Category Archives: Human oral

November 26, 2015

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! NCBI’s Pubmed nor Google Alerts did not take any holiday, so here is a post stuffed (pun intended) with new papers. For today, I got the microbiome of turkey, red wine, and coprolites. And strain-level variation in human-associated bacteria, cat periodontitis, and historical penguin activity too!

General microbiome

Nurturing the microbiome field: It is exciting to see the nucleus of a grand vision for the field, but we must make the fundamentals of the scientific method central to our mission – Pat Schloss – Science

Book: Microbial Endocrinology: Interkingdom Signaling in Infectious Disease and Health
Chapters include:

Pregnancy and birth

Preterm gut microbiota and metabolome following discharge from intensive care – Christopher J. Stewart – Scientific Reports

The role of gut microbiota in fetal methylmercury exposure: Insights from a pilot study – Toxicology Letters

Assessing the Intestinal Microbiota in the SHINE Trial – Ethan K. Gough – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Gravidas with Class III Obesity: Evaluating the Abdominal Skin Microbiota Above and Below the Panniculus – Rodney K Edwards – The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
Review: A Review of Antibiotic Use in Pregnancy – P. Brandon Bookstaver – Pharmacotherapy

Review: On the origin of species: Factors shaping the establishment of infant’s gut microbiota – Niels van Best – Birth Defects Research Part C: Embryo Today: Reviews

Review: Molecular characterization of the human microbiome from a reproductive perspective – Amir Mor – Fertility and Sterility

Review: Reproductive tract microbiome in assisted reproductive technologies – Jason M. Franasiak – Fertility and Sterility

Review: Gynecologic health and disease in relation to the microbiome of the female reproductive tract – Katherine A. Green – Fertility and Sterility

Human skin microbiome

Genetic associations and shared environmental effects on the skin microbiome of Korean twins – Jiyeon Si – BMC Genomics

Human respiratory microbiome

The Sputum Microbiome in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations
Yvonne J. Huang – Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Review: Clinical Insights into Pulmonary Exacerbations in Cystic Fibrosis from the Microbiome. What Are We Missing? – Fiona J. Whelan – Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Human oral microbiome

Microbiome of titanium and zirconia dental implants abutments – Cássio do Nascimento – Dental Materials

Human gut microbiome

Microbiota and food residues including possible evidence of pre-mammalian hair in Upper Permian coprolites from Russia – Piotr Bajdek – Lethaia

Red wine polyphenols modulate fecal microbiota and reduce markers of the metabolic syndrome in obese patients – Moreno-Indias Isabel – Food & Function

The human gut microbial ecology associated with overweight and obesity determines ellagic acid metabolism – María V. Selma – Food & Function

The severity of NAFLD is associated with gut dysbiosis and shift in the metabolic function of the gut microbiota – Jérôme Boursier – Hepatology

Differences of microbiota in small bowel and faeces between irritable bowel syndrome patients and healthy subjects – Chen-Shuan Chung – Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Methodology, Not Concept of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, Affects Clinical Findings – Bota Cui – Gastroenterology

The Gut-Liver Axis in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis – Bertus Eksteen – Clinics in Liver Disease

Animal models

Anticancer immunotherapy by CTLA-4 blockade relies on the gut microbiota – Marie Vétizou – Science

Antepartum Antibiotic Treatment Increases Offspring Susceptibility to Experimental Colitis: A Role of the Gut Microbiota – Peris Mumbi Munyaka – PLOS ONE

Metabolomic study on the faecal extracts of atherosclerosis mice and its application in a Traditional Chinese Medicine – Feng Tian – Journal of Chromatography B

Animal microbiome

Temporal Relationships Exist Between Cecum, Ileum, and Litter Bacterial Microbiomes in a Commercial Turkey Flock, and Subtherapeutic Penicillin Treatment Impacts Ileum Bacterial Community Establishment – Jessica L. Danzeisen – Frontiers in Veterinary Science

A Pyrosequencing Investigation of Differences in the Feline Subgingival Microbiota in Health, Gingivitis and Mild Periodontitis – Stephen Harris – PLOS ONE

Phylogenetic and ecological factors impact the gut microbiota of two Neotropical primate species – Katherine R. Amato – Oecologia

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Bacterial diversity is strongly associated with historical penguin activity in an Antarctic lake sediment profile – Renbin Zhu – Scientific Reports

Elk, sagebrush, and saprotrophs: indirect top-down control on microbial community composition and function – Anna R. Peschel – Ecology

Effect of soil salinity and nutrient levels on the community structure of the root-associated bacteria of the facultative halophyte, Tamarix ramosissima, in southwestern United States – Takeshi Taniguchi – Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Metagenomic insights into communities, functions of endophytes, and their associates with infection by root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, in tomato roots – Bao-Yu Tia – Scientific Reports

Effect of rice straw application on microbial community and activity in paddy soil under different water status – Fuxia Pan – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Mapping the Centimeter-Scale Spatial Variability of PAHs and Microbial Populations in the Rhizosphere of Two Plants – Amélia Bourceret – PLOS ONE

Diversity of bacterial endophytes in 3 and 15 year-old grapevines of Vitis vinifera cv. Corvina and their potential for plant growth promotion and phytopathogen control – Marco Andreolli – Microbiological Research

Review: Functions, mechanisms and regulation of endophytic and epiphytic microbial communities of plants – Charles W. Bacon – Symbiosis

Review: Culture-independent discovery of natural products from soil metagenomes – Micah Katz – Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Built environment microbiology

ISS: Extracellular Lipase and Protease Production from a Model Drinking Water Bacterial Community Is Functionally Robust to Absence of Individual Members – Graham G. Willsey – PLOS ONE

Food microbiology

Bacterial Ecology of Fermented Cucumber Rising pH Spoilage as Determined by Nonculture-Based Methods – Eduardo Medina – Journal of Food Science

Microbial Ecology

Complete nitrification by Nitrospira bacteria – Holger Daims – Nature

Does Microbial Diversity Confound General Predictions? – Marie Duhamel – Trends in Plant Science

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Population genetic analyses of metagenomes reveal extensive strain-level variation in prevalent human-associated bacteria – Stephen Nayfach – BioRxiv

Techniques

Robust and effective methodologies for cryopreservation and DNA extraction from anaerobic gut fungi – Kevin V. Solomon – Anaerobe

Collecting Fecal Samples for Microbiome Analyses in Epidemiology Studies – Rashmi Sinha – Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention

Microbes in the news

Is Double-Dipping Okay? CFUs in 4 types of dips after double dipping – Digg

New Research Reveals Bacteria Associated With Feline Gum Disease for the First Time – PR Newswire

Mission space food: Sugar-growing bacteria go into orbit – Clare Wilson – New Scientist

Your Coffee Machine Is a Breeding Ground for Caffeine-Resistant Bacteria – Matthew Braga – Motherboard

Your Poop Knows Best–New Study Shows Microbiome Can Help Predict Health Responses to Certain Foods – Patrick Mustain – Scientific American

Science, publishing, and career

China pursues fraudsters in science publishing – Mara Hvistendahl – Science
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November 25, 2015

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My apologies for 2 missed posts (due to overseas family circumstances). Gut microbiota of infants with botulism, gut microbial diversity in US Midwest population, decomposing pig carcasses, oil-degrading microbes and sunlight.

