Category Archives: General Microbiome

April 11, 2025

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Happy Friday and see you next week at MVIF!

NEXT WEEK don't miss #MVIF 38 on Microbiome and Citizen Science👉https://cassyni.com/s/mvif-38& meet:🇫🇷 @patrickveiga.bsky.social & Mathieu Almeida🇮🇹Claudia Cappello 🇨🇦 @waldispuhl.bsky.social 🇺🇸Daniel McDonald🇺🇸Mikayla A. Borton🇧🇪Sarah Ahannach🇳🇱Saara Suominen🇺🇸 @gilbertjacka.bsky.social

— Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2025-04-07T14:59:29.156Z

Gut microbiome

The South American MicroBiome Archive (saMBA): Enriching the healthy microbiome concept by evaluating uniqueness and biodiversity of neglected populations – Benjamin Valderrama – bioRxiv

Excited to share our preprint on the South American MicroBiome Archive (saMBA)! 🌎🦠.We analysed one of the regions with the fewest microbiome samples but some of the highest biodiversities.📄: shorturl.at/Lmvp5 🧵: What did we find—and why? Find out 👇#microbiome #gut-microbiome (1/8)

— Ben Valderrama (@bvalderrama.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T12:50:10.653Z

Microbiome–metabolome dynamics associated with impaired glucose control and responses to lifestyle changes – Hao Wu – Nature Medicine

Gene-by-environment interactions modulate the infant gut microbiota in asthma and atopy – Sara A. Stickley – Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Mutualistic interactions between Escherichia coli and Bifidobacterium bifidum enable degradation of human milk oligosaccharides in healthy infants – David Seki – bioRxiv

Excited to finally share results from my first post-doc @halllab.bsky.social 🫡E.coli commonly occurs in infant gut microbiota, yet its role during healthy development has been disregarded. In our pre-print, we reveal its fundamental involvement in HMO-degradation.www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1…

— David Seki (@sekid.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T15:12:35.525Z

Delivery Mode Impacts Gut Bacteriophage Colonization During Infancy – Poorani Subramanian – Gut Microbes Report

Our paper on #bacteriophages in the infant gut #microbiome came out earlier this year.This work was a long time coming, and I'm super proud to be first author alongside Suchi Hourigan and Hector Romero Soto of the Clinical Microbiome Unit at NIAID.doi.org/10.1080/2993…

— poorani (@poorani.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T17:08:33.195Z

Animal microbiome

Humpback whales harbor a highly novel and endemic gut microbiome that adapts to periods of fasting during migration – Ryan Bos – bioRxiv

Wild house mice have a more dynamic and aerotolerant gut microbiota than laboratory mice – Eveliina Hanski – BMC Microbiology

Animal experiments

Acute stress enhances synaptic plasticity in male mice via a microbiota-dependent mechanism – Cristina Rosell-Cardona – Neuropharmacology

First paper from my PD at @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social out! 🥳Do you want to know how acute stress enhances synaptic plasticity?Our latest study shows that the gut microbiota is essential.@jfcryan.bsky.social @kjdoriordan.bsky.socialsciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390825001406?s=08

— Cristina Rosell Cardona (@crosellcardona.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T15:13:41.606Z

Built environment

Assessing microbial diversity in open-pit mining: Metabarcoding analysis of soil and pit microbiota across operational and restoration stages – Priscila Heredia Reto – PlosOne

Bioinformatics

Commentary: Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly – Alyssa H. Mitchell and Tami D. Lieberman – PNAS

CoverM: Read alignment statistics for metagenomics – Samuel T N Aroney – Bioinformatics

Excited to introduce the preprint for CoverM: the Swiss Army knife of coverage calculators for metagenomics! 🧬🖥️ DOI: doi.org/10.48550/arX…@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @viralinstruction.bsky.social @apcamargo.bsky.social

— Samuel Aroney (@aroneys.bsky.social) 2025-01-22T06:11:42.303Z

Investigating statistical power of differential abundance studies – Michael Agronah and Benjamin Bolker – PlosOne

