Category Archives: Fungi

September 9, 2016

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Microbiome and tuberculosis, mangoes, lessons from amphibians, and the microbiome of buildings.

Human gut microbiome

Oral, frozen fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) capsules for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection – Ilan Youngster – BMC Medicine

Review: Microbiome Changes during Tuberculosis and Antituberculous Therapy – Bo-Young Hong – Clinical Microbiology Reviews

No consensus on how the microbiome affects tuberculosis, review finds – Science Daily

Animal models

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Mango, “hedgehog” style – Wikipedia

Mango Supplementation Modulates Gut Microbial Dysbiosis and Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production Independent of Body Weight Reduction in C57BL/6 Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet – Babajide Ojo – Journal of Nutrition

Mango and the Microbiota: New Research Reveals Potential Role of this Superfruit in Maintaining Gut Health – National Mango Board – PR Newswire

Antibiotics Suppress Activation of Intestinal Mucosal Mast Cells and Reduce Dietary Lipid Absorption in Sprague-Dawley Rats – Hirokazu Sato – Gastroenterology

Press (with ugly title): The influence of fat when gut bacteria is reduced by antibioticsm – Science Daily

Animal microbiome

Harnessing the Microbiome to Prevent Fungal Infections: Lessons from Amphibians – Jenifer B. Walke – PLOS Pathogens

Built environment microbiome

Ten questions concerning the microbiomes of buildings – Rachel I. Adams – Building and Environment

The hot new 10 questions concerning the microbiomes of buildings will surprise you – Jonathan Eisen – MicroBEnet

Microbes in the news

“I’ll never let go, Jack I promise”
Titanic expected to disappear by 2030 thanks to hungry bacteria – Matthew Humphries – Geek.com
Video: Will Bacteria Completely Destroy The Titanic’s Remains? – MSN Video

Scientists find deadly scrub typhus bacteria in South America – Reuters

Mount Sinai Beth Israel Says Legionella Bacteria Found in Several Areas of Hospital – NY1.com

Mood, mind and memory: can gut bacteria meddle with the brain? – Dyani Lewis – Cosmos Magazine
Bugs as drugs – medicine’s next frontier – Dyani Lewis – Cosmos Magazine

Driving Microbiome Science: PKU and Probiotics – Raredr

Experts urge a defensive stance in efforts against antimicrobial resistance – EurekAlert

Microbes and money

Microban Opens Microbiology Testing Services to Non-Partners – Genevieve Scarano – Sourcing Journal

Science, publishing, and career

Your toughest experiment: taking the lead in the lab. Eight scientists share the secrets of being a successful PI – Times Higher Education

August 6, 2016

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Airwair microbiome at birth, fungi on strawberries, molds in a library.

Pregnancy and birth

The Airway Microbiome at Birth – Charitharth Vivek Lal – Scientific Reports

Press: Discovery of Infants’ Airway Microbiomes May Help Predict Lung Disease
A newborn’s airway — once thought to be sterile until after birth — is colonized by bacteria– University of Alabama at Birmingham
Discovery of infants’ airway microbiomes may help predict lung disease – Jeff Hansen – Medical Xpress

Gestational Diabetes is associated with changes in Placental Microbiota and Microbiome – Judit Bassols – Pediatric Research

Human respiratory microbiome (also see Pregnancy and Birth)

Characterizing human lung tissue microbiota and its relationship to epidemiological and clinical features – Guoqin Yu – Genome Biology

High Frequency and Diversity of Antimicrobial Activities Produced by Nasal Staphylococcus Strains against Bacterial Competitors – Daniela Janek – PLOS Pathogens

Human ear microbiome

Molecular microbiological profile of chronic suppurative otitis media – Michel Neeff – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Antibiotic-Induced Gut Microbiota Disruption Decreases TNF-α Release by Mononuclear Cells in Healthy Adults – Jacqueline M. Lankelma – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Review: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation and Its Usage in Neuropsychiatric Disorders – Alper Evrensel – Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience

Review: Interactions between the gut microbiome and the central nervous system and their role in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression – Adrian Andrzej Chrobak – Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Animal microbiome

Strain diversity and host specificity in a specialized gut symbiont of honey bees and bumble bees – J. Elijah Powell – Molecular Ecology

Flow cytometric enumeration of bacterial in the coral surface mucus layer – Yvan Bettarel – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Worldwide exploration of the microbiome harbored by the cnidarian model, Exaiptasia pallida indicates a lack of bacterial association specificity at a lower taxonomic rank – Tanya Brown – PeerJ Preprint

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Metagenomic Analysis of Fungal Diversity on Strawberry Plants and the Effect of Management Practices on the Fungal Community Structure of Aerial Organs – Ahmed Abdelfattah – PLOS ONE

The active microbial diversity drives ecosystem multifunctionality and is physiologically related to carbon-availability in Mediterranean semiarid soils – Felipe Bastida – Molecular Ecology

Spatial and successional dynamics of microbial biofilm communities in a grassland stream ecosystem – Allison M. Veach – Molecular Ecology

Review: Phytoremediation: state-of-the-art and a key role for the plant microbiome in future trends and research prospects – Sofie Thijs – International Journal of Phytoremediation

Review: Bacterial pathogenesis of plants: future challenges from a microbial perspective. Challenges in Bacterial Molecular Plant Pathology – Sebastian Pfeilmeier – Molecular Plant Pathology

Review: Effects of Secondary Plant Metabolites on Microbial Populations: Changes in Community Structure and Metabolic Activity in Contaminated Environments – Lucie Musilova – Int J Mol Sci

Water and extremophile microbiome

Unexpected biodiversity of ciliates in marine samples from below the photic zone – Jean-David Grattepanche – Molecular Ecology

Meltwater export of prokaryotic cells from the Greenland Ice Sheet – Karen A. Cameron – Environmental Microbiology

