July 18, 2015

Microbes lighting up the clouds, bacterial degradation of human bone, and probiotics after colonoscopy.

Microbiome of death

An Investigation Into the Relationship Between Funerary Treatment and Bacterial Bioerosion in European Archaeological Human Bone – T. J. Booth – Archaeometry

Human oral microbiome

Cytokine expression in peri-implant crevicular fluid in relation to bacterial presence
– Stefan Renvert – Journal of Clinical Periodontology

High-quality draft genome sequences of five anaerobic oral bacteria and description of
Peptoanaerobacter stomatis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Peptostreptococcaceae – Maria V. Sizova – Standards in Genomic Sciences

The metabonomic studies of tongue coating in H.pylori positive chronic gastritis patients – Xuan Liu – Evidence Based Complimentary and Alternative Medicine

Human gut microbiome

Randomized controlled trial of probiotics after colonoscopy – Basil D’Souza – ANZ Journal of Surgery

Animal models of microbiome

Chlorinated Water Modulates the Development of Colorectal Tumors with Chromosomal Instability and Gut Microbiota in Apc-Deficient Mice – Tatsunari Sasada – PLOS ONE

A novel “humanized mouse” model for autoimmune hepatitis and the association of gut microbiota with liver inflammation – Muhammed Yuksel – Hepatology

Modulation of gut microbiota in rats fed high-fat diets by processing whole-grain barley to barley malt – Yadong Zhong – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Effects of microcystin-LR on gut microflora in different gut regions of mice – Jing Chen – The Journal of Toxicological Sciences

Animal microbiome

Review: Advancements in Bovine Rumen Microbial Ecology: A Review – Nidhi R. Parmar – Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci

Bacteria detected in the honeybee parasitic mite Varroa destructor collected from beehive winter debris – Jan Hubert – Journal of Applied Microbiology

A comparative study on microbiota from the intestine of Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio) and their aquatic environmental compartments, using different molecular methods – Elena N. Kashinskaya – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Response of the bacterial community associated with a cosmopolitan marine diatom to crude oil shows a preference for the biodegradation of aromatic hydrocarbons – Sara Mishamandan – Environmental Microbiology

Host-Specific and pH-Dependent Microbiomes of Copepods in an Extensive Rearing System – Alf Skovgaard – PLOS ONE

Microenvironment and Phylogenetic Diversity of Prochloron Inhabiting the Surface of Crustose Didemnid Ascidians – Daniel A. Nielsen – Environmental Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Editorial: Environmental phytoremediation: plants and microorganisms at work – Antonella Furini – Frontiers in Plant Science

Diversity and distribution of endophytic bacterial community in the Noni (Morinda citrifolia L.) plant – Yang Liu – African Journal of Microbiology Research

Aboveground-belowground biodiversity linkages differ in early and late successional temperate forests – Hui Li – Scientific Reports

Effects of Conservation Agriculture and Fertilization on Soil Microbial Diversity and Activity – Johan Habig – Environments

Resilience and receptivity worked in tandem to sustain a geothermal mat community amidst erratic environmental conditions – Wriddhiman Ghosh – Scientific Reports

Determinants of bacterial communities in Canadian agroforestry systems – Samiran Banerjee – Environmental Microbiology

Indigenous arsenic(V)-reducing microbial communities in redox-fluctuating near-surface sediments of the Mekong Delta – S. C. Ying – Geobiology

Impact of soil salinity on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi biodiversity and microflora biomass associated with Tamarix articulataVahll rhizosphere in arid and semi-arid Algerian areas – Karima Bencherif – Science of The Total Environment

Water microbiome

Natural aerosols explain seasonal and spatial patterns of Southern Ocean cloud albedo – Daniel T. McCoy – Science Advances

Diversity of bacterioplankton in the surface seawaters of Drake Passage near the Chinese Antarctic station – Mengxin Xing – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Seasonality in molecular and cytometric diversity of marine bacterioplankton: the reshuffling of bacterial taxa by vertical mixing – Francisca C. García – Environmental Microbiology

Synchronized dynamics of bacterial niche-specific functions during biofilm development in a cold seep brine pool – Weipeng Zhang – Environmental Microbiology

Waste treatment microbiology

Changes in bacterial and archaeal communities in anaerobic digesters treating different organic wastes – Young Mo Kim – Chemosphere

The role of starvation in biomass harvesting and lipid accumulation: Co-culture of microalgae–bacteria in synthetic wastewater – Yanjia Xu – Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy

A high-throughput sequencing study of bacterial communities in an autohydrogenotrophic denitrifying bio-ceramsite reactor– Dan Chen – Process Biochemistry

Food microbiology

Packaging gas selects lactic acid bacterial communities on raw pork – Timo T Nieminen – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Metabolic networks

Enteric Pathogens Exploit the Microbiota-generated Nutritional Environment of the Gut – Alline R. Pacheco – Microbiology Spectrum

Linking metabolite production to taxonomic identity in environmental samples by (MA)LDI-FISH – Martin Kaltenpoth – The ISME Journal

Techniques

Phospholipid fatty acid profiling of microbial communities – a review of interpretations and recent applications – C Willers – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Tiny Ocean Microbes are Brightening Up the Sky – Maddie Stone – Gizmodo

Baby’s Microbiome: Why Birth to Age Three Is So Critical For Your Child’s Health – Toni Harman – Huffington Post

These caffeine-addicted beetles are using bacteria to ruin all of our coffee – Elahe Izadi – Washington Post

Unearthing Cornerstones in Root Microbiomes. Defining core members of a microbial community for normal plant growth – Joint Genome Institute

You Need Way More Nutrients for Good Gut Health – Rachael Schultz – Shape

Targeting gut microbiome boosted metformin tolerance – Jennie Smith – Clinical Endocrinology News

Scientist develops model for robots with bacteria-controlled brains – Phys.org

Bik’s Picks

Watch what happens when a spinning basketball gets thrown off a dam – Chris Matyszczyk – CNET

Restaurant Food May Be Unhealthier Than Fast Food – Mandy Oaklander – Time

U.S. Adults Are Not Eating Enough Vegetables, Fruit – Says New Study – Matthew Rideout – The Times Gazette

Sea turtle released off Florida Keys tracked by satellite – Daily Commercial

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July 13, 2015

Trans-sialidases in human gut microbes, microbiome of the dairy cow’s uterus during metritis, and bacteria getting smaller because of ocean warming.

Jobs

Post-doctoral position is available in the laboratory of Lawrence David at Duke University: to help develop high-throughput microfluidic techniques for investigating bacterial interactions and ecology.

Conferences

Microbiome, Antibiotics and Human Disease, with Michael Fishbach, Martin Blaser, and Julie Segre – Cell Press Webinar July 28, 2015

11 speakers, only 1 woman: Meeting the Microbiome – 12 September 2015 – London, UK – CAM conferences

Microbiome of pregnancy and birth

High rates of Double-Stranded RNA Viruses and Mycoplasma hominis in Trichomonas vaginalis Clinical Isolates in South Brazil – Débora da Luz Becker – Infection, Genetics and Evolution

First Trimester Levels of BV-Associated Bacteria and Risk of Miscarriage Among Women Early in Pregnancy – Deborah B. Nelson – Maternal and Child Health Journal

Human oral microbiome

The impact of smoking and previous periodontal disease on peri-implant microbiota and health: a retrospective study up to 7-year follow-up – Quaranta A. – Annali Di Stomatologia

Human respiratory microbiome

Review: The Etiology and Pathogenesis of Chronic Rhinosinusitis: a Review of Current Hypotheses – Kent Lam – Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Human gut microbiome

Discovery of intramolecular trans-sialidases in human gut microbiota suggests novel mechanisms of mucosal adaptation – Louise E. Tailford – Nature Communications

Viewpoint: Helicobacter pylori: enemy, commensal or, sometimes, friend? –  Michael B Whalen – The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Review: Engineering the Microbiome: a Novel Approach to Immunotherapy for Allergic and Immune Diseases – Nan Shen – Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Review: Antimicrobial Use, Human Gut Microbiota and Clostridium difficile Colonization and Infection – Caroline Vincent – Antibiotics