MetaDAVis: An R shiny application for metagenomic data analysis and visualization – Sankarasubramanian Jagadesan and Chittibabu Guda – PlosOne 

Anita & I chatted abt #opensource tools, dbs and **community** around the microbiome science in #OpenSourceDiaries!I mentioned @bioconductor.bsky.social @microbiomevif.bsky.social & @merenbey.bsky.social’s anvi’o & other important tools for microbiome data analysis.www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yii…

— Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic (@svetlanaup.bsky.social) 2025-04-07T17:17:29.063Z

April 3, 2025

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General microbiome

[REVIEW] The regulatory framework for microbiome-based therapies: insights into European regulatory developments – Rodriguez et al. npj Biofilms and microbiomes

Early life microbiome

Bifidobacteria support optimal infant vaccine responses – Ryan et al. Nature

Gut microbiome evolution from infancy to 8 years of age – Sawhney et al. Nature Medicine

Animal experiments

Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice – Litichevskyiy et al. Nature Microbiology

Life-long microbiome rejuvenation improves intestinal barrier function and inflammaging in mice – Sommer et al. Microbiome

Faecalibacterium prausnitzii-derived outer membrane vesicles reprogram gut microbiota metabolism to alleviate Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus infection – Xing et al. Microbiome

Bioinformatics

Elementary methods provide more replicable results in microbial differential abundance analysis – Pelto et al. Briefings in Bioinformatics

DMoVGPE: predicting gut microbial associated metabolites profiles with deep mixture of variational Gaussian Process experts – Weng et al. BMC Bioinformatics

March 2, 2025

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Hello, have a nice Sunday! In this Digest, we have some highlights from the literature during this week. 

Human/General Microbiome

Gastrointestinal Tract

Microbiome analysis of gut microbiota in patients with colorectal polyps and healthy individuals – Dayi Deng – Scientific Reports

Fecal bacterial biomarkers and blood biochemical indicators as potential key factors in the development of colorectal cancer – Ping Cai – mSystems

Multi-omics analysis reveals associations between gut microbiota and host transcriptome in colon cancer patients – Yuling Qin – mSystems

Insights into diversity, host-range, and temporal stability of Bacteroides and Phocaeicola prophages – Nejc Stopnisek – BMC Microbiology

Review: Helicobacter pylori, microbiota and gastric cancer – principles of microorganism-driven carcinogenesis – Jonas Wizenty – Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Skin

Clonal Candida auris and ESKAPE pathogens on the skin of residents of nursing homes – Diana M Proctor – Nature

Oral – Respiratory Tract

A gut Eggerthella lenta-derived metabolite impairs neutrophil function to aggravate bacterial lung infection – Le-Le Wang – Science Translational Medicine

Involvement of propionate, citrulline, homoserine, and succinate in oral microbiome metabolite-driven periodontal disease progression – Chikako Ishihara – Scientific Reports

Regulation of tryptophan-indole metabolic pathway in Porphyromonas gingivalis virulence and microbiota dysbiosis in periodontitis – Jing Ding – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Unveiling familial aggregation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Insights from oral microbiome dysbiosis – Ying Liao – Cell Reports. Medicine

Exploring oral microbiome in oral squamous cell carcinoma across environment-associated sample types – Zizheng Wang – Microbiology Spectrum

Other Sites

Characterization of vaginal microbiomes in clinician-collected bacterial vaginosis diagnosed samples – Hayden N Brochu – Microbiology Spectrum

Bacteria in the brain: do they have a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease? – Arnav Bhattacharya – Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Microbiome modulation of implant-related infection by a novel miniaturized pulsed electromagnetic field device – João Gabriel S Souza – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Enterocloster clostridioformis protects against Salmonella pathogenesis and modulates epithelial and mucosal immune function – Benjamin S Beresford-Jones – Microbiome