Environmental Conditions Outweigh Geographical Contiguity in Determining the Similarity of nifH-Harboring Microbial Communities in Sediments of Two Disconnected Marginal Seas – Haixia Zhou – Frontiers in MIcrobiology

Review: Extremophilic adaptations and biotechnological applications in diverse environments – James Charlesworth – AIMS Microbiology

Built environment microbiome

Detection of volatile metabolites of moulds isolated from a contaminated library – Anna Micheluz – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Review: Shoe soles as a potential vector for pathogen transmission: A systematic review – Tasnuva Rashid – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics
PhyloBot: A Web Portal for Automated Phylogenetics, Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction, and Exploration of Mutational Trajectories – Victor Hanson-Smith – PLOS Computational BIology

The Phylogenetic LASSO and the Microbiome – Stephen T Rush – arXiv

Microbiome networks: A systems framework for identifying candidate microbial assemblages for disease management – Ravin Poudel – Phytopathology

Techniques

On the study of microbial transcriptomes using second- and third-generation sequencing technologies – Sang Chul Choi – Journal of Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Notre Dame Researcher Explores Bacteria beyond the Ability of Typical Hospital Setting: Gail Weaver – Nina Welding – Engineering

 

August 5, 2016

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Urinary tract microbiome, preterm gut microbiota and humanized mice, fungi of Crocus (Saffron plant), and bead-beating artefacts.

General microbiome

Introduction to special issue of Molecular Metabolism: Microbiota: ‘bugging’ insights into metabolic regulation – Thomas Schwarz-Romond – Molecular Metabolism

Human oral microbiome

Transcriptome Analysis of B Cell Immune Functions in Periodontitis: Mucosal Tissue Responses to the Oral Microbiome in Aging – Jeffrey L. Ebersole – Frontiers in Immunology

Human respiratory microbiome

Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with azithromycin selects for anti-inflammatory microbial metabolites in the emphysematous lung – Leopoldo N Segal – Thorax

Review: Microbiome in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis and lung transplant-related disease – Sushma K. Cribbs – Translational Research

Human urinary tract microbiome

Evaluation of the Urinary Microbiota of Women With Uncomplicated Stress Urinary Incontinence – Krystal J. Thomas-White – American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Human gut microbiome

Review: Microbiota as Mediator of Cancer Progression and Therapy – Jilian L. Pope – Translational Research

Review: The human microbiome in rheumatic autoimmune diseases: A comprehensive review – Patrick Coit – Clinical Immunology

Review: Human gut microbiota plays a role in the metabolism of drugs – Lenka Jourova – Biomed Pap Med Fac Univ Palacky Olomouc Czech Repub

Animal experiments

Preterm infant gut microbiota affects intestinal epithelial development in a humanized gnotobiotic mouse model – Yueyue Yu – American Journal of Physiology – Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Symbiotic gut commensal bacteria act as host cathepsin S activity regulators – Alex Steimle – Journal of Autoimmunity

Research Highlight (but very harsh title): Gut microbiota: Microbiota and behaviour: visiting the sins of the mother – Paul Forsythe – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Animal microbiome

A high-resolution map of the gut microbiota in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): A basis for comparative gut microbial research – Karina Gajardo – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Molecular phylogeny, diversity, community structure and plant growth promoting properties of fungal endophytes associated with the corms of Saffron plant: an insight into the microbiome of Crocus sativus Linn – Zahoor Ahmed Wani – Fungal Biology

Leaf Treatments with a Protein-Based Resistance Inducer Partially Modify Phyllosphere Microbial Communities of Grapevine – Martina Cappelletti – Frontiers in Plant Science

The Resilience of Microbial Community under Drying and Rewetting Cycles of Three Forest Soils – Xue Zhou – Frontiers in Microbiology

Fungus-associated bacteriome in charge of their host behavior – Kristin Schulz-Bohm – Fungal Genetics and Biology

Microbiota Characterization of Compost Using Omics Approaches Opens New Perspectives for Phytophthora Root Rot Control – Josefa Blaya – PLOS ONE

Water and extremophile microbiome

Microbes on a Bottle: Substrate, Season and Geography Influence Community Composition of Microbes Colonizing Marine Plastic Debris Microbes on a Bottle: Substrate, Season and Geography Influence Community Composition of Microbes Colonizing Marine Plastic Debris – Sonja Oberbeckmann – PLOS ONE

Microbial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica – Heather N. Buelow – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial community structure shifts are associated with temperature, dispersants and nutrients in crude oil-contaminated seawaters – Long Meng – Marine Pollution Bulletin

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Rapid resistome mapping using nanopore sequencing – Eric van der Helm – bioRxiv

Metabolomics

Metabolomics evaluation of the impact of smokeless tobacco exposure on the oral bacterium Capnocytophaga sputigena – Jinchun Sun – Toxicology in Vitro

Training in metabolomics research. II. Processing and statistical analysis of metabolomics data, metabolite identification, pathway analysis, applications of metabolomics and its future – S. Barnes – Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Techniques

Bead-beating artefacts in the Bacteroidetes to Firmicutes ratio of the human stool metagenome – Heidi C. Vebø – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Pipeline for amplifying and analyzing amplicons of the V1–V3 region of the 16S rRNA gene – Heather K. Allen – BMC Research Notes

A Single-Batch Fermentation System to Simulate Human Colonic Microbiota for High-Throughput Evaluation of Prebiotics – Risa Takagi – PLOS ONE

More microbiology

Metabolic engineering of microbial competitive advantage for industrial fermentation processes – A. Joe Shaw – Science

Microbes in the news

AGA establishes NIH-funded registry to track fecal microbiota transplants – EurekAlert

Maternal microbial inheritance—benefits of breastfeeding – Md Zohorul Islam

ASM Agar Art Calendar 2016/2017

Science, publishing, and career

What Is the Key Best Practice for Collaborating with a Computational Biologist? – Cell Systems

University of Waterloo boosts salaries of female faculty after discrepancy found – Paola Loriggio – CP24

Bik’s Non-Microbiology Picks

Circadian regulation of sunflower heliotropism, floral orientation, and pollinator visits – Hagop S. Atamian – Science
How do sunflowers follow the Sun—and to what end? – Winslow R. Briggs – Science

July 28, 2016

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Maternal HIV status and infant microbiome development, nose bacteria producing antibiotics, gases produced by gut microbes, microbial mats in Hawaiian lava caves.

