March 14, 2025

Happy Friday and see you next week at MVIF 37!

Just announced #MVIF 37 on Microbiomes in Extreme Environments!Don't miss this special event w/our guests🇩🇪 Nicole Dublier🇳🇱 Henk Bolhuis🇺🇸 Rachael Morgan-Kiss 🇺🇸 Kasthuri Venkateswaran 🇮🇹 Fabiana Canini 🇺🇸 Diana Ayala-Muñoz🇮🇹 Luca Tonietti cassyni.com/s/mvif-37

Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2025-03-06T14:14:27.441Z

Women’s health

Vaginal microbiota changes during a natural menstrual cycle in the Women4Health cohort highlights specific features of the Italian population – Elena Vinerbi – bioRxiv

Review: Menopausal shift on women’s health and microbial niches – Maria R. Nieto – npj Women’s Health

1/ 🚨 🧪New Research: #Menopause, #Microbiome & #WomensHealth Menopause reshapes health through hormonal, microbial, and physiological changes. 🧪📖 Explore the study: rdcu.be/d5725⬇️ Let’s dive into the key insights:

Aurea Simon-Soro (@aureasimon-soro.bsky.social) 2025-01-23T12:57:47.907Z

Gut microbiome

Review: The gut microbiota-immune-brain axis: Therapeutic implications – Kenneth J. O’Riordan – Cell Reports Medicine

Effects of oral supplementation of probiotics on body weight and visceral fat in obese patients: a meta-analysis and systematic review – Manhou Guo – Scientific Reports

Longitudinal phage–bacteria dynamics in the early life gut microbiome – Michael J. Tisza – Nature Microbiology 

Skin microbiome

Absolute quantification of the living skin microbiome overcomes relic-DNA bias and reveals specific patterns across volunteers – Deepan Thiruppathy – Microbiome 

Animal experiments

Maternal undernutrition exacerbates microbiota-driven growth stunting through pre and postnatal effects – Yadeliz A. Serrano Matos – bioRxiv

Excited to share my lab's latest preprint and very proud of the whole team for their hard work. Check it out if you're interested in the #microbiome #maternalhealth or #undernutrition. http://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1…

Carrie Cowardin (@ccowardin.bsky.social) 2025-03-10T13:21:21.537Z

Animal microbiome

Rumen microbiome associates with postpartum ketosis development in dairy cows: a prospective nested case–control study – Fanlin Kong – Microbiome 

Functional Insights Into the Effect of Feralisation on the Gut Microbiota of Cats Worldwide – Ostaizka Aizpurua – Molecular Ecology

Endometrial microbiome in mares with and without clinical endometritis – Lulu Guo – bioRxiv

Spatial segregation and cross-kingdom interactions drive stingless bee hive microbiome assembly – Lílian Caesar – bioRxiv

New preprint out! 🐝🦠 Among the incredible diversity of bees, only a few have evolved a highly social lifestyle—honey bees and stingless bees (Apidae). We characterize for first time, using metagenomics/microbial experiments, the microbiome of a stingless bee colony

Lilian Caesar (@liliancaesar.bsky.social) 2025-03-11T08:00:43.662Z

Food microbiome

The core microbiomes and associated metabolic potential of water kefir as revealed by pan multi-omics – Samuel Breselge – Communications Biology

Fantastic to see this comprehensive study of water kefir pangenomes, led by Samuel Breselge, now published “The core microbiomes and associated metabolic potential of water kefir as revealed by pan multi-omics". @teagasc.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social rdcu.be/ec7GT

Paul Cotter (@pauldcotter.bsky.social) 2025-03-11T20:35:16.288Z

Antimicrobial resistance

Effects of cigarette-derived compounds on the spread of antimicrobial resistance in artificial human lung sputum medium, simulated environmental media and wastewater – Peiju Fang – Environmental Health Perspectives

🚬🧬🚬🧬🚬🧬Proud to present the newest study of my PhD students Peiju and Diala in Environmental Health PerspectivesEffects of cigarette-derived compounds on the spread of #AMR in artificial human lung sputum medium, simulated environmental media and wastewaterdoi.org/10.1289/EHP1…1/9#microsky

