Events and jobs
Microbiology assistant or associate professor – Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia)
PhD – Mechanisms of bacterial community dynamics in oral biofilms – The University of Sheffield, UK
General microbiome
Microbiome and Cardiac Health – Enrico Biffi – Integrative Cardiology
Editorial: Signals to sociality: how microbial communication fashions communities – Karine A. Gibbs – FEMS Microbiology Reviews
Pregnancy and early life
Assessment of complementary feeding of Canadian infants: effects on microbiome & oxidative stress, a randomized controlled trial – Wafaa Qasem – BMC Pediatrics
Human oral microbiome
Dysbiosis of oral buccal mucosa microbiota in patients with oral lichen planus – Yuan He – Oral Diseases
Integrated metagenomic data analysis demonstrates that a loss of diversity in oral microbiota is associated with periodontitis – Dongmei Ai – BMC Genomics 2017
Human respiratory microbiome
Bacterial Topography of the Healthy Human Lower Respiratory Tract – Robert P. Dickson – American Society for Microbiology (mBio)
Human vaginal microbiome
Distinct effects of the cervico-vaginal microbiota and herpes simplex type 2 infection on female genital tract immunology – Shannon B. – The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Human gut microbiome
DIFFERENCES IN GUT MICROBIOTA ACTIVITY (ANTIMICROBIALS, POTENTIAL MUTAGENS, AND STEROLS) ACCORDING TO DIET – P. OLEJNÍKOVÁ – Acta Alimentaria
Inediibacterium massiliense gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterial species isolated from the gut microbiota of a severely malnourished infant – Maryam Tidjani Alou – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Diversity and enterotype in gut bacterial community of adults in Taiwan – Chao Liang – BMC Genomics
Review: Meta-analysis of the human gut microbiome from urbanized and pre-agricultural populations – Leonardo Mancabelli – Environmental Microbiology
Confounding effects of microbiome on the susceptibility of TNFSF15 to Crohn’s disease in the Ryukyu Islands – Shigeki Nakagome – Human Genetics
Genomic Microdiversity of Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum Underlying Differential Strain-Level Responses to Dietary Carbohydrate Intervention – Guojun Wu – American Socieity for Microbiology (mBio)
Review: Embracing the gut microbiota: the new frontier for inflammatory and infectious diseases – Lieke WJ van den Elsen – Clinical and Translational Immunology
Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)
Host Genotype and Gut Microbiome Modulate Insulin Secretion and Diet-Induced Metabolic Phenotypes – Julia H. Kreznar – Cell Reports
Melatonin prevents obesity through modulation of gut microbiota in mice – Pengfei Xu – Journal of Pineal Research
Inonotus obliquus polysaccharide regulates gut microbiota of chronic pancreatitis in mice – Yang Hu – AMB Express
Metatranscriptomics Reveals the Active Bacterial and Eukaryotic Fibrolytic Communities in the Rumen of Dairy Cow Fed a Mixed Diet – Sophie Comtet-Marre – Frontiers in Microbiology
Animal microbiome
Succession and dynamics of Pristionchus nematodes and their microbiome during decomposition of Oryctes borbonicus on La Réunion Island – Jan M. Meyer – Environmental Microbiology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Effect of Elevated UV-B Radiation on Microbial Biomass C and Soil Respiration in Different Barley Cultivars Under Field Conditions – Yunsheng Lou – Water, Air, Soil Pollution
Comment: Isolation and screening of bacteria for their diazotrophic potential and their influence on growth promotion of Maize seedlings in greenhouses – Jeffrey S. Norman – Frontiers in Plant Science
Effects of Vegetation and Temperature on Nutrient Removal and Microbiology in Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands for Treatment of Domestic Sewage – Qingwei Zhou – Water, Air, Soil Pollution
Editorial: Biotrophic Plant-Microbe Interactions – Pietro D. Spanu – Frontiers in Plant Science