Pregnancy and birth

Maternal HIV infection influences the microbiome of HIV-uninfected infants – Jeffrey M. Bender – Science Translational Medicine

Press: Maternal HIV status may disrupt normal microbiome development in uninfected infants – Medical Xpress

Human respiratory microbiome

Human commensals producing a novel antibiotic impair pathogen colonization – Alexander Zipperer – Nature

Press: Scientists are looking everywhere, and we mean everywhere, for new antibiotics – Katherine Ellen Foley – Quartz
Nose-Dwelling Bacteria Could Be Antibiotic Factories, Study Says – Robert Lee Hotz – Wall Street Journal

Human vaginal microbiome

Desialylation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Lipooligosaccharide by Cervicovaginal Microbiome Sialidases: The Potential for Enhancing Infectivity in Men – Margaret R. Ketterer – Journal of Infectious Diseases

Does the cervicovaginal microbiome facilitate transmission of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from women to men? Implications for understanding transmission of gonorrhea and advancing vaccine development – William M. Shafer – Journal of Infectious Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Review: Neuromodulatory effects and targets of the SCFAs and gasotransmitters produced by the human symbiotic microbiota –  Alexander V. Oleskin – Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease

Press: Explosive new findings: Farting shown to play a role in regulating your brain and behavior – Kelly Hodgkins – Yahoo Tech

Review: Progress in Our Understanding of the Gut Microbiome: Implications for the Clinician – Sara Iqbal – Current Gastroenterology Reports

 
Animal microbiome

Testosterone levels are positively correlated with cloacal bacterial diversity and the relative abundance of Chlamydiae in breeding male rufous-collared sparrows – Camilo Escallón – Functional Ecology

Review: The rich somatic life of Wolbachia – Jose E. Pietri – MicrobiologyOpen

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Diversity of root-associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a rubber tree plantation chronosequence in Northeast Thailand – Laetitia Herrmann – Mycorrhiza

Bromeliad tanks are unique habitats for microbial communities involved in methane turnover – Franziska B. Brandt – Plant and Soil

Soil compartment is a major determinant of the impact of simulated rainfall on desert microbiota – Shazia N. Aslam – Environmental Microbiology

Assessing Fungal Population in Soil Planted with Cry1Ac and CPTI Transgenic Cotton and Its Conventional Parental Line Using 18S and ITS rDNA Sequences over Four Seasons – Xiemin Qi – Frontiers in Plant Science

Systems-level proteomics of two ubiquitous leaf commensals reveals complementary adaptive traits for phyllosphere colonization – Daniel B. Müller – Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Water and extremophile microbiome

(PDF) Microbial mat communities in Hawaiian lava caves – Michael N. Spilde – International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology

Poster, abstract only: Microbial Diversity of Culinary Salts – Galen Muske – Utah Space Grant Consortium

Built environment microbiome

Influence of carbon sources and concrete on microbially induced corrosion of carbon steel in subterranean groundwater environment – Pauliina Rajala – Corrosion

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

MBMC: An Effective Markov Chain Approach for Binning Metagenomic Reads from Environmental Shotgun Sequencing Projects – Wang Ying – OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology

Scalable metagenomics alignment research tool (SMART): a scalable, rapid, and complete search heuristic for the classification of metagenomic sequences from complex sequence populations – Aaron Y. Lee – BMC Bioinformatics

Review: Computational Biology in the 21st Century: Scaling with Compressive Algorithms – Bonnie Berger – Communications of the ACM

Microbes in the news

Five new studies will examine how the trillions of tiny organisms that call our bodies home can impact health – University at Buffalo

NASA releases ‘Microbiomics: The Living World In and On You’ – Video highlights Twins Study microbiome investigation – EurekAlert

The Olympians can leave. Brazil’s poor live with filthy, reeking water every day – Melissa Bailey – STAT News

Bizarre bacteria causing major cattle disease named by researchers – Pajaroellobacter abortibovis causes “foothill abortion disease” –  Science Daily

Bik’s non-microbiology Picks

From Impossible Foods, co-founded by Patrick Brown, a former Stanford professor: Impossible burger: New York’s latest food craze is a veggie burger that bleeds – Amanda Holpuch – The Guardian

July 22, 2016

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Fungi in human GI tract, antibiotics reduce Alzheimer’s lesions in mouse model, cospeciation of primates and gut microbes, dangerous bacteria after sewer spill.

Jobs

Research scientists to engineer microbiome engineering therapies – Eligo Bioscience

General microbiome

Perspective: Is triclosan harming your microbiome? – Alyson L. Yee – Science

Understanding How Microbiomes Influence the Systems they Inhabit: Insight from Ecosystem Ecology – Ed Hall – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and birth microbiome

Midtrimester Cervicovaginal Microbiota: Identification of Microbial Variations Associated with Puerperal Infection at Term – Akila Subramaniam – American Journal of Perinatology

Human mouth microbiome

Salivary and fecal microbiota and metabolome of celiac children under gluten-free diet – Maria De Angelis – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Lung Microbiome in HIV Infection – Homer L. Twigg III – Translational Research

Human vaginal microbiome

Proceedings of the 2015 NIH/NIAID Bacterial Vaginosis Expert Consultation – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Age and gender affect the composition of fungal population of the human gastrointestinal tract – Francesco Strati – Frontiers in Microbiology

A reduction in the butyrate producing species Roseburia spp. and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is associated with chronic kidney disease progression – Shuanghong Jiang – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Review: An update discussion on the current assessment of the safety of veterinary antimicrobial drug residues in food with regard to their impact on the human intestinal microbiome – Carl E. Cerniglia – Drug Testing and Analysis

Animal experiments

Antibiotic-induced perturbations in gut microbial diversity influences neuro-inflammation and amyloidosis in a murine model of Alzheimer’s disease – Myles R. Minter – Scientific Reports

Press: Antibiotics weaken Alzheimer’s disease progression through changes in the gut microbiome – EurekAlert
Could antibiotics reduce levels of Alzheimer’s-causing plaques? – Hannah Nichols – MedicalNewsToday

Pathogenic shifts in endogenous microbiota impede tissue regeneration via distinct activation of TAK1/MKK/p38 – Christopher P Arnold – eLIFE

Bacterial community characterization of water and intestine of the shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris in a biofloc system – Emilie Cardona – BMC Microbiology

Impact of Helminth Infections and Nutritional Constraints on the Small Intestine Microbiota – Isabella M. Cattadori – PLOS ONE

Nutrient Deprivation Affects Salmonella Invasion and Its Interaction with the Gastrointestinal Microbiota – Sophie Yurist-Doutsch – PLOS ONE

Celecoxib alters the intestinal microbiota and metabolome in association with reducing polyp burden – David C. Montrose – Cancer Prevention Research

Review: Interactions between host genetics and gut microbiome in diabetes and metabolic syndrome – Siegfried Ussar – Molecular metabolism

Animal microbiome

Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids – Andrew H. Moeller – Science

Press: Primates, Gut Microbes Evolved Together. Symbiotic gut bacteria evolved and diverged along with ape and human lineages, researchers find – Anna Azvolinsky – The Scientist
Microbes in our guts have been with us for millions of years – Ann Gibbons – Science
Your gut bacteria predates appearance of humans, genetic study finds – Naomi Stewart – The Guardian

A snapshot of the microbiome of Amblyomma tuberculatum ticks infesting the gopher tortoise, an endangered species – Khemraj Budachetri – Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Do Vertebrate Gut Metagenomes Confer Rapid Ecological Adaptation? –
Antton Alberdi – Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Vaginal microbial communities from synchronized-heifers and cows with reproductive disorders – Candelaria Gonzalez Moreno – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Review: The woodrat gut microbiota as an experimental system for understanding microbial metabolism of dietary toxins – Kevin D. Kohl – Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Plant Identity Exerts Stronger Effect than Fertilization on Soil Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in a Sown Pasture – Yong Zheng – Microbial Ecology

Beneficial cyanobacteria and eubacteria synergistically enhance bioavailability of soil nutrients and yield of okra – Mallappa Manjunath – Heliyon

Naming Potentially Endangered Parasites: Foliicolous Mycobiota of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a Highly Threatened Brazilian Tree Species– Meiriele da Silva – PLOS ONE

Contribution of the seed microbiome to weed management – D Müller-Stöver – Weed Research

Mycorrhizal associations of trees have different indirect effects on organic matter decomposition – Melanie K. Taylor – Journal of Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Vancomycin resistant enterococci and bacterial community structure following a sewage spill into an aquatic environment – Suzanne Young – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Press: USF researchers find dangerous bacteria after sewer spills – EurekAlert
USF researchers say they found dangerous bacteria after sewage spill – Anne Lindberg – Saint Peters Blog

Hospital Effluents Are One of Several Sources of Metal, Antibiotic Resistance Genes, and Bacterial Markers Disseminated in Sub-Saharan Urban Rivers – Amandine Laffite – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial communities in sediments of Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria: Elucidation of community structure and potential impacts of contamination by municipal and industrial wastes – Chioma C. Obi – Frontiers in Microbiology

Cryoconite pans on Snowball Earth: supraglacial oases for Cryogenian eukaryotes? – P. F. Hoffman – Geobiology

Effects of multiple dimensions of bacterial diversity on functioning, stability and multifunctionality – Fabian Roger – Ecology

Heterotrophic bacteria in Antarctic lacustrine and glacial environments – Johanna Laybourn-Parry – Polar Biology

Microbial diversity and activity in seafloor brine lake sediments (Alaminos Canyon block 601, Gulf of Mexico) – M. Crespo-Medina – Geobiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

MetaG: a graph-based metagenomic gene analysis for big DNA data – Linkon Chowdhury – Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics

DFAST and DAGA: web-based integrated genome annotation tools and resources – Yasuhiro Tanizawa – Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health

Genome-centric resolution of microbial diversity, metabolism and interactions in anaerobic digestion – Inka Vanwonterghem – Environmental Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Breast-feeding the Microbiome (Excerpt from his book) – Ed Yong – New Yorker

Janet Jansson Among Nine Authors of Nature Review Article – PNNL

Northern Arizona University professor Bruce Hungate named a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology – Arizona Business Daily

UF scientists identify seal as source of new strain of bacteria that caused disease in hunter – Sarah Carey – University of Florida

Gut Bacteria May Drive Inflammation in Sepsis, ARDS – Salynn Boyles – MedPageToday

With Rob Knight as keynote speaker: Fermenting Knowledge at Fermentation Festivals (with Kombucha Recipe) – John D. Ivanko – Mother Earth News

Your death microbiome could catch your killer – Anna Williams – New Scientist

Microbes and money

Osel, Inc. Comments on New Study Showing Role of Vaginal Microbiome in Women’s Health – PharmiWeb

Q&A: Indigo’s CEO Reveals the Strategy Behind Its Plant Microbiome Technology – Olivia Vanni – BostInno

Eminent Harvard Geneticist Professor George Church Joins uBiome Advisory Board – Benzinga

Immuron to Cooperate with Leading Australian Universities on Autism Research – Nasdaq

June 30, 2016

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Mycorrhizal fungi and CO2, pathogen defense in the gut, Mississippi River plume.

Animal experiments

Defensive Mutualism Rescues NADPH Oxidase Inactivation in Gut Infection – Gratiela Pircalabioru – Cell Host & Microbe

Press: Good gut relationships key in defence against pathogens – Medical Xpress

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2 fertilization effect – César Terrer – Science

Press: Study finds that plant growth responses to high carbon dioxide depend on symbiotic fungi – EurekAlert

Grassland to woodland transitions: Dynamic response of microbial community structure and carbon use patterns – Courtney A. Creamer – Journal of Geophysical Research

The interaction between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and endophytic bacteria enhances plant growth of Acacia gerrardii under salt stress – Abeer Hashem – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Mississippi River plume enriches microbial diversity in the northern Gulf of Mexico – Olivia U. Mason – Frontiers in Microbiology

Editorial: Anthropogenic impacts on the microbial ecology and function of aquatic environments – Maurizio Labbate – Frontiers in Microbiology

Unanticipated geochemical and microbial community structure under seasonal ice cover in a dilute, dimictic Arctic lake – Ursel Schuette – Frontiers in Microbiology

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

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Bioinformatic Characterization of Mosquito Viromes within the Eastern United States and Puerto Rico: Discovery of Novel Viruses – Kenneth G. Frey – Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Review: Reconstructing single genomes from complex microbial communities – Dongwan D. Kang – it-Information Technology

Review: A history of DNA sequence assembly – Eugene W. Myers Jr – it-Information Technology

Review: Millions of reads, thousands of taxa: microbial community structure and associations analyzed via marker genes – Miklós Bálint – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Microbes in the news

Stanford undergrads cook up a biotech startup to develop new antibiotics for drug-resistant superbugs – Rosemary Mena-Werth – Stanford News

From the Evolution Conference, talk by Danielle Whittaker: Bacteria give bird its sexy smells – Patrick Monahan – Science

Australia’s Melbourne takes selfie of its microbiome – i4U News

The Microbiome and Bronchiolitis: An Unusual Pairing or Is It? – Lewis First – AAP Gateway

An Ounce of (Water) Prevention: microbial fuel degradation – Katherine Vanover – Fuel Market News

New study shows chronic fatigue isn’t just in your head. It may have to do with your gut – Ariana Eunjung Cha – Washington Post

Resistance to antibiotics and to immune system are interconnected in bacteria – EurekAlert

In times of great famine, microalgae digest themselves. AWI researchers decipher the connection between nutrient availability and algae growth – EurekAlert

Researchers develop effective strategy for disrupting bacterial biofilms – EurekAlert

How a germ catches a virus – Phys.org

Coming Soon: Gut Bacteria That Actually Cure Your Disease: The $34 billion probiotics market includes some dubious products. This crop looks different – Deena Shanker – Bloomberg

TV weatherman retracts story about toxic bacteria at Northwest Florida beaches – The Destin Log

Bik’s non-microbiology Picks

Former Relman lab member: NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins Prepares for First Trip to Space – Alison Thoet – ABC News

107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over GMOs – Joel Achenbach – Washington Post

The Academic Hermit – What are you going to do with your tool?: installation as the Frederick G. Novy Collegiate Professor of Microbiome Research at the University of Michigan – Pat Schloss

June 29, 2016

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Two new papers on multiple sclerosis and breast tissue, cross-respiration, the Boston urban transit microbiome, and plastic debris.

Human respiratory microbiome

Review: The respiratory microbiome of HIV-infected individuals – MB Lawawni – Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy

Human skin microbiome

The microbiota of breast tissue and its association with tumours – Camilla Urbaniak – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Alterations of the human gut microbiome in multiple sclerosis – Sushrut Jangi – Nature Communications

Review: Gut microbiota and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: where do we stand? – D Zama – Bone Marrow Transplantation

Review: The neuropharmacology of butyrate: The bread and butter of the microbiota-gut-brain axis? – Roman M. Stilling – Neurochemistry International

Animal and in vitro experiments

A Commensal Bacterium Promotes Virulence of an Opportunistic Pathogen via Cross-Respiration – Apollo Stacy – mBio

Press: Cross-respiration between oral bacteria leads to worse infections – EurekAlert

Microbiota-Regulated IL-25 Increases Eosinophil Number to Provide Protection during Clostridium difficile Infection – Erica L. Buonomo – Cell Reports

Animal microbiome

Genome-wide survey of gut fungi (Harpellales) reveals the first horizontally transferred ubiquitin gene from a mosquito host – Yan Wang – Molecular Biology and Evolution

In barn swallows: Stress response, gut microbial diversity and sexual signals correlate with social interactions – Iris I. Levin – Biology Letters

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Plant Host and Geographic Location Drive Endophyte Community Composition in the Face of Perturbation – Natalie Christian – Microbial Ecology

Perspective: Soil immune responses – Jos M. Raaijmakers – Science

Water and extremophile microbiome

Microbes in mercury-enriched geothermal springs in western North America – Gill G. Geese – Science of The Total Environment

Environmental Disturbances Decrease the Variability of Microbial Populations within Periphyton – Cristina M. Herren – mSystems

Metagenomics unveils the attributes of the alginolytic guilds of sediments from four distant cold coastal environments – Marina N. Mato – Environmental Microbiology

Built environment microbiome

Commentary: Avoiding Pandemic Fears in the Subway and Conquering the Platypus – A. Gonzalez – mSystems

Urban Transit System Microbial Communities Differ by Surface Type and Interaction with Humans and the Environment – Tiffany Hsu – mSystems

Press: ‘Bugs’ on the subway: Monitoring the microbial environment to improve public health – EurekAlert

Diversity and Activity of Communities Inhabiting Plastic Debris in the North Pacific Gyre – Jessica A. Bryant – mSystems

Food microbiology

Culture-independent bacterial community profiling of carbon dioxide treated raw milk – Raquel Lo – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

MetaPalette: a k-mer Painting Approach for Metagenomic Taxonomic Profiling and Quantification of Novel Strain Variation – David Koslicki – mSystems

Bayesian identification of bacterial strains from sequencing data – Aravind Sankar – Microbial Genomics

MetaTreeMap: An Alternative Visualization Method for Displaying Metagenomic Phylogenic Trees – Maxime Hebrard – PLOS ONE

Proteomics and metabolomics

MPLEx: a Robust and Universal Protocol for Single-Sample Integrative Proteomic, Metabolomic, and Lipidomic Analyses – Ernesto S. Nakayasu – mSystems

An Integrated Metabolomic and Genomic Mining Workflow To Uncover the Biosynthetic Potential of Bacteria – Maria Maansson – mSystems

Techniques

16S rRNA gene sequencing of mock microbial populations- impact of DNA extraction method, primer choice and sequencing platform – Fiona Fouhy – BMC Microbiology

Preservation Methods Differ in Fecal Microbiome Stability, Affecting Suitability for Field Studies – Se Jin Song – mSystems

Moleculo Long-Read Sequencing Facilitates Assembly and Genomic Binning from Complex Soil Metagenomes – Richard Allen White III – mSystems

A Universal Next-Generation Sequencing Protocol To Generate Noninfectious Barcoded cDNA Libraries from High-Containment RNA Viruses – Lindsey A. Moser- mSystems

Fungal identification biases in microbiome projects – Leho Tedersoo – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Microbes in the news

Germs in the Subway Are the Harmless Kind – Nicholas Bakalar – New York Times

An Industrial Microbiologist Who Adds Biofuel to the Fire – Nandita Jayaraj – The Wire India

Interview of Faculty of Clinical Microbiology, Prof. Generalov Igor Ivanovich, at VSMU, Belarus – LinkedIn

 

June 26, 2016

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Pregnancy and birth

A key genetic factor for fucosyllactose utilization affects infant gut microbiota development – Takahiro Matsuki – Nature Communications

Necrotizing enterocolitis and preterm infant gut bacteria – Barbara B. Warner – Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal

Human oral microbiome

Identification of Veillonella Species in the Tongue Biofilm by Using a Novel One-Step Polymerase Chain Reaction Method – Izumi Mashima – PLOS ONE

Human respiratory microbiome

Bacterial Microbiota Analysis Present in the Nose and Pharynx of a Mexican Young Population – Ana Karina Rodríguez-Vicente – Int J Curr Microbiol App Sci

Human gut microbiome

Significant Differences Found in Short Nucleotide Sequences of Human Intestinal Metagenomes of Northern-European and Chinese Origin – Balázs Szalkai – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – General Subjects

Analysis of the effects of microbiome-related confounding factors on the reproducibility of the volatolomic test – Marcis Leja – Journal of Breath Research

Campylobacter concisus utilizes blood but not short chain fatty acids despite showing associations with Firmicutes taxa – Nadeem O. Kaakoush – Microbiology

Review: Links Between the Microbiome and Bone – C.J. Hernandez – Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Review: Microbiome, Metabolome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Ishfaq Ahmed – Microorganisms

Comment: Ethics of exploring the microbiome of native peoples – Maria G. Dominguez-Bello – Nature Microbiology

Microbes found in blood

I’m skeptical about this review: A Bacterial Component to Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia Seen via a Systems Biology Approach that Links Iron Dysregulation and Inflammagen Shedding to Disease – Etheresia Pretorius – Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

Animal experiments

A sentinel goblet cell guards the colonic crypt by triggering Nlrp6-dependent Muc2 secretion – George M. H. Birchenough – Science

Gut microbiota drive the development of neuro-inflammatory response in cirrhosis – Dae Joong Kang – Hepatology

Bacteriophage infections of microbiota can lead to leaky gut in an experimental rodent model – George Tetz – Gut Pathogens

The Effects of LW-AFC on Intestinal Microbiome in Senescence-Accelerated Mouse Prone 8 Strain, a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease – Jianhui Wang – Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

Microbiome associations in pigs with the best and worst clinical outcomes following co-infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) – Megan C. Niederwerder – Veterinary Microbiology

Press: College of Veterinary Medicine researchers examine microbiome associations related to disease expression in swine – Kansas State University

Supplementing Blends of Sugars, Amino Acids, and Secondary Metabolites to the Diet of Termites (Reticulitermes flavipes) Drive Distinct Gut Bacterial Communities – Xing-Feng Huang – Microbial Ecology

Letter: Does Intestinal Microbiota Protect Mice Against Acute/Binge Drinking-Induced Liver Injury? – Tao Zeng – Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Animal microbiome

DGGE: Influence of Starvation on the Structure of Gut-Associated Bacterial Communities in the Chinese White Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus armandi) – Xia Hu – Forests

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effects of temperature variability on community structure in a natural microbial food web – Axel Zander – Global Change Biology

Effectiveness of ecological rescue for altered soil microbial communities and functions – Kadiya Calderón – ISME Journal

Soil drying procedure affects the DNA quantification of Lactarius vinosus but does not change the fungal community composition – Carles Castaño – Mycorrhiza

Assessing quality of Medicago sativa silage by monitoring bacterial composition with single molecule, real-time sequencing technology and various physiological parameters – Weichen Bao – Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

Revealing the relationship between microbial community structure in natural biofilms and the pollution level in urban rivers: a case study in the Qinhuai River Basin, Yangtze River Delta – Wei Cai – Water Science and Technology

Status of metal pollution in rivers flowing through urban settlements at Pune and its effect on resident microflora – Neelu Nawani – Biologia

Profiling of Sediment Microbial Community in Dongting Lake before and after Impoundment of the Three Gorges Dam – Wei Huang – Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health

Bioreactor and wastewater microbiology

Metagenomic analysis of bacterial community composition and antibiotic resistance genes in a wastewater treatment plant and its receiving surface water – Junying Tang – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Food microbiology

Effect of Simulated Sanitizer Carryover on Recovery of Salmonella from Broiler Carcass Rinsates – Gary R. Gamble – Journal of Food Protection

Press: USDA Salmonella Bacteria on Chicken Testing Severely Flawed, New Study Finds – Emily Monaco – Organic Authority

Potential applications of metagenomics to assess the biological effects of food structure and function – Tasha Santiago-Rodriguez – Food & Function

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

A comparison of tools for the simulation of genomic next-generation sequencing data – Merly Escalona – Nature Reviews Genetics

Hessian Regularization Based Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Clustering Gene Expression and Microbiome Data – Yuanyuan Ma – Methods

Techniques

Grown, Printed, and Biologically Augmented: An Additively Manufactured Microfluidic Wearable, Functionally Templated for Synthetic Microbes – Christoph Bader – 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing

Investigation of bacterial and archaeal communities: novel protocols using modern sequencing by Illumina MiSeq and traditional DGGE-cloning – Lucia Kraková – Extremophiles

DGGE: Representative sampling of natural biofilms: influence of substratum type on the bacterial and fungal communities structure – Jennifer Hellal – Springer Plus

More microbiology

Applying landscape genetics to the microbial world – Rachael Y. Dudaniec – Molecular Ecology

A metapopulation model for the spread of MRSA in correctional facilities – Marc Beauparlant – Infectious Disease Modelling

Biological Dual-Use Research and Synthetic Biology of Yeast – Angela Cirigliano – Science and Engineering Ethics

Microbes in the news

Fabulous Pacific coast and the latest digestive diseases research: BMC Medicine joins DDW2016 – Alessandro Recchioni – BioMedCentral blog

The Unseen – Millions of microbes are yet to be discovered. Will one hold the ultimate cure? – Raffi Khatchadourian – The New Yorker

Indicator of chronic fatigue syndrome found in gut bacteria – Krishna Ramanujan – Cornell Chronicle

Fermentation Fervor: Here’s How Chefs Boost Flavor And Health – Allison Aubrey – NPR Morning Edition

Beneficial bacteria may protect breasts from cancer – ASM – EurekAlert

Economics in Mind, Evolution Has Allowed Some Bacteria to Evolve Sublime Genomes – Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee – The Wire

Old Technology Successfully Reduce Salmonella in Meat Products by 90 Percent –  John Raphael – Nature World News

Bright Minds Battling Dark Diseases: San Diego is home to world-class biomedical scientists focused on cutting-edge projects touted by president – Gary Robbins – The San Diego Union Tribune

Liquid eyeliner recalled, contains bacteria – CTV News Winnipeg

June 21, 2016

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An invertebrate gets its amino acids from microbial symbionts, microbiota and allograft rejection, high-altitude Andes lakes, and determining absolute microbiota abundances by spiking-in bacteria.

Jobs and events

Postdoctoral Researcher Microbial Ecology & Bioinformatics – NIOO-KNAW, WUR, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Report from the Microbiome R&D and Business Collaboration Forum, April 11–12, 2016, London, UK – Duc H. Le – EBioMedicine

General microbiome

Review: Diversity at low abundance: The phenomenon of the rare bacterial biosphere – M. Yu. Skopina – Microbiology

Workshop report: Culture-Independent Diagnostics for Health Security – Doggett Norman A.- Health Security

Viewpoint: Addressing Infectious Disease Challenges by Investigating Microbiomes – Emily P. Balskus – ACS Infectious Diseases

Human oral microbiome

Molecular analysis of fungal populations in patients with oral candidiasis using next-generation sequencing – Yumi Imabayashi – Scientific Reports

Human reproductive tract microbiome

Review: Chlamydia trachomatis Genital Tract Infections: When Host Immune Response and the Microbiome Collide – Noa Ziklo – Trends in Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Review: Microbes, Immunity and Behaviour: Psychoneuroimmunology Meets the Microbiome – Timothy G Dinan – Neuropsychopharmacology

Review: Emerging roles for antigen presentation in establishing host–microbiome symbiosis – Nicholas J. Bessman – Immunological Reviews

Book Chapter: The Effect of H. pylori Infection on the Gastric Microbiota – Hyun Jin Jo – Helicobacter Pylori (Springer book)

Animal and in vitro experiments

The composition of the microbiota modulates allograft rejection – Yuk Man Lei – The Journal of Clinical Investigation

Press: Microbiota affect the rate of transplant acceptance and rejection – MedicalXpress

Maternal Metabolic Syndrome Programs Mitochondrial Dysfunction via Germline Changes across Three Generations – Jessica L. Saben – Cell Reports

Press, extrapolated conclusion: Obese Pregnant Women With Poor Diets May Worsen The Childhood Obesity Epidemic: Study – Samantha Olson – Medical Daily

Diet-dependent, microbiota-independent regulation of IL-10-producing lamina propria macrophages in the small intestine – Takanori Ochi – Scientific Reports

Characterization of Cimex lectularius (bedbug) defensin peptide and its antimicrobial activity against human skin microflora – Akanksha Kaushal – Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Variability of arsenic bioaccessibility and metabolism in soils by human gut microbiota using different in vitro methods combined with SHIME – Naiyi Yin – Science of The Total Environment

Transient activation of mucosal effector immune responses by resident intestinal bacteria in normal hosts is regulated by interleukin-10 signalling – Cong Wu – Immunology

Mining of hemicellulose and lignin degrading genes from differentially enriched methane producing microbial community – Prabhakar D. Pandit – Bioresource Technology

Review: Strategies to modulate the intestinal microbiota of Tilapia (Oreochromis sp.) in aquaculture: a review – Alyssa M. Haygood – Reviews in Aquaculture

Animal microbiome

Seasonality and Locality Affect the Diversity of Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii Midgut Microbiota from Ghana – Jewelna Akorli – PLOS ONE

A Nightmare for Males? A Maternally Transmitted Male-Killing Bacterium and Strong Female Bias in a Green Lacewing Population – Masayuki Hayashi – PLOS ONE
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Testosterone levels are positively correlated with cloacal bacterial diversity and the relative abundance of Chlamydiae in breeding male rufous-collared sparrows
– Camilo Escallón – Functional Ecology

