – The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Role of microbiota in the autism spectrum disorders – Daniela Campion – Minerva Gastroenterologica e Dietologica

From Network Analysis to Functional Metabolic Modeling of the Human Gut Microbiota – Eugen Bauer – mSystems

Developing a Bacteroides System for Function-Based Screening of DNA from the Human Gut Microbiome – Kathy N. Lam – mSystems

Is a Single Fecal Microbiota Transplant a Promising Treatment for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection? – Susy S Hota – Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid microbiota dysbiosis in infants with protracted bacterial bronchitis – Yanmin Bao – Journal of Thoracic Disease

Mother’s Milk: A Purposeful Contribution to the Development of the Infant Microbiota and Immunity – Kirsty Le Doare –  Frontiers in Immunology

Contributory Role of Gut Microbiota and Their Metabolites Toward Cardiovascular Complications in Chronic Kidney Disease – Daniel Y. Li – Seminars in Nephrology

Differential bacterial capture and transport preferences facilitate co-growth on dietary xylan in the human gut – Maria Louise Leth – Nature Microbiology

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Two new gene clusters involved in the degradation of plant cell wall from the fecal microbiota of Tunisian dromedary – Rihab Ameri – PLoS One

Honey Bee Antiviral Immune Barriers as Affected by Multiple Stress Factors: A Novel Paradigm to Interpret Colony Health Decline and Collapse – Francesco Nazzi – Viruses

Influence of Intestinal Microbiota Transplantation and NleH Expression on Citrobacter rodentium Colonization of Mice – Gaochan Wang – Pathogens

Shifts in the Gut Metabolome and Clostridium difficile Transcriptome throughout Colonization and Infection in a Mouse Model – Joshua R. Fletcher – mSystems

Akkermansia muciniphila is permissive to arthritis in the K/BxN mouse model of arthritis – Matthew L Stoll – Genes & Immunity

The Gut Microbiota Regulates Endocrine Vitamin D Metabolism through Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 – Stephanie A. Bora – Frontiers in Immunology

High diversity and variability in the bacterial microbiota of the coffee berry borer (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with emphasis on Wolbachia – Yobana A Mariño – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Exercise prevents high fat diet-induced bone loss, marrow adiposity and dysbiosis in male mice – Laura R. McCabe – Bone

Protein- and RNA-Enhanced Fermentation by Gut Microbiota of the Earthworm Lumbricus terrestris – Lydia Zeibich – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Canonical Wnt Signaling in CD11c+ APCs Regulates Microbiota-Induced Inflammation and Immune Cell Homeostasis in the Colon – Daniel Swafford – The Journal of Immunology

 

Beneficial Microbes

Culture Supernatants of Lactobacillus gasseri and L. crispatus Inhibit Candida albicans Biofilm Formation and Adhesion to HeLa Cells – Yuko Matsuda – Mycopathologia

 

Environmental and Water Microbiome

Prevalence of antibiotic resistant coliform bacteria, Enterococcus spp. and Staphylococcus spp. in wastewater sewerage biofilm – Kristína Lépesová – Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Occurrence of virulence-associated genes among Staphylococcus saprophyticus isolated from different sources – Weslley de Paiva-Santos – Microbial Pathogenesis

 

Other

Digest: Life history evolution in Darwin’s dream ponds – Foteini Spagopoulou – Evolution

Research Highlight: To grow, or not to grow – Ursula Hofer – Nature Reviews Microbiology

 

March 29, 2018

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Of special note today: gut microbiota species expressing orthologs of human Ro60 might be involved in triggering and sustaining chronic autoimmunity in lupus; The portal vein blood microbiome in patients with liver cirrhosis; A randomized clinical study suggests dietary promotion of short chain fatty acid producing gut microbes as an effective treatment for type 2 diabetes; and the sexual dimorphism of root, flower and leaf microbiomes in the wild strawberry plant

Events and jobs

Clinical Laboratory Technologist IV (SL-1), Microbiology Laboratory – Stony Brook University – NY

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General microbiome

Review: Discovering antibiotics from the global microbiome – Yick Chong Lam – Nature Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

Review: Milk Glycans and Their Interaction with the Infant-Gut Microbiota – Nina Kirmiz – Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Multi-site human microbiome

*Commensal orthologs of the human autoantigen Ro60 as triggers of autoimmunity in lupus – Teri M. Greiling – Science Translational Medicine

Human nearly-sterile sites

*Circulating microbiome in blood of different circulatory compartments – Robert Schierwagen – BMJ Blood

Human gut microbiome

*Gut bacteria selectively promoted by dietary fibers alleviate type 2 diabetes – Liping Zhao – Science

Review: Impact of dietary compounds on cancer-related gut microbiota and microRNA – Muhammad Shahid Riaz Rajoka – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Review: Influence of Altered Gut Microbiota Composition on Aging and Aging-Related Diseases – Jeonghyun Choi – Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

Review: Gut microbiome modulates efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors
Ming Yi – Journal of Hematology & Oncology

Protocol: Wisconsin microbiome study, a cross-sectional investigation of dietary fibre, microbiome composition and antibiotic-resistant organisms: rationale and methods  – Shoshannah Eggers – BMJ Journal

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Animal experiments

MicroRNA-146a Deficiency Protects against Listeria monocytogenes Infection by Modulating the Gut Microbiota – Chong-Tao Du – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Loss of microRNA-21 Influences the Gut Microbiota Causing Reduced Susceptibility in a Murine Model of Colitis – Daniel G W Johnston – Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis

Towards an Integrative Understanding of tRNA Aminoacylation–Diet–Host–Gut Microbiome Interactions in Neurodegeneration – Elena L. Paley – Nutrients

Resilience of small intestinal beneficial bacteria to the toxicity of soybean oil fatty acids – Sara C Di Rienzi – eLife

Animal microbiome

Assessment of microbiome changes after rumen transfaunation: implications on improving feed efficiency in beef cattle – Mi Zhou – BMC Microbiology

Seasonal and algal diet-driven patterns of the digestive microbiota of the European abalone Haliotis tuberculata, a generalist marine herbivore – Angélique Gobet – BMC Microbiology

Diverse laboratory colonies of Aedes aegypti harbor the same adult midgut bacterial microbiome – Laura B. Dickson – BMC Parasites & Vectors

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

*The effects of host species and sexual dimorphism differ among root, leaf and flower microbiomes of wild strawberries in situ – Na Wei – Scientific Reports