Uli Klümper (@ulikluemper.bsky.social) 2025-03-04T15:03:48.183Z

Drinking water plumbing systems are a hot spot for antimicrobial resistant pathogens – Claire Hayward – Journal of Hospital Infection

DRAMMA: a multifaceted machine learning approach for novel antimicrobial resistance gene detection in metagenomic data – Ella Rannon – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

LEMMIv2: Benchmarking Framework for Metagenomic and 16S Amplicon Profilers with a Catalogue of Evaluated Tools – M. Seppey – bioRxiv 

A high-quality genomic catalog of the human oral microbiome broadens its phylogeny and clinical insights – Jun Hyung Cha – bioRxiv

Microbial network inference for longitudinal microbiome studies with LUPINE – Saritha Kodikara, Kim-Anh Le Cao – Microbiome

Challenges in capturing the mycobiome from shotgun metagenome data: lack of software and databases – Ekaterina Avershina – Microbiome

🥁We are happy to announce the release of a new version of curatedFoodMetagenomicData (cFMD)🔗 Get it here: github.com/SegataLab/cFMD🧵👇1/5

Segata Lab (@cibiocm.bsky.social) 2025-03-12T13:56:24.948Z

February 14, 2025

Check out my list of selected latest microbiome studies and see you next week at #MVIF!

It's Friday! …and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩Registration here: cassyni.com/s/mvif-36⭐️ MicroTalks:🇯🇵 Nodoka Chiba 🇮🇩 Patsy Tasyana Fitri⭐️ Keynote: 🇯🇵 Ruixin Liu⭐️ Selected talks: 🇦🇺 @aroneys.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Maria Kardakova🇦🇺 Theo Portlock

Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social) 2025-02-07T12:39:31.099Z

Gut microbiome

Gut microbiota-derived hexa-acylated lipopolysaccharides enhance cancer immunotherapy responses – Puspendu Sardar – Nature Microbiology 

Priority effects, nutrition and milk glycan-metabolic potential drive Bifidobacterium longum subspecies dynamics in the infant gut microbiome – Nicholas Pucci – PeerJ

Though it's already a weeks ago, the newest paper from the (old) lab came out.We explored the drivers of Bifidobacterium longum subspecies dynamics in the infant gut in detail. Still fascinated by the interplay of ecology, metabolic capacity and dietpeerj.com/articles/186…

Daniel Mende (@pangenomics.bsky.social) 2025-02-12T06:54:25.656Z

Effects of Vegetable and Fruit Juicing on Gut and Oral Microbiome Composition – Maria Luisa Savo Sardaro – Nutrients

Long-term yogurt intake and colorectal cancer incidence subclassified by Bifidobacterium abundance in tumor – Satoko Ugai – Gut Microbes

From sporulation to village differentiation: the shaping of the social microbiome over rural-to-urban lifestyle transition in Indonesia – Clarissa A. Febinia – bioRxiv

Urinary microbiome

The urinary microbiome in association with diabetes and diabetic kidney disease: A systematic review – Tiscar Graells – PlosOne

Vaginal microbiome

Quantitative profiling of the vaginal microbiota improves resolution of the microbiota-immune axis – Eric Armstrong – Microbiome

Migration and standing variation in vaginal and rectal yeast populations in recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis – Abdul-Rahman Adamu Bukari – bioRxiv

Skin microbiome

A human skin microbiome reference catalog and the skin microbial landscape of plateau adults – Yi Liu – iMetsOmics

Animal microbiome

Exploring the impact of grazing on fecal and soil microbiome dynamics in small ruminants in organic crop-livestock integration systems – Sejin Cheong – PlosOne

Soil warming increases the active antibiotic resistome in the gut of invasive giant African snails – Yiyue Zhang – Microbiome

Animal experiments

A gut-on-a-chip incorporating human faecal samples and peristalsis predicts responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors for melanoma – Mattia Ballerini – Nature Biomedical Engineering

Early-life gut mycobiome core species modulate metabolic health in mice – Mackenzie W. Gutierrez – Nature Communications

Microbiota governs host chenodeoxycholic acid glucuronidation to ameliorate bile acid disorder induced diarrhea – Zishen Lin – Microbiome

