December 27, 2016

Cockatiel microbiome, a hibernating frog, Baltic Sea, a book about starter cultures, microbial divisions of labor.

Human oral/respiratory microbiome

Mycobiome in the Lower Respiratory Tract – a Clinical Perspective – Robert Krause – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: A Review of Analytical Techniques and Their Application in Disease Diagnosis in Breathomics and Salivaomics Research – David J. Beale – Int J Mol Sci

Human gut microbiome

Impact of Amoxicillin/Clavulanate and Autologous Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) on the Fecal Microbiome and Resistome – Christopher Bulow – Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Review: The Development of Our Organ of Other Kinds—The Gut Microbiota – Shirong Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Food Additives and Contaminants: Effects on Human Gut Microbiota—A Review – Paula Roca-Saavedra – Preprints

Animal experiments

Generation of Germ-Free Ciona intestinalis for Studies of Gut-Microbe Interactions – Brittany A. Leigh – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Emerging Sponge Models of Animal-Microbe Symbioses – Lucia Pita – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Exploring the methanogen and bacterial communities of rumen environments: solid adherent, fluid and epimural – Thijs De Mulder – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Diversity of the Bacterial Microbiota of Anopheles Mosquitoes from Binh Phuoc Province, Vietnam – Chung T. Ngo – Frontiers in Microbiology

Evaluating the Contribution of Gut Microbiota to the Variation of Porcine Fatness with the Cecum and Fecal Samples – Maozhang He – Frontiers in Microbiology

* Exploring the cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus) fecal microbiome, bacterial inhabitants of a worldwide pet – Luis David Alcaraz – PeerJ

* Functional analysis for gut microbes of the brown tree frog (Polypedates megacephalus) in artificial hibernation – Francis Cheng-Hsuan Weng – BMC Genomics

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Long-term effects of aided phytostabilization on microbial communities of metal-contaminated mine soil– Olatz Garaiyurrebaso – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Dynamics in the Strawberry Rhizosphere Microbiome in Response to Biochar and Botrytis cinerea Leaf Infection – Caroline De Tender – Frontiers in Microbiology

Expanding the Repertoire of Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing Metallo-ß-Lactamases by Functional Metagenomic Analysis of Soil Microbiota – Dereje D. Gudeta – Frontiers in Microbiology

High Diversity of Planctomycetes in Soils of Two Lichen-Dominated Sub-Arctic Ecosystems of Northwestern Siberia – Anastasia A. Ivanova – Frontiers in Microbiology

Editorial: Microbiota of Grapes: Positive and Negative Role on Wine Quality – Giuseppe Spano – Frontiers in Microbiology

Aspect has a greater impact on alpine soil bacterial community structure than elevation – Jieyun Wu – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Local Environmental Conditions Shape Generalist But Not Specialist Components of Microbial Metacommunities in the Baltic Sea – Markus V. Lindh – Frontiers in Microbiology

A High-Level Fungal Diversity in the Intertidal Sediment of Chinese Seas Presents the Spatial Variation of Community Composition – Wei Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Viral induced microbial mortality in Arctic hypersaline spring sediments – Jesse Colangelo-Lillis – Frontiers in Microbiology

Stable and Variable Parts of Microbial Community in Siberian Deep Subsurface Thermal Aquifer System Revealed in a Long-Term Monitoring Study – Yulia A. Frank – Frontiers in Microbiology

Marine Subsurface Microbial Community Shifts Across a Hydrothermal Gradient in Okinawa Trough Sediments – Leah D. Brandt – Archaea

Waste and pollution microbiology

Temporal dynamics of microbial communities in microcosms in response to pollutants – Shuo Jiao – Molecular Ecology

Cultural heritage microbiology

Sloth: Survey of the state of conservation of the Mylodon listai (Xenarthra-Mylodontidae) skin fragment from the Pleistocene of Argentina kept at the Museum of La Plata (Argentina) – Daniela Silvana Nitiu – Ge-conservación

Food microbiology

* Book: Starter Cultures in Food Production – Barbara Speranza

Biofilm microbiome

Molecular methods resolve the bacterial composition of natural marine biofilms on galvanically coupled stainless steel cathodes – Athenia L. Oldham – Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Characterization of Uncultured Genome Fragment from Soil Metagenomic Library Exposed Rare Mismatch of Internal Tetranucleotide Frequency – Yunpeng Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

RiboTagger: fast and unbiased 16S/18S profiling using whole community shotgun metagenomic or metatranscriptome surveys – Chao Xie – BMC Bioinformatics

More microbiology

Review: Chronic infections with viruses or parasites: breaking bad to make good – Andrew Godkin – Immunology

Biocontrol of Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria and bacterial phytopathogens by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus – Damian McNeely – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Fitness Impact of Obligate Intranuclear Bacterial Symbionts Depends on Host Growth Phase – Chiara Bella – Frontiers in Microbiology

* Review: Understanding Microbial Divisions of Labor – Zheren Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbes in the news

How Does a Fatty Acid Protect Pathogenic Bacteria Against Antibiotics? – Nicola M. Parry – Contagion Live

How Microcosms help us understand ecology – James MacDonald – JSTOR Daily

Takuji Yamada – Early cancer intervention with gut bacteria – Tokyo Tech Researchers

How Probiotics Could Help Prevent Atopic Dermatitis – Kenneth Bender – Specialty Pharmacy Times

December 26, 2016

Prevotella and host genetics’ roles in vaginal microbiota, saliva microbiota and dental caries, microbes on tree stumps, fungi in Hammams, and a new  CRISPR–Cas system.