Antibacterial activity and impact on keratinocyte cell growth of Cutibacterium acnes bacteriophages in a Cutibacterium acnes IA(1)- colonized keratinocyte model – Juan C Farfán-Esquivel – Current Research in Microbial Sciences

Microbiota-derived urolithin A in monoclonal gammopathies and multiple myeloma therapy – Alba Rodríguez-García – Microbiome

Environmental Microbiome / Ecology

The International Space Station has a unique and extreme microbial and chemical environment driven by use patterns – Rodolfo A Salido – Cell

Residence Time Structures Microbial Communities Through Niche Partitioning – Emmi A Mueller – Ecology Letters

Shared environments complicate the use of strain-resolved metagenomics to infer microbiome transmission – Reena Debray – Microbiome

Microbiome Analysis: Resources, Tools and Techniques

Tandem metabolic reaction-based sensors unlock in vivo metabolomics – Xuanbing Cheng – PNAS

Review: Antarctic bacterial natural products: from genomic insights to drug discovery – William Medeiros – Natural Product Reports

December 6, 2024

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Gut Microbiome

Protection against Clostridioides difficile disease by a naturally avirulent strain – Dong et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Animal experiments 

The host genotype actively shapes its microbiome across generations in laboratory mice – Benga et al. Microbiome

Prenatal antibiotics reduce breast milk IgA and induce dysbiosis in mouse offspring, increasing neonatal susceptibility to bacterial sepsis – Pietrasanta et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Oral and respiratory microbiomes

Gingival spatial analysis reveals geographic immunological variation in a microbiota-dependent and -independent manner – Jaber et al. npj biofilms and microbiomes

Host DNA depletion on frozen human respiratory samples enables successful metagenomic sequencing for microbiome studies – Kim et al. Communications biology

The respiratory microbiome is linked to the severity of RSV infections and the persistence of symptoms in children – Kristensen et al. Cell Reports Medicine

Plant and environmental microbiomes

Plant microbiota feedbacks through dose-responsive expression of general non-self response genes – Keppler et al. Nature Plants

Dynamics of rice seed-borne bacteria from acquisition to seedling colonization – Chen et al. Microbiome

Bioinformatics

Managing false positives during detection of pathogen sequences in shotgun metagenomics datasets – Bradford et al. BMC Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT] TaxSEA: an R package for rapid interpretation of differential abundance analysis output – Ryan. bioRxiv 

November 29, 2024

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INVITATION: MVIF’s last event of the year is coming up! Quick, register now :https://cassyni.com/s/mvif-34
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— Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2024-11-20T08:57:41.034Z

Citizen science

Citizen science as an instrument for women’s health research – Sarah Ahannach – Nature Medicine 

General

Perspective: A framework for understanding collective microbiome metabolism – Matthias Huelsmann – Nature Microbiology 

Thrilled to announce that Matthias Hülsmann's new perspective is now out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social! This exciting work is shaping how our group thinks about collective microbiome metabolism. Check it out! http://www.nature.com/articles/s41…

— Microbial Systems Ecology Lab (@micsysecolab.bsky.social) 2024-11-26T12:45:51.587Z

Gut microbiome

Large scale capsid-mediated mobilisation of bacterial genomic DNA in the gut microbiome –  Tatiana Borodovich – bioRxiv

Gut microbiota markers in early childhood are linked to farm living, pets in household and allergy – Annika Ljung – Plos One

Gut physiology and environment explain variations in human gut microbiome composition and metabolism – Nicola Procházková – Nature Microbiology

Today we publish an (in my opinion) important paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social 🍾 showing that gut physiology and environment are factors explaining substantial variations in human gut #microbiome composition and #metabolism🦠Fantastic work Procházková et al. 👏www.nature.com/articles/s41…

— Henrik M. Roager (@hroager.bsky.social) 2024-11-27T10:36:53.274Z

Significant difference in gut microbiota Bifidobacterium species but not Lactobacillus species in colorectal cancer patients in comparison with healthy volunteers using quantitative real-time PCR – Fahime Esfandiari – Plos One

Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks – Francesco Beghini – Nature

Coffee consumption is associated with intestinal Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus abundance and prevalence across multiple cohorts – Paolo Manghi – Nature Microbiology 

🥁 New Publication Alert:Our manuscript on the ☕️ and #microbiome relationship is out in #NatureMicrobiology:www.nature.com/articles/s41…1/12

— Segata Lab (@cibiocm.bsky.social) 2024-11-18T11:24:44.554Z

Respiratory microbiome

Insights into respiratory microbiome composition and systemic inflammatory biomarkers of bronchiectasis patients – Aleksandras Konovalovas – Clinical Microbiology

Urinary microbiome

Urinary biochemical ecology reveals microbiome-metabolite interactions and metabolic markers of recurrent urinary tract infection – Michael L. Neugent – bioRxiv

Distinct maternofetal immune signatures delineate preterm birth onset following urinary tract infection – Samantha Ottinger – bioRxiv

Glucose alters the evolutionary response to gentamicin in uropathogenic Escherichia coli – Shalini Choudhary – bioRxiv

🚨 New preprint 🚨 With two excellent students Shalini Choudhary and Jacob Smith, we started looking at how the metabolic microenvironment of the urinary tract might affect uropathogenic E. coli evolution and response to antibiotics.www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1…

— Rebecca J Hall (@drrebeccajhall.bsky.social) 2024-11-27T08:11:55.853Z

Animal microbiome

Ileal microbial microbiome and its secondary bile acids modulate susceptibility to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in dairy goats – Yue Wang – Microbiome

Effects of prebiotic and multispecies probiotic supplementation on the gut microbiota, immune function, and growth performance of weaned piglets – Soimer Omar Baldera Huaman – Plos One

Animal and model experiments

Western diet promotes endometriotic lesion growth in mice and induces depletion of Akkermansia muciniphila in intestinal microbiota – Guillaume Parpex – BMC Medicine 

In vitro validation of colon delivery of vitamin B2 through a food grade multi-unit particle system – R.E. Steinert – Beneficial Microbes

Development of a novel complex inflammatory bowel disease mouse model: Reproducing human inflammatory bowel disease etiologies in mice – Sun-Min Seo – Plos One

Marine microbiome

Applications of marine microbial community models in the nature-based economy – Semidán Robaina-Estévez and Jay Gutiérrez – Plos Sustainability and Transformation

Soil microbiome

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events – Christopher G. Knight – Nature

Bioinformatics

A metagenome-assembled genome inventory for children reveals early-life gut bacteriome and virome dynamics – Ye Peng- Cell Host & Microbe

Lefser: Implementation of metagenomic biomarker discovery tool, LEfSe, in R – Asya Khleborodova – Bioinformatics

Technique

Evaluation of DNA extraction kits for long-read shotgun metagenomics using Oxford Nanopore sequencing for rapid taxonomic and antimicrobial resistance detection – Srinithi Purushothaman – Scientific Reports

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— Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic (@svetlanaup.bsky.social) 2024-11-21T21:55:47.051Z

November 24, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut – Toufic Mayassi – Nature

Bacterial interactions underpin worsening lung function in cystic fibrosis-associated infections – Damian W Rivett – mBio

Aerobic bacterial group as an early-stage biomarker from faecal samples of patients with colorectal cancer without distant metastasis – D Lee – Beneficial Microbes

The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homoeostasis via iron sequestration – Fátima C Pereira – Nature Microbiology

Coffee consumption is associated with intestinal Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus abundance and prevalence across multiple cohorts – Paolo Manghi – Nature Microbiology

Enteric bacterial infection stimulates remodelling of bile metabolites to promote intestinal homeostasis – Ting Zhang – Nature Microbiology

Microbiome-Based Colon Cancer Patient Stratification and Survival Analysis – Joshua Smyth – Cancer Medicine