The bacterial microbiome modulates the initiation of brain metastasis by impacting the gut-to-brain axis – Matteo Massara – iScience

Excited to share a new paper from our lab 😀We investigate the tumor microenvironment – to reveal factors influencing cancer progression & therapy response 🔬🧪So we naturally wanted to ask – does the gut #microbiome influence brain #metastasis 🦠 🧠?Massara et al 2025www.cell.com/iscience/ful…

Johanna Joyce (@johannajoyce.bsky.social) 2025-02-10T14:03:22.248Z

Bacterial community assembly of specific pathogen-free neonatal mice – Elizabeth A. Kennedy – Microbiome

Antibiotic-associated changes in Akkermansia muciniphila alter its effects on host metabolic health –Yumin Han – Microbiome

Fecal microbiota transplantation modulates jejunal host-microbiota interface in weanling piglets – Shankumar Mooyottu – Microbiome

Bacterial profiles of the oral, vaginal, and rectal mucosa and colostrum of periparturient sows – Virpi Piirainen – PlosOne

Plant microbiome

Comparative analysis of grape berry microbiota uncovers sour rot associates from a Maryland vineyard – Blaise Jumbam – PlosOne

Drinking water microbiome

Building plumbing influences the microdiversity and community assembly of the drinking water microbiome – Huanqi He – Water Research

Bioinformatics

Intraspecies associations from strain-rich metagenome samples – Evan B. Qu – bioRxiv

Excited to share my preprint describing a new microbiome analysis method, PHLAME, for detecting strain-level associations in difficult sample types. 🧵www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1…This work was done with my great coauthors and my amazing advisor @contaminatedsci.bsky.social

Evan Qu (@quevan.bsky.social) 2025-02-11T23:06:43.624Z

Techniques

De-biasing microbiome sequencing data: bacterial morphology-based correction of extraction bias and correlates of chimera formation – Luise Rauer – Microbiome

Internships

Outreachy–a 3 month paid internship in open source and open science–applications for the June 2025 cohort are ongoing.

It was an awesome #Outreachy chat! Thanks for all your (detailed) questions, hope I answered them all…Recording available here: I enjoyed it a lot!www.youtube.com/live/PiOm6nq…

Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic (@svetlanaup.bsky.social) 2025-02-05T16:46:07.001Z

October 2, 2024

Gut Microbiome

Gut microbiota wellbeing index predicts overall health in a cohort of 1000 infants – Brandon Hickman et al – Nature Communications

Pangenomes of human gut microbiota uncover links between genetic diversity and stress response – Saar Shoer et al – Cell Host & Microbe

[MINI REVIEW] The human gut microbiome in health and disease: time for a new chapter? – Jee-Yon Lee et al – ASM Infection & Immunity

Metabolic interactions shape emergent biofilm structures in a conceptual model of gut mucosal bacterial communities – Amin Valiei et al – NPJ Biofilms & Microbiomes

A population-scale analysis of 36 gut microbiome studies reveals universal species signatures for common diseases – Wen Sun et al – NPJ Biofilms & Microbiomes

A single amplified genome catalog reveals the dynamics of mobilome and resistome in the human microbiome – Tetsuro Kawano-Sugaya et al – BMC Microbiome

Stratification of human gut microbiomes by succinotype is associated with inflammatory bowel disease status – Laura Anthamatten et al – BMC Microbiome

Impact of complementary feeding on infant gut microbiome, metabolites and early development – Yudong Shi et al – Food & Function

Can longer lifespan be associated with gut microbiota involvement in lipid metabolism? – Sára Šardzíková et al – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Beneficial microbes & compounds

[REVIEW] Preventive effect of probiotics on oral mucositis induced by anticancer therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials – Bo Yang et al – BMC Oral Health

Animal Microbiome

Bacteria from the Amycolatopsis genus associated with a toxic bird secrete protective secondary metabolites – Elena Seibel et al – Nature Communications

Impact of virginiamycin on the ruminal microbiota of feedlot cattle – Bruna Parapinski Santos – Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research

Microbiome of death

From carrion to soil: microbial recycling of animal carcasses – Jennifer M. DeBruyn et al – Cell Trends in Microbiology