Human oral microbiome

Exploration of bacterial species associated with the salivary microbiome of individuals with a low susceptibility to dental caries – Haruna Yasunaga – Clinical Oral Investigations

Human respiratory microbiome

Nasal Airway Microbiota Profile and Severe Bronchiolitis in Infants: A Case-Control Study – Hasegawa, Kohei – The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Review: The Lung Microbiome and Airway Disease – Susan V. Lynch – Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Human bladder microbiome

Is there a link between urinary microbiota and bladder cancer? – Didier Raoult – European Journal of Epidemiology

Human vaginal microbiome

* Prevotella as a Hub for Vaginal Microbiota under the Influence of Host Genetics and Their Association with Obesity – Jiyeon Si – Cell Host & Microbe

Human gut microbiome

Differences in Metabolism of Ellagitannins by Human Gut Microbiota ex Vivo Cultures
– Jakub P. Piwowarski – Journal of Natural Products

Probiotic properties of Oxalobacter formigenes: an in vitro examination – Archives of Microbiology

The effects of administration of the Lactobacillus gasseri strain CP2305 on quality of life, clinical symptoms and changes in gene expression in patients with irritable bowel syndrome – K. Nobutani – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Review: The microbiome, immunity, and schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – Faith Dickerson – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Review: Emerging role of intestinal microbiota and microbial metabolites in metabolic control – Hilde Herrema – Diabetologia

Review: Microbial Dysbiosis in Common Variable Immune Deficiencies: Evidence, Causes, and Consequences – Roos-Marijn Berbers – Trends in Immunology

Review: Health benefits of fermented foods: microbiota and beyond – Maria L Marco – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Animal experiments

Individual differences in stress vulnerability: the role of gut pathobionts in stress-induced colitis – Dominik Langgartner – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Impact of prebiotics on metabolic and behavioral alterations in a mouse model of metabolic syndrome – Lourdes Fernández de Cossío – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

I assume this one was done in animals but not clear: Prenatal stress affects placental cytokines and neurotrophins, commensal microbes, and anxiety-like behavior in adult female offspring – Tamar L. Gur – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Animal microbiome

First characterization of viruses from freshwater snails of the genus Biomphalaria, the intermediate host of the parasite Schistosoma mansoni – Richard Galinier – Acta Tropica

Fish: Effects of microbe- and mussel-based diets on the gut microbiota in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) – Andreas Nyman – Aquaculture Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Interaction of chiral herbicides with soil microorganisms, algae and vascular plants – Muhammad Asad Ullah Asad – Science of the Total Environment

Mineral type and tree species determine the functional and taxonomic structure of forest soil bacterial communities – Y. Colin – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

* Colonization of Fungi and Bacteria in Stumps and Roots of Scots Pine after Thinning and Treatment with Rotstop – Katarzyna Kubiak – Journal of Phytopathology

Built environment microbiology

* Indoor fungal contamination of traditional public baths (Hammams) – Leyla Benammar – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Waste and pollution microbiology

Alkaline Technosol contaminated by former mining activity and its culturable autochthonous microbiota – A. Šimonovičová – Chemosphere

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

New CRISPR–Cas systems from uncultivated microbes – David Burstein – Nature

A small-sample multivariate kernel machine test for microbiome association studies
– Xiang Zhan – Genetic Epidemiology

Recycler: an algorithm for detecting plasmids from de novo assembly graphs –
Roye Rozov – Bioinformatics

A general framework for association analysis of microbial communities on a taxonomic tree – Zheng-Zheng Tang – Bioinformatics

Introducing EzBioCloud: A taxonomically united database of 16S rRNA and whole genome assemblies – Seok-Hwan Yoon – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Genomic sequencing illuminates recent Shigella outbreaks in CaliforniaResearchers identify genes associated with toxin production and antibiotic resistance – Science Daily

Raw meatEating so-called ‘cannibal sandwiches’ can be deadly, health official says.Consumption of uncooked beef poses a health risk – Dave Delozier – Channel3000

Ancient Chinese malaria remedy may help fight TB – Deccan Chronicle

The natural history of cheese mites – Scott Chimileski – American Society for Microbiology

The throwaway scope: A way to ditch superbugs? – Chad Terhune – Seacoast Online

Science, publishing, and career

Life Science Controversies of 2016 – Jef Akst – The Scientist

The world’s favourite lab animal has been found wanting, but there are new twists in the mouse’s tale – The Economist

December 22, 2016

Hand washing and drying hygiene, wild and managed geese,  juvenile alpine plants.

uBiome blog

We’re Dreaming of a Brown Christmas + Winter Sale: Celebrate the holiday season with a flurry of festive feces factoids – Julie Taylor – uBiome blog

Human skin microbiome

Cleanliness in context: reconciling hygiene with a modern microbial perspective – Roo Vandegrift – bioRxiv

Human mouth microbiome

Oral Biofluid Biomarker Research: Current Status and Emerging Frontiers – Austin Wang – Diagnostics

Human gut microbiome

Hypothesis: The gut–brain connection: triggering of brain autoimmune disease by commensal gut bacteria – Hartmut Wekerle – Rheumatology

Animal microbiology

Metagenomic profiling of gut microbial communities in both wild and artificially reared Bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) – Wen Wang – Microbiology Open

Application of genomic technologies to measure and monitor antibiotic resistance in animals – Jian-Qiang Su – Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbial activity promoted with organic carbon accumulation in macroaggregates of paddy soils under long-term rice cultivation – Yalong Liu – Biogeosciences

Ozone and Nitrogen Effects on Juvenile Subalpine Plants: Complex Interactions with Species and Colonization by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) – Seraina Bassin – Water, Air, & Soil Pollution

Food microbiology

Developing a microbial time–temperature indicator to monitor total volatile basic nitrogen change in chilled vacuum-packed grouper fillets – Hsin-I Hsiao- Journal of Food Processing and Preservation

Waste and pollution microbiology

Biological Treatment of Landfill Leachate at Elevated Temperature in the Presence of Polyurethane Foam of Various Porosity – Justyna Koc-Jurczyk – Clean Soil Air Water

Built environment microbiology

Investigation of the microbial communities colonizing prepainted steel used for roofing and walling – Tran T. Huynh – Microbiology Open