Events

5th Annual Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference – June 1-3 2016, Boulder, CO

Jobs

Our lab at Stanford University is hiring a Clinical Study Coordinator to be based out of UCSF School of Dentistry. Great position for someone who eventually wants to go to medical or dental school.

Pregnancy and birth

The relationship between early-life environment, the epigenome and the microbiota – Amber V Majnik – Epigenomics

Human oral microbiome

The impact of different DNA extraction methods on the analysis of microbial diversity of oral saliva from healthy youths by polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis – Ming Chen – Journal of Dental Sciences

Human gut microbiome

Characterizing the fecal microbiota of infants with botulism – T. Brian Shirey – Microbiome

Early-Life Exposure to Antibiotics, Alterations in the Intestinal Microbiome, and Risk of Metabolic Disease in Children and Adults – Sushmita G. Yallapragada – Pediatric Annals

Impact of demographics on human gut microbial diversity in a US Midwest population – Jun Chen – PeerJ Preprint

Review: Feeding the brain and nurturing the mind: Linking nutrition and the gut microbiota to brain development – Manu S. Goyal – PNAS

Review: Metagenomic cross-talk: the regulatory interplay between immunogenomics and the microbiome – Maayan Levy – Genome Medicine

Review: The relationship between early-life environment, the epigenome and the microbiota – Amber V Majnik – Future Medicine

Microbiome models

Gut Commensal E. coli Proteins Activate Host Satiety Pathways following Nutrient-Induced Bacterial Growth – Jonathan Breton – Cell Metabolism

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

From Rare to Dominant: A Fine-Tuned Soil Bacterial Bloom during Petroleum Hydrocarbon Bioremediation – Sebastián Fuentes – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Metabarcoding analysis of Phytophthora diversity using genus specific primers and 454 pyrosequencing – Maria I Prigigallo – Phytopathology

Structures of microbial communities in alpine soils: seasonal and elevational effects – Anna Lazzaro – Frontiers in Microbiology

Effects of long-term radionuclide and heavy metal contamination on the activity of microbial communities, inhabiting uranium mining impacted soils – Silvena Boteva – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

The community structures of prokaryotes and fungi in mountain pasture soils are highly correlated and primarily influenced by pH – Anders Lanzen – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water microbiome

Application of Microfluidic QPCR (MFQPCR) Technique to Monitor Bacterial Pathogens in Beach Water and Complex Environmental Matrices – Muruleedhara Byappanahalli – Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Natural sunlight shapes crude oil-degrading bacterial communities in northern Gulf of Mexico surface waters – Hernando P. Bacosa – Frontiers in MIcrobiology

Bacterioplankton community resilience to ocean acidification: evidence from microbial network analysis – Yu Wang – ICES Journal of Marine Sciences

Microbial Diversity and Bioactive Substances in Disease Suppressive Composts from India – C. M. Mehta – Compost Science & Utilization

Extremophile microbiome

Microbial metagenomics of oil sands tailings ponds: small bugs, big data – Julia M. Foght – Genome

Built environment microbiome

Changes in Microbes of the Built Environment in Early Stages of Urbanization – Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello

Microbiome of death

The impact of carrion decomposition on the fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) profiles of soil microbial communities in southern Canada – Heloise Breton – Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Assembly: a resource for assembled genomes at NCBI – Nucleic Acid Research

Web Resources for Metagenomics Studies – Pravin Dudhagara – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Metagenome Analysis Exploiting High-Throughput Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) Data – Martial Marbouty – Trends in Genetics

EBI metagenomics in 2016 – an expanding and evolving resource for the analysis and archiving of metagenomic data – Alex Mitchell – Nucleic Acids Research

probeBase—an online resource for rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes and primers: new features 2016 – Daniel Greuter – Nucleic Acids Research

Microbial ecology / more microbiology

Review: Microbial Invasions: The Process, Patterns, and Mechanisms – Cyrus Alexander Mallon – Trends in Microbiology

Review: Microbial diversity — exploration of natural ecosystems and microbiomes –
Sean M Gibbons – Current Opinion in Genetics & Development

Microbes As Friends, Not Foes: Shifting the Focus from Pathogenesis to Symbiosis – Sheila A. Homburger – The American Biology Teacher

Microbes in the news

Leading Antibiotic Doomsayer Mellows on Infection Armageddon – Michael Byrne – Motherboard
and
I believed we would face an antibiotics apocalypse – until now – Richard James – The Guardian

Tardigrades: Inside the Bizarre Genome of the World’s Toughest Animal – Ed Yong – The Atlantic

C&EN Talks With Microbiome Surveyor Stefanie Kandels-Lewis: The laboratory technician turned fixer kept the Tara Oceans project, an expedition to map the oceans’ microbial populations, afloat for four years – Sarah Everts – C&EN

Kiwi scientists invent stomach ulcer cure – Olivia Wannan – Stuff NZ

A Doctor Wrestles With Whether To Keep Wearing His White Coat – John Henning Schumann – NPR

When will the world wake up to the potential of poo power? – John Vidal – The Guardian

At TEDMED 2015: How microbiome studies could improve the future of humanity – ScopeBlog

Two Types of Diet May Protect Against Type 2 Through Regulation of Gut Microbiota – Diabetes in Control

Symberix lands two SBIRs for GI drug that targets the microbiome – Meghana Keshavan – MedCity News

Diet study overturns all we know about healthy eating – Israel21c

Liberia monitors over 150 Ebola contacts as virus re-emerges – James Harding Giahyue – Reuters

Now We Can Use Microbes to Make Designer Chocolate Flavors – Esther Inglis-Arkell – Gizmodo

Fossils show sign of ancient vampire microbes – Punctures in fossils suggest predation drove the evolution of self-defense systems – Thomas Sumner – Student Science

Science, publishing and career

Stepping Away from the Lab:Emilie, Can I Ask You? Why I made the decision to leave academic research and become an editor.- Cell

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November 14, 2015

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A paper from our lab(s) on inbred mouse strain gut microbiota variation, bacteria reduce fungi on toads, 20 years of bacterial genome sequencing, and 100 years of phage research.