Water & extremophile microbiome

Microbiome–metabolite linkages drive greenhouse gas dynamics over a permafrost thaw gradient – Viviana Freire-Zapata et al – Nature Microbiology

Prescribed fire regimes influence responses of fungal and bacterial communities on new litter substrates in a brackish tidal marsh – Viet Q. Dao et al – PLOS One

Plant, root & soil microbiome

The phyllosphere of Nigerian medicinal plants, Euphorbia lateriflora and Ficus thonningii is inhabited by a specific microbiota – Anderson O. Oaikhena et al – Scientific Reports

Water‒soil-air‒plant mutual feedback mechanism under the application of red bed composite polymers – Tianpeng Chen et al – PLOS One

Diversity and community distribution of soil bacterial in the Yellow River irrigation area of Ningxia, China – Xia Wu et al – PLOS One

Bioinformatics & tools

Strain-resolved de-novo metagenomic assembly of viral genomes and microbial 16S rRNAs – Annika Jochheim et al – BMC Microbiome

September 13, 2024

Happy Friday!
And, see you next week at the MVIF and African Microbiome Day events!

Human microbiome

Gut Microbiome

Transient colonizing microbes promote gut dysbiosis and functional impairment – Sunjae Lee – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Cataloging metagenome-assembled genomes and microbial genes from the athlete gut microbiome – Laura Wosinska – Microbiome Research Reports

Gut microbiome and schizophrenia: insights from two-sample Mendelian randomization – Keer Zhou – Schizophrenia

Disease-associated microbiome signature species in the gut – Junhui Li – PNAS Nexus

Nasal microbiome

E-Cigarette Use, Cigarette Smoking, and Sex Are Associated With Nasal Microbiome Dysbiosis Get access Arrow – Elise Hickman – Nicotine & Tobacco Research

Urinary microbiome

Review: Synthesis of current pediatric urinary microbiome research – Layla M. Jeries – Frontiers in Pediatrics

Skin microbiome

The skin microbiome stratifies patients with cutaneous T cell lymphoma and determines event-free survival – Philipp Licht – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Animal microbiome

Antibiotics damage the colonic mucus barrier in a microbiota-independent manner – Jasmin Sawaed – Science Advances

Host diet drives gut microbiome convergence between coral reef fishes and mammals – Samuel Degregori – Molecular Ecology

Functional insights into the effect of feralisation on the gut microbiota of cats worldwide – Ostaizka Aizpurua – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Diet-microbiome interactions promote enteric nervous system resilience following spinal cord injury – Adam M. Hamilton – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Ketogenic interventions restore cognition and modulate peripheral metabolic dysfunctions in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models – Paule E. H. M’Bra – bioRxiv

Plant microbiome

The influence of plant traits on soil microbial communities varies between arid and mesic grasslands – Eleonora Egidi – Plant and Soil

Enrichment of novel entomopathogenic Pseudomonas species enhances willow resistance to leaf beetles – Haitao Wang – Microbiome

Microbial colonisation rewires the composition and content of poplar root exudates, root and shoot metabolomes – F. Fracchia – Microbiome

Built environment

Predicting how varying moisture conditions impact the microbiome of dust collected from the International Space Station – Nicholas Nastasi – Microbiom

The predicted secreted proteome of activated sludge microorganisms indicates distinct nutrient niches – Kenneth Wasmund – Environmental Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Microbial network inference for longitudinal microbiome studies with LUPINE – Saritha Kodikara, Kim-Anh Le Cao – bioRxiv

August 14, 2024

Human microbiome

Major depletion of insulin sensitivity-associated taxa in the gut microbiome of persons living with HIV controlled by antiretroviral drugs – Eugeni Belda et al – BMC Medical Genomics

The impact of breastfeeding on the preterm infant’s microbiome and metabolome: a pilot study – Keriann Schulkers Escalante et al – Nature Pediatric Research

[REVIEW] The human microbiome in space: parallels between Earth-based dysbiosis, implications for long-duration spaceflight, and possible mitigation strategies – Sofia Etlin et al – Clinical Microbiology Reviews

MASS cohort: Multicenter, longitudinal, and prospective study of the role of microbiome in severe pneumonia and host susceptibility – Xin Wei et al – iMeta

