Category Archives: Techniques

December 5, 2017

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Today we have interesting reviews, one about proteomics and human microbiome by C.A. Kolmedar, the other about oral microbiome by L.P.Shaw and the third about human gut virome by L.A. Ogilvie. In Water section you can read the study by V.J. Koles who developed a model that simulates metagenomes and metatranscriptomes for comparison with observations. In section Bioinformatics you can read about new tools MetaLab and ASAR while in non-microbiology pics you can check podcast “Dances with rocks” with A. Denton, geologist and planetary scientist who wants to dance on Mars. Enjoy!

Jobs

Microbiology Supervisor, Rockville, Maryland

Associate Bioengineer II, Analytical R&D, Warren, NJ

Events

9th Congress of Microbiology and Parasitology Kicks Off in Cuba

General microbiome

Microbially Mediated Electrosynthesis Processes – Mohita Sharma – Microbial Fuell Cell

Development of Suitable Anode Materials for Microbial Fuel Cells – Thi Hiep Han – Microbial Fuel Cell

Progress and Future Direction of Chromosome-Centric Human Proteome Project – Young-Ki Paik – Journal of Proteome Research

Review: Proteomics and the human microbiome: where we are today and where we would like to be – Carolin Adriane Kolmeder – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

March of the Microbes: Harnessing the Power of the Human Microbiome to Improve Health and Target Disease – Helen Albert – Clinical OMICs

In vitro models of the human microbiota and microbiome – Julie A.K. McDonald – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Pregnancy and early life

Development of the Microbiota in Infants and its Role in Maturation of the Gut Mucosa and the Immune System – Cecilia Ximenez – Archives of Medical Research

Human nearly-sterile sites

The Influence of Age and Sex on Ocular Surface Microbiota in Healthy Adults -Xiaofeng Wen – Immunology and Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Pneumococcal vaccine impacts on the population genomics of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae – David W Cleary – bioRxiv

The nasopharyngeal microbiome – David W. Cleary- Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

The lung microbiome in health and disease – Miriam F Moffatt – Clinical Medicine

New Strategies and Challenges in Lung Proteomics and Metabolomics. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report – Russell P. Bowler – Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Fungal microbiota in chronic airway inflammatory disease and emerging relationships with the host immune response – Irene Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Oral microbiome

Nonleachable Imidazolium-Incorporated Composite for Disruption of Bacterial Clustering, Exopolysaccharide-Matrix Assembly, and Enhanced Biofilm Removal – Geelsu Hwang – ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Review: The oral microbiome – Liam P. Shaw – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Use of Probiotics and Oral Health – Robert P. Allaker – Current Oral Health Reports

Subgingival Microbiome Colonization and Cytokine Production during Early Dental Implant Healing – Jeffrey B. Payne – mSphere

Human vaginal microbiome

The human female urogenital microbiome: complexity in normality – David A. MacIntyre – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiome production of short-chain fatty acids and obesity in children – Selvasankar Murugesan – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

The gut microbiome and hypertension – Pevsner-Fischer – Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

In vitro models of the human microbiota and microbiome – Julie A.K. McDonald – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Culturomics and Amplicon-based Metagenomic Approaches for the Study of Fungal Population in Human Gut Microbiota – Ibrahim Hamad – Scientific Reports

Lymphatic system and gut microbiota affect immunopathology of neuroinflammatory diseases, including multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica and Alzheimer’s disease – Ikuo Tsunoda – Clinical & Experimental Neuroimmunology

Effect of different treatments and alcohol addiction on gut microbiota in minimal hepatic encephalopathy patients – Zan Zuo – Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Microbes Tickling Your Tummy: the Importance of the Gut-Brain Axis in Parkinson’s Disease – Paula Perez-Pardo – Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports

Gancao-Gansui combination impacts gut microbiota diversity and related metabolic functions – Jingao Yu – Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Gut microbiome production of short-chain fatty acids and obesity in children – Selvasankar Murugesan – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Gut microbiota in human SLE and a mouse model of lupus – Xin M. Luo – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The interaction between smoking, alcohol and the gut microbiome – Gabriele Capurso – Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology

Animal experiments

Lactation-related metabolic mechanism investigated based on mammary gland metabolomics and 4 biofluids’ metabolomics relationships in dairy cows – Hui-Zeng Sun – BMC Genomics

Differences in the gut microbiota of dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) fed a natural diet or a commercial feed revealed by the Illumina MiSeq platform – Junhyung Kim – Gut Pathogens

Chronic glucocorticoid treatment induced circadian clock disorder leads to lipid metabolism and gut microbiota alterations in rats – Tao Wu – Life Sciences

Animal microbiome

Gut microbiota composition is associated with environmental landscape in honey bees – Julia C Jones –  Ecology and Evolution

Microbiota and environmental stress: how pollution affects microbial communities in Manila clams – M. Milan – Aquatic Toxicology

Analysis of the bacterial microbiome in the small octopus, Octopus variabilis, from South Korea to detect the potential risk of foodborne illness and to improve product management – Jin-JaeLee  – Food Research International

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Studies on mycorrhizal biodiversity in medicinal plant species of Pookode lake area, Wayanad, Kerala, India – Saranya Babu Jayaprakash C.M. – Annals of Plant Sciences

Effects of Iron Amendments on the Speciation of Arsenic in the Rice Rhizosphere after Drainage – Noriko Yamaguchi – Soils

Continuous application of different organic additives can suppress tomato disease by inducing the healthy rhizospheric microbiota through alterations to the bulk soil microflora – Hongjun Liu – Plant and Soil

Seasonal changes in a maize-based polyculture of central Mexico reshape the co-occurrence networks of soil bacterial communities – Eria A. Rebollar – Frontiers in Microbiology