Bioinformatics, modeling, ecology and statistics

Using rarefaction to isolate the effects of patch size and sampling effort on beta diversity – Adrian C. Stier – Ecosphere

Inferring human microbial dynamics from temporal metagenomics data: Pitfalls and lessons – Hong-Tai Cao – BioAssays

A review of simulation and modeling approaches in microbiology – A.I. Klimenko – Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research

Lifestyles of rarity: understanding heterotrophic strategies to inform the ecology of the microbial rare biosphere – Ryan J. Newton – Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Microbes in the news

* Book: Understanding the Gut Microbiota – Gerald W. Tannock

Scientists build bacteria-powered battery on single sheet of paper – Science Daily

Study: Manuka honey kills more bacteria than all available antibiotics – Amy Goodrich – Natural News

UT Southwestern researchers find new way to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria in burn injuries – News-Medical

Xylariaphilia. A blog about fungi, science, and art – Roo Vandegrift

Microbiomes Gain Momentum in Indiana’s Life Sciences – Kylie Veleta – Inside Indiana Business

December 21, 2016

Fluorescence in the mouth, stool transplant with own stool sometimes works too, Clostridium difficile and nutritional niches in the mouse, bacterioplankton metabolism in the Dead Zone, and the invisible Esther Lederberg.

General microbiome

Review: The microbiome in health and disease: a new role of microbes in molecular medicine – Ingo B. Autenrieth – Journal of Molecular Medicine

Human mouth microbiome

Red and Green Fluorescence from Oral Biofilms – Catherine M. C. Volgenant – PLOS ONE

Characterization of saliva microbiota’s functional feature based on metagenomic sequencing – Fang Yang – SpringerPlus

Human respiratory microbiome

Characterization of microbiome in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of patients with lung cancer comparing with benign mass like lesions – Sang Hoon Lee – Lung Cancer

Human gut microbiome

Complete Microbiota Engraftment Is Not Essential for Recovery from Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection following Fecal Microbiota Transplantation – Christopher Staley – mBio

Press: Study provides clues to improving fecal microbiota transplantation – MedicalXpress

Review: Fecal microbiota transplantation for multiple organ dysfunction syndrome – Nathan J. Klingensmith – Critical Care

Review: Tuning constitutive and pathological inflammation in the gut via the interaction of dietary nitrate and polyphenols with host microbiome – Bárbara S. Rocha – The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology

Review: Redox signaling mediated by the gut microbiota – Rheinallt M. Jones – Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Editorial: The gut microbiota and immune-regulation: the fate of health and disease –
Eliana Mariño – Clinical Translational Immunology

Animal experiments

Collateral Damage: Detrimental Effect of Antibiotics on the Development of Protective Immune Memory – Joseph M. Benoun – mBio

Clostridium difficile colonizes alternative nutrient niches during infection across distinct murine gut environments – Matthew L Jenior – bioRxiv

Water microbiome

Decoding bacterioplankton metabolism in the northern Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone – J. Cameron Thrash – bioRxiv

Built environment microbiome

Resilient microorganisms in dust samples of the International Space Station—survival of the adaptation specialists – Maximilian Mora – Microbiome

Phages and viruses

Not sure if this is such a good idea…. Application of Bacteriophage-containing Aerosol against Nosocomial Transmission of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in an Intensive Care Unit – Yu-Huai Ho – PLOS ONE

Microbial ecology

Disturbance Regimes Predictably Alter Diversity in an Ecologically Complex Bacterial System – Sean M. Gibbons – mBio

Microbes in the news

Will Microbiome Board Game Become Infectious? – Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News

Appointment of New Features Editor: Melanie Blokesch – Molecular Microbiology

Microbiomes mix it up – Larrie Stone – Washington County Enterprise

Invisible Esther: the ‘Other’ Lederberg – Walt Nakonechny

DNA markers distinguish between harmless, deadly bacteria. Large genome study IDs potential virulence factors to discriminate new species – Science Daily

Researchers Use Genomic Analysis to Study the Deadly Bacteria Responsible for “Rabbit Fever” – David Jennings – Natural Science News

Prostate cancer drug based on sea-bed bacteria brings complete remission for half of patients – Sarah Knapton – Telegraph

New Laser Treatment Based On Deep-Sea Bacteria Effectively Treats Prostate Cancer – IFL Science

Laser therapy leaves no sign of prostate cancer in 50% of trial patients – John von Radowitz – Independent

How bacteria survive antibiotic treatment – Science Daily

Mouthwash May Kill Gonorrhea Bacteria – Sara G. Miller – LiveScience

Video about resistant starch with nice visualizations: The Hungry Microbiome – Data61

Video: Saving Atlantis: The global coral microbiome project in the Red Sea – Science 360

Happy Holidays from Microbiology Lab – Maria Anne – Clinical Laboratory Blogspot

Microbes on the market

Evolve BioSystems Successfully Defends European Patent Opposition by Danone, Maintaining Their Position as Leaders in the Infant Gut Microbiome Space – Market Wired

December 20, 2016

Events

Registration open: Environmental Microbial Biofilms and Human Microbiomes: Drivers of Future Sustainability – Singapore, 12-15 February 2017

Pregnancy and early life

Sensitive Quantitative Analysis of the Meconium Bacterial Microbiota in Healthy Term Infants Born Vaginally or by Cesarean Section – Ravinder Nagpal – Frontiers in Microbiology

Remodeling of the gut microbiota and structural shifts in Preeclampsia patients in South China – J. Liu – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Human respiratory microbiome

Same-day diagnostic and surveillance data for tuberculosis via whole genome sequencing of direct respiratory samples – Antonina A Votintseva – bioRxiv

Human oral microbiome

Effect of 12-month weekly professional oral hygiene care on the composition of the oral flora in dentate, dependent elderly residents: A prospective study
Maude Wikström – Gerodontology