Jobs

Tenure Track Position in Microbial Metagenomics – Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX

Human oral microbiome

In Vitro Culture of Previously Uncultured Oral Bacterial Phylotypes – Hayley Thompson – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Oral microbiome in chinese patients with aggressive periodontitis and their family members – Yi Li – Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Human gut microbiome

Probiotic supplementation influences faecal short chain fatty acids in infants at high risk for eczema – H.K. Kim – Beneficial Microbes

Review: Establishing a causal link between gut microbes, body weight gain and glucose metabolism in humans – towards treatment with probiotics – L.K. Stenman – Beneficial Microbes

Review: An Integrated Outlook on the Metagenome and Metabolome of Intestinal Diseases – Wanping Aw – Diseases

Animal models

I’m a co-author: Variation in Taxonomic Composition of the Fecal Microbiota in an Inbred Mouse Strain across Individuals and Time – Yana Emmy Hoy – PLOS ONE

Akkermansia muciniphila inversely correlates with the onset of inflammation, altered adipose tissue metabolism and metabolic disorders during obesity in mice – Marc Schneeberger – Scientific Reports

Effect of Clostridium perfringens infection and antibiotic administration on microbiota in the small intestine of broiler chickens – Yewande O. Fasina – Poultry Science

Host genetic control of the microbiota mediates Drosophila nutritional phenotype – John M. Chaston – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Bromochloromethane, a methane analogue, affects the gut microbiota and metabolic profiles of the rat gastrointestinal tract – Yu-Xiang Yang – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Inhibitory bacteria reduce fungi on early life stages of endangered Colorado boreal toads (Anaxyrus boreas) – Jordan G Kueneman – The ISME Journal

Leptospira and Bats: Story of an Emerging Friendship – Muriel Dietrich – PLOS Pathogens

Intraspecific variation in microbial symbiont communities of the sun sponge, Hymeniacidon heliophila, from intertidal and subtidal habitats – Brooke L. Weigel – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Successive shifts in the microbial community of the surface mucus layer and tissues of the coral Acropora muricata under thermal stress – Sonny T.M. Lee – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Invasive ants carry novel viruses in their new range and form reservoirs for a honeybee pathogen – Alexandra Sébastien – Biology Letters

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Proteomic Analysis of Microbial Community Inhabiting Asian Dust Source Region – Simranjeet Singh Sekhon – CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water

Landscape Position Influences Microbial Composition and Function via Redistribution of Soil Water across a Watershed – Zhe Du – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Common foliar fungi of Populus trichocarpa modify Melampsora rust disease severity – Posy E. Busby – New Phytologist

Cave microbial community composition in oceanic islands: disentangling the effect of different colored mats in diversity patterns of Azorean lava caves – Cristina Riquelme – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Mini-review: Lichens as natural sources of biotechnologically relevant bacteria – Marcelino T. Suzuki – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Water / extremophile microbiome

Single Cells within the Puerto Rico Trench Suggest Hadal Adaptation of Microbial Lineages – Rosa León-Zayas – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Cyanobacterial community composition in Arctic soil crusts at different stages of development – Ekaterina Pushkareva – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Effects of Volcanic Pumice Inputs on Microbial Community Composition and Dissolved C/P Ratios in Lake Waters: an Experimental Approach – B. E. Modenutti – Microbial Ecology

Phages and viruses

Multiple approaches for the detection and characterization of viral and plasmid symbionts from a collection of marine fungi – L. Nerva – Virus Research

Review: A century of the phage: past, present and future – George P. C. Salmond & Peter C. Fineran – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Genome sequencing and metagenomics

Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification – Kirsten A. Ziesemer – Scientific Reports

Automated and Accurate Estimation of Gene Family Abundance from Shotgun Metagenomes – Stephen Nayfach – PLOS Computational Biology

SONEC: Metabolic Network-Guided Binning of Metagenomic Sequence Fragments – Matthew B. Biggs – Bioinformatics

Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession – Diana R Nemergut – The ISME Journal

Review: Twenty years of bacterial genome sequencing – Nicholas J. Loman & Mark J. Pallen – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Techniques

Community-Level Physiological Profiling of Microbial Communities in Constructed Wetlands: Effects of Sample Preparation – Mark Button – Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Microbes in the news

Your Gut May Be Home To An Entirely New Form Of Life – Maddie Stone – Gizmodo

Growth Rate of Gut Bacteria Related to Specific Diseases – Rachel Lutz – HCP Live

Sweaty feet, stinky cheese, and the microbiome – Matt McCarthy – STAT

Parasitic fungi and the battle against coffee rust disease – Jim Erickson – University of Michigan

Body’s Microorganisms Could Keep Humans More Healthy – Gene Marcial – Forbes

Not creepy at all! 13 creepy pictures of the microbes that are living inside of you – Julia Calderone – Tech Insider

You’ve been fighting morning breath all wrong – Lydia Ramsey – Business Insider Australia

Bacteria-Infused Material Pulls Energy Out of Poop – But don’t get too excited, because this poop battery is terribly inefficient – William Herkewitz – Popular Mechanics

This Little Bot Walks on Water and Runs on Bacteria – Maddie Stone – Gizmodo

Why do potatoes grow pink slime? Clostridium puniceum could fight MRSA – Alexandra Sarabia – PBS NewsHour

Bacteria Hysteria

Your Unwashed Bras Are Growing (Mostly Harmless) Bacteria – Beth Skwarecki – LifeHacker

November 10, 2015

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Oral and gut microbiomes respond differently to antibiotics, looking two gifted horses in the mouth, BMIs and Bifidos, Drosophila mating, gut microbes and tumorigenesis, microbial food webs in clay rocks, and don’t forget that Bonferroni correction.

Pregnancy and birth (Probiotics too!)

Endometrial microbiome at the time of embryo transfer: next-generation sequencing of the 16S ribosomal subunit – J. M. Franasiak – Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Association of Early Exposure of Probiotics and Islet Autoimmunity in the TEDDY Study – Ulla Uusitalo – JAMA Pediatrics

Human oral microbiome

Same Exposure but Two Radically Different Responses to Antibiotics: Resilience of the Salivary Microbiome versus Long-Term Microbial Shifts in Feces – Egija Zaura – mBio

Crossover clinical trial of different methods of removing a denture adhesive and the influence on the oral microbiota – Élen Massaro Nunes – The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry

Human gut microbiome

Correlation between body mass index and fecal microbiota from children – A. Ignacio – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Review: Clostridium difficile infection and intestinal microbiota interactions – C. Rodriguez – Microbial Pathogenesis

Animal and bioreactor models

A Statistical Error in: “Analysis of Caecal Microbiota in Rats Fed with Genetically Modified Rice by Real-Time Quantitative PCR” – Alexander Panchin – Journal of Food Science

In mice: Manipulation of the Gut Microbiota Reveals Role in Colon Tumorigenesis -Joseph P. Zackular – mSphere

The impacts of Wolbachia and the microbiome on mate choice in Drosophila melanogaster – Devin Arbuthnott – Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Chemostat culture systems support diverse bacteriophage communities from human feces – Tasha M. Santiago-Rodriguez – Microbiome

Symbiotic Human Gut Bacteria with Variable Metabolic Priorities for Host Mucosal Glycans – Nicholas A. Pudlo – mBio

Temporal dynamics of the metabolically active rumen bacteria colonising fresh perennial ryegrass – Sharon A. Huws – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Animal microbiome

In-depth snapshot of the equine subgingival microbiome – Wenling Gao – Microbial Pathogenesis

Occurrence and distribution of Malassezia species on skin and external ear canal of horses – Hojjatollah Shokr – Mycoses

Review: The functionality of the gastrointestinal microbiome in non-human animals – Irene Hanning – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

The effect of altitudinal gradient on soil microbial community activity and structure in moso bamboo plantations – Ed-Haun Chang – Applied Soil Ecology