Distinctive duodenal microbiomes and bile acid profiles in duodenal tumor patients revealed by prospective observational study – Yoko Kubosawa et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Elucidating the dynamics and impact of the gut microbiome on maternal nutritional status during pregnancy, effect on pregnancy outcomes and infant health in rural Pakistan: study protocol for a prospective, longitudinal observational study – Yaqub Wassan et al – BMJ Open

Time-varying ambient air pollution exposure is associated with gut microbiome variation in the first 2 years of life – Tianlai Qiu et al – Environmental Pollution

Animal experiments

Gut Microbiota-Induced Modulation of the Central Nervous System Function in Parkinson’s Disease Through the Gut-Brain Axis and Short-Chain Fatty Acids – Yiting Ni et al – Molecular Neurobiology

Animal microbiome

Synergistic pectin deconstruction is a prerequisite for mutualistic interactions between honeybee gut bacteria – Junbo Tang et al – Nature Communications

Environmentally acquired gut-associated bacteria are not critical for growth and survival in a solitary bee, Megachile rotundata – Gagandeep Brar et al – Applied & Environmental Microbiology

Duck gut metagenome reveals the microbiome signatures linked to intestinal regional, temporal development, and rearing condition – Lingyan Ma & Wentao Lyu et al – iMeta

Meconium microbiota in naturally delivered canine puppies – Alessia Bertero et al – BMC Veterinary Research

Gut microbiome perturbation and its correlation with tylosin pharmacokinetics in healthy and infected pigs – Eon-Bee Lee et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Beneficial microbes, compounds, & foods

Restriction of growth and biofilm formation of ESKAPE pathogens by caprine gut-derived probiotic bacteria – Prerna Saini et al – Frontiers in Microbiology

[REVIEW] Polyphenols improve non-alcoholic fatty liver disease via gut microbiota: A comprehensive review – Kimia Mohammadhasani et al – Food Science & Nutrition

[REVIEW] Exploring the Potential of Postbiotics for Food Safety and Human Health Improvement – Folayemi Janet Isaac-Bamgboye et al – Journal of Nutrition & Metabolism

Transcriptomics and gut microbiome analysis of the edible herb Bidens pilosa as a functional feed additive to promote growth and metabolism in tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) – Che-Chun Chen et al – BMC Genomics

[REVIEW] A comprehensive review of the characterization, host interactions, and stabilization advancements on probiotics: Addressing the challenges in functional food diversification – Eskindir Getachew Fentie et al – Comp. Rev. in Food Science & Safety

Effects of kefir consumption on gut microbiota and health outcomes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome – Merve Esra Çıtar Dazıroğlu – Food Science & Nutrition

Plant, root, & soil microbiome

Decrease due to pollution in the rhizosphere microbial diversity can be amended by supplementation from adapted plants of another species – Anastasiia Fetsiukh et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Differences in the constituents of bacterial microbiota of soils collected from two fields of diverse potato blackleg and soft rot diseases incidences, a case study – Weronika Babinska-Wensierska et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Variations of soil metal content, soil enzyme activity and soil bacterial community in Rhododendron delavayi natural shrub forest at different elevations – Li Wang et al – BMC Microbiology

Effective microorganism combinations improve the quality of compost-bedded pack products in heifer barns: exploring pack bacteria-fungi interaction mechanisms – Zhenbin Zhang et al – BMC Microbiology

Global patterns in the growth potential of soil bacterial communities – Ernest D. Osburn et al – Nature Communications

Microplastic-contamination can reshape plant community by affecting soil properties – Mengzuan He et al – Ecotoxicology & Environmental Safety

Water & extremophile microbiome

Microbial Succession on Microplastics in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Exploring the Complexities of Microplastic-Microbiome Interactions – Klaudia Kwiatkowska & Paulina Ormaniec – Microbial Ecology

Microbial ecology

Higher-order interactions and emergent properties of microbial communities: The power of synthetic ecology – Oscar Gallardo-Navarro et a – Heliyon

Antibiotic resistance

[NEWS FEATURE] Five ways science is tackling the antibiotic resistance crisis – Amber Dance – Nature