Human gut microbiome

Roles of the gut in the metabolic syndrome: an overview – L. Fändriks – Journal of Internal Medicine

Review: Microbiome and chronic inflammatory bowel diseases – Jan Wehkamp – Journal of Molecular Medicine

Animal experiments

Resetting microbiota by Lactobacillus reuteri inhibits T reg deficiency–induced autoimmunity via adenosine A2A receptors – Baokun He – Journal of Experimental Medicine

Press: Replacing missing gut bacteria could help treat children with rare autoimmune disease – News Medical

Characterization of meningeal type 2 innate lymphocytes and their response to CNS injury – Sachin P. Gadani – Journal of Experimental Medicine

Press: Team discovers powerful defenders of the brain—with big implications for disease – Medical Xpress

Examination of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis mixed genotype infections in dairy animals using a whole genome sequencing approach – Fraser W. Davidson – PeerJ

Insights into Broilers’ Gut Microbiota Fed with Phosphorus, Calcium, and Phytase Supplemented Diets – Daniel Borda-Molina – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Fecal microbiota of three bactrian camels (Camelus ferus and Camelus bactrianus) in China by high throughput sequencing of the V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene – Lei Yuan – Journal of Arid Land

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Metagenomic assembly unravel microbial response to redox fluctuation in acid sulfate soil – Jian-Qiang Su – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Effect of New Auxin Herbicide Formulations on Control of Herbicide Resistant Weeds and on Microbial Activities in the Rhizosphere – Vijay K. Nandula – American Journal of Plant Sciences

Screening of rhizobacteria from rhizosphere of healthy chili to control bacterial wilt disease and to promote growth and yield of chili – Yulmira Yanti – Biodiversitas

Mycorrhizal colonization of chenopods and its influencing factors in different saline habitats, China – Yinan Zhao – Journal of Arid Land

Water and extremophile microbiome

Degradation of a fluoroquinolone antibiotic in an urbanized stretch of the River Tiber – Anna Barra Caracciolo – Microchemical Journal

Spatial distribution of planktonic bacterial and archaeal communities in the upper section of the tidal reach in Yangtze River – Limin Fan – Scientific Reports

Biological Potential of Chitinolytic Marine Bacteria – Sara Skøtt Paulsen – Marine Drugs
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Microbial Diversity of Extreme Regions: An Unseen Heritage and Wealth – Saxena AK –
Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources

Stable and Variable Parts of Microbial Community in Siberian Deep Subsurface Thermal Aquifer System Revealed in a Long-Term Monitoring Study – Yulia A. Frank – Frontiers in Microbiology

A theoretical basis for a nanomolar critical oxygen concentration – E. J. Zakem – Limnology & Oceanography

Bacteria can survive in oxygen-free marine environments – Sumaya Aamir – i4u.com
Simons Foundation Supports Study That Finds Bacteria Can Survive In Oxygen-Free Marine Environments – Philanthropy New York
DNA markers distinguish between harmless, deadly bacteria – Jennifer Chu – Phys.org

Waste and pollution microbiology

Bacterial community structure within an activated sludge reactor added with phenolic compounds – Selene Gómez-Acata – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Microbial ecology

Editorial: Development of microbial ecological theory: stability, plasticity and evolution of microbial ecosystems – Shin Haruta – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Borborygmus: The Rumble in your Tummy. Video about the microbiome for kids. Eat your veggies, kids. Do it for Borborygmus.

6 Things We Learned About Gut Health And The Microbiome In 2016 – Cayla Dengate – Huffington Post

Research highlight: Rhythm and bacteria – Ashley York – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Baylor investigates antibiotic use, children’s improved autism symptoms – Healio

 

Microbes on the market

How bacteria from your stomach can fight disease. Start-up secures £8m to develop novel therapies – Matt Gooding – Cambridge News

Spin-out seeks to be world leader leveraging microbiome biology’s potential – The PharmaLetter

Sanger Spins Out Microbiotica to Develop Bacteriotherapies – GenEngNews

Science, publishing, and career

Evidence of the Superiority of Female Doctors. New research estimates that if all physicians were female, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year – James Hamblin – The Atlantic

December 19, 2016

An oral pathogen with a very long name is linked to rheumatoid arthritis, a deep-sea bone-eating snail, and the excreted microbiota of bats.

Human oral microbiome

Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans–induced hypercitrullination links periodontal infection to autoimmunity in rheumatoid arthritis – Maximilian F. Konig – Science Translational Medicine

Press: Bacteria That Causes Gum Disease Also Triggers Inflammatory Response In Rheumatoid Arthritis – Saranya Palanisamy – Tech Times

Human vaginal microbiome

The Cervicovaginal Microbiota in Women Notified for Chlamydia trachomatis Infection: A Case-Control Study at the Sexually Transmitted Infection Outpatient Clinic in Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Charlotte van der Veer – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Editorial Commentary: The Cervicovaginal Microbiota and Infection Risk After Exposure to an Exogenous Pathogen – Daniel B. DiGiulio – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Bacterial Biofilms in Colorectal Cancer Initiation and Progression – Shan Li – Trends in Molecular Medicine

Animal experiments

Alternative protein sources in the diet modulate microbiota and functionality in the distal intestine of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) – Karina Gajardo – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Animal microbiome

* The Specific and Exclusive Microbiome of the Deep-Sea Bone-Eating Snail, Rubyspira osteovora – H.S. Aronson – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Origin of Sulfur in Diet Drives Spatial and Temporal Mercury Trends in Seabird Eggs From Pacific Canada 1968–2015 – Kyle H. Elliott – Environmental Science & Technology

Press: Bacteria control levels of dangerous pollutant in seabirds – Phys.org

The excreted microbiota of bats: evidence of niche specialization based on multiple body habitats – Muriel Dietrich – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Western Bats as a Reservoir of Novel Streptomyces Species with Antifungal Activity – Paris S. Hamm – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Bacterial communities affected by experimental disturbances to canopy soils of a temperate rainforest – Cody R. Dangerfield – bioRxiv