The Mineralosphere Concept: Mineralogical Control of the Distribution and Function of Mineral-associated Bacterial Communities – Stephane Uroz – Trends in Microbiology

Soil and Rhizosphere Associated Fungi in Grey Mangroves (Avicennia marina) from the Red Sea – A Metagenomic Approach – Marta Filipa Simões – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Deciphering Community Structure of Methanotrophs Dwelling in Rice Rhizospheres of an Indian Rice Field Using Cultivation and Cultivation-Independent Approaches – Pranitha S. Pandit – Environmental Microbiology

Effects of Sulfamethazine and Zinc on the Functional Diversity of Microbial Communities during Composting – Manli Duan – Environmental Microbiology

Evidence for duplication in title words: Prokaryotes in subsoil – evidence for spatial separation of oligotrophs and copiotrophs by co-occurrence networks – Michael Schloter – Frontiers in Microbiology

A minimalistic microbial food web in an excavated deep subsurface clay rock -Alexandre Bagnoud – FEMS Microbial Ecology

Water microbiome

Chemical dispersants can suppress the activity of natural oil-degrading microorganisms – Sara Kleindienst – PNAS

Extremophile microbiome

Distribution and diversity of microbial communities in meromictic soda Lake Doroninskoe (Transbaikalia, Russia) during winter – Evgeniya Matyugina – Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology

Built environment microbiome

Differences in intertidal microbial assemblages on urban structures and natural rocky reef – Elisa L. Tan – Frontiers in Microbiology

Waste microbiology

Diverse Bacterial Groups Contribute to the Alkane Degradation Potential of Chronically Polluted Subantarctic Coastal Sediments – Lilian M. Guibert – Environmental Microbiology

Cultivating Microbial Dark Matter in Benzene-Degrading Methanogenic Consortia –
Fei Luo – Environmental Microbiology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

DESM: portal for microbial knowledge exploration systems – Adil Salhi – Nucleic Acids Research

Techniques

Coupling dye-integrated polymeric membranes with smartphone detection to classify bacteria – Lígia Bueno – RSC Advances

Microbes in the news

9 Fascinating Facts About The Microbiome, The Trillions Of Microbes Hidden Inside Us — Jessica Leber – Fast Co.Exist

NTU scientists use dead bacteria to kill colorectal cancer – EurekAlert

Science, publishing, and career

(A)Historical Science: why scientists should care more about the history of science – Arturo Casadevall and Ferric C. Fang – Infection and Immunity

November 7, 2015

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Human oral microbiome

Dental demineralization, radiation caries and oral microbiota in patients with head and neck cancer – Leonardo Victor Galvão-Moreira – Oral Oncology

Review: Bacterial interactions in pathogenic subgingival plaque – Hong Min Ng – Microbial Pathogenesis

Human gut microbiome

Gut Microbiota Community and Its Assembly Associated with Age and Diet in Chinese Centenarians – Fang Wang – Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Gut colonization with methanobrevibacter smithii is associated with childhood weight development – Catherine A. Mbakwa – Obesity

Review: Regulation of energy balance by a gut–brain axis and involvement of the gut microbiota – Paige V. Bauer – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Animal and other models

Anticancer immunotherapy by CTLA-4 blockade relies on the gut microbiota – Marie Vétizou – Science

Mice: The Characterization of Novel Tissue Microbiota Using an Optimized 16S Metagenomic Sequencing Pipeline – Jérôme Lluch – PLOS ONE

Sheep: Lung Microbiota Changes Associated with Chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lung Infection and the Impact of Intravenous Colistimethate Sodium – David Collie – PLOS ONE

Human cells: The effect of short-chain fatty acids on human monocyte-derived dendritic cells – Claudia Nastasi – Scientific Reports

Review: Effect of dietary components on the gut microbiota of aquatic animals. A never-ending story? – E. Ringø – Aquaculture Nutrition

Animal microbiome

Evaluation of DNA extraction kits and phylogenetic diversity of the porcine gastrointestinal tract based on Illumina sequencing of two hypervariable regions –
Katharina Burbach – Microbiology Open

Insects: Host and Symbiont Jointly Control Gut Microbiota during Complete Metamorphosis – Paul R. Johnston – PLOS Pathogens

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbial immigration across the Mediterranean via airborne dust – Riccardo Rosselli – Scientific Reports

The herbaceous landlord: integrating the effects of symbiont consortia within a single host – Roo Vandegrift – PeerJ

Review: The plant microbiome explored: implications for experimental botany – Gabriele Berg- Journal of Experimental Botany

The influence of hydrogeological disturbance and mining on coal seam microbial communities – M. J. Raudsepp – Geobiology

Soil DNA pyrosequencing and fruitbody surveys reveal contrasting diversity for various fungal ecological guilds in chestnut orchards – Paula Baptista – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Water microbiome

Particle-association lifestyle is a phylogenetically conserved trait in bathypelagic prokaryotes – Guillem Salazar – Molecular Ecology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Global Profiling of Carbohydrate Active Enzymes in Human Gut Microbiome – Tanudeep Bhattacharya – PLOS ONE

Kernel-Penalized Regression for Analysis of Microbiome Data – Timothy W. Randolph – ArXiv

Infection and microbial detection

Development of a rapid and simplified protocol for direct bacterial identification from positive blood cultures by using matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time-of- flight mass spectrometry – Aleksandra Jakovljev – BMC Microbiology

Copper surfaces are associated with significantly lower concentrations of bacteria on selected surfaces within a pediatric intensive care unit – Michael G. Schmidt – American Journal of Infection Control

Microbial ecology

An equilibrium theory signature in the island biogeography of human parasites and pathogens – Kévin Jean – Global Ecology and Biogeography

Microbes in the news

‘The Secret World Inside You’ Explores the Microbial Human – William Grimes – The New York Times
I Contain Multitudes: Microbiomes at the American Museum of Natural History –
Sean Hutchinson – Inverse
Exploring the Inner Universe. A new American Museum of Natural History exhibit introduces visitors to the microbes within their bodies – Ashley P. Taylor – The Scientist

Sexed-up beer – Nature Biotechnology

Microbes aid cancer drugs – Mitch Leslie – Science

Gut microbiota regulates antioxidant metabolism – EurekAlert

Kitchen utensils can spread bacteria between foods, UGA study finds – Sydney Devine – University of Georgia
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November 4, 2015

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Lots of upcoming workshops and seminars, genome-wide association of the human gut microbiota, contamination of cord blood units, and bacteria with the rRNA genes on a plasmid, not on their chromosome.

Events

Webinar: The ageing microbiota by Gemma Walton and Annie-Rose Harrison-Dunn – November 17, 2015 – 10AM Paris

Mothur 3-day workshop organized by Pat Schloss – December 16-18, Detroit.

2nd Microbiome R&D and Business Collaboration Congress: Asia – February 29-March 1 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Early career workshop on Microbiology of the built environment (Chicago, IL) – Jack Gilbert lab – April 26-29 2016

Human oral microbiome

Pyrosequencing of Plaque Microflora In Twin Children with Discordant Caries Phenotypes – Meng Zhang – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

In Hutterites: Genome-Wide Association Studies of the Human Gut Microbiota – Emily R. Davenport – PLOS ONE

Lactobacillus casei Shirota Supplementation Does Not Restore Gut Microbiota Composition and Gut Barrier in Metabolic Syndrome: A Randomized Pilot Study – Vanessa Stadlbauer – PLOS ONE

Infection microbiology

Microbial Contaminants of Cord Blood Units Identified by 16S rRNA Sequencing and by API Test System, and Antibiotic Sensitivity Profiling – Luís França – PLOS ONE

More microbes

Bacterial clade with the ribosomal RNA operon on a small plasmid rather than the chromosome – Mizue Anda – PNAS

High-throughput 3D tracking of bacteria on a standard phase contrast microscope –
K.M. Taute – Nature Communications

Automated image analysis for quantification of filamentous bacteria – Marlene Fredborg – BMC Microbiology

Microbial ecology

Community rescue in experimental metacommunities – Etienne Low-Décarie – PNAS

Microbes in the news

Family dog lowers kids’ asthma risk, proving dirt and bacteria are good for children – Shelley Hazen – Inquisitr

Microbiome expert Martin Blaser to receive Georgetown’s Cura Personalis Award Nov. 3 – EurekAlert

Microbiomes could prove essential in various fields of science, study suggests – Kimberly Nielsen – The Daily Californian

Salivary microbiome of whitetail deer: Mature doe set the rut timetable – Oak Duke – Wellsville Daily Reporter

Finally! New germ exhibit opening at the American Museum of Natural History – Rebecca Rosenthal – North Jersey

Thank heavens, someone figured out which bacteria live on a donkey’s penis – Discover
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How was the bacteria at York Hospital found?– Dylan Segelbaum – York Daily Record

Worms (and germs) may be the answer to preventing allergies – Jason Tetro – Popular Science

Two Million-Year-Old Bacteria Used Iron “Sunscreen” – Charlotte Ward – RedBrick

Bacteria infecting orange groves is driving up cost of juice; threatens nation’s supply – Sandy Miller – Fox2Now

Science, publishing, and career

EU urges science publishers to adapt to open access: European research commissioner Carlos Moedas has urged journal publishing companies to reshape their business models to an open access system. – LabNews

Supervision: Clear direction: Managing laboratory members as well as a research strategy can be difficult for early-career principal investigators, but help is at hand. – Boer Deng – Nature

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November 2, 2015

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Overview of key players of the human microbiome in different sites, foals are born with a rich gut microbiome, biogeography of salmon microbiome, bacteria on Chinese glaciers, and the effect of X-rays on the mango microbiome.

General human microbiome

Diversity of key players in the microbial ecosystems of the human body – Ferenc Jordán – Scientific Reports

Pregnancy and birth

Intestinal microbiota in neonates requiring urgent surgery: assessing the role of probiotics using fecal DNA sequencing – Hiroshi Murakami – Pediatric Surgery International

Review: Bacterial munch for infants: potential pediatric therapeutic interventions of probiotics – Mohsin Khurshid – Future Microbiology

Review: Introduction : Microbiome in human reproduction – Jason M. Franasiak – Fertility and Sterility

Correspondence: Vaginal microbiota during pregnancy: Pathways of risk of preterm delivery in the absence of intrauterine infection? – Jeffrey A Keelan – PNAS

Reply to Keelan and Payne: Microbiota-related pathways for preterm birth – Daniel B DiGiulio – PNAS

Human oral microbiome

Microbiomes of Endodontic-Periodontal Lesions before and after Chemomechanical Preparation – Brenda P.F.A. Gomes – Journal of Endodontics

Oral microbiota in patients with atherosclerosis – Frida Fåk – Atherosclerosis

Review: Intermicrobial interactions as a driver for community composition and stratification of oral biofilms – Nicholas S. Jakubovics – Journal of Molecular Biology

Review: The Fungal Biome of the Oral Cavity – Jyotsna Chandra – Candida Species

Human respiratory microbiome

Are bronchoalveolar lavages a good source for microbial profiling? Differences between throat and bronchoalveolar lavage microbiomes – Alexandra Zimmermann – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Donor species richness determines fecal microbiota transplantation success in inflammatory bowel disease – Severine Vermeire – Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis

Gut mucosal microbiome across stages of colorectal carcinogenesis – Geicho Nakatsu – Nature Communications

Review: Gut mycobiota and adenomas – Chunguang Luan – Gut Microbes

Review: Rate of establishing the gut microbiota in infancy has consequences for future health – Shaillay Dogra – Gut Microbes

Animal microbiome

Development of the faecal microbiota in foals – M. C. Costa – Equine Veterinary Journal

Bacterial communities in termite fungus combs are comprised of consistent gut deposits and contributions from the environment – Saria Otani – Microbial Ecology

The biogeography of the atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) gut microbiome – Martin S Llewellyn – The ISME Journal

Exposure to West Nile Virus Increases Bacterial Diversity and Immune Gene Expression in Culex pipiens – Steven D. Zink – Viruses

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Plant-microbe rhizosphere interactions mediated by Rehmannia glutinosa root exudates under consecutive monoculture – Linkun Wu – Scientific Reports

Drivers of bacterial beta diversity in two temperate forests –  Wang – Ecological Research

Characterizing bacterial assemblages in sediments and aerosols at a dry lake bed in Australia using high-throughput sequencing – Chris Munday – Aerobiologia

Review: Influence of soil microbiota in nurse plant systems – Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría – Functional Ecology

Review: The Role of Plant–Microbe Interactions and Their Exploitation for Phytoremediation of Air Pollutants – Nele Weyens – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Water and extremophile microbiome

Metagenomic analysis of the bacterial community of the Sea of Azov – D. G. Matishov – Marine Biology

Taxonomic and functional characteristics of microbial communities and their correlation with physicochemical properties of four geothermal springs in Odisha, India – Jhasketan Badhai – Frontiers in Microbiology

High diversity and distinctive community structure of bacteria on glaciers in China revealed by 454 pyrosequencing – Qing Liu – Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Review: Databases of the marine metagenomics – Katsuhiko Mineta – Gene

Waste microbiology

Changes in Microbial Composition of Wastewater During Treatment in a Full-Scale Plant – Marija Kaevska – Current Microbiology

Wastewater treatment and microbial communities in an integrated photo-bioelectrochemical system affected by different wastewater algal inocula – Li Xiao – Algal Research

Review: Microbial diversity in support of anaerobic biomass valorization – M. Jobard – Critical Reviews in Biotechnology

Food microbiology

Effect of X-ray treatments on Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, Shigella flexneri, Salmonella enterica and inherent microbiota on whole mangoes – Barakat S M Mahmoud – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Poster: Alignment-free methods for metagenomic profiling – Shanshan Gao – BMC Bioinformatics

Infection microbiology

Microbial diversity on intravascular catheters from paediatric patients – L. Zhang – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Phages and viruses

Function of the CRISPR-Cas System of the Human Pathogen Clostridium difficile – Pierre Boudry – mBio

Microbial Ecology

Do modern theories of biodiversity fail to predict commonness and rarity among microbes? – William R. Shoemaker – PeerJ

Strongly Deterministic Population Dynamics in Closed Microbial Communities – Zak Frentz – Physical Review

Microbes in the news

Scientists debate mega-microbiome initiatives: Research standards will advance the field, proponents say, but critics counter that they will stifle creativity – Rachel Becker – Nature

Foals born with rich microbial community in their gut – study – Horsetalk

Halloween: Monster Microbiology, 101: If werewolves and other ghouls existed, they’d surely have microbiomes – Rob Dunn – Science Friday

Bacteria in space – ‘You cannot just open the window’ – Interview with Ralf Möller about microbes found on the ISS – DW

New technique could prevent biofilms on catheters and medical implants – EurekAlert

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October 27, 2015

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Gut biogeography, soil transplants, donkey penises, Chicago public beaches, deep-sea mussels, dust particles in the International Space Station, and red pepper influence on kimchi microbiology

Events

About the world within us: This week, Penn Vet, Penn Medicine, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will host their second annual microbiome symposium – Sandy Bauers – Philly.com

Call for Volunteers: Gut Microbiota Samples – AGA is now recruiting volunteers to have their gut analyzed. Submit your name by Dec. 7 to be considered

General human microbiome

Human microbiomes and their roles in dysbiosis, common diseases, and novel therapeutic approaches – José E. Belizário – Frontiers in Microbiology

Pregnancy and birth microbiome

The Early Intestinal Microbiota of Healthy Korean Newborns – Eu Kyoung Lee – Iran J Pediatr

Human oral microbiome

Microbiome interaction with sugar plays an important role in relapse of childhood caries –
Jing Tian – Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Human respiratory microbiome

The microbiome of the maxillary sinus and middle nasal meatus in chronic rhinosinusitis – O.A. Ivanchenko – Rhinology

Human skin microbiome

The Skin Microbiome in Atopic Dermatitis and Its Relationship to Emollients – Charles W. Lynde – Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Human gut microbiome

Quinolone resistance mutations in the faecal microbiota of Swedish travellers to India – Anna Johnning – BMC Microbiology

Regulation of lung immunity and host defense by the intestinal microbiota – Derrick R. Samuelson – Frontiers in Microbiology

Intestinal Microbiota Profiles of Healthy Pre-School and School-Age Children and Effects of Probiotic Supplementation – Wang C. – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Effect of Whole-Grain Barley on the Human Fecal Microbiota and Metabolome – Maria De Angelis – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Microbiota studies in the bile duct strongly suggest a role for H. pylori in extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma – Francisco Avilés-Jiménez- Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Review: A Molecular-Level Landscape of Diet-Gut Microbiome Interactions: Toward Dietary Interventions Targeting Bacterial Genes – Yueqiong Ni – mBio

Review: Gut biogeography of the bacterial microbiota – Gregory P. Donaldson – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Review: The Microbiome in Mental Health: Potential Contribution of Gut Microbiota in Disease and Pharmacotherapy Management – Stephanie A. Flowers – Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy

Review: Impact of Gut Microbiota on Obesity, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk – Luca Miele – Current Cardiology Reports

Editorial: Faecal transplants – Tim Spector, Rob Knight – British Medical Journal

Microbiome models

MHC variation sculpts individualized microbial communities that control susceptibility to enteric infection – Jason L. Kubinak

Diet drives quick changes in the metabolic activity and composition of human gut microbiota in a validated in vitro gut model – Marisol Aguirre – Research in Microbiology

The effect of diet and host genotype on ceca microbiota of Japanese quail fed a cholesterol enriched diet – Shasha Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Selective manipulation of the gut microbiota improves immune status in vertebrates – Ana Montalban-Arques – Frontiers in Immunology

Animal microbiome

With a picture of the sampling site! Bacterial and fungal microflora on the external genitalia of male donkeys (Equus asinus) – Carla L. Carleton – Animal Reproduction Science

Zoo animals: Human Staphylococcus aureus lineages among Zoological Park residents in
Greece – E. Drougka – Open Veterinary Journal

Insects: Microbial ecology-based methods to characterize the bacterial communities of non-model insects – Erica M. Prosdocimi – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Cattle: The nasopharyngeal microbiota of feedlot cattle – Devin B. Holman – Scientific Reports

Cattle: The rumen microbial metagenome associated with high methane production in cattle – R. John Wallace – BMC Genomics

Goose: Comparative analysis of the gastrointestinal microbial communities of bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) in different breeding patterns by high-throughput sequencing – Wen Wang – Microbiological Research

Bats: Bacterial diversity indicates dietary overlap among bats of different feeding habits – Sunil Banskar – Microbiological Research

Copepods: Biotransformation of petroleum hydrocarbons and microbial communities in seawater with oil dispersions and copepod feces – Ingvild Fladvad Størdal – Marine Pollution Bulletin

Mussels: Abundant toxin-related genes in the genomes of beneficial symbionts from deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels – Lizbeth Sayavedra – eLIFE

Snail: Enrichment and Identification of Cellulolytic Bacteria from the Gastrointestinal Tract of Giant African Snail, Achatina fulica – Kiran D. Pawar – Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Coral: Intraspecific diversity among partners drives functional variation in coral symbioses – John Everett Parkinson – Scientific Reports

Coral: Variations in the abundance and structural diversity of microbes forming biofilms in a thermally stressed coral reef system – Huda Mahmoud – Marine Pollution Bulletin

Coral: Microbiome shifts and the inhibition of quorum sensing by Black Band Disease cyanobacteria – Julie L Meyer – The ISME Journal

Zebrafish: Identification of Population Bottlenecks and Colonization Factors during Assembly of Bacterial Communities within the Zebrafish Intestine – W. Zac Stephens – mBio

Arthropod: The microbiome of Folsomia candida: an assessment of bacterial diversity in a Wolbachia-containing animal – V. Agamennone – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Dynamics of bacterial community structure on intertidal sandflat inhabited by the ghost shrimp Nihonotrypaea harmandi (decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) in tomioka bay, amakusa, Japan – Minoru Wada – Gene

Agricultural matrix affects differently the alpha and beta structural and functional diversity of soil microbial communities in a fragmented Mediterranean holm oak forest –
Dulce Flores-Rentería – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Long lasting effects of the conversion from natural forest to poplar plantation on soil microbial communities – Francesco Vitali – Microbiological Research

Significant alteration of soil bacterial communities and organic carbon decomposition by different long-term fertilization management conditions of extremely low-productivity arable soil in South China – Weibing Xun – Environmental Microbiology

Microbial responses to southward and northward Cambisol soil transplant – Mengmeng Wang – Microbiology Open

Review: Incorporating the soil environment and microbial community into plant competition theory – Po-Ju Ke – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Root Microbiome Assemblage is Modulated by Plant Host Factors – Venkatachalam Lakshmanan – Advances in Botanical Research

Water microbiome

Niche differentiation of bacterial communities at a millimeter scale in Shark Bay microbial mats – Hon Lun Wong – Scientific Reports