Animal models

The microbiota regulates type 2 immunity through RORγt+ T cells – Caspar Ohnmacht – Science

Animal microbiome

Uterine microbiota progression from calving until establishment of metritis in dairy cows – Soo Jin Jeon – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Preening as a Vehicle for Key Bacteria in Hoopoes – Ángela Martínez-García – Microbial Ecology

Variation in the Microbiota of Ixodes ticks with geography, species and sex – Will Van Treuren – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The Host as Driver of the Microbiota in the Gut and External Environment of Drosophila melanogaster – Adam C-N Wong – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

An Efficient Strategy Developed for Next-Generation Sequencing of Endosymbiont Genomes Performed Using Crude DNA Isolated from Host Tissues: A Case Study of Blattabacterium cuenoti Inhabiting the Fat Bodies of Cockroaches – Yukihiro Kinjo – Microbes and Environments

Arsenophonus and Sodalis symbionts in louse flies: an analogy to the Wigglesworthia and Sodalis system in tsetse flies – Eva Nováková – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Review: Microbial metagenomics in aquaculture: a potential tool for a deeper insight into the activity – Marcel Martínez-Porchas – Reviews in Aquaculture

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals Drastic Changes in Fungal Communities in the Phyllosphere of Norway Spruce (Picea abies ) Following Invasion of the Spruce Bud Scale (Physokermes piceae ) – Audrius Menkis – Microbial Ecology

Diversity of endophytic and rhizoplane bacterial communities associated with exotic Spartina alterniflora and native mangrove using Illumina amplicon sequencing – Youwei Hong – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Communities of Cultivable Root Mycobionts of the Seagrass Posidonia oceanica in the Northwest Mediterranean Sea Are Dominated by a Hitherto Undescribed Pleosporalean Dark Septate Endophyte – Martin Vohník – Microbial Ecology

Precipitation modifies the effects of warming and nitrogen addition on soil microbial communities in northern Chinese grasslands – Naili Zhang – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Long-term responses of plant growth, soil microbial communities and soil enzyme activities to elevated CO2 and neighbouring plants – Baoli Duan – Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Denitrifying and diazotrophic community responses to artificial warming in permafrost and tallgrass prairie soils – Christopher R. Penton – Frontiers in Microbiology

Methanotrophic community abundance and composition in plateau soils with different plant species and plantation ways – Yu Dai – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Water microbiome

More, smaller bacteria in response to ocean’s warming? – Xosé Anxelu G. Morán – Proceedings B

Microbial community changes along the active seepage site of one cold seep in the Red Sea – Huiluo Cao – Frontiers in Microbiology

Spatiotemporal dynamics and determinants of planktonic bacterial and microeukaryotic communities in a Chinese subtropical river – Yongming Wang – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Sediment Ammonia-Oxidizing Microorganisms in Two Plateau Freshwater Lakes at Different Trophic States – Yuyin Yang – Microbial Ecology

Detecting nuisance species using NGST: Methodology shortcomings and possible application in ballast water monitoring – Anastasija Zaiko – Marine Environmental Research

A novel bacterial community index to assess stream ecological health – Kelvin E. M. Lau – Freshwater Biology

Bioreactor microbiome

Functional and taxonomic dynamics of an electricity-consuming methane-producing microbial community – Orianna Bretschger – Bioresource Technology

Microbial community distribution and genetic analysis in a sludge active treatment for a complex industrial wastewater: a study using microbiological and molecular analysis and principal component analysis – Giulio Moretti – Annals of Microbiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

A reproducible approach to high-throughput biological data acquisition and integration – Daniela Börnigen – PeerJ

MetaBoot: a machine learning framework of taxonomical biomarker discovery for different microbial communities based on metagenomic data – Xiaojun Wang – PeerJ

Good laboratory practice for clinical next-generation sequencing informatics pipelines
Amy S Gargis – Nature Biotechnology

Transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics

Mining microbial metatranscriptomes for expression of antibiotic resistance genes under natural conditions – Dennis Versluis – Scientific Reports

Fractionation of biogas plant sludge material improves metaproteomic characterization to investigate metabolic activity of microbial communities – Fabian Kohrs – Proteomics

Combining Mass Spectrometric Metabolic Profiling with Genomic Analysis: A Powerful Approach for Discovering Natural Products from Cyanobacteria – Karin Kleigrewe – Journal of Natural Products

Microbial Ecology

Phylogenetic diversity analyses reveal disparity between fungal and bacterial communities during microbial primary succession – Shawn P. Brown – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Editorial: Stopping superbugs, maintaining the microbiota – Victor Nizet – Science Translational Medicine

Biofilm Formation As a Response to Ecological Competition – Nuno M. Oliveria – PLOS Biology

Pawnobiome: Manipulation of the Hologenome Within One Host Generation and Beyond – Jameson D. Voss – Frontiers in Microbiology

Functional foods

Review: Towards microbial fermentation metabolites as markers for health benefits of prebiotics – Kristin A. Verbeke – Nutrition Research Reviews

Techniques

Blocking primers reduce co-amplification of plant DNA when studying bacterial endophyte communities – Brett E. Arenz – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Microbes in the news

The role of the microbiota in preventing allergies – Medical Xpress

World’s largest steel company to use rabbit gut microbe to cut emissions – Emma Hartley – The Guardian

Paw Prints: Streptococcus bacteria a part of natural flora of cats and dogs – Niki Laviolette – Tribune Star

“I’m treating my son’s autism… with someone else’s faeces” – Liam Quinn – Daily Mail
This celebrity reckons autism can be treated with a poo transplant: is he right? – Clair Weaver – AWW

Navy Researchers Identify Bacteria in Human Serum – Christian Kotanen – Science DOD
surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy

Why you can’t just eat one french fry (or donut or slice of pizza) – Katherine Ellen Foley – SBS.com

Genetically Modified Bacteria Could Change Future Drug Treatments – Brandi – Clapway

Scientists at Brown University using federal grant to study mysterious fungus killing bats – The Sun Chronicle

Stop Kissing And Cuddling Chicken To Stop Salmonella Outbreak: CDC – Jill Arce – Tech Times

Bik’s Picks

New Horizons Science Update: Pluto Is The Biggest One Of All – Nadia Drake – National Geographic

Your last chance to see ‘Manhattanhenge’ sunset is tonight – Amanda Schallert – NJ.com

What’s in a name? For newborns, maybe fewer medical errors – Tara Haelle – MS News
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July 10, 2015

Hacking B-theta’s genome, oral bacteria recycle nitrate, crustacean hemolymph microbiota, and extracting protist DNA from soil. Happy weekend!

Events

3rd Microbiome R&D and Business Collaboration Forum, San Diego, 10 and 11 September 2015

Jobs

Microbiome and NRI Faculty Scientist – UNC Nutrition Research Institute – North Carolina Research Campus

Human gut microbiome

Significant Differences in Fecal Microbiota are Associated With Various Stages of Glucose Tolerance in African-American Male Veterans – Irina Ciubotaru – Translational Research

Fecal microbiota transplantation restores dysbiosis in patients with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus enterocolitis – Yao Wei – BMC Infectious Diseases

Perspective: Foodomics for personalized nutrition: how far are we? – Karani S Vimaleswaran – Current Opinion in Food Science

Animal models

Programming a Human Commensal Bacterium, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, to Sense and Respond to Stimuli in the Murine Gut Microbiota – Mark Mimee – Cell Systems

The Gut Microbiota Regulates Intestinal CD4 T Cells Expressing RORγt and Controls Metabolic Disease – Lucile Garidou – Cell Metabolism

Got Worms? Perinatal Exposure to Helminths Prevents Persistent Immune Sensitization and Cognitive Dysfunction Induced by Early-Life Infection – Lauren L. Williamson –
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Dietary saponins from four popular herbal tea exert prebiotic-like effects on gut microbiota in C57BL/6 mice – Lei Chen – Journal of Functional Foods

Physiological recycling of endogenous nitrate by oral bacteria regulates gastric mucus thickness – Joel Petersson – Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Animal microbiome