Pyrosequencing of rpoB uncovers a significant biogeographical pattern of rhizobial species in soybean rhizosphere – Xing Xing Zhang – Journal of Biogeography

Ectomycorrhizal fungal response to warming is linked to poor host performance at the boreal-temperate ecotone – Christopher W. Fernandez – Global Change Biology

Review: PGPR = plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria: The Contribution of Genome Mining Strategies to the Understanding of Active Principles of PGPR Strains – Julia Paterson – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Water microbiome

Effects of actinomycete secondary metabolites on sediment microbial communities – Nastassia V. Patin – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Pollution and waste microbiology

Elucidating carbon sources driving microbial metabolism during oil sands reclamation – Lauren M. Bradford – Journal of Environmental Management

Techniques

Comparison of Collection Methods for Fecal Samples in Microbiome Studies – Emily Vogtmann – American Journal of Epidemiology

Microbes in the news

Refers to meeting abstract: Microbiomes interact with mental health treatment – Tim Sandle – Digital Journal

South Dakota high schools introduce students to health care: students grew bacteria in petri dishes – Jaci Conrad Pearson – Washington Times

New medicine: How the gut breaks the mind – Govind Vijaykumar – Deccan Chronicle

December 18, 2016

Virome of the human respiratory tract, vendor effects on mouse gut, soils under beech and spruce, variations in Scottish soils, portable pathogen detection.

Events

Poster submission started: 3rd Annual Translational Microbiome Conference – April 11-13, 2017, Boston, USA

Pregnancy and early life

Microbiota network and mathematic microbe mutualism in colostrum and mature milk collected in two different geographic areas: Italy versus Burundi – Lorenzo Drago – The ISME Journal

Review: Pathogenesis of NEC: Impact of an altered intestinal microbiome – Josef Neu – Seminars in Perinatology

Human oral microbiome

Changes in the oral ecosystem induced by the use of 8% arginine toothpaste – British Dental Journal

Human respiratory microbiome

* ReviewThe Virome of the Human Respiratory Tract – Kristine M. Wylie – Clinics in Chest Medicine

Human vaginal microbiome

Comparison of Culture-dependent and Culture-Independent Molecular Methods for Characterisation of Vaginal Microflora – Shirali Pandya – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Distinct microbiome-neuroimmune signatures correlate with functional abdominal pain in children with autism spectrum disorder – Ruth Ann Luna – CMGH Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Alterations of the gut microbiome in Chinese patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Zhixing He – Gut Pathogens

Altered Gut Microbiota in Patients With Chronic Pancreatitis is Associated With Gut Barrier Dysfunction and Metabolic Abnormalities – Rupjyoti Talukdar

Dietary Changes Impact the Gut Microbe Composition in Overweight and Obese Men with Prostate Cancer Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy – Andrew D. Frugé – Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

The human intestinal microbiota of constipated-predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients exhibits anti-inflammatory properties – Alain P. Gobert – Scientific Reports

The Interactions Between Gut Microbiota and Lynch Syndrome – Xiao-juan Lu – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Review: Enterosalivary nitrate metabolism and the microbiome: intersection of microbial metabolism, nitric oxide and diet in cardiac and pulmonary vascular health – Carl D Koch – Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Review: Community metabolic modeling approaches to understanding the gut microbiome: bridging biochemistry and ecology – Helena Mendes-Soares – Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Review: Microbiota Small RNAs in Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Anca T. Filip – Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Review: Intestinal Microbiome, Akkermansia muciniphila, and Medicinal Nutrition Therapy – Jeffrey Bland – integrative Medicine

Review: Using the Human Gastrointestinal Microbiome to Personalize Nutrition Advice: Are Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Ready for the Opportunities and Challenges? – Ruth Harvie – Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Review: Bacterial Biofilms in Colorectal Cancer Initiation and Progression – Shan Li – Trends in Molecular Medicine

Animal experiments

Vendor Effects on Murine Gut Microbiota Influence Experimental Abdominal Sepsis – Tobias Hilbert – Journal of Surgical Research

The critical role of microbiota within cecal crypts on the regenerative capacity of the intestinal epithelium following surgical stress – Alexander Zaborin – American Journal of Physiology Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Source of supplemental dietary copper, zinc, and manganese affects fecal microbial relative abundance in lactating dairy cows – M.J. Faulkner – Journal of Dairy Science

Deciphering upper respiratory tract microbiota complexity in healthy calves and calves that develop respiratory disease using shotgun metagenomics – Natália C. Gaeta – Journal of Dairy Science

Animal microbiology

Riptortus pedestris and Burkholderia symbiont: an ideal model system for insect–microbe symbiotic associations – Kazutaka Takeshita – Research in Microbiology

Bird: Helminth burden and ecological factors associated with alterations in wild host gastrointestinal microbiota – Lindsay K Newbold – The ISME Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Fine Spatial Scale Variation of Soil Microbial Communities under European Beech and Norway Spruce – Heiko Nacke – Frontiers in Microbiology

Nutrient availability shapes the microbial community structure in sugarcane bagasse compost-derived consortia – Bruno L. Mello – Scientific Reports

The biogeography of soil archaeal communities on the eastern Tibetan Plateau – Yu Shi – Scientific Reports

Depth-resolved microbial community analyses in two contrasting soil cores contaminated by antimony and arsenic – Enzong Xiao – Environmental Pollution

Comprehensive Virus Detection Using Next Generation Sequencing in Grapevine Vascular Tissues of Plants Obtained from the Wine Regions of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) – Aleš Eichmeier – PLOS ONE

* Scottish soil: It is elemental: Soil nutrient stoichiometry drives bacterial diversity – Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo – Environmental Microbiology