Evolution of microbial communities during electrokinetic treatment of antibiotic-polluted soil – Hongna Li – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Roles of different active metal-reducing bacteria in arsenic release from arsenic-contaminated paddy soil amended with biochar – Jiang-taoQiao – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Legume crop rotation suppressed nitrifying microbial community in a sugarcane cropping soil – Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonhienne – Scientific Reports

Responses of soil nutrients and microbial communities to three restoration strategies in a karst area, southwest China – Dejun Li – Journal of Environmental Management

Microbial community structure and soil pH correspond to methane production in Arctic Alaska soils – Robert Wagner – Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Ocean biogeochemistry modeled with emergent trait-based genomics – V. J. Coles – Science

Bacterial Community Profiling of Waters from Aquaculture and Non-aquaculture Sites within Taal Lake Ecosystem through 16S rDNA Analysis – Leslie Michelle M. Dalmacio – The Philippine Journal of Health Research and Development

Prokaryotic Community Composition in Arctic Kongsfjorden and Sub-Arctic Northern Bering Sea Sediments as Revealed by 454 Pyrosequencing – Yin-Xin Zeng –  Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial communities shaped by treatment processes in a drinking water treatment plant and their contribution and threat to drinking water safety – Qi Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Diversity of microbial communities and quantitative chemodiversity in layers of marine sediment cores from an causeway (Kaichu-Doro) in Okinawa Island, Japan – Taha Soliman – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial Diversity and Biogeochemistry of Two Marine Shallow-Water Hydrothermal Systems off Dominica (Lesser Antilles) – Petra Pop Ristova – Frontiers in Microbiology

Spatially distinct, temporally stable microbial populations mediate biogeochemical cycling at and below the seafloor in hydrothermal vent fluids – Caroline S. Fortunato –  Environmental Microbiology

Functional diversity and redundancy across fish gut, sediment and water bacterial communities – Arthur Escalas – Environmental Microbiology

Built environment

Archaeal and Bacterial Community Structure in an Anaerobic Digestion Reactor (Lagoon Type) Used for Biogas Production at a Pig Farm – Pampillón-González L – Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology

Bacterial perspectives on the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in domestic wastewater bio-treatment systems: beneficiary to victim – Dong Wu – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Effect of ammonia on the active microbiome and metagenome and from stable full-scale digesters – J.Ruiz-Sánchez – Bioresource Technology

Droplet distribution and airborne bacteria in an experimental shower unit – C.E.Estrada-Perez – Water Research

Food Microbiology

Environmental Microbiota Drives Microbial Succession and Metabolic Profiles during Chinese Liquor Fermentation – Xueshan Wang – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Shotgun metagenomics and volatilome profile of the microbiota of fermented sausages -Ilario Ferrocino –  Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Bifidobacterium longum 1714 as a translational psychobiotic: modulation of stress, electrophysiology and neurocognition in healthy volunteers – A P Allen  – Translational Psychiatry

Phage and viruses

High HPV16 E6 viral load in the oral cavity is associated with an increased number of bacteria: A preliminary study – Hideo Shigeishi – Biomedical Reports

Kullback Leibler divergence in complete bacterial and phage genomes – Sajia Akhter – PeerJ

Review: The human gut virome: form and function – Lesley A. Ogilvie – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Deep sequencing reveals high bacterial diversity and phylogenetic novelty in pit mud from Luzhou Laojiao cellars for Chinese strong-flavor Baijiu – Mao-KeLiu – Food Research International

Bioinformatics

Accurate Determination of Bacterial Abundances in Human Metagenomes Using Full-length 16S Sequencing Reads – Fanny Perraudeau – bioRxiv

MetaLab: an automated pipeline for metaproteomic data analysis – Kai Cheng – Microbiome

ASAR: visual analysis of metagenomes in R – Askarbek Orakov – Bioinformatics

Bacteria & Biofuels

Metabolome analysis reveals a role for glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase in the inhibition of C. thermocellum by ethanol – Liang Tian – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Biophotovoltaics: Conversion of Light Energy to Bioelectricity Through Photosynthetic Microbial Fuel Cell Technology – Rashmi Chandra – Microbial Fuel Cell

Techniques

Electron microscopy reveals unique nano forms of bacterial spores – Sumanta Ghosh – bioRxiv

Continuous and High-throughput Electromechanical Lysis of Bacterial Pathogens using Ion Concentration Polarization – Minseok Kim – Analytical Chemistry

Microbes in the news

A New Antibiotic Weakness—Drugs Themselves Help Bacteria Survive

Exercise Changes Gut Microbial Composition Independent of Diet, Study Shows

Bacteria and obesity: Reviewing the connection between gut bacteria, obesity, and diet

Bacteria & Art

Bacteria Collection of Icons Vector Illustration

Tina’s non microbiology picks

PODCAST: This Scientist Wants To Dance On Mars (And She Just Might Make That Happen)

How to Review a Manuscript

December 4, 2017

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Today we have many interesting articles,  Marangoni A. evaluates  antifungal properties of Spirulina platensis against  Candida species; J. de Gunzburg  reports on gut microbiome  protection from antibiotics; E. Uhlig writes about removal of Escherichia coli from “ready‐to‐eat” salads .. while in my personal non microbiological pics you can read the study from A.Carter about women’s visibility in academic seminars. Apparently women ask fewer questions than men. Enjoy your winter read.

Events and jobs

Microbiology Professor, College of the Sequoias, San Jose

Postdoctoral Fellow, EMBL,Hinxton, United Kingdom

General microbiome

Review: Multidrug resistant (or antimicrobial-resistant) pathogens – alternatives to new antibiotics? – Anne-Sophie Brunel – Swiss Medical Weekly

Petri dish versus Winogradsky column: a longue durée perspective on purity and diversity in microbiology, 1880s-1980s – Grote M – History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Pregnancy and early life

32-week premature rupture of membranes caused by oropharyngeal microbiota – Alberto Hidalgo-Chicharro – Microbiology Society

Bacteriological and Immunological Profiling of Meconium and Fecal Samples from Preterm Infants: A Two-Year Follow-Up Study – Marta Gómez – Nutrients

Human respiratory microbiome

IL-17 and TNF-α Are Key Mediators of Moraxella catarrhalis Triggered Exacerbation of Allergic Airway Inflammation – Safa Alnahas – Frontiers in Immunology

Oral microbiome

Gingivitis and plaque prevention using three commercially available dentifrices: A comparative clinical and microbiological randomized control parallel study – Ramprasad Reddy – International Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation

Human vaginal microbiome

In vitro activity of Spirulina platensis water extract against different Candida species isolated from vulvo-vaginal candidiasis cases – Antonella Marangoni – PLOS One

Characterization of a New Ezakiella Isolated From the Human Vagina: Genome Sequence and Description of Ezakiella Massiliensis Sp. Nov – K Diop – Current Microbiology

Newly Isolated Lactobacilli Strains From Algerian Human Vaginal Microbiota: Lactobacillus Fermentum Strains Relevant Probiotic’s Candidates – Liza Ouarabi – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Human nearly-sterile sites

A comprehensive analysis of breast cancer microbiota and host gene expression – Kevin J. Thompson – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

Aging Gut Microbiota at the Cross-Road between Nutrition, Physical Frailty, and Sarcopenia: Is There a Gut–Muscle Axis? – Andrea Ticinesi – Nutrients

Adipose Tissue Metabolism and Cancer Progression: Novel Insights from Gut Microbiota? – Benedicte F. Jordan – Current Pathobiology Reports

Protection of the human gut microbiome from antibiotics – Jean de Gunzburg – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Gut microbiota and colorectal cancer: insights into pathogenesis for novel therapeutic strategies – Yongbo Kang – Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie

Genomic Analysis of a Pathogenic Bacterium, Paeniclostridium sordellii CBA7122 Containing the Highest Number of rRNA Operons, Isolated from a Human Stool Sample – Joon Yong Kim – Frontiers in Pharmacology

Cellular senescence in gastrointestinal diseases: from pathogenesis to therapeutics – Frey N – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology

Gut Symbiont Bacteroides fragilis Secretes a Eukaryotic-Like Ubiquitin Protein That Mediates Intraspecies Antagonism – Chatzidaki-Livanis M – mBio

Reduction in Gut Microbial Diversity as a Mechanism of Action of Exclusive Enteral Nutrition – Kaakoush NO – The American Journal of Gastroenterology

Adipose Tissue Metabolism and Cancer Progression: Novel Insights from Gut Microbiota? – Jordan BF – Current Pathobiology Reports

Review: A review of metabolic potential of human gut microbiome in human nutrition – Yadav M – Archives of Microbiology

Animal experiments 

Colonization with Escherichia coli EC 25 protects neonatal rats from necrotizing enterocolitis – Debi M. Thomas – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Bamboo Specialists From Two Mammalian Orders (Primates, Carnivora) Share a High Number of Low-Abundance Gut Microbe – EA McKenney – Microbial Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Organic Amendments in a Long-Term Field Trial-Consequences for the Bulk Soil Bacterial Community as Revealed by Network Analysis – CAO Schmid – Microbial Ecology

Distinctive Soil Archaeal Communities in Different Variants of Tropical Equatorial Forest – D Kerfahi – Microbial Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Comparative Analyses of Methanogenic and Methanotrophic Communities Between Two Different Water Regimes in Controlled Wetlands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China – Hongpeng Cui – Current Microbiology

Built environment

Microbial Insight into a Pilot-Scale Enhanced Two-Stage High-Solid Anaerobic Digestion System Treating Waste Activated Sludge – Jing Wu – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Food microbiology

Effects of household washing on bacterial load and removal of Escherichia coli from lettuce and “ready-to-eat” salads – Elisabeth Uhlig – Food Science & Nutrition

Organic food and the impact on human health – Hurtado-Barroso S – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Probiotics / prebiotics

Probiotics Ingestion Does Not Directly Affect Thyroid Hormonal Parameters in Hypothyroid Patients on Levothyroxine Treatment – Giorgia Spaggiari – Frontiers in Endocronology

Characterization of probiotic potential of Bacillus species isolated from a traditional brine pickle – Ragul K – Journal of Food Science and Technology

 

Bioinformatics

Microbiome Datasets Are Compositional: And This Is Not Optional – Gregory B. Gloor – Frontiers in Microbiology

A meta-proteomics approach to study the interspecies interactions affecting microbial biofilm development in a model community – Herschend J – Scientific Reports

A 16S rRNA gene sequencing and analysis protocol for the Illumina MiniSeq platform – Monica Pichler – bioRxiv

Techniques

Exploration of Microbial Communities Using the Thermo Scientific Varioskan LUX Multimode Reader and the Invitrogen EVOS FL Cell Imaging System – Anna Hiltunen – BioTechniques

Application of hierarchical oligonucleotide primer extension (HOPE) to assess relative abundances of ammonia- and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria – Giantommaso Scarascia – BMC Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Microorganisms on your scalp, ears and elbows can be turned into music

Microbes on the market

With $1M in funding, Phase Genomics looks to crack genetic codes and discover unknown bacteria

Tina’s non microbiological pics

Women’s visibility in academic seminars: women ask fewer questions than men

 

December 2, 2017

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Events and jobs
PhD Student – Developing and validating a computational model of the gut microbiota–mucosa interactions to replace and reduce animal experiments – Birmingham, UK

Assistant/Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology – SUNY Upstate Medical University – Syracuse, NY

Microbiology Manager – Cranleigh Scientific – Kent, England

Adjunct Anatomy and Physiology and Microbiology Instructor – City College – Altamonte Springs, FL

Program Manager – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Assistant Professor, Statistics and Microbiology – The University of Manitoba – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Human respiratory microbiome
Making It Last: Storage Time and Temperature Have Differential Impacts on Metabolite Profiles of Airway Samples from Cystic Fibrosis Patients – Stephen Wandro – MSystems

Human skin microbiome
Effects of cosmetics on the skin microbiome of facial cheeks with different hydration levels. – Silvia Esmeralda Pérez-Topete – Microbiology Open

Propionibacterium acnes induces autophagy in keratinocytes: involvement of multiple mechanisms. – Klára Megyeri – The Journal Of Investigative Dermatology

Human oral microbiome
A comparative study of the oral microbiome compositions of healthy postmenopausal, premenopausal, and prepubertal Nigerian females, using 16s rrna metagenomics methods. – K C Anukam – Nigerian Journal Of Clinical Practice

Oral Microbiome Composition Reflects Prospective Risk for Esophageal Cancers – Brandilyn A. Peters – Cancer Research

Review: Microbial colonization of the periodontal pocket and its significance for periodontal therapy. – Andrea Mombelli – Periodontology 2000

Review: Resilience of the Oral Microbiota in Health: Mechanisms That Prevent Dysbiosis. – B T Rosier – Journal Of Dental Research

Human gut microbiome
Specific substrate-driven changes in human faecal microbiota composition contrast with functional redundancy in short-chain fatty acid production. – Nicole Reichardt – The Isme Journal

A novel Ruminococcus gnavus clade enriched in inflammatory bowel disease patients – Andrew Brantley Hall – Genome Medicine

Characteristics of Fecal Microbiota in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease and Their Dynamic Changes During Infliximab Therapy. – Yizhong Wang – Journal Of Crohn’S & Colitis

Antibiotic Resistome in a large-scale healthy human gut microbiota deciphered by metagenomic and network analyses. – Jie Feng – Environmental Microbiology

Involvement of shared mucosal-associated microbiota in the duodenum and rectum in diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome. – Gangping Li – Journal Of Gastroenterology And Hepatology

Review: Are the decrease in circulating anti-α1,3-Gal IgG and the lower content of galactosyl transferase A1 in the microbiota of patients with multiple sclerosis a novel environmental risk factor for the disease? – Emmanuel Montassier – Molecular Immunology

Review: Combined therapies to treat complex diseases: The role of the gut microbiota in multiple sclerosis. – Laura Calvo-Barreiro – Autoimmunity Reviews

Review: Computational profiling of the gut–brain axis: microflora dysbiosis insights to neurological disorders – Nikolas Dovrolis – Briefings in Bioinformatics

Animal experiments
IL-17 is a protection effector against the adherent-invasive Escherichia coli in murine colitis. – Hai-Jia Zhang – Molecular Immunology

Changes in gut microbiota during development of compulsive checking and locomotor sensitization induced by chronic treatment with the dopamine agonist quinpirole. – Tony D Jung – Behavioural Pharmacology

Potential Impact of Metabolic and Gut Microbial Response to Pregnancy and Lactation in Lean and Diet-Induced Obese Rats on Offspring Obesity Risk. – Heather A Paul – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Clostridium butyricum exerts a neuroprotective effect in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury via the gut-brain axis. – H Li – Neurogastroenterology And Motility : The Official Journal Of The European Gastrointestinal Motility Society

Impacts of diarrhea on the immune system, intestinal environment, and expression of PGRPs in New Zealand rabbits – Yang Chen – PeerJ

Animal microbiome
Multi-level comparisons of cloacal, skin, feather and nest-associated microbiota suggest considerable influence of horizontal acquisition on the microbiota assembly of sympatric woodlarks and skylarks. – H Pieter J van Veelen – Microbiome

Microbiota and environmental stress: how pollution affects microbial communities in Manila clams – M. Milan – Aquatic Toxicology

Production and biotechnological potentialities of extracellular polymeric substances from sponge-associated Antarctic bacteria – Consolazione Caruso – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Review: Wild gut microbiota protect from disease. – Francesca S Gazzaniga – Cell Research

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Symbionts protect aphids from parasitic wasps by attenuating herbivore-induced plant volatiles. – Enric Frago – Nature Communications

Microbial decomposition is highly sensitive to leaf litter emersion in a permanent temperate stream. – Juanita Mora-Gómez – The Science Of The Total Environment

Influence of fertilizers and rice cultivation methods on the abundance and diversity of phyllosphere microbiome. – Shobit Thapa – Journal Of Basic Microbiology

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the guts of insects feeding on plants: prospects for discovering plant-derived antibiotics. – Katarzyna Ignasiak – Bmc Microbiology

Bacterial endosymbionts influence host sexuality and reveal reproductive genes of early divergent fungi – Stephen J. Mondo – Nature Communications

Organic amendments shift the phosphorus-correlated microbial co-occurrence pattern in the peanut rhizosphere network during long-term fertilization regimes – Yan Chen – Applied Soil Ecology

The interactive effects of arbuscular mycorrhiza and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria synergistically enhance host plant defences against pathogens – Alejandro Pérez-de-Luque – Scientific Reports

The impact of post-fire salvage logging on microbial nitrogen cyclers in Mediterranean forest soil – Lily Pereg – Science of the Total Environment

Review: Yeast population of the Kindo Peninsula lichens – A. V. Kachalkin – Microbiology

Review: Bacterial Endophyte Colonization and Distribution within Plants – Shyam L. Kandel – Microorganisms

Review: Emerging Microbial Biocontrol Strategies for Plant Pathogens – Sharifah Farhana Syed Ab Rahman – Plant Science

Water and extremophile microbiome
Microbial life on a sand grain: from bulk sediment to single grains. – David Probandt – The Isme Journal

Tracking active groundwater microbes with D2 O labeling to understand their ecosystem function. – Martin Taubert – Environmental Microbiology

Variability of the composition of the microbial community of the deep subsurface thermal aquifer in Western Siberia – V. V. Kadnikov – Microbiology

Cyanobacterial community structure in hot water springs of Indian North-Western Himalayas: A morphological, molecular and ecological approach – Yadvinder Singh – Algal Research

Built environment
Polar solar panels: Arctic and Antarctic microbiomes display similar taxonomic profiles. – Kristie Tanner – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Microorganisms of low-temperature heavy oil reservoirs (Russia) and their possible application for enhanced oil recovery – T. N. Nazina – Microbiology

Food microbiology
Review: Cereal fiber, fruit fiber, and type 2 diabetes: Explaining the paradox. – Karen M Davison – Journal Of Diabetes And Its Complications

Probiotics / prebiotics
Exploring the Impact of Food on the Gut Ecosystem Based on the Combination of Machine Learning and Network Visualization. – Hideaki Shima – Nutrients

Translational Development of Microbiome-Based Therapeutics: Kinetics of E. coli Nissle and Engineered Strains in Humans and Nonhuman Primates. – Caroline Kurtz – Clinical And Translational Science

Phages and viruses
Distribution and Inferred Evolutionary Characteristics of a Chimeric ssDNA Virus Associated with Intertidal Marine Isopods – Kalia S. I. Bistolas – Viruses

Microbial Ecology
Recipient-Biased Competition for an Intracellularly Generated Cross-Fed Nutrient Is Required for Coexistence of Microbial Mutualists – Alexandra L. McCully – mBio

Review: Cell-cell recognition and social networking in bacteria. – Vera Troselj – Environmental Microbiology

Bioinformatics
Functional sequencing read annotation for high precision microbiome analysis. – Chengsheng Zhu – Nucleic Acids Research

Reader reaction on the fast small-sample kernel independence test for microbiome community-level association analysis. – Bin Guo – Biometrics

Optimizing and evaluating the reconstruction of Metagenome-assembled microbial genomes – Bhavya Papudeshi – BMC Genomics

Resources and tools for the high-throughput, multi-omic study of intestinal microbiota – Aitor Blanco-Míguez – Briefings in Bioinformatics

Techniques
Identifying metabolites by integrating metabolome databases with mass spectrometry cheminformatics – Zijuan Lai – Nature Methods

Brief guide to the analysis, interpretation and presentation of microbiota data. – Stefan Zalewski – Archives Of Disease In Childhood. Education And Practice Edition

Optimized fluorescent proteins for the rhizosphere-associated bacterium Bacillus mycoides with endophytic and biocontrol agent potential. – Yanglei Yi – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Genome Announcements
Complete Genome Sequence of Bacillus altitudinis P-10, a Potential Bioprotectant against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, Isolated from Rice Rhizosphere in Java, Indonesia. – Anto Budiharjo – Genome Announcements

Mrakia arctica sp. nov., a new psychrophilic yeast isolated from an ice island in the Canadian High Arctic – Masaharu Tsuji – Mycoscience

Microbes in the news
New research provides insights into the skin microbiome – EurekAlert

Lab notes: The vaginal microbiome can predict whether a woman is going to have a premature baby – Scroll.in
Paper link: First-trimester vaginal microbiome diversity: A potential indicator of preterm delivery risk  (posted Nov 27, 2017)

How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure – Veronique Greenwood – Quanta Magazine

Gut Bacteria Predict Responses, Survival Time to PD-1 Cancer Immunotherapy – Bryant Furlow – Modern Medicine Network

Synthetic Glycolipids As A New Class Of Antimicrobials To Down-Regulate Cell Wall Functions – Narayanaswamy Jayaraman – Science Trends

The microbiological art of making a better sausage – Phys.Org

Will microbial protein replace meat on the table? – Digital Journal – Tim Sandle

New 3-D printed materials harness the power of bacteria – Maria Temming – Science News

Scientists Have Expanded the Genetic Code in Bacteria – Brad Jones – Futurism

Microbes on the market
Qiagen Joins French Biotech to Build the Next Generation of Microbiome Technology – Alex Dale – European Biotech News

DuPont and Ireland’s APC venture forward in microbiome-inspired pact – Will Chu – Nutra Ingredients

Rebiotix Announces Expansion of Phase 1 Trial of the Company’s Oral Capsule Microbiota Product, RBX7455, Following Successful Completion of Initial Study Arms – Markets Insider

Science, publishing, and career
Five ways to fix statistics – Jeff Leek – Nature

Tiffany’s non-microbiology picks
An Open Letter to the Senate Concerning H.R.1 and the Graduate Student Tax Provision – Alana Van Dervort
# A letter (that you can sign) against one part of the bill that passed this morning

November 30, 2017

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A wide variety of interesting articles: Antibiotics administrated during labour impact  infant gut microbiome development, altered gut microbiome is related to liver function in individuals with Hep B, specific pathogens can alter social signaling in drosophila, a comphrensive study of the impact of diet on the lemur gut microbiome, a survey of antibiotic resistence genes in the drinking water across multiple continents, the impact of the hospital microbiome on the gut microbiome of preterm infants, the first evidence of a gut archeae impact on the host immune system, and two popular news articles refuting yesterday’s report of possible alien bacteria on the international space station.

Events and jobs

Web Developer, Microbiome Core – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Account Manager – Microbiology –  South East England

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General microbiome

  • Health Economics and Regulations 

Faecal microbiota transplantation: a regulatory hurdle? – Frederick Verbeke – BMC Gastroenterology

Cost-effectiveness analysis of fecal microbiota transplantation for inflammatory bowel disease – Ting Zhang – Oncotarget

Pregnancy and early life

*Intrapartum antibiotics for GBS prophylaxis alter colonization patterns in the early infant gut microbiome of low risk infants – Jennifer C. Stearns – Scientific Reports

Human skin microbiome

Skin Immune Landscape: Inside and Outside the Organism – Florence Abdallah – Mediators of Inflammation

Human gut microbiome
*Gut Microbial Dysbiosis Is Associated with Altered Hepatic Functions and Serum Metabolites in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients – Jing Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Faecal bacterial microbiota in patients with cirrhosis and the effect of lactulose administration – Aditya Narayan Sarangi – BMC Gastroenterology

Delivered Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection – Dina Kao – JAMA

Capsules for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection – Krishna Rao – JAMA

Review: Antibiotic therapy in neonates and impact on gut microbiota and antibiotic resistance development: a systematic review – Jon Widding Fjalstad – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Long-term proton pump inhibitor therapy leads to small bowel bacterial overgrowth as determined by breath hydrogen and methane excretion – Agnieszka Sieczkowska – Journal of Breath Research

Review: Impact of gut microbiota on drug metabolism: an update for safe and effective use of drugs – Keumhan Noh – Archives of Pharmacal Research

Evaluating the effect of Clostridium difficile conditioned medium on fecal microbiota community structure – Sabina Horvat – Scientific Reports

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Animal experiments

Preprint: The Vibrio cholerae Type VI Secretion System Can Modulate Host Intestinal Mechanics to Displace Commensal Gut Bacteria – Savannah L Logan – bioRxiv

Genes and Gut Bacteria Involved in Luminal Butyrate Reduction Caused by Diet and Loperamide – Nakwon Hwang – Genes

Simultaneous delivery of antibiotics neomycin and ampicillin in drinking water inhibits fermentation of resistant starch in rats – Diana G. Carvajal-Aldaz – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Animal microbiome

*Pathogenic bacteria enhance dispersal through alteration of Drosophila social communication – Ian W. Keesey – Nature Communications

*Feeding strategy shapes gut metagenomic enrichment and functional specialization in captive lemurs – E. A. McKenney – Gut Microbes

Impact of Dietary Galacto-Oligosaccharide (GOS) on Chicken’s Gut Microbiota, Mucosal Gene Expression, and Salmonella Colonization – Rebecca-Ayme Hughes – Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Dietary energy drives the dynamic response of bovine rumen viral communities – Christopher L. Anderson – Microbiome

Effect of microalgae on intestinal inflammation triggered by soybean meal and bacterial infection in zebrafish – Karina Bravo-Tello – PLOS ONE

In vivo effects of Allium cepa L. on the selected gut microflora and intestinal histomorphology in broiler – Sajidur Rahman – Acta Histochemica

Enteric Pathogens and Their Toxin-Induced Disruption of the Intestinal Barrier through Alteration of Tight Junctions in Chickens – Wageha A. Awad – Toxins

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

The Ecological Role of Volatile and Soluble Secondary Metabolites Produced by Soil Bacteria – Olaf Tyc – Trends in Microbiology

Impact of peat mining, and restoration on methane turnover potentials and methane-cycling microorganisms in a northern bog – Max Reumer – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Burkholderia humptydooensis sp. nov., a New Species Related to Burkholderia thailandensis and the Fifth Member of the Burkholderia pseudomallei Complex – Apichai Tuanyok – Applied and Environment Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome
Functional Characterization of Probiotic Potential of Novel Pigmented Bacterial Strains for Aquaculture Applications – Sekar Jinendiran – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Resistome

Preprint: Increased usage of antiseptics is associated with reduced susceptibility in clinical isolates of S. aureus – Katherine Hardy – bioRxiv

*Catalogue of antibiotic resistome and host-tracking in drinking water deciphered by a large scale survey – Liping Ma – Microbiome

Review: Assessing the Risk of Antibiotic Resistance Transmission from the Environment to Humans: Non-Direct Proportionality between Abundance and Risk – Célia M. Manaia – Trends in Microbiology

Built environment

*Strain-resolved analysis of hospital rooms and infants reveals overlap between the human and room microbiome – Brandon Brooks – Nature Communications

Predominance and Metabolic Potential of Halanaerobium spp. in Produced Water from Hydraulically Fractured Marcellus Shale Wells – Daniel Lipus – Applied and Environment Microbiology

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Microbial Ecology

Effect of Antimicrobial and Physical Treatments on Growth of Multispecies Staphylococcal Biofilms – Elizabeth J. Stewart – Applied and Environment Microbiology

More Microbes

  • Archaea

*Associated Archaeon Methanosphaera stadtmanae Is Recognized through Its RNA and Induces – Tim Vierbuchen – Frontiers in Immunology

  • Synthetic Microbes

Analysis and Implementation of a Multicellular Feedback Control Strategy in a Synthetic Bacterial Consortium – Gianfranco Fiore – ACS Synthetic Biology

Techniques

Diazotroph community characterization via a high-throughput nifH amplicon sequencing and analysis pipeline – John Christian Gaby – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Direct PCR Offers a Fast and Reliable Alternative to Conventional DNA Isolation Methods for Gut Microbiomes – Elin Videvall – mSystems