Why HPV16? Why, now, HPV42? How the discovery of HPV42 in rare cancers provides an opportunity to challenge our understanding about the transition between health and disease for common members of the healthy microbiota – Ignacio G Bravo – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Acarbose impairs gut Bacteroides growth by targeting intracellular glucosidases – Haley A Brown – mBio

Review: More than just a number: the gut microbiota and brain function across the extremes of life – Nathan D Nuzum – Gut Microbes

Review: Microbiota-derived small molecule genotoxins: host interactions and ecological impact in the gut ecosystem – Ellen L Zechner – Gut Microbes

Review: Citizen science as an instrument for women’s health research – Sarah Ahannach – Nature Medicine

Review: Normal Gut Microbiomes in Diverse Populations: Clinical Implications – Omprakash Shete – Annual Review of Medicine

Review: Synthetic Ecosystems: From the Test Tube to the Biosphere – Ricard Solé – ACS Synthetic Biology

Animal Model Microbiome

Limosilactobacillus reuteri ameliorates maternal separation stress in newborn mice and alters subsequent adult behaviour – Z M Saleh – Beneficial Microbes

Sodium oligomannate disrupts the adherence of Rib(high) bacteria to gut epithelia to block SAA-triggered Th1 inflammation in 5XFAD transgenic mice – Xinyi Wang – Cell Discovery

B. vulgatus ameliorates high-fat diet-induced obesity through modulating intestinal serotonin synthesis and lipid absorption in mice – Xinxin Wen – Gut Microbes

Animal Microbiome

Multiomics of yaks reveals significant contribution of microbiome into host metabolism – Shuli Yang – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Single-strain probiotics enhance growth, anti-pathogen immunity, and resistance to Nocardia seriolae in grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) via gut microbiota modulation – Ching-Hung Chan – Animal Microbiome

The gut microbiota of three avian species living in sympatry – Hugo Pereira – BMC Ecology and Evolution

Butyrate reduces epithelial barrier dysfunction induced by the foodborne mycotoxin deoxynivalenol in cell monolayers derived from pig jejunum organoids – Julie Alberge – Gut Microbes

Plant Microbiome

Trophic modulation of endophytes by rhizosphere protists – Rasit Asiloglu – The ISME Journal

Metagenome-based diversity and functional analysis of culturable microbes in sugarcane – Haidong Lin – Microbiology Spectrum

Root hair developmental regulators orchestrate drought triggered microbiome changes and the interaction with beneficial Rhizobiaceae – Zhenghong Wang – Nature Communications

Functional diversity of the above-ground fungal community under long-term integrated, organic and biodynamic Vineyard Management – Katharina Steng – Environmental Microbiome

Environmental Microbiome

A functional microbiome catalogue crowdsourced from North American rivers – Mikayla A Borton – Nature

Experimental evolution at ecological scales allows linking of viral genotypes to specific host strains – María Dolores Ramos-Barbero – The ISME Journal

Selenium alters the gene content but not the taxonomic composition of the soil microbiome – Alison E Bennett – Environmental Microbiome

Evaluation of microbial community dynamics and chlorinated solvent biodegradation in methane-amended microcosms from an acidic aquifer – Myung Hwangbo – Biodegradation

Viruses

Rotavirus rewires host cell metabolic pathways toward glutamine catabolism for effective virus infection – Suvrotoa Mitra – Gut Microbes

Microbiome Analysis

SPARTA: Interpretable functional classification of microbiomes and detection of hidden cumulative effects – Baptiste Ruiz – PLoS Computational Biology

Micro-DeMix: a mixture beta-multinomial model for investigating the heterogeneity of the stool microbiome compositions – Ruoqian Liu – Bioinformatics

November 17, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

F. prausnitzii potentially modulates the association between citrus intake and depression – Chatpol Samuthpongtorn – Microbiome

Perturbations in the airway microbiome are associated with type 2 asthma phenotype and severity – Wei Zhang – Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology

Altered intestinal microbiota and fecal metabolites in patients with latent and active pulmonary tuberculosis – Hua Zhang – Tuberculosis

Mendelian randomization analyses support causal relationships between gut microbiome and longevity – Shu Chen – Journal of Translational Medicine

Natal factors influencing newborn’s oral microbiome diversity – Yoon-Hee Kim – Scientific Reports

Age-related loss of intestinal barrier integrity plays an integral role in thymic involution and T cell ageing – Jessica Conway – Aging Cell

Early-life Upper Airway Microbiota are Associated with Decreased Lower Respiratory Tract Infections – Susan Zelasko – The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Human Milk Microbiome Is Associated With Allergic Diseases in Early Childhood – Jie Ma – Allergy

Faecal microbiota composition and impulsivity in a cohort of older adults with metabolic syndrome – Prokopis Konstanti – Scientific Reports

Microbiota-induced alteration of kynurenine metabolism in macrophages drives formation of creeping fat in Crohn’s disease – Jinjie Wu – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: Estimates of microbiome heritability across hosts – Andrew H Morris – Nature Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

High barley intake in non-obese individuals is associated with high natto consumption and abundance of butyrate-producing bacteria in the gut: a cross-sectional study – Satoko Maruyama – Frontiers in Nutrition

Review: Prebiotics in food and dietary supplements: a roadmap to EU health claims – Kieran Tuohy – Gut Microbes

Animal Models

The Microbiome Modifies Manifestations of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Perforin-Deficient Mice – Jasmin Mann – European Journal of Immunology

Spatiotemporal dynamics during niche remodeling by super-colonizing microbiota in the mammalian gut – Guillaume Urtecho – Cell Systems

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Multi-omics investigation into long-distance road transportation effects on respiratory health and immunometabolic responses in calves – Jiancheng Qi – Microbiome

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Wild again: recovery of a beneficial Cannabis seed endophyte from low domestication genotypes – Carolina Lobato – Microbiome

Trade-offs and adaptation to metalliferous soils: The role of soil microbiome in metal tolerance and uptake in Arabidopsis halleri ecotypes from a reciprocal transplant experiment – Priyanka Kushwaha – The Science of the Total Environment

Effect of plant-derived microbial soil legacy in a grafting system-a turn for the better – Tingting Wang – Microbiome

Environmental Microbiome

Microbiome shifts elicited by ornamental lighting of granite facades identified by MinION sequencing – Anxo Méndez – Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology (B, Biology)

Synthetic communities derived from the core endophytic microbiome of hyperaccumulators and their role in cadmium phytoremediation – Lukuan Huang – Microbiome

Other Microbes

Microbial community evolution in a lab-scale reactor operated to obtain biomass for biochemical methane potential assays – Victoria de la Sovera – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Procedures and Resources

Faecal sample storage without ethanol for up to 24 h followed by freezing performs better than storage with ethanol for shotgun metagenomic microbiome analysis in patients with inflammatory and non-inflammatory intestinal diseases and healthy controls – Ida Marie Bruun Grønbæk – BMC Research Notes

HMicroDB: A Comprehensive Database of Herpetofaunal Microbiota With a Focus on Host Phylogeny, Physiological Traits, and Environment Factors – Jiaying Li – Molecular Ecology Resources

Comparison of commonly used software pipelines for analyzing fungal metabarcoding data – Theresa Rzehak – BMC Genomics

MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assemblies – Aidan Foo – PLoS Biology

November 10, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Novel biomarkers for hepatocellular carcinoma detection and treatment – Hongyuan Yi – Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition

Animal Model Experiments

Gut microbiota modulates depressive-like behaviors induced by chronic ethanol exposure through short-chain fatty acids – Hui Shen – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Host genetics and gut microbiota influence lipid metabolism and inflammation: potential implications for ALS pathophysiology in SOD1(G93A) mice – Elena Niccolai – Acta Neuropathologica Communications