Microbial soil community analyses for forensic science: Application to a blind test – Sandrine Demanèche – Forensic Science International

Review: Mycorrhiza: The Oldest Association Between Plant and Fungi – Jagnaseni Barman – Resonance

Book Chapter: Bioprospecting Soil Metagenomes for Antibiotics – Chiara Borsetto – Bioprospecting

Water and extremophile microbiome

The Distribution Pattern of Sediment Archaea Community of the Poyang Lake, the Largest Freshwater Lake in China – Yantian Ma – Archaea

Characterization of the first cultured representative of a Bacteroidetes clade specialized on the scavenging of cyanobacteria – Wajdi Ben Hania – Environmental Microbiology

Book chapter: Bioprospecting Archaea: Focus on Extreme Halophiles – André Antunes – Bioprospecting

Food microbiology

Analysis of the bacterial biodiversity of peaches under refrigerated storage after treatment by high hydrostatic pressure – Maria José Grande Burgos – Food and Bioproducts Processing

Bioreactor, biotechnology, and pollution microbiology

Correlating methane production to microbiota in anaerobic digesters fed synthetic wastewater – K. Venkiteshwaran – Water Research

Profiling bacterial communities associated with sediment-based aquaculture bioremediation systems under contrasting redox regimes – Georgina Robinson – Scientific Reports

Trace Elements Induce Predominance among Methanogenic Activity in Anaerobic Digestion – Babett Wintsche – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Quantitative Comparison of Abundance Structures of Generalized Communities: From B-Cell Receptor Repertoires to Microbiomes – Mohammadkarim Saeedghalati – arXiv

A simple statistical test of taxonomic or functional homogeneity using replicated microbiome sequencing samples – Daniel H. Huson – Journal of Biotechnology

Inferring Aggregated Functional Traits from Metagenomic Data Using Constrained Non-negative Matrix Factorization: Application to Fiber Degradation in the Human Gut Microbiota – Sébastien Raguideau – PLOS Computational Biology

Now published: IMP: a pipeline for reproducible reference-independent integrated metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses – Shaman Narayanasamy – Genome Biology

Metabolomics

Evaluating metabolic response to light exposure in Lactobacillus species via targeted metabolic profiling – Mengyang Xu – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Review: Phytanic acid consumption and human health, risks, benefits and future trends: A review – P. Roca-Saavedra – Food Chemistry

Viruses and phages

Perspective: Viruses and the origin of microbiome selection and immunity – Steven D Quistad – The ISME Journal

Techniques

Detection of ESKAPE bacterial pathogens at the point-of-care using isothermal DNA-based assays in a portable, de-gas microfluidic diagnostic assay platform
Lars D. Renner – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Press: Portable detection system can rapidly identify virulent, multi-drug resistant pathogens in remote areas – News-Medical

Synthetic spike-in standards for high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing – Dieter M. Tourlousse – Nucleic Acids Research

Microbes in the news

Gardening Etcetera: Life down under in northern Arizona – Cindy Murray – AZ Daily Sun

CSI: Chem trail: a new way for investigators to narrow down suspect pools using chemical traces found on cellphones – Kelly Kasulis – Boston Globe

China expresses alarm as chilli ‘conspiracy’ heats up Indonesians – South China Morning Post

Adapting and adopting microbiome data into clinical practice – Silvio Pitlik & Omry Koren- BioMed Central

Bacteria that boost insulin-producing cells could yield new diabetes approaches – Arlene Weintraub – Fierce Biotech

Microbes in the market

Research focused on the human microbiome market worth 658 million USD by 2023 – Whatech

AOBiome Launches Phase 2 Clinical Trial Using Novel Bacterial Platform for Treatment of Hypertension – PR Newswire

Live Stock Coverage: What’s Ahead for Seres Therapeutics Inc After Today’s Huge Increase? – Linda Rogers- Frisco Fastball

 

December 14, 2016

Gaia and her microbiome, a walk in the park, ancient teeth, fillies, bats, ticks, frogs, moss, and high-altitude potatoes.

General microbiome

Gaia and Her Microbiome – John F. Stolz – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Human oral microbiome

Tracing back ancient oral microbiomes and oral pathogens using dental pulps from ancient teeth – Nicolás Rascovan – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiome

Influences of pH and iron on the salivary microbiome in individuals with and without caries – Jianye Zhou – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Further analysis reveals new gut microbiome markers of type 2 diabetes mellitus – Xiaokai Wang – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Animal experiments

Intense Exercise and Aerobic Conditioning Associated with Chromium or L-Carnitine Supplementation Modified the Fecal Microbiota of Fillies – Maria Luiza Mendes de Almeida – PLOS ONE

 

Animal microbiome

MosquitoesDiversity of Cultivable Midgut Microbiota at Different Stages of the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus from Tezpur, India – Kamlesh K. Yadav – PLOS ONE

Bats: Microbiome of the sexual scent organ of Leptonycteris yerbabuenae – Osiris Gaona – PeerJ

Ticks: Endosymbiont interference and microbial diversity of the Pacific coast tick, Dermacentor occidentalis, in San Diego County, California – Nikos Gurfield – PeerJ

Frogs: Environmental fluctuations and host skin bacteria shift survival advantage between frogs and their fungal pathogen – Ana V Longo – ISME Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiology

Discovery of polyesterases from moss-associated microorganisms – Christina Andrea Müller – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Combined use of network inference tools identifies ecologically meaningful bacterial associations in a paddy soil – Honggui Wang – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Rhizosphere microbiomes of potato cultivated in the High Andes show stable and dynamic core microbiomes with different responses to plant development – Stefan Pfeiffer – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Composting-Like Conditions Are More Efficient for Enrichment and Diversity of Organisms Containing Cellulase-Encoding Genes than Submerged Cultures – Senta Heiss-Blanquet – PLOS ONE