The dominant detritus-feeding invertebrate in arctic peat soils derives its essential amino acids from gut symbionts – Thomas Larsen – Journal of Animal Ecology

Genomic characterization of symbiotic mycoplasmas from the stomach of deep-sea isopod Bathynomus sp – Yong Wang – Environmental Microbiology

Review: Is gastrointestinal microbiota relevant for endogenous mercury methylation in terrestrial animals? – R.C. Rodríguez Martín-Doimeadios – Environmental Research

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Multi-targeted metagenetic analysis of the influence of climate and environmental parameters on soil microbial communities along an elevational gradient – Anders Lanzén – Scientific Reports

Integrated analysis of root microbiomes of soybean and wheat from agricultural fields – Nicolás Rascovan – Scientific Reports

Dark stains on rock surfaces in Driny Cave (Little Carpathian Mountains, Slovakia)
Rafał Ogórek – Extremophiles

Water and extremophile microbiome

Diversity of extremophilic bacteria in the sediment of high-altitude lakes located in the mountain desert of Ojos del Salado volcano, Dry-Andes – Júlia Margit Aszalós – Extremophiles

Microbial interactions lead to rapid micro-scale successions on model marine particles –
Manoshi S. Datta – Nature Communications

Bacteriophages in Arctic and Antarctic low-temperature systems – S. N. Filippova – Microbiology

Diversity of methanogenic archaea from the 2012 terrestrial hot spring (Valley of Geysers, Kamchatka) – A. Y. Merkel – Microbiology

Comparative analysis of prokaryotic diversity in solar salterns in eastern Anatolia (Turkey) – Seval Çınar – Extremophiles

Techniques

Adjusting microbiome profiles for differences in microbial load by spike-in bacteria – 
Frank Stämmler – Microbiome

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Data Labours: How the Sequence Databases GenBank and EMBL-Bank Make Data – Tahani Nadima – Science as Culture

Principle, analysis, application and challenges of next-generation sequencing: a review – Khalid Raza – arXIv

Microbes in the news

Does a pipette work in space? with NASA Astronaut Dr Kate Rubins – Microbe Talk – Microbe Post

An Antarctic sponge offers new hope against deadly MRSA infection – Matt Windsor – UAB

Dental Microbes Not All in the Family. Kids often acquire cavity-causing bacteria from non-family members, researchers report at the American Society for Microbiology annual meeting – Tanya Lewis – The Scientist

Never-Before Human-Detected, Potentially Pathogenic Bacterium Found in Children With Acute Leukemia Human Microbiology Institute investigates potential role of previously unknown bacteria – PR Newswire

Geisinger’s Donna Wolk recognized for work in microbiology – Daily Item

Microbial mass extinctions were kicked off by human evolution – Andy Coghlan – New Scientist

Global Microbiome Initiative Explores Subways for Drug-Resistance Markers:
MetaSUB Consortium will collect DNA and RNA samples from high-traffic areas in subway systems, buses, and parks in 54 cities worldwide – GenEngNews

June 18, 2016

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Your Saturday Microbiome Digest: CSF metagenomics in multiple sclerosis, Caenorhabditis elegans responses to bacteria, and archaeal communities in permafrost.

Infection and microbes

Only microbial contamination found: Metagenomic Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Multiple Sclerosis – Karol Perlejewski – Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Review: The regulation of host defences to infection by the microbiota – Rebecca L. Brown – Immunology

Animal and in vitro experiments

Microbial Community Transplant Results in Increased and Long-Term Oxalate Degradation – Aaron W. Miller – Microbial Ecology

Differential Utilization of Basic Proline-Rich Glycoproteins During Growth of Oral Bacteria in Saliva – Yuan Zhou – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Caenorhabditis elegans responses to bacteria from its natural habitats – Buck S. Samuel – PNAS

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Presence and persistence of viable, clinically relevant Legionella pneumophila bacteria in garden soil in the Netherlands – E. van Heijnsbergen – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Size Matters: Assessing Optimum Soil Sample Size for Fungal and Bacterial Community Structure Analyses Using High Throughput Sequencing of rRNA Gene Amplicons – C. Ryan Pento – Frontiers in Microbiology

Monitoring fungi in ecological restorations of coastal Indiana, U.S.A. – Peter G. Avis – Restoration Ecology

Review: Resilience of Soil Microbial Communities to Metals and Additional Stressors: DNA-Based Approaches for Assessing “Stress-on-Stress” Responses – Hamed Azarbad – MDPI International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Water and extremophile microbiome

Archaeal communities of Arctic methane-containing permafrost – Victoria Shcherbakova – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Microbial community diversity, structure, and assembly across oxygen gradients in meromictic marine lakes, Palau – Matthew S. Meyerhof – Environmental Microbiology

Bioreactor microbiology

An integrated metagenome and -proteome analysis of the microbial community residing in a biogas production plant – Vera Ortseifen – Journal of Biotechnology

Bioinformatics

Finds microbial interactions based on PubMed abstracts, so basically finding interactions that were already published (???): @MInter: Automated Text-mining of Microbial Interactions – Lim Kun Ming Kenneth – Bioinformatics

More microbiology

In situ replication rates for uncultivated bacteria in microbial communities – Christopher T Brown – bioRxiv

Pervasive Selection for Cooperative Cross-Feeding in Bacterial Communities – Sebastian Germerodt – PLOS Computational Biology

Microbes in the news

UWM professor taking a deeper dive on beach pollution data – Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel

The medical revolution that delves into humans’ inner aliens – Robert Matthews – The National

Brewing on the wild side: IU’s Dr. Matthew L. Bochman – Rita Kohn – Nuvo.net

Fecal bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes found in water samples from fly-in Northern Manitoba – Ian Graham – Thompson Citizen

CosmosID, BioCollective Collaborate on Microbiome Analysis Kit – GenomeWeb