Lactobacillus rhamnosus modulates murine neonatal gut microbiota and inflammation caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli – Hao Xuan – BMC Microbiology

Animal Microbiome

Introduction into natural environments shifts the gut microbiome of captivity-raised filter-feeding bivalves – Stephanie N Vaughn – ISME Communications

A metagenomic catalogue of the ruminant gut archaeome – Jiandui Mi – Nature Communications

Large-scale metagenomic assembly provide new insights into the genetic evolution of gut microbiomes in plateau ungulates – Bo Xu – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Diet affects reproductive development and microbiota composition in honey bees – Anjali Zumkhawala-Cook – Animal Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Biological and experimental factors that define the effectiveness of microbial inoculation on plant traits: a meta-analysis – Hamed Azarbad – ISME Communications

Can microbiome adaptations protect crops from pests and climate change? – Carolyn Beans – PNAS

Environmental Microbiome

Ecological roles of nano-picoplankton in stratified waters of an embayment in the southern Benguela – Nicole R Dames – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Metagenomic insights into inhibition of soil microbial carbon metabolism by phosphorus limitation during vegetation succession – Haocai Wang – ISME Communications

Microbiome Analysis

Cross-comparison of gut metagenomic profiling strategies – Gábor Gulyás – Communications Biology

November 8, 2024

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Ecology and evolution

Community conservatism is widespread throughout microbial phyla and environments – Lukas Malfertheiner – bioRxiv 

Gut microbiome

Fecal microbiota transplantation alters the proteomic landscape of inflammation in HIV: identifying bacterial drivers – Claudio Díaz-García – Microbiome

Insights into the gut microbiome of vitiligo patients from India – Sudhir Kumar – BMC Microbiology

Design and reporting of prebiotic and probiotic clinical trials in the context of diet and the gut microbiome – Kevin Whelan – Nature Microbiology

Pregnancy and Early Life Gut Microbiome: Influencing Factors and Health Implications – Trishla Sinha – Research Square

Gut and oral microbial compositional differences in women with breast cancer, women with ductal carcinoma in situ, and healthy women – Emma McCune – mSystems

Gut microbiota regulates stress responsivity via the circadian system – Gabriel S.S. Tofani – Cell Metabolism

Link to the post: https://twitter.com/gabriel_tofani/status/1853862878870446530

Oral microbiome

The role of the oral microbiota in the causal effect of adjunctive antibiotics on clinical outcomes in stage III–IV periodontitis patients – Sven Kleine Bardenhorst – Microbiome

Vaginal microbiome

Oral, Vaginal, and Stool Microbial Signatures in Patients With Endometriosis as Potential Diagnostic Non-Invasive Biomarkers: A Prospective Cohort Study – Chloe Hicks – BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Evaluation of the Vaginal Panel Realtime PCR kit (Vircell, SL) for diagnosing vaginitis: A comparative study with routinely used diagnostics – Isabel Amor – PlosOne

Animal experiments

The gut microbiome in patients with Cushing’s disease affects depression- and anxiety-like behavior in mice – Ding Nie – Microbiome

Food microbiome

Review: Novel fermentations integrate traditional practice and rational design of fermented-food microbiomes – Dillon Arrigan – Current Biology

In-depth characterization of food and environmental microbiomes across different meat processing plants – Coral Barcenilla – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

Reference Sequence Browser: An R application with a user-friendly GUI to rapidly query sequence databases – Sriram Ramesh – PlosOne 

Techniques

DNA Extraction Protocols for Animal Fecal Material on Blood Spot Cards – Ann-Katrin Llarena – bioRxiv

Link to the post: https://twitter.com/svetlana_up/status/1854091197498683755
Link to the presentation: https://github.com/SvetlanaUP/presentations/blob/main/How_to_give_a_good_online_presentation_11_2024.pdf