Exceptionally low daily energy expenditure in the bamboo-eating giant panda – Yonggang Nie – Science

Review: Crustacean hemolymph microbiota: Endemic, tightly controlled, and utilization expectable – Xian-Wei Wang – Molecular Immunology

Food microbiology

Understanding the bacterial communities of hard cheese with blowing defect – Daniela Bassi – Food Microbiology

Biodiversity of refrigerated raw milk microbiota and their enzymatic spoilage potential – Mario von Neubeck – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Metagenomics

FCMM: A comparative metagenomic approach for functional characterization of multiple metagenome samples – Jongin Lee – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Metabolic networks

Thermodynamics and H2 Transfer in a Methanogenic, Syntrophic Community – Joshua J. Hamilton – PLOS Computational Biology

Techniques

Comparison of three DNA extraction methods for recovery of soil protist DNA – Susana S. Santos – Journal of Microbiological Methods

MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for early identification of bacteria grown in blood culture bottles – Jean-Benoît Zabbe – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Assessment of four protocols for rapid bacterial identification from positive blood culture pellets by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (Vitek® MS) – Jean Thomin – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Microbial rRNA:rDNA gene ratios may be unexpectedly low due to extracellular DNA preservation in soils – Glade Dlott – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Microbes in the news

How to Program One of the Gut’s Most Common Microbes – Ed Yong – National Geographic

Researchers develop basic computing elements for bacteria: Sensors, memory switches, and circuits can be encoded in a common gut bacterium – Helen Knight – MIT News

Pow! Bam! Seq! Uncovering the genomic secrets of superpowers – Illumina

TV One, International Gut Microbiome expert Dr Kathy McCoy returns to Malaghan Institute – Live News

Bacteria use DNA replication to time key decision – Phys.org

The Baby-Associated Built Environment (BABE) Microbiome Project – Zac Lewis – MicroBe.net

Microbial Communications and Mosquitoes: Changing the Message – Catherine Arnold – Nature World News

Science, publishing, and career

Controversial piece: Getting noticed is half the battle – Eleftherios P. Diamandis – Science

Book review: The Safety Dance. Book review of: The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe – Lainie Friedman Ross – Science

Bik’s Picks

Here’s What it Takes to Study Dolphin Vaginas – Diane Kelly – Throb Gizmodo

Giant Pandas’ Lazy Lifestyle Justified by Science – Laura Geggel – Discovery

With Sonar-Reflecting Leaves, Plant Lures Bats to Poo in it – Ed Yong – National Geographic

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June 30, 2015

Metabolomics and gut colonization of gnotobiotic mice, metabolomics of mice treated with antibiotics, inter-individual and temporal variation in human oral microbiotas, and several papers on microbes in agricultural-use soil.

Events

Free Cell Press webinar on Microbiome, Antibiotics and Human Disease: July 28th – Cell Press

Microbiome of pregnancy and birth

Book chapter: The Effect of Diet and Probiotics on the Human Gut Microbiome – Lorenzo Morelli – Metabolic Syndrome and Complications of Pregnancy

Human oral microbiome

Inter-Individual Differences in the Oral Bacteriome Are Greater than Intra-Day Fluctuations in Individuals – Yukuto Sato – PLOS ONE

Oral microflora of supragingival and subgingival biofilms in Algerian healthy adults – Sara Ziouani – African Journal of Microbiology Research

Human respiratory microbiome

Airway bacteria and respiratory symptoms are common in ambulatory HIV-positive UK adults – Camus Nimmo – European Respiratory Journal

Oral application of lactic acid bacteria following treatment with antibiotics inhibits allergic airway inflammation – Qiuxiang Zhang – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Human vaginal microbiome

Soluble Immune Mediators and Vaginal Bacteria Impact Innate Genital Mucosal Antimicrobial Activity in Young Women – Rebecca Pellett Madan – American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Human gut microbiome

Fetal programming of overweight through the microbiome: boys are disproportionately affected – A. L. Kozyrskyj – Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Impact of fluoroquinolones on human microbiota. Focus on the emergence of antibiotic resistance – Victoire de Lastours – Future Microbiology

Animal models

Metabolome progression during early gut microbial colonization of gnotobiotic mice – Angela Marcobal – Scientific Reports

Metabolic and metagenomic outcomes from early-life pulsed antibiotic treatment – Yael R. Nobel – Nature Communications

Altered Interactions between the Gut Microbiome and Colonic Mucosa Precede Polyposis in APCMin/+ Mice – Joshua S. Son – PLOS ONE

Animal microbiome

Review: The use of probiotics in aquaculture – Ngo Van Hai – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Thesis: Roles of the symbiotic microbial communities associated with sponge hosts in the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles – Russell T Hill – University of Maryland

Master Thesis: Arsenic Exposure Alters the Microbiome of Larval Zebrafish: A Metagenomic Analysis – Dylan A. Dahan – Bard Digital Commons

Discovery of a novel circular DNA virus in the Forbes sea star, Asterias forbesi – Elizabeth Fahsbender – Archives of Virology

Sexual transmission of beneficial microbes – Chad C. Smith – Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Rhizosphere bacteria and fungi associated with plant growth in soils of three replanted apple orchards – Ingrid H. Franke-Whittle – Plant and Soil

Microbial population dynamics in response to Pectobacterium atrosepticum infection in potato tubers – Viia Kõiv – Scientific Reports

Maternal effects on tree phenotypes: considering the microbiome – Maria Vivas – Trends in Plant Science

Bacterial population and biodegradation potential in chronically crude oil-contaminated marine sediments are strongly linked to temperature – Rafael Bargiela – Scientific Reports

Soil Microbial Communities are Shaped by Plant-Driven Changes in Resource Availability During Secondary Succession – Lauren C. Cline – Ecology

Warmer temperature accelerates methane emissions from the Zoige wetland on the Tibetan Plateau without changing methanogenic community composition – Mengmeng Cui – Scientific Reports

Water microbiome

Constitutive presence of antibiotic resistance genes within the bacterial community of a large subalpine lake – Andrea Di Cesare – Molecular Ecology

Draft Genome Sequences of Leviviridae RNA Phages EC and MB Recovered from San Francisco Wastewater – Alexander L. Greninger – Genome Announcements

Seasonal Dynamics of Marine Microbial Community in the South Sea of Korea – Sung-Suk Suh – PLOS ONE

Built environment / water treatment microbiology

Comparative metagenomics reveals microbial community differentiation in a biological heap leaching system – Qi Hu – Research in Microbiology

Impact of disinfection on drinking water biofilm bacterial community – Zilong Mi – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Intensive care unit environmental surfaces are contaminated by multidrug-resistant bacteria in biofilms: combined results of conventional culture, pyrosequencing, scanning electron microscopy, and confocal laser microscopy – H. Hu – The Journal of Hospital Infection

A review of melanized (black) fungal contamination in pharmaceutical products – incidence, drug recall and control measures – Rajendran Vijayakumar – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

BioMaS: a modular pipeline for Bioinformatic analysis of Metagenomic AmpliconS – Bruno Fosso – BMC Bioinformatics

Challenges and opportunities in understanding microbial communities with metagenome assembly (accompanied by IPython Notebook tutorial) – Adina Howe – Frontiers in Microbiology

Metabolomics

Human Urinary Composition Controls Antibacterial Activity of Siderocalin – Robin R. Shields-Cutler – The Journal of Biological Chemistry

Human Urine Decreases Function and Expression of Type 1 Pili in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli – Sarah E. Greene – mBio

New techniques

To Celebrate Marriage Equality, Illumina to Release “BiSeq” Genome Sequencer – The Allium

More microbiology

More than the sum of its parts – Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink – Science

Ecological communities by design – James K. Fredrickson – Science

The bacterial pangenome as a new tool for analyzing pathogenic bacteria – Laetitia Rouli – New Microbes and New Infections

Microbes in the news

Antibiotics and the Gut Microbiome: Antibiotics given to infant mice may have long-term effects on the animals’ metabolism and gut microbiota – Anna Azvolinsky – The Scientist

Study: Breast milk helps babies develop immunity-boosting gut bacteria – Deena Shanker – Quartz

Your Diet May Be Causing Your Urinary Tract Infections – Mandy Oaklander – Time

uBiome and OpenBiome Partner for Microbiome Study in FMT Patients – Study will provide new insights on mechanics of fecal microbiota transplantation in C. difficile patients – uBiome

Passive Aggressive: Drosophila microbiota influence behavior – Julie Wolf – mBioSphere

Soil water, microbes influence carbon in world’s coldest desert, study finds – Phys.org

Invisible You: Art and Microbiology at the Eden Project – Microbe Post

Science, publishing, and career

The Myth of the Academic Lottery – Kelly J. Baker – Chronicle Vitae

Bik’s Picks

I saw this last night and it was so pretty: Venus and Jupiter to Put on ‘Best Backyard Sky Show of 2015’ – Alyssa Newcomb – ABC News

Say hello to the centipede from hell – Rachel Feltman – Washington Post

California governor signs strict law requiring vaccinations for most kids – Liz Szabo – USA Today

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June 29, 2015

Gut microbiome of children with Schistosoma infections, what happens to the hooves after a cow dies, and microbiomes at extremely dry or hot places.

General microbiome

Only one health, and so many omics – Nives Pećina-Šlaus – Cancer Cell International

Interchange of entire communities: microbial community coalescence – Matthias C. Rillig – Trends in Ecology and Evolution

A Vision for Investigating the Microbiology of Health and Disease – W. Ian Lipkin – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Collateral sensitivity of antibiotic-resistant microbes – Csaba Pál – Trends in Microbiology

Personalized medicine going precise: from genomics to microbiomics – Sanjay K. Shukla – Trends in Molecular Medicine

Review: Secrets from the microbiome: molecular biology meets microbiology meets histopathology….meets clinical biochemistry – Caroline Young – Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Human respiratory microbiome

Editorial: Infectious asthma triggers: time to revise the hygiene hypothesis? – Wilmore C. Webley – Trends in Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Differences in the Faecal Microbiome in Schistosoma haematobium Infected Children vs. Uninfected Children – Gemma Louise Kay – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Glycan complexity dictates microbial resource allocation in the large intestine – Artur Rogowski – Nature Communications

Review: Intestinal Microbiota, Lipids, and the Pathogenesis of Intestinal Failure–Associated Liver Disease – Way Seah Lee – The Journal of Pediatrics

Review: Influence of gut bacteria on development and progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – Ali Abdul-Hai – World Journal of Hepatology

Animal microbiome

Cockroaches: Aerobic Bacterial Community of American Cockroach Periplaneta americana,a Step toward Finding Suitable Paratransgenesis Candidates – Sanaz Akbari – Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases

Hooves from dead cows: Compost biodegradation of recalcitrant hoof keratin by bacteria and fungi – T. Reuter – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Fish: Modulation of the intestinal microbiota and morphology of tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus , following the application of a multi-species probiotic – B . T. Standen – Applied

Jellyfish: Changing company: Composition of bacterial communities associated with
Aurelia aurita changes with compartment, life stage and population – Nancy Weiland-Bräuer – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Ants: Bacterial community composition and diversity in an ancestral ant fungus symbiosis – Katrin Kellner – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Review: A new view of the fish gut microbiome: Advances from next-generation sequencing – Mahdi Ghanbari

Plant microbiome

Host–microbe interactions as a driver of acclimation to salinity gradients in brown algal cultures – Simon M Dittami – The ISME Journal

The olive knot disease as a model to study the role of interspecies bacterial communities in plant disease – Roberto Buonaurio – Frontiers in Plant Science

Review: Biotic Interactions in the Rhizosphere: A Diverse Cooperative Enterprise for Plant Productivity – Clelia De-la-Peña – Plant Physiology

Editorial on plants as alternative hosts for human and animal pathogens – Nicola J. Holden – Frontiers in Microbiology

Soil microbiome

Responses of bacterial communities to simulated climate changes in alpine meadow soil of
Qinghai-Tibet plateau – Junpeng Rui – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Evaluation of bacterial communities by bacteriome analysis targeting 16S rRNA genes and quantitative analysis of ammonia monooxygenase gene in different types of compost – Rika Kitamura – Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Soil conditions and land use intensification effects on soil microbial communities across a range of European field sites – Bruce C. Thomson – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Impact of urine and the application of the nitrification inhibitor DCD on microbial communities in dairy-grazed pasture soils – Sergio E. Morales – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Water microbiome

Metagenomic assessment of viral diversity in Lake Matoaka, a temperate, eutrophic freshwater lake in southeastern Virginia, USA – Jasmin C. Green – Aquatic Microbial Ecology

A comparison of bacterial community structure in seawater pond with shrimp, crab, and shellfish cultures and in non-cultured pond in Ganyu, Eastern China – LianTai Li – Annals of Microbiology

Extremophile microbiome

Phylogenetic Profiling and Diversity of Bacterial Communities in the Death Valley, an Extreme Habitat in the Atacama Desert – Francine Piubeli – Indian Journal of Microbiology

Review: Uncultivated thermophiles: current status and spotlight on ‘Aigarchaeota’ – Brian P Hedlund – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Food microbiology

Evaluation and identification of poly-microbial biofilms on natural green Gordal table olives – Antonio Benítez-Cabello – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Proteomic and high-throughput analysis of protein expression and microbial diversity of microbes from 30- and 300-year pit muds of Chinese Luzhou-flavor liquor – Qi Zheng – Food Research International

Bacterial communities during the process of high-temperature Daqu production of roasted sesame-like flavour liquor – Yao Su – Journal of the Institute of Brewing

Bioreactor microbiology

Sulfate Reducing Bacteria and Mycobacteria Dominate the Biofilm Communities in a Chloraminated Drinking Water Distribution System – Christa Kimloi Gomez-Smith – Environmental Science & Technology

The Microbiota and Abundance of the Class 1 Integron-Integrase Gene in Tropical Sewage Treatment Plant Influent and Activated Sludge – Magna C. Paiva – PLOS ONE

Metabolic networks

Metabolic pathway activity estimation from RNA-Seq data – Yvette Temate-Tiagueu – ISBRA abstracts

Microbes in the news

Volunteers Needed for Human Microbiota Study: prebiotic effects of certain rice bran components @UArkansas

In Defense of Fiber: How Changing Your Diet Changes Your Gut Bacteria – Mandy Oaklander – Time

Undergraduate is first author on study of Lake Matoaka’s metagenome – Joseph McClain – WM.edu

DNA Genotek Inc. announces recipients of gut microbiome grant program – Steamfeed

Indigo-Clean Is New Light Designed For Hospitals That Kills Bacteria – James Maynard – TechTimes

The ‘frightening’ rise of flesh-eating bacteria: Mystery, pain and amputations – Peter Holley – Washington Post

Fatty and sugary foods linked to lower cognitive functions: Mouse data – Nathan Gray – Food Navigator

Investors Think This Company’s Gut Bacteria Are Worth $1.9 Billion – John Tozzi – Bloomberg

What’s new in gastroenterology? Insights from BMC Medicine at #DDW2015 – Alessandro Recchioni- BioMedCentral

Science, publishing, and career

From trainee to tenure-track: ten tips – Tuuli Lappalainen – Genome Biology

What would be a suitable value for the absolute minimum proportion of female speakers at genomics/bioinformatics conferences? – Keith Bradnam? – ACGT blog

Bik’s Picks

Make it count! ‘Leap second’: Why June 30 will have one extra second – Deborah Netburn – LA Times

SpaceX Rocket Explosion Destroys Students’ Science Experiment – Alyssa Newcomb – ABC News

Rats Dream About the Places They Want to Explore – Kiona Smith-Strickland – Discover Magazine
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June 26, 2015

Antibiotic resistance genes in stool from 3 twin pairs, oasis microbiome helps date palms cope with drought, and mother’s littlest helpers.

General microbiome

Triclosan and prescription antibiotic exposures and enterolactone production in adults – Margaret A. Adgent – Environmental Research

Pregnancy and birth microbiome

Gut resistome development in healthy twin pairs in the first year of life – Aimee M. Moore – Microbiome

Center Variation in Intestinal Microbiota Prior to Late-Onset Sepsis in Preterm Infants – Diana H. Taft – PLOS ONE

Editorial: Mother’s littlest helpers – Katie Hinde – Science

Human skin microbiome

Identification of the skin virome in a boy with widespread human papillomavirus-2-positive warts that completely regressed after administration of tetravalent human papillomavirus vaccine – M.M. Landini – British Journal of Dermatology

Use of 16S rRNA sequencing and quantitative PCR to correlate venous leg ulcer bacterial bioburden dynamics with wound expansion, antibiotic therapy, and healing – Daniel D. Sprockett – Wound Repair and Regeneration

Human gut microbiome

Editorial: Go with your gut: microbiota meet microglia – Kira Irving Mosher – Nature Neuroscience

Review: Metabolism of Chinese Materia Medica in Gut Microbiota and Its Biological Effects – Yan Wang – Chinese Herbal Medicines

Animal models of microbiome research

The role of beneficial bacteria wall elasticity in regulating innate immune response – Viktoria V. Мokrozub – The EPMA Journal

Exposure to soil, house dust and decaying plants increases gut microbial diversity and decreases serum immunoglobulin E levels in BALB/c mice – Dongrui Zhou – Environmental Microbiology

Animal microbiome

The gill microbiota of invasive and indigenous Spondylus oysters from the Mediterranean Sea and northern Red Sea – Yahala Rina Roterman – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Exercising influence: distinct biotic interactions shape root microbiomes – Sarah Stuart Sloan, Sarah L Lebeis – Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Oasis Desert Farming Selects Environment-Specific Date Palm Root Endophytic Communities and Cultivable Bacteria that Promote Resistance to Drought – Hanene Cherif – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Comprehensive sampling of an isolated dune system demonstrates clear patterns in soil fungal communities across a successional gradient – Alice Roy-Bolduc – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Metagenomic analyses reveal no differences in genes involved in cellulose degradation under different tillage treatments – Maria de Vries – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Water microbiome

Viral activities and life-cycles in deep subseafloor sediment – Tim Engelhardt – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Waterborne Viruses: A Barrier to Safe Drinking Water – Aimee M. Gall – PLOS Pathogens

Bacterial biogeography in the coastal waters of northern Zhejiang, East China Sea is highly controlled by spatially structured environmental gradients – Kai Wang – Environmental Microbiology

Distribution patterns of bacterioplankton in the oligotrophic south-eastern Mediterranean Sea – Sabine Keuter – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Mathematical Model of Dynamic Behavior of Microbial Desalination Cells for Simultaneous Wastewater Treatment and Water Desalination – Qingyun Ping – Environmental Science & Technology

Extremophile microbiome

Review: The changing form of Antarctic biodiversity – Steven L. Chown – Nature

Painting microbiome

Amid the possible causes of a very famous foxing: molecular and microscopic insight into Leonardo da Vinci’s self-portrait – Guadalupe Piñar – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Food microbiology

Empirical Model based on Weibull Distribution describing the Destruction Kinetics of Natural Microbiota in Pineapple (Ananas comosus L.) Puree during High-Pressure Processing – Snehasis Chakraborty – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Metabolic networks

Metabolic network modeling of microbial communities – Matthew B. Biggs – Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Microbes in the news

Metropolitan Metagenomics: Mapping the Urban Genome – Catherine Potenski – BioMedCentral Blog

The Problem With David Perlmutter, the Grain Brain Doctor – Alan Levinovitz – NY Magazine

Oregon State University researcher Kathy Magnusson probes the rodent gut – Diane Dietz – Register Guard

Breast Milk Studies May Lead to Better Probiotics, Baby Formula – Tia Ghose – Live Science

Volunteers sweat for science at NC Museum of Natural Sciences – Rose Rimler – News Observer

Fermented Foods Including Yogurt And Sauerkraut May Help Calm Social Anxiety – John McQuaid – Forbes

You May Be on a Paleo Diet, but Is Your Microbiome? How a meat–centric diet can starve your gut bacteria – Erica Sonnenburg – Psychology Today

Team Effort – XKCD comics

Raise a glass to the Black Death: The ravages of the plague led directly to the creation of the pub, historian claims – Hannah Furness – The Telegraph

Should you eat your baby’s placenta? – Laura Sanders – Science News

Science, publishing, and career

Self-correction in science at work: protecting the integrity of science – Bruce Alberts – Science

Introducing “Research Matters” – Grant McFadden – PLOS Pathogens

Practical policies can combat gender inequality – Douglas Hilton – Nature

Bik’s Picks

Crossbreeding Could Help Coral Survive Warming Waters – Sindya N. Bhanoo – New York Times

Home-brewed heroin is near after scientists nail down poppy morphine gene – Rachel Feltman – Washington Post

New rapid diagnostic test detects Ebola virus in minutes – IBN Live

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June 24, 2015

Chinese mushroom might help with weight loss (in mice), asthma and the microbiome (also in mice), metabolic networks in the gut, and benefits of resistant starch. Plus: Taylor Swift won’t be doing anymore reviewing for Nature.

Human oral microbiome

Alterations of Bacteroides sp., Neisseria sp., Actinomyces sp., and Streptococcus sp. populations in the oropharyngeal microbiome are associated with liver cirrhosis and pneumonia – Haifeng Lu – BMC Infectious Diseases

Intra-Genomic Heterogeneity in 16S rRNA Genes in Strictly Anaerobic Clinical Isolates from Periodontal Abscesses – Jiazhen Chen – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

Akkermansia muciniphila and improved metabolic health during a dietary intervention in obesity: relationship with gut microbiome richness and ecology – Maria Carlota Dao – Gut

Animal models

Ganoderma lucidum reduces obesity in mice by modulating the composition of the gut microbiota – Chih-Jung Chang – Nature Communications

Evidence that asthma is a developmental origin disease influenced by maternal diet and bacterial metabolites – Alison N. Thorburn – Nature Communications

Characterization of the bacterial gut microbiota of piglets suffering from new neonatal porcine diarrhoea – Marie Louise Hermann-Bank – BMC Veterinary Research

Animal microbiome

Allometry of animal–microbe interactions and global census of animal-associated microbes – Thomas L. Kieft, Karen A. Simmons – Proceedings B

Introduction of Non-Native Pollinators Can Lead to Trans-Continental Movement of Bee-Associated Fungi – Shannon M. Hedtke – PLOS ONE

Effect of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate on growth, enzyme activity and intestinal microbial community of Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis (Milne-Edwards) juveniles – Liying Sui – Aquaculture Research

Small stonefly predators affect microbenthic and meiobenthic communities in stream leaf packs – Nabil Majdi – Freshwater Biology

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Hologenome theory supported by co-occurrence networks of species-specific bacterial communities in siphonous algae (Caulerpa) – T. Aires – FEMS Microbial Ecology

Land Use History Shifts In Situ Fungal and Bacterial Successions following Wheat Straw Input into the Soil – Vincent Tardy – PLOS ONE

Water microbiome

Inefficient microbial production of refractory dissolved organic matter in the ocean – Helena Osterholz – Nature Communications

The Link between Microbial Diversity and Nitrogen Cycling in Marine Sediments Is Modulated by Macrofaunal Bioturbation – Maryam Yazdani Foshtomi – PLOS ONE

Functional foods

Review: Preparation, health benefits and applications of resistant starch—a review – Bilal Ahmad Ashwar – Starch – Stärke

Metabolic networks and metabolomics

Inference of Network Dynamics and Metabolic Interactions in the Gut Microbiome – Steven N. Steinway – PLOS Computational Biology

A genome-wide systems analysis reveals strong link between colorectal cancer and trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a gut microbial metabolite of dietary meat and fat – Rong Xu – BMC Genomics

Application of a hierarchical enzyme classification method reveals the role of gut microbiome in human metabolism – Akram Mohammed – BMC Genomics