Antibiotic resistance gene dynamics in the commensal infant gut microbiome over the first year of life – Pål Trosvik et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Bioinformatics tools

MetaBakery: a Singularity implementation of bioBakery tools as a skeleton application for efficient HPC deconvolution of microbiome metagenomic sequencing data to machine learning ready information – Boštjan Murovec et al – Frontiers in Microbiology

July 24, 2024

Human microbiome

Gut virome-wide association analysis identifies cross-population viral signatures for inflammatory bowel disease – Xiangge Tian et al – BMC Microbiome

The Role of Gut Microbiota in the Neuroprotective Effects of Selenium in Alzheimer’s Disease – Anatoly V. Skalny et al – Molecular Neurobiology

[REVIEW] The oral–gut microbiome axis in health and disease – Benoit J. Kunath – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Enhancing gut microbiota and microbial function with inulin supplementation in children with obesity – Chonnikant Visuthranukul et al – International Journal of Obesity

Core antibiotic resistance genes mediate gut microbiota to intervene in the treatment of major depressive disorder – Zaiquan Dong et al – Journal of Affective Disorders

Temporal dynamics and species-level complexity of Prevotella spp. in the human gut microbiota: implications for enterotypes and health – Na Han et al – Frontiers in Microbiology

Skin locations inference and body fluid identification from skin microbial patterns for forensic applications – Litao Huang et al – Forensic Science International

Animal experiments

Improving insulin resistance by sulforaphane via activating the Bacteroides and Lactobacillus SCFAs–GPR–GLP1 signal axis – Sicong Tian et al – Food & Function

Gastroprotective and microbiome-modulating effects of ubiquinol in rats with radiation-induced enteropathy – Walaa A. Eraqi et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Methanogenic patterns in the gut microbiome are associated with survival in a population of feral horses – Mason R. Stothart et al – Nature Communications

Viral Communities Suppress the Earthworm Gut Antibiotic Resistome by Lysing Bacteria on a National Scale – Shuai Du et al – Environmental Science & Technology

Modulation of gut microbiota composition and predicted metabolic capacity after nutritional programming with a plant-rich diet in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): insights across developmental stages – Marwa Mamdouh Tawfik et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Altitude-dependent agro-ecologies impact the microbiome diversity of scavenging indigenous chicken in Ethiopia – Laura Glendinning et al – BMC Microbiome

Water & extremophile microbiome

Genomic representativeness and chimerism in large collections of SAGs and MAGs of marine prokaryoplankton – Tianyi Chang et al – BMC Microbiome

Time-series metagenomics reveals changing protistan ecology of a temperate dimictic lake – Arianna I. Krinos et al – BMC Microbiome

Built environment microbiome

[PREPRINT] Utilizing the biosimulator to analyze the environmental microbiome within the intensive care units of a hospital – Sunil Thomas et al – ResearchSquare

Distributions, interactions, and dynamics of prokaryotes and phages in a hybrid biological wastewater treatment system – Dou Wang et al – BMC Microbiome

Plant, root, & soil microbiome

Unraveling the habitat preferences, ecological drivers, potential hosts, and auxiliary metabolism of soil giant viruses across China – Jie-Liang Liang et al – BMC Microbiome

Bioinformatics tools

MIDASim: a fast and simple simulator for realistic microbiome data – Mengyu He et al – BMC Microbiome

June 7, 2024

Today’s digest features AMPSphere, Candida pathogenesis, rhizosphere microbiome in the Himalayas, imaging of oral microbiome, and more.
See you at #MVIF special event on women’s health!

Global microbiome

Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning – Célio Dias Santos-Júnior and Marcelo D.T. Torres – Cell

Bioenergetic mapping of ‘healthy microbiomes’ via compound processing potential imprinted in gut and soil metagenomes – Craig Liddicoat – Science of The Total Environment

Infant microbiome

The impact of perinatal maternal stress on the maternal and infant gut and human milk microbiomes: A scoping review protocol – Niamh Ryan – Plos One

Oral microbiome

Improved Visualization of Oral Microbial Consortia – S.T. Ramirez-Puebla – Journal of Dental Research

Animal microbiome

Changes of faecal bacterial communities and microbial fibrolytic activity in horses aged from 6 to 30 years old – Marylou Baraille – Plos One

Compendium of 5810 genomes of sheep and goat gut microbiomes provides new insights into the glycan and mucin utilization – Ke Zhang – Microbiome

Animal experiments

Bacteroides uniformis CECT 7771 requires adaptive immunity to improve glucose tolerance but not to prevent body weight gain in diet-induced obese mice – Marina Romaní-Pérez – Microbiome

The impact of microplastics polystyrene on the microscopic structure of mouse intestine, tight junction genes and gut microbiota – Qi-Ling Su – Plos One

Epithelial hypoxia maintains colonization resistance against Candida albicans – Hannah P. Savage – Cell Host & Microbe

Viruses and phages

Characterizing the gut phageome and phage-borne antimicrobial resistance genes in pigs – Jun Hu – Microbiome

Water microbiome

Deep long-read metagenomic sequencing reveals niche differentiation in carbon cycling potential between benthic and planktonic microbial populations – Tomeu Viver – bioRxiv

Root, soil, plant microbiome

Altitude-Dependent Influence of Artemisia brevifolia on its Rhizosphere Microbiome in Ladakh Region of the Western Himalayas – Manzoor Hussain – Rhizosphere

Bioinformatics

Lightweight taxonomic profiling of long-read sequenced metagenomes with Lemur and Magnet – Nicolae Sapoval – bioRxiv

Comprehensive profiling of genomic invertons in defined gut microbial community reveals associations with intestinal colonization and surface adhesion – Xiaofan Jin – bioRxiv

May 17, 2024

Today’s digest features bioinformatics binning methods, healthy dogs, lakes in South Africa, and more. For the human gut microbiome studies, check out the latest digest (May 15, 2024) by Grace Deitzler.

See you at #MVIF!

Skin microbiome

Intraspecies warfare restricts strain coexistence in human skin microbiomes – Christopher P. Mancuso – bioRxiv

Oral microbiome

Oral microbiota of patients with phenylketonuria: A nation-based cross-sectional study – Memduh Bingöl – Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Urinary microbiome

Microbroth dilution method for antibiotic susceptibility testing of fastidious and anaerobic bacteria of the urinary microbiome – Wilson Geaman – Microbiology Spectrum

Respiratory tract

Meta-analysis of the human upper respiratory tract microbiome reveals robust taxonomic associations with health and disease – Nick Quinn-Bohmann – BMC Biology

Food microbiome

Microbial community structure of plant-based meat alternatives – Franz-Ferdinand Rochn – pj Science of Food

Plan, root, soil

Functional team selection: a framework for local adaptation in plants and their belowground microbiomes – Nancy Collins Johnson and César Marín – ecoevoRxiv

Life on the edge: microbial diversity, resistome, and virulome in soils from the Union Glacier cold desert – Patricio Arros – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Microbiota of healthy dogs demonstrate a significant decrease in richness and changes in specific bacterial groups in response to supplementation with resistant starch, but not psyllium or methylcellulose, in a randomized cross-over trial – Silke Salavati Schmitz – Access Microbiology

Early-life factors shaping the gut microbiota of Common buzzard nestlings – Hugo Pereira – Animal Microbiome

Animal experiment

13C-Stable isotope resolved metabolomics uncovers dynamic biochemical landscape of gut microbiome-host organ communications in mice – Xia Xiao – Microbiome

Water microbiome

Metagenomics datasets of water and sediments from eutrophication-impacted artificial lakes in South Africa – Grace Nkechinyere Ijoma – Scientific Data

Bioinformatics

Fairy: fast approximate coverage for multi-sample metagenomic binning – Jim Shaw and Yun William Yu – bioRxiv

Highly accurate metagenome-assembled genomes from human gut microbiota using long-read assembly, binning, and consolidation methods – Daniel M Portik – biorXiv

Using short-read 16S rRNA sequencing of multiple variable regions to generate high-quality results to a species level – Amy S Graham – bioRxiv

Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities – Juan Diaz-Colunga – bioRxiv

ARGNet: using deep neural networks for robust identification and classification of antibiotic resistance genes from sequences – Yao Pei – Microbiome

April 12, 2024

Today’s digest features human gut microbiome studies on dietary fiber and fasting glucose, ocean microbiome, pangenome approaches, and more.