Structural dynamics of microbial communities in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-contaminated tropical estuarine sediments undergoing simulated aerobic biotreatment – Chioma C. Obi – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Comparison of bacterial communities from lava cave microbial mats to overlying surface soils from Lava Beds National Monument, USA – Kathleen H. Lavoie – PloS ONE
Paenibacillus polymyxa NSY50 suppresses Fusarium wilt in cucumbers by regulating the rhizospheric microbial community – Lu Shi – Scientific Reports
Organic nitrogen rearranges both structure and activity of the soil-borne microbial seedbank – Marcio F. A. Leite – Scientific Reports
Syntrophobacteraceae-affiliated species are major propionate-degrading sulfate reducers in paddy soil – Pengfei Liu – Environmental Microbiology
Soil microbial community responses to contamination with silver, aluminium oxide and silicon dioxide nanoparticles – C. F. McGee – Ecotoxicology
Influence of straw incorporation with and without straw decomposer on soil bacterial community structure and function in a rice-wheat cropping system – Jun Zhao – Environmental biotechnology
Bacterial community shift and hydrocarbon transformation during bioremediation of short-term petroleum-contaminated soil – Manli Wu – Environmental Pollution
Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)
Mineralizing Filamentous Bacteria from the Prony Bay Hydrothermal Field Give New Insights into the Functioning of Serpentinization-Based Subseafloor Ecosystems – Celine Pisapia – Frontiers in Microbiology
Food microbiology
Metagenomic Sequencing for Surveillance of Food- and Waterborne Viral Diseases – David F. Nieuwenhuijse – Frontiers in Microbiology
Masters Thesis: Effects of Cavitation on the Removal and Inactivation of Listeria and Salmonella from the Surface of Tomatoes and Cantaloupe – Joshua Jungho Lee – Virginia Tech
Chemical characterization of the glycated myofibrillar proteins from grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) and their impacts on the human gut microbiota in vitro fermentation – Kaining Han – Food & Function
Spoilage of Microfiltered and Pasteurized Extended Shelf Life Milk Is Mainly Induced by Psychrotolerant Spore-Forming Bacteria that often Originate from Recontamination – Etienne V. Doll – Frontiers in Microbiology
Detection and Enumeration of Spore-Forming Bacteria in Powdered Dairy Products – Aoife J. McHugh – Frontiers in Microbiology
Probiotics / prebiotics
Probiotic roles of Lactobacillus sp. in swine: insights from gut microbiota – V.D.V. Valeriano – Journal of Applied Microbiology
Physiological Changes of Surface Membrane in Lactobacillus with Prebiotics – Mingfang Pan – Journal of Food Science
Bioinformatics
Comparative Analysis of Soil Microbiome Diversity using QIIME and CloVR Pipelines – Puniethaa Prabhu – Biometrics and Bioinformatics
A phylogenetic transform enhances analysis of compositional microbiota data – Justin D Silverman (Duke University) – eLife
MetaTopics: an integration tool to analyze microbial community profile by topic model – Jifang Yan – BMC Genomics 2017
Enhancing the clinical coverage and anticancer efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade through manipulation of the gut microbiota – Jonathon M. Pitt – OncoImmunology
Techniques
Home-Made Cost Effective Preservation Buffer Is a Better Alternative to Commercial Preservation Methods for Microbiome Research – Sebastian Menke – Frontiers in Microbiology
Microbes on the market
Day Two link with Johnson & Johnson on personalized microbiome analysis for diabetes nutrition – Eliot Beer – nutraingredients.com
Microbes in the news
News Feature: Cleaning up the hygiene hypothesis – Megan Scudellari – PNAS
Ed’s non-microbiology picks
Decline in global oceanic oxygen content during the past five decades – Sunke Schmidtko – Nature
Tropical ancient DNA reveals relationships of the extinct Bahamian giant tortoise Chelonoidis alburyorum – Christian Kehlmaier – Proceedings of the Royal Society (Biological Sciences)
Long-term trends in the honeybee ‘whooping signal’ revealed by automated detection – Michael Ramsey – PloS One
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