The potential of plant microbiota in reducing postharvest food loss – Franziska Buchholz – Microbial Biotechnology

Root microbiota shift in rice correlates with resident time in the field and developmental – Jingying Zhang – Science China Life Sciences

Microbial Ecology

Allometry and Ecology of the Bilaterian Gut Microbiome – Scott Sherrill-Mix – mBio

Preprint: Changes in the genetic requirements for microbial interactions with increasing community complexity – Manon Morin – bioRxiv

Built environment

Drinking water microbiome assembly induced by water stagnation – Fangqiong Ling – The ISME Journal

Food microbiology

Constraint-based modeling in microbial food biotechnology – Martin H. Rau – Biochemical Society Transactions

Characterization of microbial community structure and metabolic potential using Illumina MiSeq platform during the black garlic processing – Zhichang Qiu – Food Research International

Guidance on the characterisation of microorganisms used as feed additives or as production organisms – EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) – EFSA Journal

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Probiotics / prebiotics

Probiotic treatment reduces the autistic-like excitation/inhibition imbalance in juvenile hamsters induced by orally administered propionic acid and clindamycin – Afaf El-Ansary – Metabolic Brain Disease

Review: A review of probiotic supplementation in healthy adults: helpful or hype? – Saman Khalesi – European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Fecal Transplants

Effect of Vegan Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on Carnitine‐ and Choline‐Derived Trimethylamine‐N‐Oxide Production and Vascular Inflammation in Patients With Metabolic Syndrome – Loek P. Smits – Journal of the American Heart Association

Bioinformatics

Review: Exploring Linkages between Taxonomic and Functional Profiles of the Human Microbiome – Morgan G. I. Langille – mSystems

Techniques

Hybridization capture reveals microbial diversity missed using current profiling methods – Cyrielle Gasc – BMC Microbiology

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Microbes in the news

Just passing through: fungi not part of the gut – Fungus species don’t play a role in healthy human microbiomes – Andrew Masterson – Cosmos

Plants, fungi and bacteria work together to clean polluted land – Genetic analysis shows microbial interactions help fast-growing trees break down petrochemical pollutants in soil – Science Daily

Bacteria and Art

Art and biology students participate in creative collaboration – Sierra Guardiola – The Ithacan

 

March 28, 2018

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The impact of the microbiota on bone marrow transplantation in mice, differences in phage infection efficiency in nearly identical hosts, bacterial diversity of Brazilian artisanal cheese.

Events and jobs

Research Associate in the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, School of Life Cours – King’s College London

Research Associate in Department of Twin Research_School of Life Course Sciences – King’s College London

General microbiome

Variations in the relative abundance of Wolbachia in the gut of Nasutitermes arborum across life stages and castes – Michel Diouf – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Pregnancy and early life

HIV-exposure, early life feeding practices and delivery mode impacts on faecal bacterial profiles in a South African birth cohort – Shantelle Claassen-Weitz – Scientific Reports

Human respiratory microbiome

Exacerbation induces a microbiota shift in sputa of COPD patients – Eric Jubinville – PLOS ONE

Human oral microbiome

Review: Insights into the human oral microbiome – Digvijay Verma – Archives of Microbiology

Pre-print: Characterization of the salivary microbiome in people with obesity – Yujia Wu – PeerJ

Review: The oral microbiota – a mechanistic role for systemic diseases – G Jia – British Dental Journal

Human gut microbiome

Differences in epidemiological features between ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease: the early life-programmed versus late dysbiosis hypothesis – Laurent Beaugerie – Medical Hypotheses

Analysis of changes in intestinal flora and intravascular inflammation and coronary heart disease in obese patients – Xv Li – Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Animal experiments

Nutritional Support from the Intestinal Microbiota Improves Hematopoietic Reconstitution after Bone Marrow Transplantation in Mice – Anna Staffas – Cell Host & Microbe

High salt intake increases plasma trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) concentration and produces gut dysbiosis in rats – Klaudia Bielinska – Nutrition

High salt diet exacerbates colitis in mice by decreasing Lactobacillus levels and butyrate production – Pedro M Miranda – Microbiome

The Pancreatic Cancer Microbiome Promotes Oncogenesis by Induction of Innate and Adaptive Immune Suppression – Smruti Pushalkar – Cancer Discovery

Predominant gut Lactobacillus murinus strain mediates anti-inflammaging effects in calorie-restricted mice – Fengwei Pan – Microbiome

Deletion of choline acetyltransferase in enteric neurons results in postnatal intestinal dysmotility and dysbiosis – Carl D Johnson – The FASEB Journal

At-hatch administration of probiotic to chickens can introduce beneficial changes in gut microbiota – Stephen Baldwin – PLOS ONE

Impact of parenteral antimicrobial administration on the structure and diversity of the fecal microbiota of growing pigs – Mohamed Zeineldin – Microbial Pathogenesis

Pre-print: Metabolic retroconversion of trimethylamine N-oxide and the gut microbiota – Lesley Hoyles – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Isolation of a natural DNA virus of Drosophila melanogaster, and characterisation of host resistance and immune responses – William H Palmer – bioRxiv

Proanthocyanidin‐Rich Grape Seed Extract Modulates Intestinal Microbiota in Ovariectomized Mice – Guangwen Jin – Journal of Food Science

Evaluation of the nutrition and function of cow and goat milk based on intestinal microbiota by metagenomic analysis – Zhaoxia Wang – Food & Function

Animal microbiome

Pre-print: Characterisation of gut microbiota of farmed Chinook salmon using metabarcoding – Milica Ciric – bioRxiv

Variation in the microbiome of the urogenital tract of Chlamydia-free female koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) with and without ‘wet bottom’ – Alistair R Legione – PLOS ONE

Pre-print: Characterization of shifts of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) intestinal microbial communities associated with antibiotic treatment – Katherine E Dahlhausen – PeerJ

Comparison of gizzard and intestinal microbiota of wild neotropical birds – M Alexandra García-Amado – PLOS ONE

Fecal microbiota in the female prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) – J Thomas Curtis – PLOS ONE

Disentangling factors that shape the gut microbiota in German Shepherd dogs – Åsa Vilson – PLOS ONE

Yeast culture dietary supplementation modulates gut microbiota, growth and biochemical parameters of grass carp – Han Liu – Microbial Biotechnology

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Gestating Sows and Neonatal Offspring Alters Lifetime Intestinal Microbiota and Growth in Offspring – Ursula M McCormack – mSystems

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Tetracycline resistance genes are more prevalent in wet soils than in dry soils – Yijun Kang – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Functional diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities is reduced by trace element contamination – Álvaro López-García – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Long- and short-term effects of mercury pollution on the soil microbiome – Aline Frossard – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Structure of surface polysaccharides from Aeromonas sp. AMG272, a plant-growth promoting rhizobacterium isolated from rice rhizosphere – Rocío Contreras Sánchez-Matamoros – Carbohydrate Research

Review: Sniffing bacterial volatile compounds for healthier plants – Rouhallah Sharifi – Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi influence decomposition and the associated soil microbial community under different soil phosphorus availability – Jing Xu – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Water and extremophile microbiome

Habitat filtering of bacterioplankton communities above polymetallic nodule fields and sediments in the Clarion-Clipperton zone of the Pacific Ocean – Markus V Lindh – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Microbial communities in seawater from an Arctic and a temperate Norwegian fjord and their potentials for biodegradation of chemically dispersed oil at low seawater temperatures – Deni Ribicic – Marine Pollution Bulletin

Built environment

Pre-print: Half-lives of PAHs and temporal microbiota changes in commonly used urban landscaping materials – Marja I Roslund – PeerJ

Food microbiology

Interspecies variation in biofilm-forming capacity of psychrotrophic bacterial isolates from Chinese raw milk – Lei Yuan – Food Control

Bacterial diversity of artisanal cheese from the Amazonian region of Brazil during the dry and rainy seasons – Mayra Carla de Freitas Martins – Food Research International

Probiotics/prebiotics

Salecan stabilizes the microstructure and improves the rheological performance of yogurt – Renjie Fu – Food Hydrocolloids

Probiotic Lactobacillus casei Zhang (LCZ) alleviates respiratory, gastrointestinal & RBC abnormality via immuno-modulatory, anti-inflammatory & anti-oxidative actions – Yan-Yan Hor – Journal of Functional Foods

Routine Supplementation of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and Risk of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Low Birth Weight Infants – Andrea F Kane – The Journal of Pediatrics

Phages and viruses

Continued Need for Comprehensive Genetic and Phenotypic Characterization of Viruses: Benefits of Complementing Sequence Analyses with Functional Determinations – Aaron C Brault – The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Detection of Hantaviruses and Arenaviruzses in three-toed jerboas from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China – Zhiqiang Wu – Emerging Microbes & Infections

Enteric Virome Sensing—Its Role in Intestinal Homeostasis and Immunity – Rebecca N Metzger – Viruses

Commentary: Bacteriophage transfer during faecal microbiota transplantation in Clostridium difficile infection is associated with treatment outcome – Blessing O Anonye – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Multiple mechanisms drive phage infection efficiency in nearly identical hosts – Cristina Howard-Verona – The ISME Journal

Early MinION™ nanopore single-molecule sequencing technology enables the characterization of hepatitis B virus genetic complexity in clinical samples – Virginie Sauvage – PLOS ONE

A metagenomic viral discovery approach identifies potential zoonotic and novel mammalian viruses in Neoromicia bats within South Africa – Marike Geldenhuys – PLOS ONE

Pre-print: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of viral plasticity – Melinda Choua – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

Pre-print: Taxonomy annotation errors in 16S rRNA and fungal ITS sequence databases – Robert C Edgar – bioRxiv

Metabolomics

Analysis of paper foxing by newly available omics techniques – Justyna Szulc – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Review: Targeting human urinary metabolome by LC–MS/MS: a review – Jose Rodríguez-Morató – Bioanalysis

GC-MS Based Metabolomics and NMR Spectroscopy Investigation of Food Intake Biomarkers for Milk and Cheese in Serum of Healthy Humans – Alessia Trimigno – Metabolites

Techniques

KatharoSeq Enables High-Throughput Microbiome Analysis from Low-Biomass Samples – Jeremiah J Minich – mSystems

eDNA from roots: a robust tool for determining Phytophthora communities in natural ecosystems – Ihsanul Khaliq – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

A silica sands-based method for faithful analysis of microbial communities and DNA isolation from a wide range of species – Xia Liu – Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology

More microbes

Review: New therapeutics from Nature: The odd case of the bacterial cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 – Zaira Maroccia – Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Pre-print: An attenuated CRISPR-Cas system in Enterococcus faecalis permits DNA acquisition – Karthik Hullahalli – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Here’s Why Antibiotics May Give Viruses a Leg Up – Christopher Wanjek – Live Science

‘Nanobot’ viruses tag and round up bacteria in food and water – Carolyn Wilke – ScienceNews

Your rubber ducky is probably crawling with bacteria, scientists say – STAT

Newly discovered bacteria can break down biomass – Phys.Org

Microbes on the market

Biocodex funds microbiome research on link between diet, colon cancer, IBD – Healio

Rebiotix’s Lee Jones to Receive TRUST 2018 Courageous Women in Health Care Award – PR Newswire

March 23, 2018

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Optogenetic regulation of transcription to promote biosynthesis of desired chemicals from fungi, the effect of yeast and bacteria on floral nectar, guidelines and best practices for human microbiome sampling/sequencing/processing.

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Evaluation of conventional and response surface level optimisation of n-dodecane (n-C12) mineralisation by psychrotolerant strains isolated from pristine soil at Southern Victoria Island, Antarctica – Syahir Habib – Microbial Cell Factories

Analysis of microbiota in bellflower root, Platycodon grandiflorum, obtained from South Korea – Daeho Kim – Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Contrasting effects of yeasts and bacteria on floral nectar traits – Rachel L Vannette – Annals of Botany

Water and extremophile microbiome

Mechanisms of Methyl Mercury Net Degradation in Alder Swamps: The Role of Methanogens and Abiotic Processes – Rose-Marie Kronberg – Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Microbial mat of the thermal springs Kuchiger Republic of Buryatia: species composition, biochemical properties and electrogenic activity in biofuel cell – Denis Aleksandrovich Yuriev – IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Bioinformatics

Pre-print: A comprehensive automated pipeline for human microbiome sampling, 16S rRNA gene sequencing and bioinformatics processing – Luisa W Hugerth – bioRxiv

Pre-print/Review: Real-time analysis and visualization of pathogen sequence data – Richard A Neher – bioRxiv

Techniques

Yeast Biofilm as a Bridge Between Medical and Environmental Microbiology Across Different Detection Techniques – Luca Roscini – Infectious Diseases and Therapy

More microbes

Optogenetic regulation of engineered cellular metabolism for microbial chemical production – Evan M Zhao – Nature

Pre-print: Titan cells formation in Cryptococcus neoformans is finely tuned by environmental conditions and modulated by positive and negative genetic regulators – Benjamin Hommel – bioRxiv

Pre-print: High-resolution analysis of the pneumococcal transcriptome under a wide range of infection-relevant conditions – Rieza Aprianto – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Deep genome annotation of the opportunistic human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 – Jelle Slager – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Oral microbiome and anthropometry changes following caries arrest using silver-nitrate/fluoride-varnish – EurekAlert

Metagenomics of early childhood oral health and early childhood caries – EurekAlert

Synergistic effects of smoking and obesity on the subgingival microbiome – EurekAlert

Gut bacteria can mean life or death for birds – EurekAlert

Its name is LUCA. Now it’s needing second thoughts – Stephen Fleischfresser – Cosmos

Plants really do feed their friends – ScienceDaily

Bacteria eats greenhouse gas with a side of protein – Phys.org

Survival of the Slimiest: The Persistent Nature of Biofilms – Sonali D Advani – Medscape

Amy’s non-microbiology picks

Editorial: Asymmetry symposium unites economists, physicists and artists – Nature

March 22, 2018

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Of special note today: A randomized double blind controlled clinical trial on the impacts of probiotics on Alzheimer’s demonstrated an improvement in cognitive function, triglycerides, insulin sensitivity and C reactive protein; and a meta-analysis of the lung microbiome in tuberculosis identified specific species that are characteristic of the disease.

Events and jobs

Research Associate – Kintai Therapeutics – Cambridge, MA

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Human respiratory microbiome

*Meta-analysis of the lung microbiota in pulmonary tuberculosis – Bo-young Hong – Tuberculosis

Human skin microbiome

Longitudinal study of the psoriasis-associated skin microbiome during therapy with ustekinumab in a randomized Phase 3b clinical trial – Michael Loesche – Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Human oral microbiome

The subgingival microbiome in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis – Ted R Mikuls – Rheumatology

Self-reported bovine milk intake is associated with oral microbiota composition – Ingegerd Johansson – PLOSone

Human uro-genital microbiome

A Distinctive Urinary Metabolomic Fingerprint Is Linked With Endoscopic Postoperative Disease Recurrence in Crohn’s Disease Patients – Ammar Hassanzadeh Keshteli – Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Review: Interrelation of Diet, Gut Microbiome, and Autoantibody Production – Ioanna Petta – Frontiers in Immunology

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Animal experiments

Microbiome-metabolome signatures in mice genetically prone to develop dementia, fed a normal or fatty diet – Elena Sanguinetti – Scientific Reports

Influence of dietary protein and fructooligosaccharides on fecal fermentative end-products, fecal bacterial populations and apparent total tract digestibility in dogs – Carlo Pinna – BMC Veterinary Research

Animal microbiome

Review: The tripartite interactions between the mosquito, its microbiota and Plasmodium – Ottavia Romoli – BMC Parasites & Vectors

Nutrient-Dependent Impact of Microbes on Drosophila suzukii Development – XiaoLi Bing – mBio

Lower dietary concentrate level increases bacterial diversity in the rumen of Cervus elaphus yarkandensis – Wenxi Qian- Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Evaluation of milk sample fractions for characterization of milk microbiota from healthy and clinical mastitis cows – Svetlana Ferreira Lima – PLOSone

Characterization of shifts of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) intestinal microbial communities associated with antibiotic treatment – Katherine E. Dahlhausen – PeerJ

Effects of high ambient temperature on the community structure and composition of ileal microbiome of broilers – X J Wang – Poultry Science

Oscillating bacterial expression states generate herd immunity to viral infection – Christopher J. R. Turkington – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

High-Throughput Sequencing Analysis of the Actinobacterial Spatial Diversity in Moonmilk Deposits – Marta Maciejewska – Antibiotics

Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly – Kateryna Zhalnina – Nature Microbiology

Microbiome engineering to improve biocontrol and plant growth-promoting mechanisms – Ma del Carmen Orozco-Mosqueda – Microbiological Research

Specificity in Arabidopsis thaliana recruitment of root fungal communities from soil and rhizosphere – Hector Urbina – Fungal Biology

Microbial cycling of isoprene, the most abundantly produced biological volatile organic compound on Earth – Terry J. McGenity – The ISME Journal

Depth matters: effects of precipitation regime on soil microbial activity upon rewetting of a plant-soil system – Ilonka C. Engelhardt – The ISME Journal

Water and extremophile microbiome

Use of in-field bioreactors demonstrate groundwater filtration influences planktonic bacterial community assembly, but not biofilm composition – Geoff A. Christensen – PLOSone

Coordinated gene expression between Trichodesmium and its microbiome over day–night cycles in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre – Kyle R Frischkorn – The ISME Journal

Microbial parasites make cyanobacteria blooms less of a trophic dead end than commonly assumed – Matilda Haraldsson – The ISME Journal

Air Microbiome

Deposition rates of viruses and bacteria above the atmospheric boundary layer
– Isabel Reche – The ISME Journal

Microbial Ecology

Review: Understanding Microbiome Stability in a Changing World – Ashley Shade – mSystems

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Probiotics / prebiotics

*Effect of Probiotic Supplementation on Cognitive Function and Metabolic Status in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Randomized, Double-Blind and Controlled Trial – Elmira Akbari – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Bioinformatics

GraftM: a tool for scalable, phylogenetically informed classification of genes within metagenomes – Joel A Boyd – Nucleic Acids Research

VITCOMIC2: visualization tool for the phylogenetic composition of microbial communities based on 16S rRNA gene amplicons and metagenomic shotgun sequencing – Hiroshi Mori – BMC Systems Biology

Machine learning for tackling microbiota data and infection complications in immunocompromised patients with cancer – J. Luis Espinoza – Journal of Internal Medicine

A highly adaptive microbiome-based association test for survival traits – Hyunwook Koh – BMC Genomics

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Microbes in the news

Making intricate images with bacterial communities – Psy.Org

Many Non-Antibiotic Drugs Affect Gut Bacteria. A new study finds that more than 200 human-targeted, non-antibiotic drugs inhibit the growth of bacterial species that make up part of the human microbiome – Catherine Offord

‘New life form’ answers question about evolution of cells – Science Daily

Bacteria and Art

This watercolour painting was created by artistic bacteria – Sarah Roberts had a germ of an idea: let bacteria take creative control – Anna Marks – Wired

Crocheted and Embroidered Bacteria Grow in Elin Thomas’s Fiber Art Petri Dishes – Laura Staugaitis – Colossal

 

March 15, 2018

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A few interesting articles in early life human microbiome, plus:
A comparison between Staphylococcus epidermidis commensal and pathogenic lineages from the skin of healthy individuals living in North American and India; A new tool to reconstruct microbial genome-scale metabolic models (GSMMs) from their genome sequence; The seasonal changes in Amazon rainforest soil microbiome are associated with changes in the canopy; A specific class of chemicals secreted by birds modulates their feather microbiome; chronic stress alters gut microbiota and triggers a specific immune response in a mouse model of colitis; and evidence that the short chain fatty acids profile in the gut reflects the impact of dietary fibre on the microbiome using the PolyFermS continuous intestinal fermentation model.

Pregnancy and early life

*Maternal influence on the fetal microbiome in a population-based study of the first-pass meconium – Terhi Tapiainen – Pediatric Research

*Bifidobacterium longum subsp infantis CECT7210 supplemented formula reduces diarrhoea in healthy infants: a randomized controlled trial – Joaquin Escribano – Pediatric Research

*Gut microbiota in adolescents and the association with fatty liver: The EPOCH study – Maggie A Stanislawski – Pediatric Research

Review: Does Dysbiosis in Intestinal Microbiome Plays a Role in Children with Relapsing Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome? – Crespo-Salgado J. – American Journal of Nephrology

Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis in Children with Relapsing Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome – Tsuji S – American Journal of Nephrology

Human skin microbiome

*Phylogenomic Based Comparative Studies on Indian and American Commensal Staphylococcus epidermidis Isolates – Shikha Sharma – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

Unusual oral mucosal microbiota after hematopoietic cell transplantation with glycopeptide antibiotics: potential association with pathophysiology of oral mucositis – Misato Muro – Folia Microbiologica

Supragingival and subginival microbiota from patients with poor oral hygiene submitted to radiotherapy for head and neck cancer treatment – Elerson Gaetti-Jardim Jr – Archives of Oral Biology

Human nearly-sterile sites

PrePrint: Transcriptome analysis in whole blood reveals increased microbial 1 diversity in schizophrenia – Loes M Olde Loohuis – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

Investigations on the interplays between Schistosoma mansoni, praziquantel and the gut microbiome – Pierre H. H. Schneeberger – Parasites and Vectors

FUT2 genotype and secretory status are not associated with fecal microbial composition and inferred function in healthy subjects – Williams Turpin – Gut Microbes

Bacterial growth, flow, and mixing shape human gut microbiota density and composition – Markus Arnoldini – Gut Microbes

Complementary effects of cereal and pulse polyphenols and dietary fiber on chronic inflammation and gut health – Joseph M. Awika – Food & Function

Roseburia intestinalis alleviates experimental colitis pathology by inducing anti-inflammatory responses – Zhaohua Shen – Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Targeting gut microbiota in hepatocellular carcinoma: probiotics as a novel therapy – Murphy L. Y. Wan – Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition

Fecal Microbiota Signatures Are Associated with Response to Ustekinumab Therapy among Crohn’s Disease Patients – Matthew K. Doherty – mBio

Disruption of the Gut Microbiota With Antibiotics Exacerbates Acute Vascular Rejection
Kevin Rey – Transplantation

Review: Multiple hit infection and autoimmunity: the dysbiotic microbiota–ACPA connection in rheumatoid arthritis – Lazaros I Sakkas – Current Opinion in Rheumatology

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In vitro experiments

*Understanding the prebiotic potential of different dietary fibers using an in vitro continuous adult fermentation model (PolyFermS) – Sophie A. Poeker – Scientific Reports

Animal experiments

Diet, Genetics, and the Gut Microbiome Drive Dynamic Changes in Plasma Metabolites – Shiho Fujisaka – Cell Reports

Fructose liquid and solid formulations differently affect gut integrity, microbiota composition and related liver toxicity: a comparative in vivo study – Raffaella Mastrocola – Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

NLRX1 Modulates Immunometabolic Mechanisms Controlling the Host–Gut Microbiota Interactions during Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Andrew Leber – Frontiers in Immunology

Tapering Courses of Oral Vancomycin Induce Persistent Disruption of the Microbiota that Provide Colonization Resistance to Clostridium difficile and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Mice – Myreen E. Tomas – Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

The Lung Microbiota of Healthy Mice are Highly Variable, Cluster by Environment, and Reflect Variation in Baseline Lung Innate Immunity – Robert P. Dickson – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Interactions between stress and sex in microbial responses within the microbiota-gut-brain axis to stress in a mouse model – Matthew C.B. Tsilimigras – Psychosomatic Medicine

*Chronic stress promotes colitis by disturbing the gut microbiota and triggering immune system response – Xinghua Gao – PNAS

Modulation of inflammatory arthritis by gut microbiota through mucosal inflammation and autoantibody generation – Widian K. Jubair – Arthritis & Rheumatology

Genetic Markers Are Associated with the Ruminal Microbiome and Metabolome in Grain and Sugar Challenged Dairy Heifers – Helen M. Golder

Animal microbiome

Gut microbes limit growth in house sparrow nestlings (Passer domesticus) but not through limitations in digestive capacity – Kevin D. Kohl – Integrative Zoology

*Chemical regulation of body feather microbiota in a wild bird – Staffan Jacob – Molecular Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Bacterial community changes in response to oil contamination and perennial crop cultivation – Lijuan Yan – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Integrated network analysis reveals the importance of microbial interactions for maize growth – Jiemeng Tao – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

*Spatio-temporal dynamics of soil bacterial communities as a function of Amazon forest phenology – Erika Buscardo – Scientific Reports

Microbiome dynamics during ensiling of corn with and without Lactobacillus plantarum inoculant – Jitendra Keshridf – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Barcoded Pyrosequencing Reveals a Shift in the Bacterial Community in the Rhizosphere and Rhizoplane of Rehmannia glutinosa under Consecutive Monoculture – Linkun Wu – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Chrysomya megacephala larvae feeding favourably influences manure microbiome, heavy metal stability and greenhouse gas emissions – Xiaoyun Wang – Microbial Biotechnology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Mosaic patterns of B-vitamin synthesis and utilization in a natural marine microbial community – Laura Gómez-Consarnau – bioRxiv

Microbial Ecology

Mycotoxin: Its Impact on Gut Health and Microbiota – Winnie-Pui-Pui Liew – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

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Probiotics / prebiotics

Effect of an Enterococcus faecium probiotic on specific IgA following live Salmonella Enteritidis vaccination of layer chickens – Breno C. B. Beirão – Avian Pathology

Effect of a Protein Supplement on the Gut Microbiota of Endurance Athletes: A Randomized, Controlled, Double-Blind Pilot Study – Diego Moreno-Pérez – Nutrients

Fecal Transplants

Fecal transplants in spondyloarthritis and uveitis: ready for a clinical trial? – Rene Y Choi – Current Opinion in Rheumatology

Phages and viruses

Together Forever: Bacterial–Viral Interactions in Infection and Immunity – Zhenda Shi – Viruses

Bioinformatics

*Towards predicting the environmental metabolome from metagenomics with a mechanistic model – Daniel R. Garza – Nature Microbiology

Phylogenetic convolutional neural networks in metagenomics – Diego Fioravanti – BMC Bioinformatics

Waste and Pollution

Illumina MiSeq Sequencing reveals microbial community in HA process for dyeing wastewater treatment fed with different co-substrates – Xuehui Xie – Chemosphere

Techniques

Influence of fecal collection conditions and 16S rRNA gene sequencing at two centers on human gut microbiota analysis – Jocelyn Sietsma Penington – Scientific Reports

Direct detection of Coccidioides from Arizona soils using CocciENV, a highly sensitive and specific real-time PCR assay – J R Bowers – Medical Mycology

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March 11, 2018

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Events and jobs

EVEN seminar: Weakest link in water quality control: Drinking water biofilm in premise plumbing – INSTAAR, CU Boulder

General microbiome

Multiscale Evolutionary Dynamics of Host-Associated Microbiomes – Aura Ferreiro, Cell

Egalitarianism in Biofilms – Dawen Gao, Microbial Ecology

Acclimation of Culturable Bacterial Communities under the Stresses of Different Organic Compounds – Hui Wang, Frontiers in Microbiology

Human multi-site microbiome

The Mycobiome: A Neglected Component in the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis – Raphaël Enaud, Microorganisms

Human gut microbiome

Gut Microbiota Alteration After Long-Term Consumption of Probiotics in the Elderly – Renyuan Gao, Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Sex differences in gut microbiota in patients with major depressive disorder – Chen JJ, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Oral microbiome

Influence of periodontal treatment on subgingival and salivary microbiotas – Daniel Belstrøm, Journal of Periodontology

Microbiome at sites of gingival recession in children with Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome – Seyed Hossein Bassir, Journal of Periodontology

Subgingival microbial profile of obese women with periodontal disease – Carina M. Silva-Boghossian, Journal of Periodontology

Animal experiments

The effect of probiotics and polysaccharides on the gut microbiota composition and function of weaned rats – Mengxia Wang, Food and Function

Cecal Versus Fecal Microbiota in Ossabaw Swine and Implications for Obesity – Matthew R Panasevich, Physiological Genomics

Antibiotics-induced modulation of large intestinal microbiota altered aromatic amino acid profile and expression of neurotransmitters in the hypothalamus of piglets – Kan Gao, Journal of Neurochemistry

Animal microbiome

Nutrient factories: Metabolic function of beneficial microorganisms associated with insects – Nana Y. D. Ankrah, Environmental Microbiology

Community composition, diversity, and metabolism of intestinal microbiota in cultivated European eel (Anguilla anguilla) – Wei Huang, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Environmental and Host Effects on Skin Bacterial Community Composition in Panamanian Frogs – Brandon J. Varela, Frontiers in Microbiology

Influence of Novel Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Infection on Migrating Whooper Swans Fecal Microbiota – Na Zhao, Frontiers in Cellular and Infectious Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

The Soil-Borne Legacy – Peter A.H.M. Bakker, Cell

Water and extremophile microbiome

Haloarchaea from the Andean Puna: Biological Role in the Energy Metabolism of Arsenic – Omar Federico Ordoñez, Microbial Ecology

Occurrence of Legionella in Nonpotable Reclaimed Water – William J. Johnson, American Water Works Association

Water Bacterial and Fungal Community Compositions Associated with Urban Lakes, Xi’an, China – Haihan Zhang, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Food microbiome

Microbial community and physicochemical dynamics during the production of ‘Chicha’, a traditional beverage of Indigenous people of Brazil – Ludmila Vilela Resende, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Techniques

Primer selection impacts specific population abundances but not community dynamics in a monthly time-series 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis of coastal marine bacterioplankton – Emma K. Wear, Environmental Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Pitting Viruses Against Bacteria To Combat The Antibiotic Crisis – SciFri

March 8, 2018

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A wide range of interesting articles today: the use of fungi communities in the production of gold nanoparticles, a link between dysbiosis of the oral microbiome and rheumatoid arthritis, a diet low in PKU decreases fecal butyrate, the bacterial diet of  C. elegans alters their proteome, and a functional metagenomic study of the gut microbiome of the giant panda.

Events and jobs

Postdoctoral Associate – School of Medicine/Surgery – University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences

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General microbiome

Review: Understanding the microbiome – Mark Buchanan – Nature Physics

Pregnancy and early life

Conference Proceedings: Biology and Science of Human Milk – Integrated Approaches to Analyze Big Data in the Perinatal/Neonatal Space – Rob Knight – Human Milk Science

PrePrint: Hospitalized premature infants are colonized by related bacterial strains with distinct proteomic profiles – Christopher T. Brown – bioRxiv

Emollient use alters skin barrier and microbes in infants at risk for developing atopic dermatitis – Martin Glatz – PLOSone

Human oral microbiome

*Dysbiotic subgingival microbial communities in periodontally healthy patients with rheumatoid arthritis – Isabel Lopez-Oliva – Arthritis and Rheumatology

Human gut microbiome

*Phenylketonuric diet negatively impacts on butyrate production – E. Verduci – Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases

Review: Microbiotes et rhumatismes inflammatoires – Matthias Jarlborg – Revue Medicale Suisse

Gut Microbiome Composition Predicts Infection Risk during Chemotherapy in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia – Hana Hakim – Clinical Infectious Diseases

PrePrint: American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen-Science Microbiome Research – Daniel McDonald – bioRxiv

Review: Bile acid–microbiota crosstalk in gastrointestinal inflammation and carcinogenesis: a role for bifidobacteria and lactobacilli? – Borja Sánchez – Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Animal microbiome

Effect of urea-supplemented diets on the ruminal bacterial and archaeal community composition of finishing bulls – Zhenming Zhou – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

*Metagenomic Study Suggests That the Gut Microbiota of the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) May Not Be Specialized for Fiber Fermentation – Wei Guo – Frontiers in Microbiology

*The C. elegans Proteome Response to Naturally Associated Microbiome Members of the Genus Ochrobactrum – Liam Cassidy – Proteomics

16S rRNA gene sequencing reveals effects of photoperiod on cecal microbiota of broiler roosters – Jun Wang – PeerJ

The Drosophila melanogaster Gut Microbiota Provisions Thiamine to Its Host – David R. Sannino – mBio

Host and aquatic environment shape the amphibian skin microbiome but effects on downstream resistance to the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis are variable – Andrea J. Jani – Frontiers in Microbiology

A comparative analysis of microbial profile of Guinea fowl and chicken using metagenomic approach – Sarayu Bhogoju – PLOSone

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Impact of wastewater effluent containing aged nanoparticles and other components on biological activities of the soil microbiome, Arabidopsis plants, and earthworms – Jia Liu – Environmental Research

Dissertation: The influence of intraspecific variation in host plants on arthropod and fungal endophyte communities – Joshua G. Harrison – University of Nevada

Soil Microbiology Research in the Coming Decades: Translational Research Opportunities – Tapan Kumar Adhya – Advances in Soil Microbiology: Recent Trends and Future Prospects

Divergence of dominant factors in soil microbial communities and
functions in forest ecosystems along a climatic gradient – Zhiwei Xu – Biogeosciences

Climate, but not trait, effects on plant–soil feedback depend on mycorrhizal type in temperate forests – Jonathan A. Bennett – Ecosphere

Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Alleviates Restrictions to Substrate Water Flow and Delays Transpiration Limitation to Stronger Drought in Tomato – Michael Bitterlich – Frontiers in Plant Science

Ecological responses to forest age, habitat, and host vary by mycorrhizal type in boreal peatlands – Peter G. Kennedy – Mycorrhiza

Microbial Ecology

Holobionts and their hologenomes: Evolution with mixed modes of inheritance – Karen Luisa Haag – Genetics and Molecular Biology

Resistome

PrePrint: Conjugation factors controlling F-plasmid antibiotic resistance transmission – Hanna Alalam – bioRxiv

Comparative Genomics of Staphylococcus Reveals Determinants of Speciation and Diversification of Antimicrobial Defense – Malcolm James Horsburgh – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

PrePrint: MetaWRAP – a flexible pipeline for genome-resolved metagenomic data analysis
– Gherman V Uritskiy – bioRxiv

Biotechnology

*Green synthesis of gold nanoparticles by thermophilic filamentous fungi – Zsófia Molnár – Scientific Reports

Techniques

Evaluation of magnetic cellulose bead-based DNA extraction from faecal materials for high-throughput bacterial community analyses – Tanzila Afrin – Applied Entomology and Zoology

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Microbes in the news

How extremophiles flourish in stressful environments – Science Daily

Does a Microbiome Exist in the Womb? – Medical News Bulletin

IBS and the Developing Microbiome – David Carreon – Modern Medicine Network

Bacteria and Art

Finding Art in the Gut, and Other Unexpected Places – Patrician Olsen – The New York Times

This Psychedelic Art Made from Moldy Food Is Tripping Us Out – Artist Felix Kalmenson proves decay can be gorgeous – Anna Marks – Vice

Artist to offer presentation on ‘Living Light’ exhibit March 5 at MCC – Daily Herald

March 4, 2018

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Events and jobs

Phd position in antimicrobial resistance development in biofilm communities – University of Leuven

Professor in Microbiome/Microbiota-Host Interactions – University of Alabama

Microbiology Lab Scientist – Lyneer Staffing

General microbiome

Impact of Brazilian microbiome for boosting agriculture, animal husbandry and human being: a book review – Arthur Prudêncio de Araujo Pereira, Journal of Cleaner Production

Are animals a source of Stenotrophomonas maltophiliain human infections? Contributions of a nationwide molecular study – Aurélie Jayol, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

The organization of bacterial genomes: Towards understanding the interplay between structure and function – Daan J.W. Brocken, Current Opinion in Systems Biology

Pregnancy and early life

Selective maternal seeding and environment shape the human gut microbiome – Katri Korpela, Genome Research

Ecological Shifts of Supragingival Microbiota in Association with Pregnancy – Wenzhen Lin, Frontiers in Cellular and Infectious Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Impaired diversity of the lung microbiome predicts progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis – Youhei Takahashi, Respiratory Research

Human gut microbiome

Methanogens in humans: potentially beneficial or harmful for health – Prem Prashant Chaudhary, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Gut microbiota alterations and dietary modulation in childhood malnutrition – The role of short chain fatty acids – Ceyda Tugba Pekmez, Clinical Nutrition

Differential human gut microbiome assemblages during soil-transmitted helminth infections in Indonesia and Liberia – Bruce A. Rosa, Microbiome

Market Integration Predicts Human Gut Microbiome Attributes across a Gradient of Economic Development – Keaton Stagaman, mSystems

A Review of Microbiota and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Future in Therapies – Bruno K. Rodiño-Janeiro, Advances in Therapy

Characterizing the metabolic phenotype of intestinal villus blunting in Zambian children with severe acute malnutrition and persistent diarrhea – Marta Farràs, PLOS one

Animal experiments

Differences in gut microbiota composition in finishing Landrace pigs with low and high feed conversion ratios – Zhen Tan, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Human milk oligosaccharides protect against the development of autoimmune diabetes in NOD-mice – Ling Xiao, Scientific Reports

TRIM31 Deficiency Is Associated with Impaired Glucose Metabolism and Disrupted Gut Microbiota in Mice – Jing Cheng, Frontiers in Physiology

Animal microbiome

Quantitative prediction of shrimp disease incidence via the profiles of gut eukaryotic microbiota – Jinbo Xiong, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Bioturbation activity of three macrofaunal species and the presence of meiofauna affect the abundance and composition of benthic bacterial communities – Élise Lacoste, Marine Environmental Research

Spatial Organization of the Gastrointestinal Microbiota in Urban Canada Geese – Sergei V. Drovetski, Scientific Reports

Skin microbiomes of California terrestrial salamanders are influenced by habitat more than host phylogeny – Alicia K. Bird, Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Recent Insights on Biological and Ecological Aspects of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi and Their Interactions – Antonietta Mello, Frontiers in Microbiology

Micro-decomposer communities and decomposition processes in tropical lowlands as affected by land use and litter type – Valentyna Krashevska, Oecologia

One-time phosphate fertilizer application to grassland columns modifies the soil microbiota and limits its role in ecosystem services – Israel Ikoyi, Science of The Total Environment

Size-Controlled Production of Gold Bionanoparticles Using the Extremely Acidophilic Fe(III)-Reducing Bacterium, Acidocella aromatica – Intan Nurul Rizki, Minerals

Nematicidal protease genes screened from a soil metagenomic library to control Radopholus similismediated by Pseudomonas fluorescens pf36 – Deqiang Chen, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

The structural and functional contributions of β-glucosidase-producing microbial communities to cellulose degradation in composting – Xiangyun Zang, Biotechnology for Biofuels

Diversity and contributions to nitrogen cycling and carbon fixation of soil salinity shaped microbial communities in Tarim Basin – Min Ren, Frontiers in Microbiology

Decomposer food web in a deciduous forest shows high share of generalist microorganisms and importance of microbial biomass recycling – Ruben López-Mondéjar, The ISME Journal

Soil bacterial community shifts driven by restoration time and steppe types in the degraded steppe of Inner Mongolia – Minjie Yao, CATENA

One-time phosphate fertilizer application to grassland columns modifies the soil microbiota and limits its role in ecosystem services – Israel Ikoyi, Science of The Total Environment

Enumeration of Culturable Endophytic Bacterial Population of Different Lycopersicum esculentum L. Varieties – Monika Singh, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Isolation and Characterization of Methanol Utilizing Microorganisms from Leguminous Crops – Umang Ahlawat, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Isolation of Mercury-Resistant Fungi from Mercury-Contaminated Agricultural Soil – Reginawanti Hindersah, Agriculture

Root-associated fungi shared between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal conifers in a temperate forest – Hirokazu Toju, Frontiers in Microbiology

Antagonistic Potential and Molecular Characterization of Trichoderma spp. against Rhizoctonia solani Infecting Ghost Pepper in Manipur, India – Khedarani Koijam, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Isolation of Biocontrol (Bacterial) Agents from Chickpea (Cicer arietinum linnaeus) – S. Vijaya Kumar, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Potentiality of Native Pseudomonas spp. in Promoting Sugarcane Seedling Growth and Red Rot (Colletotrichum falcatum went) Management – P. Kishore Varma, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Interactions between isolates of the fungus Beauveria bassiana and Zea mays – Aimee McKinnon, Lincoln University (thesis)

Metagenome Sequencing of Prokaryotic Microbiota from Two Hypersaline Soils of the Odiel Salt Marshes in Huelva, Southwestern Spain – Blanca Vera-Gargallo, Genome Anouncements

Degradation shaped bacterial and archaeal communities with predictable taxa and their association patterns in Zoige wetland at Tibet plateau – Yunfu Gu, Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

Survival of Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus in Synthetic Brines. Studying the Effects of Salt, Temperature and Sugar through the Approach of the Design of Experiments – Antonio Bevilacqua, Frontiers in Microbiology

Saccharolobus caldissimus gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic iron-reducing hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from an acidic terrestrial hot spring, and reclassification of Sulfolobus solfataricus as Saccharolobus solfataricus comb. nov. and Sulfolobus shibatae as Saccharolobus shibatae comb. nov. – Hiroyuki D. Sakai,  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Distinct Osmoadaptation Strategies in the Strict Halophilic and Halotolerant Bacteria Isolated from Lunsu Salt Water Body of North West Himalayas – Shivani Vaidya, Current Microbiology

Archaeal Viruses from High-Temperature Environments – Jacob H. Munson-McGee, Genes

Strategies of adaptation of microorganisms of the three domains of life to high salt concentrations – Nina Gunde-Cimerman, FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Tertiary treatment and dual disinfection to improve microbial quality of reclaimed water for potable and non-potable reuse: A case study of facilities in North Carolina – Emily S. Bailey, Science of The Total Environment

The Early Earth Geochemical and Isotope Record of Serpentinizing Environments from Archean Stichtite (Mg6Cr2(OH)16[CO3] · 4H2O) – Erik B. Melchiorre, Precambrian Research

Process performance and population dynamics of ammonium tolerant microorganisms during co-digestion of fish waste and manure – Linn Solli, Renewable Energy

Toxicity assessment of pharmaceutical compounds on mixed culture from activated sludge using respirometric technique: The role of microbial community structure – I.A. Vasiliadou, Science of The Total Environment

Divergent assemblage patterns of abundant and rare microbial sub-communities in response to inorganic carbon stresses in a simultaneous anammox and denitrification (SAD) system – Duntao Shu, Bioresource Technology

Pretreatment of saline antibiotic wastewater using marine microalga – Xueqing Shi, Bioresource Technology

Bioinformatics

Handling gene and protein names in the age of bioinformatics: the special challenge of secreted multimodular bacterial enzymes such as the cbhA/cbh9Agene of Clostridium thermocellum – Wolfgang H. Schwarz, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Techniques

Optimization of fecal sample processing for microbiome study — The journey from bathroom to bench – Wei-Kai Wu, Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

The Application of Omics Data to the Development of AOPs – Mary T. McBride, A Systems Biology Approach to Advancing Adverse Outcome Pathways for Risk Assessment

From correlation to causation: analysis of metabolomics data using systems biology approaches – Antonio Rosato, Metabolomics

Application of ensemble deep neural network to metabolomics studies – Taiga Asakura, Analytica Chimica Acta

Genome-reconstruction for eukaryotes from complex natural microbial communities – Patrick T West, Genome Research

Microbes in the news

Magnetic bacteria cause a stir – Christian Harding, Chemistry World

Federal Panel Passes Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Resolutions – Troy Brown, MedScape

Dangerous bacteria found in raw milk from Pennsylvania dairy – Coral Beach, Food Safety Network