Comparative integrated omics: identification of key functionalities in microbial community-wide metabolic networks – Hugo Roume – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Use of the Analysis of the Volatile Faecal Metabolome in Screening for Colorectal Cancer – Claire A Batty – PLOS ONE

Microbes in the news

IndieGoGo project: A Probiotic Life: Microbiome Documentary

New colon cancer culprit found in gut microbiome – EurekAlert

Mushroom used in Chinese medicine ‘slows weight gain’ – James Gallagher – BBC News

Announcing the uBiome Studies Portal “We’re aiming to launch one new study every week.” – uBiome

What is the role of the gut microbiome in developing Parkinson’s disease? – EurekAlert

Microbiology and art

Artists Reveal the Bacterial Beauty of the Human Microbiome – Shaunacy Ferro – Mental Floss

Science, publishing, and career

A day in the life of a malaria researcher – Lin Lee – BioMedCentral Blogs

Towards an unbiased view of science: Authors at Nature Communications now have the option to choose double-blind peer review – Nature Communications

Satire: Taylor Swift Announces She Will No Longer Review For Nature – The Allium

Bik’s Picks

A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan – Rainer R. Schoch & Hans-Dieter Sues – Nature

Scientists Finally Decide Which Bit of This Weird Animal is the Head – Ed Yong – National Geographic

America’s Next Top Chef is a Supercomputer From IBM – Liz Stinson – Wired
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June 16, 2015

Human oral microbiome

The cultivable microbiota of primary and secondary infected root canals, their susceptibility to antibiotics and association with the signs and symptoms of infection – M. E. Łysakowska – International Endodontic Journal

DGGE: Profiling of Oral and Nasal Microbiome in Children With Cleft Palate – Min Zhang – The Cleft Palate–Craniofacial Journal

Human gut microbiome

Stool consistency is strongly associated with gut microbiota richness and composition, enterotypes and bacterial growth rates – Doris Vandeputte – Gut

Bacterial Composition of the Human Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Microbiome Is Dynamic and Associated with Genomic Instability in a Barrett’s Esophagus Cohort – Alevtina Gall – PLOS ONE

Alterations in Intestinal Microbiota Correlate with Susceptibility to Type 1 Diabetes – Aimon K. Alkanani – Diabetes

Specific gut microbiota features and metabolic markers in postmenopausal women with obesity – LK Brahe – Nutrition & Diabetes

Inter- and intra-individual variations in seasonal and daily stabilities of the human gut microbiota in Japanese – Takayoshi Hisada – Archives of Microbiology

Editorial: Gut bacteria feed a healthy brain – Denise Waldron – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Review: The gut microbiota of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: current methods and their interpretation – Niels van Best – Hepatology International

Review: Can we change our microbiome to prevent colorectal cancer development? – Roberta M. Manzat-Saplacan – Acta Oncologica

Human genital microbiome

Penile Microbiota and Female Partner Bacterial Vaginosis in Rakai, Uganda – Cindy M. Liu – mBio

Models of microbiome

In pigs: Neonatal environment exerts a sustained influence on the development of the intestinal microbiota and metabolic phenotype – Claire A Merrifield – ISME Journal

In goats: Postnatal bacterial succession and functional establishment of hindgut in supplemental feeding and grazing goats – J. Z. Jiao – Journal of Animal Science

In termites: Multiple analyses of microbial communities applied to the gut of the wood-feeding termite Reticulitermes flavipes fed on artificial diets – Cédric Tarayre – Symbiosis

Animal microbiome

Sponges: Pyrosequencing revealed shifts of prokaryotic communities between healthy and disease-like tissues of the Red Sea sponge Crella cyathophora – Zhao-Ming Gao – PeerJ

Sponges: Microbial diversity and putative diazotrophy in high and low microbial abundance Mediterranean sponges – Marta Ribes – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Plant root and soil microbiome

Tree genotype mediates covariance among communities from microbes to lichens and arthropods – Louis J. Lamit – Journal of Ecology

Assessment of microbial communities in mung bean (Vigna radiata) rhizosphere upon exposure to phytotoxic levels of Copper – Murali Sharaff – Journal of Basic Microbiology

Analyzing the antagonistic potential of the lichen microbiome against pathogens by bridging metagenomic with culture studies – Tomislav Cernava – Frontiers in Microbiology

Response of rhizosphere microbial community structure and diversity to heavy metal co-pollution in arable soil – Linjing Deng – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Soil Microbial Functions After Forest Fires Affected by the Compost Quality – René Guénon – Land Degradation & Development

Vertical Distribution of Soil Denitrifying Communities in a Wet Sclerophyll Forest under Long-Term Repeated Burning – Xian Liu – Microbial Ecology

Metagenome Sequencing Reveals Rhodococcus Dominance in Farpuk Cave, Mizoram, India, an Eastern Himalayan Biodiversity Hot Spot Region – Surajit De Mandal – Genome Announcements

The stability of textile azo dyes in soil and their impact on microbial phospholipid fatty acid profiles – Muhammad Imran – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Endophyte community composition is associated with dieback occurrence in an invasive tree – Tracey V. Steinrucken – Plant and Soil

Multi-Analytical Approach Reveals Potential Microbial Indicators in Soil for Sugarcane Model Systems – Acacio Aparecido Navarrete – PLOS ONE

Resilience of soil microbial and nematode communities after biofumigant treatment with defatted seed meals – S. Mocali – Industrial Crops and Products

Effect of cassava mill effluent on biological activity of soil microbial community – Etinosa O. Igbinosa – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Editorial: An interkingdom partnership – Naomi Attar – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Review: Synergisms between microbial pathogens in plant disease complexes: a growing trend – Jay Ram Lamichhane – Frontiers in Plant Science

Review: Plant Virus Metagenomics: Advances in Virus Discovery – Marilyn J. Roossinck – Phytopathology

Water microbiome

Microbial ecology in a future climate: effects of temperature and moisture on microbial communities of two boreal fens – Krista Peltoniemi – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

A Multi Size-Level Assessment of Benthic Marine Communities in a Coastal Environment: Are They Different Sides of the Same Coin? – Claudia Vannini – PLOS ONE

Manganese-Cycling Microbial Communities Inside Deep-Sea Manganese Nodules – Marco Blöthe – Environmental Science & Technology

Editorial: Deep sequencing of the global oceans – Cláudio Nunes-Alves – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Extremophile microbiome

Microbial diversity of hypersaline environments: a metagenomic approach – Antonio Ventosa – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Application of a Bayesian nonparametric model to derive toxicity estimates based on the response of Antarctic microbial communities to fuel-contaminated soil – Julyan Arbel – Ecology and Evolution

Bioreactor microbiome

Evaluation of surfactants on waste activated sludge fermentation by pyrosequencing analysis – Aijuan Zhou – Bioresource Technology

Impact of the contemporary environment on denitrifying bacterial communities – Sarah K. Hathaway – Ecological Engineering

Food microbiology

Review: Wine microbiome, a dynamic world of microbial interactions – Youzhong Liu

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria – Christopher T. Brown – Nature

Complete Genome Sequence of the Bacterium Aalborg_AAW-1, Representing a Novel Family within the Candidate Phylum SR1 – Morten Simonsen Dueholm – Genome Announcements

BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs – Felipe A. Simão – Bioinformatics

Educating Future Nursing Scientists: Recommendations for Integrating Omics Content in PhD Programs – Yvette P. Conley – Nursing Outlook

Minireview: Combining metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and viromics to explore novel microbial interactions: Towards a systems-level understanding of human microbiomes – Bikel Shirley – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Metabolomics and Proteomics

In dogs: Consumption of Cooked Navy Bean Powders Modulate the Canine Fecal and Urine Metabolome – M. Forster – Current Metabolomics

Needles in the Blue Sea: Sub-Species Specificity in Targeted Protein Biomarker Analyses Within the Vast Oceanic Microbial Metaproteome – Mak A. Saito – Proteomics

New aminopeptidase from “microbial dark matter” archaeon – Karolina Michalska – The FASEB Journal