See you at #MVIF!

Oral microbiome

Saliva sampling method influences oral microbiome composition and taxa distribution associated with oral diseases – Cristian Roca – PlosOne

Gut microbiome

Changes in the intestinal microbiota of individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease based on sequencing: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis – Wenpin Cai – PlosOne

Gut microbiota differences in stunted and normal-lenght children aged 36–45 months in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia – Ingrid S. Surono – PlosOne

Integrating research on bacterial pathogens and commensals to fight infections—an ecological perspective – Lisa Maier – The Lancet Microbe

Recommendations for the Use of Dietary Fiber to Improve Blood Pressure Control – Hamdi A. Jama – Hypertension

Review: Prebiotic selection influencing inflammatory bowel disease treatment outcomes: a review of the preclinical and clinical evidence – Amin Ariaee – eGastroenterology

Overcoming donor variability and risks associated with fecal microbiota transplants through bacteriophage-mediated treatments – Torben Soelbeck Rasmussen – bioRxiv

Continuous glucose monitoring and intrapersonal variability in fasting glucose – Smadar Shilo – Nature Medicine

Animal microbiome

Intestinal microbiome profiles in broiler chickens raised without antibiotics exhibit altered microbiome dynamics relative to conventionally raised chickens – Seyed Hossien Kairmi – PlosOne

Microbial signatures and enterotype clusters in fattening pigs: implications for nitrogen utilization efficiency – Naomi Sarpong – Frontiers in Microbiology

A genome-centric view of the role of the Acropora kenti microbiome in coral health and resilience – Lauren F. Messer – Nature Communications

Varied microbial community assembly and specialization patterns driven by early life microbiome perturbation and modulation in young ruminants – Zhe Pan – ISME Communications

Ocean microbiome

Decoding populations in the ocean microbiome – Ramiro Logares – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

High-resolution Profiling of Bacterial and Fungal Communities using Pangenome-Informed Taxon-Specific Long-Read Amplicons – Luzia Stalder – bioRxiv

CELEBRIMBOR: Pangenomes from metagenomes – Joel Hellewell – bioRxiv

March 18, 2024

Today’s digest features the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa, sociobiome, a large human gut Bacteroidales culture collection, Patescibacteria in global waste water treatment plants, and more.

This month, the May 2024 contribution period of Outreachy started! Outreachy, as an internship program, supports diversity in open source & open science!

See you at #MVIF!

Gut microbiome

Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa – Dylan G Maghini – bioRxiv

Review: The individual response to antibiotics and diet — insights into gut microbial resilience and host metabolism – Lars M. M. Vliex – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

The impact of different antimicrobial exposures on the gut microbiome in the ARMORD observational study – Leon Peto – medRxiv

Multi-omics analysis of the gut microbiome and metabolites associated with the psychoneurological symptom cluster in children with cancer receiving chemotherapy – Jinbing Bai – Journal of Translational Medicine

Longitudinal analysis of the gut microbiome in adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa: microbiome-related factors associated with clinical outcome – Nadia Andrea Andreani – Gut Microbes

Healthy microbiome – moving towards functional interpretation – Kinga Zielińska – bioRxiv

Sociobiome – Individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status influence the gut microbiome in a multi-ethnic population in the US – Soyoung Kwak – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans – Sarah Morais – Science

Comprehensive analyses of a large human gut Bacteroidales culture collection reveal species and strain level diversity and evolution – Zhenrun J. Zhang – bioRxiv

Animal experiment

A history of repeated antibiotic usage leads to microbiota-dependent mucus defects – Kertu Liis Krigul – bioRxiv

Water microbiome

Global abundance patterns, diversity, and ecology of Patescibacteria in wastewater treatment plants – Huifeng Hu – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

Review: Challenges in computational discovery of bioactive peptides in ’omics data – Luis Pedro Coelho – Proteomics

For long-term sustainable software in bioinformatics – Luis Pedro Coelho – Plos Computational Biology

Data-driven prediction of colonization outcomes for complex microbial communities – Lu Wu – Nature Communications