Survey of microbial populations within Lake Michigan nearshore waters at two Chicago public beaches – Kema Malki – Data in Brief

Cyanobacterial reuse of extracellular organic carbon in microbial mats – Rhona K Stuart – The ISME Journal

External controls on the distribution, fabrics and mineralization of modern microbial mats in a coastal hypersaline lagoon, Cayo Coco (Cuba) – Anthony Bouton – Sedimentology

Variance and potential niche separation of microbial communities in subseafloor sediments off Shimokita Peninsula, Japan – Takuro Nunoura – Environmental Microbiology

Do phages impact microbial dynamics, prokaryotic community structure and nutrient dynamics in Lake Bourget? – Antony Meunier, Stéphan Jacquet – Biology Open

Active populations of rare microbes in oceanic environments as revealed by bromodeoxyuridine incorporation and 454 tag sequencing – Koji Hamasaki – Gene

Spatiotemporal variation of bacterial and archaeal communities in a pilot-scale constructed wetland for surface water treatment – Tao He – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

[Mini review] metagenomic studies of the Red Sea – Hayedeh Behzad – Gene

Marine bacteria from the French Atlantic coast displaying high forming-biofilm abilities and different biofilm 3D architectures – Ibtissem Doghri – BMC Microbiology

Genome-wide tuning of protein expression levels to rapidly engineer microbial traits – Emily F. Freed – ACS Synthetic Biology

Built Environment microbiology

Microbiomes of the dust particles collected from the International Space Station and Spacecraft Assembly Facilities – Aleksandra Checinska – Microbiome

Microbial community dynamics in Baolige oilfield during MEOR treatment, revealed by Illumina MiSeq sequencing – Jing You – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Food microbiology

The influence of red pepper powder on the density of Weissella koreensis during kimchi fermentation – Bo Kyoung Kang – Scientific Reports

Relationships among house, rind and core microbiotas during manufacture of traditional Italian cheeses at the same dairy plant – Maria Calasso – Food Microbiology

Extremophile microbiology

Hot spring deposits: Tracing Biosignature Preservation of Geothermally Silicified Microbial Textures into the Geological Record – Kathleen A. Campbell – Astrobiology

Microbiome composition and geochemical characteristics of deep subsurface high-pressure environment, Pyhäsalmi mine Finland – Hanna Miettinen – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

mBLAST: Keeping up with the Sequencing Explosion for (Meta) Genome Analysis – Curtis Davis – Journal of Data Mining in Genomics & Proteomics

Identification and resolution of microdiversity through metagenomic sequencing of parallel consortia – William C. Nelson – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

V-GAP: Viral genome assembly pipeline – Yoji Nakamura – Gene

Impact of library preparation protocols and template quantity on the metagenomic reconstruction of a mock microbial community – Robert M. Bowers – BMC Genomics

MinION Analysis and Reference Consortium: Phase 1 data release and analysis [version 1; referees: awaiting peer review] – Camilla L.C. Ip – F1000 Research

Review: Machine learning for metagenomics: methods and tools – Hayssam Soueidan, Macha Nikolski – Arxiv

Review: Novel Computational Technologies for Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis and Their Applications – Chuan Yi Tang – International Journal of Genomics

Microbes in the news

Potentially Dangerous Bacteria Thrive At The International Space Station, NASA Warns
– Katrina Pascual – Tech Times
What’s In The Microbiome Of Space? – Science 2.0

Decoding the DNA of lung bacteria to keep you healthy – Leah Cuthbertson – Imperial College London

US researchers delve into make-up of gut bacteria in horses – HorseTalk

Microbial engineering finds a home at SEAS: genetic engineering on biofilms – Adam Zewe – Harvard

Cultures: a small magazine tackling big issues – Special Kids Edition – ASM

Hurricane Patricia Victims Use Chlorine To Fight Bacteria – Operation Blessing

Bacteria can communicate like brain cells. This is a bacterial world. We just live in it. – Bradley J. Fikes – San Diego Union Tribune

Jessica Richman Wants People to Track Their Microbiomes – Wall Street Journal

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October 21, 2015

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From a LA hotel room (travelling today/tomorrow for a talk at the Southern California Institute for Food Technologists), here is your daily digest with fleas from Uganda and the Cotton Eye Joe Cotton Rat Nose.

Pregnancy and birth

Vaginal Microbiota in Pregnancy: Evaluation Based on Vaginal Flora, Birth Outcome, and Race – Akila Subramaniam – American Journal of Perinatology

No mention of any paper by Roberto Romero or Dan Digiulio from our lab: The frequent shift to intermediate flora in preterm delivery cases after abnormal vaginal flora screening – Hiroshi Honda – Scientific Reports

Human oral microbiome

The Microbiologic Profile Associated with Peri-Implantitis in Humans: A Systematic Review

Human skin microbiome

The Human Skin Double-Stranded DNA Virome: Topographical and Temporal Diversity, Genetic Enrichment, and Dynamic Associations with the Host Microbiome – Geoffrey D. Hannigan – mBio

Human respiratory microbiome

Not microbiome paper but close: Evidence for a Cystic Fibrosis Enteropathy – Marlou P. M. Adriaanse – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

The Influence of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on the Gut Microbiome – Mary A.M. Rogers – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Type 2 Diabetes Biomarkers of Human Gut Microbiota Selected via Iterative Sure Independent Screening Method – Lihua Cai – PLOS ONE

Animal microbiome

Flea-Associated Bacterial Communities across an Environmental Transect in a Plague-Endemic Region of Uganda – Ryan Thomas Jones – PLOS ONE

The microbial community structure of the cotton rat nose – Diego Chaves-Moreno – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Relations of microbiome characteristics to edaphic properties of tropical soils from Trinidad – Vidya de Gannes – Frontiers in Microbiology

The Soil Microbiota Harbors a Diversity of Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing ß-Lactamases of Potential Clinical Relevance – Dereje Dadi Gudeta – Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

In wild tobacco, Nicotiana attenuata, variation among bacterial communities of isogenic plants is mainly shaped by the local soil microbiota independently of the plants’ capacity to produce jasmonic acid – Rakesh Santhanam – Communicative & Integrative Biology

Interactions among roots, mycorrhizas and free-living microbial communities differentially impact soil carbon processes – Jessica A. M. Moore – Journal of Ecology

Water microbiome

Shedding light on microbial dark matter: a TM6 bacterium as natural endosymbiont of a free-living amoeba – Vincent Delafont – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Microbial communities related to biodegradation of dispersed Macondo oil at low seawater temperature with Norwegian coastal seawater – Odd G. Brakstad – Microbial Biotechnology

Zonation of Microbial Communities by a Hydrothermal Mound in the Atlantis II Deep (the Red Sea) – Yong Wang – PLOS ONE

Replicating the microbial community and water quality performance of full-scale slow sand filters in laboratory-scale filters – Sarah-Jane Haig – Water Research

Food microbiology

Tracing microbiota changes in yamahai-moto, the traditional Japanese sake starter – Takashi Koyanagi – Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry

Microbial ecology

Bacteriocin production augments niche competition by enterococci in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract – Sushma Kommineni – Nature

Membrane Filter Method to Study the Effects of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium longum on Fecal Microbiota – Hidenori Shimizu – Microbiology and Immunology

Microbes in the news

Jessica Richman Seeks Samples to Crack the Human Microbiome – Deepa Seetharaman – Wall Street Journal

The Microcosm within: An interview with William B. Miller, Jr., on the Extended Hologenome theory of evolution – Tam Hunt – Communicative & Integrative Biology
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October 20, 2015

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Cohabitation of helminths, bacteria, and host in the gut, diurnal sampling bias in plankton biodiversity, contaminant influence on groundwater microbiome, volatile affairs, and new tools for metagenomics.

Events

Postdoc and grad student Summit — preceding the EMBO Symposium on Aquatic Microeukaryotes: Abstract deadline October 22 – Jonathan Eisen – MicroBEnet

Human oral microbiome

Periodontal clinical and microbiological characteristics in healthy versus generalized aggressive periodontitis families – Mabelle de F. Monteiro – Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Masters Thesis: Caries and the Oral Microbiome of a Native American Population – Michael Tuan – Ohio State University

Human gut microbiome

Review: Cohabitation in the Intestine: Interactions among Helminth Parasites, Bacterial Microbiota, and Host Immunity – Lisa A. Reynolds – The Journal of Immunology

Review: Influences of diet and the gut microbiome on epigenetic modulation in cancer and other diseases – Bidisha Paul – Clinical Epigenetics

Review: Intestinal Microbiota Metabolism and Atherosclerosis – Tian-Xing Liu – Chinese Medical Journal

Animal models

Colonic Lesions, Cytokine Profiles, and Gut Microbiota in Plasminogen-Deficient Mice – Bill Vestergaard – Comparative Medicine

Plant, root, and soil microbiomes

Cyanobacterial composition and spatial distribution based on pyrosequencing data in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Northwestern China – Bingchang Zhang – Journal of Basic Microbiology

Disease in apple orchards: Different bacterial communities in heat and gamma irradiation treated replant disease soils revealed by 16S rRNA gene analysis – contribution to improved aboveground apple plant growth? – Bunlong Yim – Frontiers in Microbiology

A fragrant neighborhood: Volatile mediated bacterial interactions in soil – Kristin Schulz-Bohm – Frontiers in Microbiology

Responses of soil microeukaryotic communities to short-term fumigation-incubation revealed by MiSeq amplicon sequencing – Lin Chen – Frontiers in Microbiology

Epidemic Spread of Symbiotic and Non-Symbiotic Bradyrhizobium Genotypes Across California – A. C. Hollowell – Plant Microbe Interactions

Water microbiome

Influences of diurnal sampling bias on fixed-point monitoring of plankton biodiversity determined using a massively parallel sequencing-based technique – Satoshi Nagai – Gene

Microbial metagenomes from three aquifers in the Fennoscandian shield terrestrial deep biosphere reveal metabolic partitioning among populations – Xiaofen Wu – The ISME Journal

Viral impact on prokaryotic and microalgal activities in the microphytobenthic biofilm of an intertidal mudflat (French Atlantic coast) – Hélène Montanié – Frontiers in Microbiology

Comparative metagenomics reveals impact of contaminants on groundwater microbiomes – Christopher L. Hemme – Frontiers in Microbiology

Particle-association lifestyle is a phylogenetically conserved trait in bathypelagic prokaryotes – Guillem Salazar – Molecular Ecology

Effects of Seasonal Thermal Stratification on the Functional Diversity and Composition of the Microbial Community in a Drinking Water Reservoir – Xiao Yang – Water

Extremophile microbiology

Review: Extremely Thermophilic Microorganisms as Metabolic Engineering Platforms for Production of Fuels and Industrial Chemicals – Benjamin M. Zeldes – Frontiers in Microbiology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Snowball: Strain aware gene assembly of Metagenomes – I. Gregor – ArXiv

PEPR: Pipelines for Evaluating Prokaryotic References – Nathan D. Olson – PeerJ preprint

cual­id: globally unique, correctable, and human­friendly sample identifiers for
comparative ­omics studies – John H Chase – PeerJ preprint

Why we need more algal metagenomes – Linda E. Graham – Journal of Phycology

Phages and viruses

Subdiffusive motion of bacteriophage in mucosal surfaces increases the frequency of bacterial encounters – Jeremy J. Barr – PNAS

Microbial Ecology

Interspecies interactions are an integral determinant of microbial community dynamics –
Fatma A. A. Aziz – Frontiers in Microbiology

Differentiating between niche and neutral assembly in metacommunities using null models of β-diversity – Caroline M. Tucker – Oikos

Review: Role of the Environment in the Transmission of Antimicrobial Resistance to Humans: A Review – Patricia M. C. Huijbers – Environmental Science & Technology

More microbiology

Self-Protected Nitrate Reducing Culture for Intrinsic Repair of Concrete Cracks –
Yusuf C. Ersan – Frontiers in Microbiology

Metabolomics

Review: Volatile affairs in microbial interactions – Ruth Schmidt – The ISME Journal

Microbes in the news

Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago : Probiotic bacteria may aid against anxiety and memory problems – Ian Sample – The Guardian

ID Week: How Babies’ Gut Bacteria May Help Find Treatments for C. Diff – Rachael Rettner – Live Science

Video: Speaking of Chemistry: What is the Gut Microbiome? Matt Davenport – American Chemical Society

Study reveals a key role your gut bacteria play in body’s self-defense – David Callahan – Medical Xpress

Gut Microbiome Insights; Obesity and Digestive Health Risks; Delivery Options and Predictors of Failure for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation; among Featured Topics Presented at the American College of Gastroenterology’s 80th Annual Meeting – PR NewsWire

MS conference, Barcelona: Q&A With Helen Tremlett From the University of British Columbia: Gut Microbiome And Its Role In Multiple Sclerosis -HCP Live

Virginia Tech scientists reveal more about how body copes with common gut bacterium – Augusta Free Press

High Starch Diets’ Effects on Stress Response in Horses – Casie Bazay – The Horse

These Bacteria Could Live in Europa’s Ocean – Irene Klotz – Discovery

Local news: Dozens Sick With Shigella Bacteria After Eating At San Jose Restaurant – CBS Local

The Phage is a Lonely Hunter: New research reveals that bacteriophages use slow, staccato movements to hunt bacteria on cell surfaces – Michael Price – SDSU

Creating Healthier Microbiomes, from Conception to Childhood: A Clinical Conversation with Geeta Maker-Clark, MD, and Robert Rountree, MD -Alternative and Complementary Therapies

Microbes and art

Very cool: A Microbiologist Recreated ‘Starry Night’ With Bacteria In A Petri Dish And it’s not too shabby – Priscilla Frank – Huffington Post

Bik’s Picks

Poo turns naked mole rats into better babysitters – Oestrogen in queen mole rat’s faeces drives subordinates to care for her pups – Sara Reardon – Nature News
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