Review: Recent Advances in Metabolomics – E. Smith – Current Metabolomics

Microbial Ecology

Transplantability of a circadian clock to a noncircadian organism – Anna H. Chen – Science Advances

Review: Black Queen evolution: the role of leakiness in structuring microbial communities – J. Jeffrey Morris – Trends in Genetics

Techniques

Preferential Amplification of Pathogenic Sequences – Fang Ge – Scientific Reports

Phasing of single DNA molecules by massively parallel barcoding – Erik Borgström – Nature Communications

Minor revision to V4 region SSU rRNA 806R gene primer greatly increases detection of
SAR11 bacterioplankton – Amy Apprill – Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Microbes in the news

Newfound groups of bacteria are mixing up the tree of life – Robert Sanders – UC Berkeley

Report: Santa Cruz’s river bacteria comes from birds, not people – Samantha Clark – San Jose Mercury News

Shark Tank Product Improves Oral Health, Measuring Levels Of Bacteria That Cause Bad Breath – Samantha Olson – Medical Daily

Manatee County, not the animal: Bacteria Could Clean Manatee Water Supply – Associated Press

Bacteria Could Help Clean Groundwater Contaminated by Uranium Ore Processing, Rutgers Study Finds – Rutgers Today

BacteriaHysteria

How much bacteria is on money in your pocket? – Click2Houston

WHO: 200 disease-causing bacteria may be found in the kitchen – ABC/CBN news

Science, publishing, and career

Science forum: RIPOSTE: a framework for improving the design and analysis of laboratory-based research – Nicholas GD Masca – eLIFE

Dancers in the Dark: Scientific Careers According to a Gender-Blind Model of Promotion
Ana M. González Ramos – Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Incidence of Data Duplications in a Randomly Selected Pool of Life Science Publications – Morten P. Oksvold – Science and Engineering Ethics

Five things I learned when my research went viral – Heidi Appel – The Conversation

Bik’s Picks

Foie Gras: The goose genome sequence leads to insights into the evolution of waterfowl and susceptibility to fatty liver – Lizhi Lu – Genome Biology

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species – JW Ferry Slik – PNAS

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June 12, 2015

Effects of drinking donkey milk, archaea and fungi on humans,  microbiomes of olives, spoilt wine, cold deserts, indoor air, strawberry soil, and more.

General microbiome

Review: Combining metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and viromics to explore novel microbial interactions: Towards a systems-level understanding of human microbiomes – Bikel Shirley – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Review: Mycobiota: Micro-Eukaryotes Inhabiting Our Body as Commensals or
Opportunistic Pathogens – Lisa Rizzetto – Fungal Genomics & Biology

Review: Archaea in and on the Human Body: Health Implications and Future Directions – Mor N. Lurie-Weinberger, Uri Gophna – PLOS Pathogens

Human skin microbiome

Antimicrobial Efficacy of Preservatives used in Skin Care Products on Skin Micro Biota – Chintha Lalitha – International Journal of Science and Research

Review: Beneficial and deleterious bacterial–host interactions in chronic wound pathophysiology – C. Watters – Chronic Wound Care Management and Research

Human gut microbiome

Influence of Proton-Pump Inhibitors on the Luminal Microbiota in the Gastrointestinal Tract – Ayumi Tsuda – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Microbiome models

A host-microbiome interaction mediates the opposing effects of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids on metabolic endotoxemia – Kanakaraju Kaliannan – Scientific Reports

In rats: Human, donkey and cow milk differently affects energy efficiency and inflammatory state by modulating mitochondrial function and gut microbiota – Giovanna Trinchese – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Fish: A multiple endpoint analysis of the effects of chronic exposure to sediment contaminated with Deepwater Horizon oil on juvenile Southern flounder and their associated microbiomes – Nancy J. Brown-Peterson – Aquatic Toxicology

Hops β-acids and zinc bacitracin affect the performance and intestinal microbiota of broilers challenged with Eimeria acervulina and Eimeria tenella – C. Bortoluzzi – Animal Feed Science and Technology

Staphylococcus aureus nasal isolates: The effects of spatial structure, frequency dependence and resistance evolution on the dynamics of toxin-mediated microbial invasions – Ben Libberton – Evolutionary Applications

Animal microbiome

Biodiversity of the Symbiotic Bacteria Associated with Toxic Marine Dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense – Xiaoling Zhang – Journal of Biosciences and Medicines

Plant microbiome

Wild trees in the Amazon basin harbor a great diversity of beneficial endosymbiotic fungi: is this evidence of protective mutualism? – Romina Gazis – Fungal Ecology

A Legume Genetic Framework Controls Infection of Nodules by Symbiotic and Endophytic Bacteria – Rafal Zgadzaj – PLOS Genetics

Diversity and spatial distribution of endophytes community composition in noni (Morinda citrifolia L.) – Liu Yang – Journal of Hill Agriculture

Comparisons of microbial abundance and community among different plant species in constructed wetlands in summer – Jian Zhang – Ecological Engineering

Soil (and plant root) microbiome

Impact of cover crop in pre-plant of apple orchards: relationship between crop health, root inhabiting fungi and rhizospheric bacteria – Luisa M. Manici – Journal of Plant Science

Amplicon-based metagenomics identified candidate organisms in soils that caused yield decline in strawberry – Xiangming Xu – Horticulture Research

Positively Frequency-Dependent Interference Competition Maintains Diversity and Pervades a Natural Population of Cooperative Microbes – Olaya Rendueles – Current Biology

A predictive model for microbial counts on beaches where intertidal sand is the primary source – Zhixuan Feng – Marine Pollution Bulletin

Reintroduction of locally extinct vertebrates impacts arid soil fungal communities – Laurence J. Clarke – Molecular Ecology

A simple experimental set-up to disentangle the effects of altered temperature and moisture regimes on soil organisms – Eveline J. Krab – Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Water microbiome

Identifying homogeneity of multivariate dispersions among biofilm-dwelling microbial communities in colonization surveys for marine bioassessment – Guangjian Xu – Ecological Indicators

Bacterial diversity along a 2600 km river continuum – Domenico Savio – Environmental Microbiology

Minireview: Microbial players involved in the decline of filamentous and colonial cyanobacterial blooms with a focus on fungal parasitism – Mélanie Gerphagnon – Environmental Microbiology

Extremophile microbiome

Bacterial diversity of Drass, cold desert in Western Himalaya, and its comparison with Antarctic and Arctic – Puja Gupta – Archives of Microbiology

Built environment microbiome

Indoor air bacterial communities in Hong Kong households assemble independently of occupant skin microbiomes – David Wilkins – Environmental Microbiology

Food microbiology

Potential spoilage yeasts in winery environments: Characterization and proteomic analysis of Trigonopsis cantarellii – Cauré Portugal – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Microbiota and Metabolome of Un-started and Started Greek-type Fermentation of Bella di Cerignola Table Olives – Maria De Angelis – Food Microbiology

Functional foods

Probiotic BIFICO cocktail ameliorates Helicobacter pylori induced gastritis – Hong-Jing Yu – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Review: Prebiotics, gut microbiota and metabolic risks: Unveiling the relationship – Adeela Yasmin – Journal of Functional Foods

Review: Current evidence on the use of probiotics in liver diseases – Norberto C. Chávez-Tapia – Journal of Functional Foods

Metagenomics 

Review: Methylotrophs in natural habitats: current insights through metagenomics – Ludmila Chistoserdova – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Metabolomics

Editorial: Microbial metabolite triggers antimicrobial defense – Sky W. Brubaker, Denise M. Monack – Science

Microbes in the news

Soil microbial community variation correlates most strongly with plant species identity – AOB blog

Pew Names 22 Top Scientists as Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences: topics range from microbiome, to mosquito’s preferences – Pew Trusts
andMicrobiology professor becomes UC Merced’s first Pew scholar: Clarissa Nobile receives award for biofilm research – UC Merced

2015 ISCB Overton Prize Awarded to Curtis Huttenhower – Christiana N. Fogg, Diane E. Kovats – PLOS Computational Biology

“Genes in Space” Student Finalists Announced: Tarun Srinivasan, of Houston, TX, plans to examine effects on the gut microbiome of spending time on the ISS – Ricki Lewis – PLOS Blogs

Method reveals what bacteria sense in their surroundings – Leila Gray – UW Health Sciences NewsBeat

“ticks had a microbiome rich in pathogens, including Bartonella”: Ticks’ Migration Linked to Changes in Disease Prevalence – Jacquelyn Gray – HCP Live

Like “kopi luwak” coffee, just bigger: Elephant poop coffee, Thailand’s new delicacy – Doug Powell – BarfBlog

New Tool To Monitor Harmful Bacteria: Scientists offer more accurate health risk prediction model to better inform beach closure decisions – Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science

#EULAR2015: First gut microbiota alterations described in systemic sclerosis patients – Karen Blum – PM360online

Some good information here about bacteria in our gutSix myths about digestion that just won’t die – ITClips

How does Swiss cheese gets its holes?: by carbon-dioxide-burping microbe Propionibacterium freudenreichii – Nicola Twilly – New Yorker

Product candidate to target specific elimination of Streptococcus mutans may alter oral microbiome to provide long-lasting benefits – Dentistry iQ

Fungus among us, but what kind? Typing error spawns retraction for mushroom paper – Retraction Watch

Science, publishing, and career

Business decisions: stories about the entrepreneurial learning curve – Jeffrey Mervis – Science

Bik’s Picks

Polar bear caught eating dolphins and freezing the leftovers – Penny Sarchet – New Scientist

There’s A Link Between Cat Ownership And Schizophrenia – Leigh Weingus – Huffington Post

“Advice to interns: work hard and make your mark.” New planet discovered by 15-year-old intern – Monica Sarkar – CNN

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June 8, 2015

General microbiome

Minireview: The brain’s Geppetto—microbes as puppeteers of neural function and behaviour? – Roman M. Stilling – Journal of NeuroVirology

Thesis: Novel computational approaches to investigate microbial diversity – Qingpeng Zhang – Michigan State University

Microbiome of pregnancy and birth

Distinctive Intestinal Lactobacillus Communities in Six-Month-Old Infants From Rural Malawi and South-Western Finland – Aakko, Juhani – Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition

Antenatal Microbiome: Potential Contributor to Fetal Programming and Establishment of the Microbiome in Offspring – Michelle L. Wright, Angela R. Starkweather – Nursing Research

Review: Should Abnormal Vaginal Flora in 2 nd Trimester of Pregnancy be Treated to Prevent Preterm Labor – Gunjan Kumari, Anjali Tempe – Journal of Medical Sciences

Human oral microbiome

The oral mucosal and salivary microbial community of Behcet’s syndrome and recurrent aphthous stomatitis – Noha Seoudi – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Review: Unraveling the environmental and genetic interactions in atherosclerosis: Central role of the gut microbiota – Elin Org – Atherosclerosis

Review: The Effects of Diet and the Microbiome on Reproduction and Longevity: A Comparative Review Across 5 Continents – Stephanie N. Chilton – Nutrition and Food Sciences

Animal models of microbiome research

Lack of Vitamin D Receptor Causes Dysbiosis and Changes the Functions of the Murine Intestinal Microbiome – Dapeng Jin – Clinical Therapeutics

Animal microbiome

Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants have simple gut microbiota with nitrogen-fixing potential – Panagiotis Sapountzis – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Anemone: Response of bacterial colonization in Nematostella vectensis to development, environment and biogeography – Benedikt Mortzfeld – Environmental Microbiology

Plant root and soil microbiome

Responses of bacterial communities in seagrass sediments to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-induced stress – Juan Ling – Ecotoxicology

Analyses of microbial biomass and community diversity in kiwifruit orchard soils of different planting ages – Qingxia Fu – Acta Ecologica Sinica

The effects of the presence of Bt-transgenic oilseed rape in wild mustard populations on the rhizosphere nematode and microbial communities – Yongbo Liu – Science of The Total Environment

Long-term conservation tillage influences the soil microbial community and its contribution to soil CO2 emissions in a Mollisol in Northeast China – Shuxia Jia – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Microbial communities inhabiting oil-contaminated soils from two major oilfields in Northern China: Implications for active petroleum-degrading capacity – Weimin Sun – Journal of Microbiology

Differential degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures by indigenous microbial assemblages in soil – Przemyslaw Sawulski – Letters in Applied Microbiology

A novel salt-tolerant chitobiosidase discovered by genetic screening of a metagenomic library derived from chitin-amended agricultural soil – Mariana Silvia Cretoiu – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Book chapter: Irrigation with Treated Wastewater: Potential Impacts on Microbial Function and Diversity in Agricultural Soils – Ana Rita Lopes – The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry 2015

Water microbiome

Response of bacteria and meiofauna to iron oxide colloids in sediments of freshwater microcosms – Sebastian Höss – Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Response of rare, common and abundant bacterioplankton to anthropogenic perturbations in a Mediterranean coastal site – Federico Baltar – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Book Chapter: Marine Litter as Habitat and Dispersal Vector – Tim Kiessling – Marine Anthropogenic Litter

Thesis: Metagenomic profiling of microbial metal interaction in Red Sea deep-anoxic brine pools – Hanna, Mina Magdy Abdelsayed – American University in Cairo

Built environment microbiome

Microbial community composition of a household sand filter used for arsenic, iron, and manganese removal from groundwater in Vietnam – Katja Sonja Nitzsche – Chemosphere

The role of bacterial communities and carbon dioxide on the corrosion of steel – K.M. Usher – Corrosion Science

Extremophile microbiome

Review: Metagenomics of extreme environments – DA Cowan – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Food microbiology

Review: The impact of climate change on existing and emerging microbial threats across the food chain: An island of Ireland perspective – Linda D. Stewart – Trends in Food Science & Technology

Review: Microbial decontamination of food by electron beam irradiation – Hsiang-Mei Lung – Trends in Food Science & Technology

Bioreactor microbiome

Bioreactor microbial ecosystems for thiocyanate and cyanide degradation unraveled with genome-resolved metagenomics – Rose S. Kantor – Environmental Microbiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

CCLasso: Correlation Inference for Compositional Data through Lasso – Huaying Fang – Bioinformatics

GAML: genome assembly by maximum likelihood: combination of diverse sequencing datasets into a single assembly – Vladimír Boža – Algorithms for Molecular Biology

Effects of library size variance, sparsity, and compositionality on the analysis of microbiome data – Sophie J Weiss – PeerJ

Review: Identification of Viruses and Viroids by Next-Generation Sequencing and Homology-Dependent and Homology-Independent Algorithms – Qingfa Wu – Annual Reviews Phytopathology

Metabolomics

Mapping microbial response metabolomes for induced natural product discovery – Dagmara K. Derewacz – ACS Chemical Biology
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acschembio.5b00001

Techniques

Analysis of microsamples of human faeces: a non-invasive approach to study the bioavailability of fat-soluble bioactive compounds – E. Hernandez-Alvarez – European Journal of Nutrition

Microbes in the news

Say hello to your little friends: Making sense of gut bacteria – Wency Leung – Globe and Mail

Surfers help science in fight against antibiotic resistant bacteria with their poop – Luigi Lugmayer – i4u

Effects of zinc oxide on intestinal microbiota – All About Feed

VideoWaxworm Bacteria Could Recycle Plastic Trash – NBC News

Is That Water Hot Enough to Kill Germs? – C. Claiborne Ray – New York Times

Gut bacteria play a vital role to your health – Sharon Ní Chonchuir – Irish Examiner

New microscope technique could speed identification of deadly bacteria – EurekAlert

Science, publishing, and career

Better advice for ‘Bothered’ – Science Careers Staff – Science Magazine

Retractions and High Profile Journals – Peter Edmonds

Bik’s Picks

Black Hole Hunters – Dennis Overbye – New York Times

Everything You Need to Know About Bill Nye’s Crazy Experimental Spaceship – Jack Linshi – Time

Under the Sea: Google Views for World Oceans Day – Patrick J. Kiger – Discovery

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