Effects of root exudates of woody species on the soil antierodibility in the rhizosphere in a karst region, China – Zhen hong Wang – PeerJ Preprint

Water and extremophile microbiome

Patchiness of Ciliate Communities Sampled at Varying Spatial Scales along the New England Shelf – Jean-David Grattepanche – PLOS ONE

Spatiotemporal variation of bacterial and archaeal communities in sediments of a drinking reservoir, Beijing, China – Yongjuan Chen – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Pristine but metal-rich Río Sucio (Dirty River) is dominated by Gallionella and other iron-sulfur oxidizing microbes – Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez – Extremophiles

Quantification of basal ice microbial cell delivery to the glacier margin – Mario Toubes-Rodrigo – Biogeosciences Discuss

Microbial Diversity of Source and Point-of-Use Water in Rural Haiti – A Pyrosequencing-Based Metagenomic Survey – Nabanita Mukherjee – PLOS ONE

Virus-host infection dynamics of marine single-celled eukaryotes resolved from metatranscriptomics – bioRxiv

Pollution

The Biologists’ Forum: Environmental microbial community analysis methods as applied to bioremediation – Hadassa Shira Guttman – BIOS

Food microbiology

Determination of Fungal Community Diversity in Fresh and Traditional Chinese Fermented Pepper by Pyrosequencing – Lingyan Zhao – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Metagenomics

Using Bacterial Genomes and Essential Genes for the Development of New Antibiotics – Francisco R. Fields – Biochemical Pharmacology

Antibiotic discovery is a walk in the park – Louis-Félix Nothias – PNAS

Metabolomics

Book: Microbial Metabolomics: Applications in Clinical, Environmental, and Industrial Microbiology – Editors: David J. Beale, Konstantinos A. Kouremenos, Enzo A. Palombo – Springer

Microbes in the news

Scientists trap bacteria with optical tractor beam.”The principle underlying this laser beam is similar to the concept to be found in the television series ‘Star Trek,'” said researcher Thomas Huser –  Brooks Hays – UPI

Researchers find bacterial protein that boosts insulin-producing cells in zebrafish – Science Daily

A $5 fix for a nasty parasite: Attachment of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts to environmental biofilms – EurekAlert

Increasing Product Recalls and Growing Consumer Concerns are Driving the Global Industrial Microbiology Market – Medgadget

 

 

December 12, 2016

Review on human milk microbiome, oral microbiome changes in seasonal athletes, gut microbiome and bipolar disorder.

Jobs

Assistant Professor In Quantitative Ecology or Evolution of Microbes – UCLA – MicroBEnet

Pregnancy and early life

Effect of probiotics in prevention of atopic dermatitis is dependent on the intrinsic microbiota at early infancy – Ekaterina Avershina – Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

* Review: Got bacteria? The astounding, yet not-so-surprising, microbiome of human milk – Michelle K McGuire – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Human respiratory microbiome

Review: Viral–bacterial co-infections in the respiratory tract – Lauren O Bakaletz – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

* I was wondering if testing same group of athletes participating in 2 different sports could not be confounded with seasonal effects of maybe different study loads during the different year. But no access to the paper, so can not see details. Elevated salivary IgA, decreased anxiety, and an altered oral microbiota are associated with active participation on an undergraduate athletic team – Ashley L. Lamb – Physiology & Behavior

Human gut microbiome

The gut microbiome composition associates with bipolar disorder and illness severity – Simon J. Evans – Journal of Psychiatric Research

Letter of the Editor: A Microbiome Assessment of Medical Marijuana – George Thompson III – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Review: Archaea: essential inhabitants of the human digestive microbiota – Vanessa Demonfort Nkamga – Human Microbiome Journal

Animal experiments

Application of a dynamic gastrointestinal in vitro model combined with a rat model to predict the digestive fate of barley dietary fibre and evaluate potential impact on hindgut fermentation – Cristina Teixeira – Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre

Animal microbiome

Characterization and identification of microbial communities in bovine necrotic vulvovaginitis – N.Y. Shpigel – The Veterinary Journal

Crab: Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Phenotype of Portunus Trituberculatus – Ting-Lan Zeng – Chinese Journal of Analytical Chemistry

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Arsenic-enrichment enhanced root exudates and altered rhizosphere microbial communities and activities in hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata – Suvendu Das – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Food microbiology

Impact of NaCl reduction on lactic acid bacteria during fermentation of Nocellara del Belice table olives – Paola Zinno – Food Microbiology

Impact of NaCl reduction on lactic acid bacteria during fermentation of Nocellara del Belice table olives – Paola Zinno – Food Microbiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Bioinformatics strategies for taxonomy independent binning and visualization of sequences in shotgun metagenomics – Karel Sedlar – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Microbes in the news

Predatory bacteria used to release bioplastics – Tim Sandle – Digital Journal

The Secret Soviet Virus That Helps Kill Bacteria. Antibiotic resistance is threatening to render antibiotics useless, but scientists may have found their answer in bacteria-eating viruses. – Trace Dominguez – Seeker

Bacteria found in close to two-thirds of NZ supermarket chicken – TV New Zealand

Science, publishing, and career

This would not be my headline choice: Trump says ‘nobody really knows’ if climate change is real – Juliet Eilperin – Washington Post

December 10, 2016

Airway microbiota of infants with cystic fibrosis, an X-linked IBD risk gene in mice, Colorado flood impact, and metabolic profiling of men eating pasta and bread.

General microbiome

Review: Arguments Reinforcing the Three-Domain View of Diversified Cellular LifeArguments Reinforcing the Three-Domain View of Diversified Cellular Life – Arshan Nasir – Archaea

Opinion: Koch’s Postulates to Metagenome and NextGeneration Sequencing, But what is Next? – Santanu Chattopadhyay – Journal of Gastrointestinal Disorders and Liver Function

Human oral microbiome

Review: Gram-Positive Anaerobes in Periodontal Pathogenesis: New Kids on the Block? – A Mini Review – Journal of Bacteriology & Mycology:

Human respiratory microbiome

Airway Microbiota in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid from Clinically Well Infants with Cystic Fibrosis – Theresa A. Laguna – PLOS ONE

The Microbiome and the Pathophysiology of Asthma – Ashley Sullivan – Respiratory Research

Human gut microbiome

Review: Intestinal Immunity and Gut Microbiota in Atherogenesis – Tomoya Yamashita – Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis

Review: Microbiome, Growth Retardation, and Metabolism: Are they related? – Daniel J. Hoffman – Annals of Human Biology

Animal experiments

Cosmc is an X-linked inflammatory bowel disease risk gene that spatially regulates gut microbiota and contributes to sex-specific risk – Matthew R. Kudelka – PNAS

Depletion of Gut Microbiota Protects against Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury – Diba Emal – Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Probiotic Roles of Lactobacillus spp. in Swine: Insights from Gut Microbiota – Valerie Diane V. Valeriano – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Gut microbiota from metabolic disease-resistant, macrophage-specific RIP140 knockdown mice improves metabolic phenotype and gastrointestinal integrity – Yi-Wei Lin – Scientific Reports

Antimicrobial growth promoters modulate host responses in mice with a defined intestinal microbiota – Kirsty Brown – Scientific Reports

High Fibre Diet and Acetate Supplementation Change the Gut Microbiota and Prevent the Development of Hypertension and Heart Failure in DOCA-Salt Hypertensive Mice
Francine Z. Marques – Circulation

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbial remediation of aromatics-contaminated soil – Ying Xu – Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering

Plant pathogens but not antagonists change in soil fungal communities across a land abandonment gradient in a Mediterranean landscape – L. Bosso – Acta Oecologica

High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities – Stilianos Louca – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Repeated glyphosate exposure induces shifts in nitrifying communities and metabolism of phenylpropanoids – Marco Allegrini – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Water microbiology

Regional variations in the diversity and predicted metabolic potential of benthic prokaryotes in coastal northern Zhejiang, East China Sea – Kai Wang – Scientific Reports

Influence of the Po River runoff on the bacterioplankton community along trophic and salinity gradients in the Northern Adriatic Sea – Ilaria Pizzetti – Marine Ecology

Dynamic metabolic exchange governs a marine algal-bacterial interaction – Einat Segev – eLIFE
Research highlight: When a relationship turns ugly – Andrea Du Toit – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Food microbiology and functional foods

Cultivable microbiome of fresh white button mushrooms – Werner Rossouw

A MeSH-based text mining method for identifying novel prebiotics – Shan, Guangy – Medicine

Waste and pollution microbiology

Effect of structural carbohydrates and lignin content on the anaerobic digestion of paper and paper board materials by anaerobic granular sludge – Jorge Gonzalez-Estrella – Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Metagenomic profiling of historic Colorado Front Range flood impact on distribution of riverine antibiotic resistance genes – Emily Garner – Scientific Reports

Sequential bioleaching of copper from brake pads residues using encapsulated bacteria – François Vermeulen – Minerals Engineering

Feed it some of your old protein gelsIsolation and Characterization of Acrylamidase from Arthrobacter sp. DBV1 and Its Ability to Biodegrade Acrylamide – Dattatray K. Bedade – Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Copper exposure to soil under single and repeated application: Selection for the microbial community tolerance and effects on the dissipation of antibiotics – Bei Liu – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Resistome

A diverse intrinsic antibiotic resistome from a cave bacterium – Andrew C. Pawlowski – Nature Communications

Million-Year-Old ‘Hero Bug’ Emerges From Cave – Michaeleen Doucleff – NPR

Metabolomics

Metabolic Profiling Reveals Differences in Plasma Concentrations of Arabinose and Xylose after Consumption of Fiber-Rich Pasta and Wheat Bread with Differential Rates of Systemic Appearance of Exogenous Glucose in Healthy Men – Andre J Pantophlet – The Journal of Nutrition

Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 metabolises the human milk oligosaccharides lacto-N-tetraose and lacto-N-neo-tetraose through overlapping, yet distinct pathways – Kieran James – Scientific Reports

Viruses and phages

Towards quantitative viromics for both double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses – Simon Roux – PeerJ

Microbial ecology

Paradoxes in Leaky Microbial Trade – Yoav Kallus – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Video: Living together: the symbiosis of host-microbial interactionsVideo: Living together: the symbiosis of host-microbial interactions – Margaret McFall-Ngai – iBiology

Scientist Studies the Infant Resistome to Combat Superbugs – Infection Control Today

Diet, the gut microbiome, and colorectal cancer: are they linked? – EurekAlert

 

Microbes on the market

Medical Game-Changers Beckon. On #1 of the Top 10: Using the Microbiome to Prevent, Diagnose, and Treat Disease –  Casey McDonald

VC-backed Enterome hires Patel as chief medical officer and adds Garceau to board – PE Hub

Second Genome Announces Appointments in Human Resources, Finance to Support Corporate Growth – Yahoo.com

As school gardens spread, so do the teaching moments – Adrian Higgins – Washington Post

Twitter as a Tool for Teaching and Communicating Microbiology: The #microMOOCSEM Initiative – EHU

New evidence shows how bacterium in undercooked chicken causes GBS – EurekAlert

Science, publishing, and career

The Microbiology Effect: A Call for Education Research – Samantha L. Elliott – J. Microbiol. Biol. Educ.
The Necessity of Prerequisite Undergraduate Microbiology Courses for Pre-Allied Health Professionals – Andrea M. Rediske – J. Microbiol. Biol. Educ.
Supporting Microbiology in the Nursing Curriculum – Bethany Adamec – ASM

On the origin of nonequivalent states: how we can talk about preprints – Cameron Neylon – bioRxiv

Why a First Amendment win is good for science – Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky – STATNews