November 3, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Gut microbiota and metabolic profile changes unveil the deterioration of alveolar bone inflammatory resorption with aging induced by D-galactose – Fangzhou Liu – Scientific Reports

The human gut symbiont Ruminococcus gnavus displays strain-specific exopolysaccharides modulating the host immune response – Victor Laplanche – Carbohydrate Polymers

Stage dependent microbial dynamics in hepatocellular carcinoma and adjacent normal liver tissues – Hee Eun Jo – Scientific Reports

Intestinal microflora and metabolites affect the progression of acute pancreatitis (AP) – Zhenjiang Wang – Gut Pathogens

Longitudinal analysis of the gut microbiota during anti-PD-1 therapy reveals stable microbial features of response in melanoma patients – Angeli D G Macandog – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: A pathophysiologic framework for the overlap of disorders of gut-brain interaction and the role of the gut microbiome – Ayesha Shah – Gut Microbes

Review: AI in microbiome-related healthcare – Niklas Probul – Microbial Biotechnology

Review: The oncomicrobiome: new insights into microorganisms in cancer – Yingying Ma – Microbial Pathogenesis

Viewpoint: Gut microbiome: a biomedical revolution – Maria Carmen Collado – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Research Highlight: Microbiome-colonizing RNAs – Andrea Du Toit – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Effects of Limosilactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 in neonates exposed to antibiotics: a randomised controlled trial – J Lozar Krivec – Beneficial Microbes

Lactobacillus rhamnosus 1.0320 Postbiotics Ameliorate Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Colonic Inflammation and Oxidative Stress by Regulating the Intestinal Barrier and Gut Microbiota – Jing Zhang – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Oral administration of Lactobacillus casei DG® after ileostomy closure in restorative proctocolectomy: a randomized placebo-controlled trial (microbiota and immune microenvironment in pouchitis -MEP1) – Imerio Angriman – Gut Microbes

Development of interleukin-27 recombinant Lactococcus lactis and its efficacy in treating psoriasis and colitis in mice – Shaoju Qian – International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Animal Models

The gut microbiome in patients with Cushing’s disease affects depression- and anxiety-like behavior in mice – Ding Nie – Microbiome

Alpha-synuclein overexpression and the microbiome shape the gut and brain metabolome in mice – Livia H Morais – NPJ Parkinson’s Disease

Transfer of microbiota from lean donors in combination with prebiotics prevents excessive weight gain and improves gut-brain vagal signaling in obese rats – Dulce M Minaya – Gut Microbes

Animal Microbiome (non-models)

Microbiome divergence of marine gastropod species separated by the Isthmus of Panama – Alexander T Neu – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Planting density effect on poplar growth traits and soil nutrient availability, and response of microbial community, assembly and function – Rongye Qiao – BMC Plant Biology

Plant growth-promoting fungi improve tobacco yield and chemical components by reassembling rhizosphere fungal microbiome and recruiting probiotic taxa – Mingzi Shi – Environmental Microbiome

Review: Community standards and future opportunities for synthetic communities in plant-microbiota research – Trent R Northen – Nature Microbiology

Review: Alpine and subalpine plant microbiome mediated plants adapt to the cold environment: A systematic review – Mengyan Hou – Environmental Microbiome

Environmental Microbiome

Arctic’s hidden hydrocarbon degradation microbes: investigating the effects of hydrocarbon contamination, biostimulation, and a surface washing agent on microbial communities and hydrocarbon biodegradation pathways in high-Arctic beaches – Ya-Jou Chen – Environmental Microbiome

SALINITY-Induced Changes in Diversity, Stability, and Functional Profiles of Microbial Communities in Different Saline Lakes in Arid Areas – Lei Gao – Microbial Ecology

Resistome analysis of wastewater treatment plants in Agadir city, Morocco, using a metagenomics approach – Maryem Wardi – Scientific Reports

Comparative genomic analysis and characterization of novel high-quality draft genomes from the coal metagenome – Arunmozhi Bharathi Achudhan – World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology