September 3, 2017

A rich Digest to start your September. A special issue of Immunological Reviews on the host-microbiome interaction, water can be dangerous – both in Texas and your washing machines, and how about some music inspired by the microbiome?

Jobs

Microbiology jobs in Kansas – New Scientist Jobs

Post Doctoral Researcher – The Ohio State University

Laboratory Assistant III – Microbiology – Contingent – Allegiance Health – Jackson, MI

Microbiology Lab Technician (Up to $2500, Global MNC, No experience required)

General microbiology

Towards a universal molecular microbiological test – Richard J. N. Allcock et al. – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Human microbiome inspired antibiotics with improved β-lactam synergy against MDR Staphylococcus aureus -Chu J et al. – ACS Infectious Diseases

Pregnancy and early life

Feasibility of Metatranscriptome Analysis from Infant Gut Microbiota: Adaptation to Solid Foods Results in Increased Activity of Firmicutes at Six Months – Floor Hugenholtz et al. – International Journal of Microbiology

Human skin microbiome

Application of sebomics for the analysis of residual skin surface components to detect potential biomarkers of type-1 diabetes mellitus – Satyajit S. Shetage et al. – Scientific Reports

Human near-sterile sites

Bone Remodeling and the Microbiome – Pacifici R – Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Human lung microbiome

Comparing microbiota profiles in induced and spontaneous sputum samples in COPD patients – Solveig Tangedal et al. – Respiratory Research

Human gut microbiome

Analysis of endoscopic brush samples identified mucosa-associated dysbiosis in inflammatory bowel disease – Kyohei Nishino et al. – Journal of Gastroenterology
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00535-017-1384-4

*Review: Host-microbiota interactions and adaptive immunity – Kathy D. McCoy et al. – Immunological Reviews (Special Issue: Microbiome-Immune System Interplay)

Animal experiments

Mouse: Commensal bacteria make GPCR ligands that mimic human signalling molecules – Louis J. Cohen et al. – Nature

Review: Exposure of livestock to GM feeds: Detectability and measurement – Anna Nadal et al. – Food and Chemical Toxicology

Comparison of the Luminal and Mucosa-Associated Microbiota in the Colon of Pigs with and without Swine Dysentery -Eric R. Burrough et al. – Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Moderate Exercise Has Limited but Distinguishable Effects on the Mouse Microbiome – Emily V. Lamoureux et al. – mSystems

Animal microbiome

Metagenomic analysis reveals a green sulfur bacterium as a potential coral symbiont – Lin Cai et al. – Scientific Reports

Genomic diversification of giant enteric symbionts reflects host dietary lifestyles – David Kamanda Ngugi et al. – PNAS

Culture Media and Individual Hosts Affect the Recovery of Culturable Bacterial Diversity from Amphibian Skin – Daniel Medina et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Impact of egg disinfection of hatching eggs on the eggshell microbiome and bacterial load – R. Olsen et al. – Poultry Science

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Antioxidant and Antibacterial Activity of Organic Extracts of Roots of Glycyrrhiza Glabra Linn – Zafar Iqbal et al. – American Journal of Applied and Industrial Chemistry

Effect of red clover on the microbial transformation of phenanthrene and octadecane in the soil – A. V. Nazarov et al. – Eurasian Soil Science

Biogeography of plant-associated fungal symbionts in mountain ecosystems: A meta-analysis – Stephanie N. Kivlin et al. – Diversity and Distribution

Water and extremophile microbiome

Biodiversity analysis of the unique geothermal microbial ecosystem of the Blue Lagoon (Iceland) using next-generation sequencing (NGS) – Katarzyna A. Palinska et al. – Hydrobiologia

Impacts of tropospheric ozone exposure on peatland microbial consumers – Richard J. Payne et al. – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Progress and perspectives in aquatic microbial ecology: highlights of the SAME 14, Uppsala, Sweden, 2015 – Eva S. Lindström & Paul A. del Giorgio – Aquatic Microbial Ecology

*Prevalence of β-lactamase genes in domestic washing machines and dishwashers and the impact of laundering processes on antibiotic resistant bacteria – Laura Rehberg et al. – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Built environment microbiome

A high-flow-rate impinger for the study of concentration, viability, metabolic activity, and ice nucleation activity of airborne bacteria – Tina Šantl-Temkiv et al. – Environmental Science & Technology

Phages and viruses

Structure, proteome and genome of Sinorhizobium meliloti phage ΦM5: A virus with LUZ24-like morphology and a highly mosaic genome – Matthew C. Johnson et al. – Journal of Structural Biology

Microbes in the news

Welcome Mat: Franklin art fair returns on Labor Day – Maureen Feighan – The Detroit News

Methane emissions tackled with gas-guzzling bacteria – Monash University – Science Daily

Altered Gut Bacteria Could Indicate Parkinson’s – Sylvia Booth Hubbard – News Max

*Health officials are warning Texans to stay out of Harvey floodwaters for a disturbing reason – Erin Brodwin – Business Insider

*Study shows nurses’ scrubs become contaminated with bacteria in hospitals – Medical Express

Cheaters take advantage – Irene Vacca – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Bacteria – Dot Wordsworth – The Spectator

New Oral Microbiome Study Could Provide Better Estimate of Time since Death – University of Tennessee

*Scientists Made Music From the Human Microbiome, and It’s Seriously Cool – Gears of Biz

How A Mother’s Letter Inspired A Scientist To Revolutionize Consumer Microbiome Testing – Afif Ghannoum – Forbes

Non-microbiology pick

Advocating for Diversity and Inclusion in Faculty Hiring – Darryl Yong and Sumun Pendakur – Notices of the AMS

August 31, 2017

Posted on August 31, 2017 by TinaS

Today we have a lot of interesting job offers, a lot of news, many papers from Nature’s Scientific Reports and several reviews from Immunological Reviews and to mention each time more and more papers dealing with wastewater treatments. Enjoy your (still) summer microbiome reading.

Events and jobs

Laboratory Manager (Microbiology), Sydney, Australia

Algae Technician, MBD Energy Limited, Townsville

PhD position: Synthetic Microbiology/Biotechnology, Germany

PhD position (m/f) in the field of microbiota-host interaction in laying hens, Germany

PhD position in the field of microbial ecology of the fowl gastrointestinal tract, Germany

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, King’s College London , UK

Synthetic Biologist / Geneticist: Ginkgo Bioworks, Boston, MA

General microbiome

Numerous uncharacterized and highly divergent microbes which colonize humans are revealed by circulating cell-free DNA – Mark Kowarsky – PNAS

Maintenance of microbial cooperation mediated by public goods in single and multiple traits scenarios – Özhan Özkaya – Journal of Bacteriology

Pregnancy and early life

The oral microbiome and adverse pregnancy outcomes – Charles M Cobb – International Journal of Women’s Health

Human respiratory microbiome

The nasal microbiota of dairy farmers is more complex than oral microbiota, reflects occupational exposure, and provides competition for staphylococci – Sanjay K. Shukla – PLOS One

Sphenoid sinus microbiota in pituitary apoplexy: a preliminary study – Gavin J. Humphreys – Pituitary

Oral microbiology

Review: Studying the human oral microbiome: challenges and the evolution of solutions – Angela ML Benn – Australian Dental Journal

Human vaginal microbiome

The human vaginal microbial community – Mario Vaneechoutte – Research in Microbiology

Replication and refinement of a vaginal microbial signature of preterm birth in two racially distinct cohorts of US women – Benjamin J. Callahan – PNAS

Comparison of vaginal microbiota sampling techniques: cytobrush versus swab – Anita Mitra – Scientific Reports

Human nearly-sterile sites

Dominance of ST131 Escherichia coli carrying blaCTX-M in patients with bloodstream infections caused by cephalosporin-resistant strains in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore: whole genome analysis of isolates from a randomised trial – Patrick Harris – bioRxiv

Temporal Stability and Composition of the Ocular Surface Microbiome – Jerome Ozkan – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Review:Interactions between bile salts, gut microbiota, and hepatic innate immunity – Kristin Schubert – Immunological Reviews

Review:Deciphering interactions between the gut microbiota and the immune system via microbial cultivation and minimal microbiomes – Thomas Clavel – Immunological Reviews

Review: Gut microbiota: Role in pathogen colonization, immune responses, and inflammatory disease – Joseph M. Pickard – Immunological Reviews

Gut microbiota and chronic kidney disease: implications for novel mechanistic insights and therapeutic strategies – Wei Pan – International Urology and Nephrology

Ecophylogenetics Reveals the Evolutionary Associations between Mammals and their Gut Microbiota – Christopher Andrew Gaulke -bioRxiv

Unveiling the gut microbiota composition and functionality associated with constipation through metagenomic analyses – Leonardo Mancabelli – Scientific Reports

Influence of gut microbiota on neuropsychiatric disorders – María Carmen Cenit – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Fecal microbiota transplantation for Clostridium difficile infection in patients with ileal pouches – Nan Lan – Gastroenterology Report

The Intestinal Microbiome in Infectious Diseases: The Clinical Relevance of a Rapidly Emerging Field – Vanessa C Harris – Open Forum Infectious Diseases

A novel approach for the prediction of species-specific biotransformation of xenobiotic/drug molecules by the human gut microbiota – Ashok K. Sharma – Scientific Reports

Animal experiments

Metagenomic Analysis of Cecal Microbiome Identified Microbiota and Functional Capacities Associated with Feed Efficiency in Landrace Finishing Pigs – Zhen Tan – Frontiers in Microbiology

Characterization of the ecological role of genes mediating acid resistance in Lactobacillus reuteri during colonization of the gastrointestinal tract – Janina A. Krumbeck – Environmental Microbiology

Animal microbiome

High Spatial and Temporal Variations of Microbial Community along the Southern Catfish Gastrointestinal Tract: Insights into Dynamic Food Digestion – Zhimin Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Unraveling the gut microbiome of the long-lived naked mole-rat – Tewodros Debebe – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effects of cationic surfactant on the bioaccumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in rice and the soil microbial community structure – Ni Ni – RSC Advances

The impact of adsorption on the exposure assessment of Bacillus thuringiensis in the water-sediment system: a mathematical model approach – Stefano Cervelli – Biology and Fertility of Soils

Phylogenetic diversity and antagonistic traits of root and rhizosphere pseudomonads of a bean from Iran for controlling Rhizoctonia solani – Vahid Keshavarz-Tohid – Research in Microbiology

Petroleum Contamination and Plant Identity Influence Soil and Root Microbial Communities While AMF Spores Retrieved from the Same Plants Possess Markedly Different Communities – Bachir Iffis – Frontiers in Microbiology

Taxonomic and functional shifts in the beech rhizosphere microbiome across a natural soil toposequence – Y. Colin – Scientific Reports

Microbial communities with distinct denitrification potential in spruce and beech soils differing in nitrate leaching – Jiří Bárta – Scientific Reports

The rhizospheric microbial community structure and diversity of deciduous and evergreen forests in Taihu Lake area, China – Wei Z – PLOS One

Taxonomic and functional shifts in the beech rhizosphere microbiome across a natural soil toposequence – Y. Colin – Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

Seasonal Succession and Spatial Patterns of Synechococcus Microdiversity in a Salt Marsh Estuary Revealed through 16S rRNA Gene Oligotyping – Katherine R. M. Mackey – Frontiers in Microbiology

Independent Shifts of Abundant and Rare Bacterial Populations across East Antarctica Glacial Foreland – Wenkai Yan – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial community structure and diversity within hypersaline Keke Salt Lake environments – Rui Han – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Cyanobacterial Allelochemicals But Not Cyanobacterial Cells Markedly Reduce Microbial Community Diversity – Filipa Dias – Frontiers in Microbiology

A microfluidics-based in situ chemotaxis assay to study the behaviour of aquatic microbial communities – Bennett S. Lambert – Nature Microbiology

Anaerobic methanotrophic communities thrive in deep submarine permafrost – Matthias Winkel – bioRxiv

Microbial communities in peatlands along a chronosequence on the Sanjiang Plain, China – Xue Zhou – Scientific Reports

Microbial communities in marine sediments modify success of an invasive macrophyte – Paul E. Gribben – Scientific Reports

Built environment

Novosphingobium clariflavum sp. nov., isolated from a household product plant – Xin Zhang – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Bifidobacterium longum W11: an antibiotic-resistant probiotic – Francesco Di Pierro – Nutrafoods

Lactobacillus plantarum LP‑Onlly alters the gut flora and attenuates colitis by inducing microbiome alteration in interleukin‑10 knockout mice – Hongqi Chen – Molecular Medicine Reports

Bacillus As Potential Probiotics: Status, Concerns, and Future Perspectives – Fouad M. F. Elshaghabee – Frontiers in Microbiology

Probiotics administration following sleeve gastrectomy surgery: A randomized double-blind trial – S Sherf-Dagan – International Journal of Obesity

Phages and viruses

Infection with purified Piscine orthoreovirus demonstrates a causal relationship with heart and skeletal muscle inflammation in Atlantic salmon – Øystein Wessel – PLOS One

HPeV-3 predominated among Parechovirus A positive infants in the summer of 2013-2014 in Queensland, Australia – Donna M. McNeale – bioRxiv

Review: A bacteriophages journey through the human body – Jeremy J. Barr – Immunological Reviews

Mouse hepatitis virus nsp14 exoribonuclease activity is required for resistance to innate immunity – James Brett Case – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

microPop: Modelling microbial populations and communities in R – Helen Kettle – Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Biotechnology

Biodegradation of mono-, di- and trifluoroacetate by microbial cultures with different origins – Diogo A.M. Alexandrino – New Biotechnology

Metagenomic mining pectinolytic microbes and enzymes from an apple pomace-adapted compost microbial community – Man Zhou – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Wastewater microbiology

Unravelling diversity and metabolic potential of microbial consortia at each stage of leather sewage treatment – Hebin Liang – RSC Advances

Influence of microbial community diversity and function on pollutant removal in ecological wastewater treatment – Yaohui Bai – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Techniques

A Comparison of Methods to Analyze Aquatic Heterotrophic Flagellates of Different Taxonomic Groups – Alexandra Jeuck – Protist

Fast and Simple Tool for the Quantification of Biofilm-Embedded Cells Sub-Populations From Fluorescent Microscopic Images – Mikhail Bogachev – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Gut bacteria that “talk” to human cells may lead to new treatments

Gut Microbiome Differences in REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, Parkinson’s, and Healthy Controls

Scientists Made Music From the Human Microbiome, and It’s Seriously Cool

Over 50% of Bacteria and Viruses inside Human Body are Unknown to Science

August 27, 2017

Posted on August 27, 2017 by xinhuang7

Quite a few reviews and news pieces to supplement your Sunday. Separation of mom and infant shortly after birth may run afoul of our evolutionary history, the gut-microbiome-brain axis is hot today, and can we use bacteria to generate electricity for us?

General microbiology

Review: Plant Hormones: Key Players in Gut Microbiota and Human Diseases? – Emilie Chanclud and Benoît Lacombe – Trends in Plant Science

Review: Microbe-mitochondrion crosstalk and health: An emerging paradigm – Prashant Bajpai et al. – Mitochondrion

Food microbiology

Diversity of bacterial communities in French chicken cuts stored under modified atmosphere packaging – Amélie Rouger et al. – Food Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

*Review: Mother-newborn separation at birth in hospitals: A possible risk for neurodevelopmental disorders? – Noémi Császár-Nagy and István Bókkon – Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Cancer and microbiome

Review: Probiotic species in the modulation of the anticancer immune response – Luciana Marinelli and Gian Carlo Tenore – Seminars in Cancer Biology

Human gut microbiome

Special Issue on Crohn’s Disease – Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Review: Insights into defective serological memory after acute lymphoblastic leukaemia treatment: The role of the plasma cell survival niche, memory B-cells and gut microbiota in vaccine responses – Shanie Saghafian-Hedengren et al. – Blood Reviews

Review: Circadian Clocks and Metabolism: Implications for Microbiome and Aging – Georgios K. Paschos and Garret A. FitzGerald – Trends in Genetics

Human gut-microbiome-brain axis

*Microbial regulation of microRNA expression in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex – Alan E. Hoban et al. – Microbiome

Press: Feeling anxious? Your gut bacteria might be to blame – Honor Whiteman – Medical News Today

Review: The microbiota–gut–brain axis in obesity – Cristina Torres-Fuentes and Harriët Schellekens et al. – The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Commentary: The Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain, Behaviour and Immunity: Commentary on the 2017 Named Series – Michael T. Bailey and John F. Cryan – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Animal experiments

Probiotics Modulete Gut Microbiota and Improve Insulin Sensitivity in DIO Mice: Probiotics Modulete Microbiota and Insulin Action – Renata A. Bagarolli et al. – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

*Mice: Metabolic, Epigenetic, and Transgenerational Effects of Gut Bacterial Choline Consumption – Kymberleigh A. Romano et al. – Cell Host & Microbe

*Mice: An Oxidative Central Metabolism Enables Salmonella to Utilize Microbiota-Derived Succinate – Luisella Spiga and Maria G. Winter et al. – Cell Host & Microbe

Piglets: Gut antimicrobial effects and nutritional value of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens L.) prepupae for weaned piglets – Thomas Spranghers et al. – Animal Feed Science and Technology

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Preprint: Plant genes influence microbial hubs that shape beneficial leaf communities – Benjamin Brachi et al. – bioRxiv

Tree roots select specific bacterial communities in the subsurface critical zone – O. Nicolitch et al. – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Water and extremophile microbiome

Product quality and microbial dynamics during vermicomposting and maturation of compost from pig manure – Iria Villar et al. – Waste Management

Phages and viruses

Immobilization of bacteriophage in wound-dressing nanostructure – Frederico Nogueira et al. – Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine

Microbes in the news

Hunter-gatherer gut microbes change with seasons, researchers say – Andrew Joseph – STAT

Does gut bacteria cause autism? Pathogens in the stomach alter the brain’s development and may increase the risk of condition – Alexandra Thompson – Daily Mail

President Trump’s proposed budget would kill Florida’s beach bacteria testing program – Amy Bennett Williams – News-Press

*Could Cyborg Bacteria Help Us Turn Sunlight into Fuel? – Steve Williams – Care2

Researchers suggest microbiological version of “Anna Karenina principle” – Xinhua Net

Trillions of Bacteria in Your Body are Alien to Science, Study Finds – WSP

Could you go a month without bathing? – Yvonne van Dongen – Stuff

Without fecal transplant, life can be a pain in the butt – Travis Paterson – Victoria News

August 26, 2017

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Kiran

Jobs and Events

PhD Scholarship in Metagenomics, Infectious Diseases, and Antibiotic Resistance – Technical University of Denmark – Closing date: September 22, 2017.

General microbiome

The role of hospital toilets in microbial dissemination and the effectiveness of ultraviolet C irradiation – J Cooper – Open Library UBC

Human skin microbiome

Review: The skin microbiome: impact of modern environments on skin ecology, barrier integrity, and systemic immune programming – SL Prescott – World Allergy Organization Journal

Human vaginal microbiome

Review: Women and Their Microbes: The Unexpected Friendship – JA Younes – Cell

Human gut microbiome

Seasonal cycling in the gut microbiome of the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania – SA Smits – Science

Normalization of the microbiota in patients after treatment for colonic lesions – MA Sze – bioRxiv

C4B gene influences intestinal microbiota through complement activation in patients with Pediatric-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease – E Nissilä- Clin Exp Immunol.

The Microbiome in Crohn’s Disease: Role in Pathogenesis and Role of Microbiome Replacement Therapies – S Khanna – Gastroenterol Clin North Am.

Animal experiments

Effects of polysaccharide from Physalis alkekengi var. francheti on liver injury and intestinal microflora in type-2 diabetic mice – X Zhao – Pharm Biol.

Animal microbiome

Two Gut-Associated Yeasts in a Tephritid Fruit Fly have Contrasting Effects on Adult Attraction and Larval Survival – AM Piper – J Chem Ecol.

Land cover and forest connectivity alter the interactions among host, pathogen and skin microbiome – CG Becker – Proc Biol Sci.

Beneficial microbial signals from alternative feed ingredients: a way to improve sustainability of broiler production? – F Van Immerseel – Microb Biotechnol.

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Tiny Microbes, Big Yields: enhancing food crop production with biological solutions – P Trivedi – Microb Biotechnol.

Rhizosphere effect is stronger than PAH concentration on shaping spatial bacterial assemblages along centimeter-scale depth gradients – A Bourceret – Can J Microbiol.

Water microbiome and extremophile

Review: Strategies and ecological roles of algicidal bacteria – N Meyer – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Development of tailored indigenous marine consortia for the degradation of naturally weathered polyethylene films – E Syranidou – PLoS One

The Response of Heterotrophic Prokaryote and Viral Communities to Labile Organic Carbon Inputs Is Controlled by the Predator Food Chain Structure – RA Sandaa – Viruses

Built environment

The impact of immigration on microbial community composition in full-scale anaerobic digesters – RH Kirkegaard – Scientific Reporters

Microbial functional trait of rRNA operon copy numbers increases with organic levels in anaerobic digesters – L Wu – ISME Journal

Food microbiology

Bacterial DNA Detected in Japanese Rice Wines and the Fermentation Starters – M Terasaki – Current Microbiology

Emergence of Leuconostoc mesenteroides as a causative agent of oozing in carrots stored under non-ventilated conditions – Y Lampert – Microb Biotechnol.

Techniques

A PCR-based assay targeting the major capsid protein gene of a dinorna-like ssRNA virus that infects coral photosymbionts – JL Montalvo-Proaño – Aquatic Microbiology

Microbiome balance in sputum determined by PCR stratifies COPD exacerbations and shows potential for selective use of antibiotics – K Halder – PLoS One

Antibiotic exposure and risk of weight gain and obesity: protocol for a systematic review – H Dutton – Systematic Reviews

High intake of dairy during energy restriction does not affect energy balance or the intestinal microflora compared to low dairy intake in overweight individuals in a Randomized Controlled Trial – LQ Bendtsen – Appl Physiol Nutr Metab.

Proteomic Analysis of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Under Cold Stress – J Tang – Current Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Gut Microbiome and Anxiety Linked to MicroRNA – Geneng News

Got A Computer? Your Help Is Wanted On A Groundbreaking Study – Miami CBS Local

Chronic Stress Discombobulates Gut Microbiome Communities – Psychology Today

August 25, 2017

Posted on August 25, 2017 by TinaS

Highlight of the day goes to Anna Karenina principle on microbiomes by J.R. Zaneveld as a Perspective in Nature Microbiology: “When healthy our microbiomes look alike, but when stressed each one of us has our own microbial snowflake”.

Events and jobs

Food Microbiology Microscopist II, EMSL Analytical, Inc. ,Cinnaminson, NJ

Research Associate, University of Bristol – School of Biochemistry

General microbiome

Perspectives: Stress and stability: applying the Anna Karenina principle to animal microbiomes – Jesse R. Zaneveld – Nature Microbiology

Sugar metabolism of the first thermophilic Planctomycetes Thermogutta terrifontis: comparative genomic and transcriptomic approache – Alexander Elcheninov – bioRxiv

Horizontally Acquired Genes Are Often Shared between Closely Related Bacterial Species – Evgeni Bolotin – Frontiers in Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

Early gut mycobiota and mother-offspring transfer – Kasper Schei -Microbiome

Oral Microbiology

Genetic influences on the human oral microbiome – Brittany A. Demmitt – BMC Genomics

Human gut microbiome

Beyond gut feelings: how the gut microbiota regulates blood pressure – Francine Z. Marques – Nature Reviews Cardiology

Animal microbiome

Upper and lower respiratory tract microbiota in horses: bacterial communities associated with health and mild asthma (inflammatory airway disease) and effects of dexamethasone – Stephanie L. Bond – BMC Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Transient exposure to oxygen or nitrate reveals ecophysiology of fermentative and sulfate-reducing benthic microbial populations – Zainab Abdulrahman Beiruti – Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Prey range and genome evolution of Halobacteriovorax marinus predatory bacteria from an estuary – Brett G. Enos – bioRxiv

Genomic insights into potential interdependencies in microbial hydrocarbon and nutrient cycling in hydrothermal sediments – Nina Dombrowski – Microbiome

Prey range and genome evolution of Halobacteriovorax marinus predatory bacteria from an estuary – Brett G. Enos – bioRxiv

Bacteria-induced mixing in natural waters – T. Sommer – Geophysical Research Letters

Food microbiology

Unraveling the correlation between microbiota succession and metabolite changes in traditional Shanxi aged vinegar – Zhiqiang Nie – Scientific Reports

Microbes in the news

Space travel microbes turn urine into polymers

Is The Secret To A Healthier Microbiome Hidden In The Hadza Diet?

IBM: Your Computer Can Help Scientists Study Connection Between Body Bacteria and Autoimmune Diseases

August 24, 2017

Posted on August 24, 2017 by anjacobson

Bacterial paleontology of iron formations, gene expression from bacteria and archaea in the Amazon River, indoles promote a “youthful” gene expression profile in their host.

Events and jobs

Podcast: Branding Bacteria – Carla Brown

General microbiome

Preprint: Metabolic Model-Based Analysis of the Emergence of Bacterial Cross-Feeding through Extensive Gene Loss – Colin P McNally – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life

Breast Milk Transforming Growth Factor β Is Associated With Neonatal Gut Microbial Composition – Alexandra R Sitarik – Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Human gut microbiome

Increased Tryptophan Metabolism is Associated With Activity of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases – Susanna Nikolaus – Gastroenterology

Animal experiments

Indoles from commensal bacteria extend healthspan – Robert Sonowal – PNAS

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Soil C and N statuses determine the effect of maize inoculation by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on nitrifying and denitrifying communities – Alessandro Florio – Scientific Reports

Changes in Soil Microbial Community and Its Effect on Carbon Sequestration Following Afforestation on the Loess Plateau, China – Yun Xiang – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Rapid peat accumulation favours the occurrence of both fen and bog microbial communities within a Mediterranean, free-floating peat island – Giuseppe Concheri – Scientific Reports

Influence of film mulching on soil microbial community in a rainfed region of northeastern China – Wenyi Dong – Scientific Reports

Secondary compound hypothesis revisited: Selected plant secondary metabolites promote bacterial degradation of cis-1,2-dichloroethylene (cDCE) – Serena Fraraccio – Scientific Reports

Adaptive evolution of rhizobial symbiotic compatibility mediated by co-evolved insertion sequences – Ran Zhao – The ISME Journal

Micropredator niche differentiation between bulk soil and rhizosphere of an agricultural soil depends on bacterial prey – Lu Zhang – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Predicting blooms of toxic cyanobacteria in eutrophic lakes with diverse cyanobacterial communities – Aleksandra Bukowski – Scientific Reports

Patterns of Bacterial and Archaeal Gene Expression through the Lower Amazon River – Brandon M Satinsky – Frontiers in Marine Science

Probiotics/prebiotics

Protocol for a randomised, placebo-controlled pilot study for assessing feasibility and efficacy of faecal microbiota transplantation in a paediatric ulcerative colitis population: PediFETCh trial – Nikhil Pai – Gastroenterology and Hepatology

More microbes

Bacterial paleontology of the Neoarchean banded iron formations of Karelia and the Kola Peninsula – M M Astafieva – Paleontological Journal

Microbes in the news

Cyborg bacteria covered in solar panels can beat plants at photosynthesis – Angela Chen – The Verge

Gut bacteria influence the brain indirectly, study shows – Maria Cohut – Medical News Today

Scientists uncover two-layer identification among soil bacteria – Amy Wallace – UPI.com

We May Have Just Found The Hormone That Lets Gut Bacteria Talk to The Brain – Peter Duckbill – Science Alert

August 23, 2017

Posted on August 23, 2017 by JP Cardenas

Human Microbiome

The vaginal microbiome of pregnant women is less rich and diverse, with lower prevalence of Mollicutes, compared to non-pregnant women – Aline C. Freitas – Scientific Reports

The IBD interactome: an integrated view of aetiology, pathogenesis and therapy – Heitor S. P. de Souza – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Changes in the intestinal microbiota following the administration of azithromycin in a randomised placebo-controlled trial among infants in south India – Edward P. K. Parker – Scientific Reports

Metabolic and functional paths of lactic acid bacteria in plant foods: get out of the labyrinth – Pasquale Filannino – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Differences of lung microbiome in patients with clinically stable and exacerbated bronchiectasis – Min Kwang Byun – PLoS ONE

Precision Nutrition: A Review of Personalized Nutritional Approaches for the Prevention and Management of Metabolic Syndrome – Juan de Toro-Martín – Nutrients

Animal Microbiome

Soy Improves Cardiometabolic Health and Cecal Microbiota in Female Low-Fit Rats – Tzu-Wen L. Cross – Scientific Reports

Modulatory influence of segmented filamentous bacteria on transcriptomic response of gnotobiotic mice exposed to TCDD – Robert Stedtfeld – Frontiers in Microbiology

Comparative analysis of the gut microbiota composition between captive and wild forest musk deer – Yimeng Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Modulation of gut microbiome composition and function in experimental colitis treated with Sulphasalazine – Haihui Zheng – Frontiers in Microbiology

Respiratory Commensal Bacteria Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum Improves Resistance of Infant Mice to Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Streptococcus pneumoniae Superinfection – Paulraj Kanmani – Frontiers in Microbiology

Pathogen research

Whole-genome sequencing for national surveillance of Shigella flexneri – Marie Anne Chattaway – Frontiers in Microbiology

SeroBA: rapid high-throughput serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae from whole genome sequence data – Lennard Epping – BioRxiv

In Vitro Antibacterial Activity of Unconjugated and Conjugated Bile Salts on Staphylococcus aureus – Thippeswamy H. Sannasiddappa – Frontiers in Microbiology

Environmental Microbiology

Alleviation of heavy metal stress in plants and remediation of soil by rhizosphere microorganisms – Jitendra Mishra – Frontiers in Microbiology

From surface to deep-sea: Bacterial distribution to polymetallic nodule fields at 4000 m in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean – Markus V. Lindh – Frontiers in Microbiology

Analysis of Microbial Functions in the Rhizosphere Using a Metabolic-Network Based Framework for Metagenomics Interpretation – Shany Ofaim – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Contradictory Results: Low rate of index hopping on the Illumina HiSeq X platform – Tom van der Valk – BioRxiv

Analyzing contentious relationships and outlier genes in phylogenomics – Joseph F. Walker – BioRxiv

Other

Metabolic Reconstruction and Modeling Microbial Electrosynthesis – Christopher W. Marshall – Scientific Reports

Receptor Uptake Arrays For Vitamin B12, Siderophores And Glycans Shape Bacterial Communities – Steven A. Frank – BioRxiv

Diversity of microbiota associated with symptomatic and non-symptomatic bacterial wilt-diseased banana plants determined using 16S rRNA metagenome sequencing – Nurul Shamsinah Mohd Suhaimi – World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

News

Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from – Michael Marshall – New Scientist

Even the Eye Has a Microbiome – Jeff Lyon – JAMA

The Surprising Things Your Microbiome Reveals About You – Ashley Lewis – Readers Digest

Linking mental health and the gut microbiome – MedicalXpress

Non-microbiology picks

How to share data for collaboration – Shannon E Ellis – PeerJ preprints

August 21, 2017

Posted on August 21, 2017 by TinaS

New Microbiome Digest and many many interesting articles: metagenome analysis as a powerful tool for enzyme bioprospecting, application of DGGE on oral bacterial community; labeling of prokaryotic mRNA in live cells with FISH-TAMB…
While in non-microbiology picks read and join very interesting project Scientist Selfies. This project explores how scientists use Instagram and how scientists’ IG posts can potentially change public perceptions of scientists’.

Events and jobs

Postdoc position for Cell Factory Construction, Novozymes, Denmark

IBS-Nature Conference on Frontiers in Genome Engineering

General microbiome

Genetic cargo and bacterial species set the rate of vesicle-mediated horizontal gene transfer – Frances Tran – Scientific Reports

Review: Archaea Are Interactive Components of Complex Microbiomes – Christine Moissl-Eichinger – Trends in Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

Human Milk Oligosaccharides Exhibit Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Properties against Group B Streptococcus – Dorothy L. Ackerman – ACS Infectious Diseases

Review: Development of the gut microbiota in infancy and its impact on health in later life – Masaru Tanaka – Allergology International

Maternal microbiomes in preterm birth: Recent progress and analytical pipelines – Lindsay A. Parnell – Seminars in Perinatology

Oral microbiology

Application of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis to the analysis of bacterial communities associated with asymptomatic and symptomatic pericoronitis – Xin Zhang – Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Human gut microbiome

Review: Food contact materials and gut health: Implications for toxicity assessment and relevance of high molecular weight migrants – Ksenia J. Groh – Food and Chemical Toxicology

Environmental Pollutant Benzo[a]Pyrene Impacts the Volatile Metabolome and Transcriptome of the Human Gut Microbiota – Clémence Defois – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal experiments

AvBD1 nucleotide polymorphisms, peptide antimicrobial activities and microbial colonisation of the broiler chicken gut – Kevin Cadwell – BMC Genomics

Increased microbiome diversity at the time of infection is associated with improved growth rates of pigs after co-infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) – Rebecca A. Ober – Veterinary Microbiology

Changes in the Total Fecal Bacterial Population in Individual Horses Maintained on a Restricted Diet Over 6 Weeks – Kirsty Dougal – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Analysis of microbiota of the swimming crab (Portunus trituberculatus) in South Korea to identify risk markers for foodborne illness – Suyeon Kim – LWT – Food Science and Technology

Diet and gut microbiota of two supralittoral amphipods Orchestia montagui and Talitrus saltator living in different microhabitats – Khaled F.A. Abdelrhman – Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Gut microbiome analysis as a tool for developing new probiotic products – Daniel Ramón – Journal of Biotechnology

Review: Human genetic variation and the gut microbiome in disease – Andrew Brantley Hall – Nature Reviews Genetics

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Searching for signatures across microbial communities: Metagenomic analysis of soil samples from mangrove and other ecosystems – Madangchanok Imchen – Scienfic Reports

Microbial community structure and function respond more strongly to temporal progression than to the application of slurry in an Irish grassland – Aaron Fox – Applied Soil Ecology

Cheating and resistance to cheating in natural populations of the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens – John B. Bruce – Evolution

Water and extremophile microbiome

Differences in temperature and water chemistry shape distinct diversity patterns in thermophilic microbial communities – Cecilia M. Chiriac – Applied nad Environmental Microbiology

Planococcus ruber sp. nov., isolated from a polluted farmland soil sample – Xu Wang – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Microbial diversity in acidic thermal pools in the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka – Andrey V. Mardanov – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Aura-biomes are present in the water layer above coral reef benthic macro-organisms – Kevin Walsh – PeerJ

Physiological and ecological implications of an iron- or hydrogen-oxidizing member of the Zetaproteobacteria, Ghiorsea bivora, gen. nov., sp. nov – Jiro F Mori – The ISME

Food microbiology

Restoration of GABA production machinery in Lactobacillus brevis by accessible carbohydrates, anaerobiosis and early acidification – Qinglong Wu – Food Microbiology

Development of non-pathogenic bacterial biofilms on the surface of stainless steel which are inhibitory to Salmonella enterica – Yoonbin Kim – Food Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Metagenome Analysis: a Powerful Tool for Enzyme Bioprospecting – Aravind Madhavan – Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Novel approaches for bioinformatic analysis of salivary RNA Sequencing data in the biomarker development process – Karolina Elżbieta Kaczor-Urbanowicz – Bioinformatics

Biotechnology

Biogas production from brewery spent grain as a mono-substrate in a two-stage process composed of solid-state anaerobic digestion and granular biomass reactors – Mario Panjičko – Journal of Cleaner Production

Revealing sludge and biofilm microbiomes in membrane bioreactor treating piggery wastewater by non-destructive microscopy and 16S rRNA gene sequencing – Tomohiro Inaba – Chemical Engineering Journal

Techniques

Characterization of syntrophic Geobacter communities using ToF-SIMS – Wenchao Wei – Biointerphases

Labeling of prokaryotic mRNA in live cells using fluorescent in situ hybridization of transcript-annealing molecular beacons (FISH-TAMB) – Rachel Harris – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

No guts no glory: Harvesting the microbiome of athletes

Oil-eating bacteria help sea life thrive

Tina’s (non-microbiology) picks

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