Generation of bacteriophage-insensitive mutants of Streptococcus thermophilus using an antisense RNA CRISPR-Cas silencing approach – Brian McDonnell – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

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Microbes in the news

*Bacteria on Space Station Likely From Germy Humans, Not Aliens – Elaina Zachos – National Geographic

*We are basically positive that the Russians did not find alien bacteria in space – Mary Beth Griggs – Popular Science

Custom Bacteria Make New Molecules On Demand – Sam Lemonick – Forbes

Toilet art sheds light on gut health – Newshub

November 26, 2017

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Events and jobs

Microbiology Technician – Companion Animal Clinic – Midwestern University – Glendale, AZ

 

General microbiome

Biogas from slaughterhouse wastewater anaerobic digestion is driven by the archaeal family Methanobacteriaceae and bacterial families Porphyromonadaceae and Tissierellaceae – CE Granada – Renewable Energy

Ferrosenescence: the iron age of neurodegeneration? – A Sfera – Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

 

Pregnancy and early life

Intestinal Microbiota Composition in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Age-Matched Controls – LEX Leong – The Journal of Pediatrics

 

Multi-site human microbiome

Chapter: Microbiome – M Dewar – Bladder

 

Human respiratory microbiome

Bacterial microbiota of the nasal passages across the span of human life – L Bomar – Current Opinion in Microbiology

 

 

Human gut microbiome

Review: Aging and Parkinson’s Disease: Inflammaging, neuroinflammation and biological remodeling as key factors in pathogenesis – V Calabrese – Free Radical Biology and Medicine

 

Animal experiments 

The Gut Microbiota Facilitates Drifts in the Genetic Diversity and Infectivity of Bacterial Viruses – L de Sordi – Cell Host and Microbe

Differences in the gut microbiota of dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) fed a natural diet or a commercial feed revealed by the Illumina MiSeq platform – J Kim – Gut Pathogens

Influences of quorum-quenching probiotic bacteria on the gut microbial community and immune function in weaning pigs  – J Kim – Animal Science Journal

Dietary inclusion of xylanase improves growth performance, apparent total tract nutrient digestibility, apparent ileal digestibility of nutrients and amino acids and alters gut microbiota in growing pigs – KY Lee – Animal Feed Science and Technology

Age, sex, and TNF associated differences in the gut microbiota of mice and their impact on acute TNBS colitis – AJ Kozik – Experimental and Molecular Pathology

 

Animal microbiome 

Comparative analysis of gut bacterial communities of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) pre-hospitalization and post-rehabilitation by high-throughput sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA gene – MS Ahasan – Microbiological Research

Innate immune responses to metabolic stress can be detected in rumen fluids – E Trevisi – Research in Veterinary Science

Molecular characterization and potential sources of aqueous humor bacterial contamination during phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation in dogs – LCC Lacerda – Veterinary Microbiology

 

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Anaerobic microsites have an unaccounted role in soil carbon stabilization – M Keiluweit – Nature Communications

The rhizosphere and root exudates of maize seedlings drive plasmid mobilization in soil – H Zhu – Applied Soil Ecology

Review: AMF: The future prospect for sustainable agriculture – S Basu – Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology

Review: Modified mycotoxins: An updated review on their formation, detection, occurrence, and toxic effects – L Freire – Food and Chemical Toxicology

 

 

Food microbiology

Colonic fermentation of polyphenolics from Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) berries: Assessment of effects on microbial diversity by Principal Component Analysis – S Attri – Food Research International

Review: Yeast and yeast derivatives in feed additives and ingredients: Sources, characteristics, animal responses, and quantification methods – GC Shurson – Animal Feed Science and Technology

 

Probiotics / prebiotics

Turning Fruit Juice Into Probiotic Beverages – ALF Pereira – Fruit Juices

Probiotics in Newborns and Children – MW Lenfestey – Pediatric Clinics of North America

 

Phages and viruses

The gut virome of the protochordate model organism, Ciona intestinalis subtype A – BA Leigh – Virus Research

DDX3 is exploited by Arenaviruses to suppress type I interferons and favor their replication – ME  Loureiro – bioRxiv

MVP: a microbe–phage interaction database  – NL Gao – Nucleic Acids Research

Immune responses in influenza A virus and human coronavirus infections: an ongoing battle between the virus and host – J Zheng – Current Opinion in Virology

 

Bioinformatics

Deciphering the Effects of Microbiome on Plants Using Computational Methods – MS Khan – Plant Bioinformatics

Application of Bioinformatics in Understanding of Plant Stress Tolerance – J Upadhyay – Plant Bioinformatics

 

Techniques

Monitoring microbial communities using light sheet fluorescence microscopy – R Parthasarathy – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Precise and simultaneous enumeration of multiplex pathogens using multiplex polymer chain reaction coupled with a novel quantitative capillary electrophoresis – C Liu – Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical

Biomarkers of antibiotic resistance genes during seasonal changes in wastewater treatment systems  – Y-N Jiao – Environmental Pollution

 

Microbes in the news

The End is Nigh — Will Biology Doom Us or Save Us? – Labiotech.eu

Study: Common food preservative harms ‘good’ gut bacteria – The Maui News

Why you should NEVER eat off your plate after a fly lands on it: Insects’ legs and wings are teeming with bacteria from rotting carcasses and faeces – Daily Mail Online

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General microbiome

Coevolution between Mutualists and Parasites in Symbiotic Communities May Lead to the Evolution of Lower Virulence. –  PG Nelson – The American Naturalist

Survival of microbes in Earth’s stratosphere – PD Sarma – Current Opinion in Microbiology

In vitro antimicrobial activity of essential oils against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli found in a nation-wide commercial farm survey – R Palao – Animal Production Science

 

 

Human respiratory microbiome

Bacterial microbiota of the nasal passages across the span of human life – L Bomar – Current Opinion in Microbiology

 

Human skin microbiome

Diversity of bacterial communities on the facial skin of different age-group Thai males – A Wilantho – PeerJ

 

 

Human gut microbiome

Transformation of the anticancer drug doxorubicin in the human gut microbiome – A Yan – ACS Infectious Disease

Lactobacillus acidophilus Metabolizes Dietary Plant Glucosides and Externalizes Their Bioactive Phytochemicals – MC Theilmann – mBio

 

Animal experiments 

Alterations in gut microbiota associated with a cafeteria diet and the physiological consequences in the host. – JM Del Bas – International Journal of Obesity

 

Animal microbiome 

Prevalence survey of Toxoplasma gondii in hearts from Western Australian sows – K Hodgson – Animal Production Science

The Intestinal Microbiota of Tadpoles Differs from Those of Syntopic Aquatic Invertebrates – ML Lyra – Microbial Ecology

Characterization of the upper and lower respiratory tract microbiota in Piedmontese calves – I Nicola – Microbiome

Update: The microbiome of dogs and cats – what do we know in 2017?  – C Noli – Revue Vétérinaire Clinique

Age-related differences in the respiratory microbiota of chickens – L Glendinning – PLoS One

Species-specific signatures of the microbiome from Camponotus and Colobopsis ants across developmental stages. – MO Ramalho – PLoS One

Wolbachia infection alters the relative abundance of resident bacteria in adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, but not larvae. – MD Audsley – Molecular Ecology

Antibiotics reduce genetic diversity of core species in the honeybee gut microbiome. – K Raymann – Molecular Ecology

Gut microbes limit growth in House Sparrows nestlings (Passer domesticus), but not through limitations in digestive capacity. – KD Kohl – Integrative Zoology

 

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Fungal Endophyte Communities in Begonia Species from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest – AML Correia – Current Microbiology

Effects of silver-graphene oxide nanocomposites on soil microbial communities – M-J Kim – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Characterization of cellulolytic microbial consortium enriched on Napier grass using metagenomic approaches – P Kanokratana – Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Microbial competition for nitrogen and carbon is as intense in the subsoil as in the topsoil – DL Jones – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Warming, shading and a moth outbreak reduce tundra carbon sink strength dramatically by changing plant cover and soil microbial activity. – MB Dahl – Scientific Reports

 

Water microbiome and extremophile 

Review: Microbial mat ecosystems: Structure types, functional diversity, and biotechnological application – CM Prieto-Barajas – Electronic Journal of Biotechnology

Gelidatrema psychrophila sp. nov., a novel yeast species isolated from an ice island in the Canadian High Arctic – M Tsuji – Mycoscience

 

Built environment 

Aspergillus subgenus Polypaecilum from the built environment – JB Tanney – Studies in Mycology

Enrichment of syngas-converting communities from a multi-orifice baffled bioreactor – AL Arantes – Microbial Biotechnology

 

Food microbiology

Influence of heat processing on the volatile organic compounds and microbial diversity of salted and vacuum-packaged silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) fillets during storage – D Li – Food Microbiology

 

Phages and viruses

Two new viruses, MCV1 and MCV2, which infect Marinitoga bacteria isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents: Functional and genomic analysis – C Mercier – Environmental Microbiology

 

Techniques

A potential new species of porcine Actinobacillus defined by multi-locus sequence analysis – C Turni – Animal Production Science

Evaluation of two real time PCR assays for the detection of bacterial DNA in amniotic fluid – PG de Velasco-Sada – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Discrete False-Discovery Rate Improves Identification of Differentially Abundant Microbes – L Jiang – mSystems

Stripping flow cytometry: How many detectors do we need for bacterial identification? –  P Rubbens – Cytometry A

 

Microbes in the news

Bacterial Art Starts a Debate on Money and International Borders – Labiotech.eu

Superbugs And Rockets Side By Side At Science Museum – Londonist

November 23, 2017

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Today we have pretty much diverse Microbiome Digest particularly in the section of General microbiome. Interesting papers on E coli as a model organism for metabolic engineering, influence of exercise on our gut microbiota and influence of antibiotics on genetic diversity of honeybee gut microbiota. Enjoy reading these and many many more articles and news about microbes.

Events and jobs

PhD in Soil Microbiology, Teagasc Johnstown Castle, UK

PhD Fellowship in Molecular Microbiology, Copenhagen, Denmark

Postdoctoral Research Associate – Bacterial Evolutionary Genomics, Missoula, MT, US

Postdoctoral researchers – (Lemon Lab), Cambridge MA, US

Associate Professor/Professor in Microbiology, Nottingham, UK

General microbiome

The Immunomodulatory Drug Glatiramer Acetate is Also an Effective Antimicrobial Agent that Kills Gram-negative Bacteria – Stig Hill Christiansen – Scientific Reports

Temperate phages as self-replicating weapons in bacterial competition – Xiang-Yi Li – bioRxiv

Complete Genome Sequences of Seven Vibrio cholerae Phages Isolated in China – Sudhakar G. Bhandare – Genome Announcements

Survival of microbes in Earth’s stratosphere – Priya Das Sarma – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Review: Cable Bacteria Take a New Breath Using Long-Distance Electricity – Filip J.R. Meysman – Trends in Microbiology

Characterization of the CrbS/R Two-Component System in Pseudomonas fluorescens Reveals a New Set of Genes under Its Control and a DNA Motif Required for CrbR-Mediated Transcriptional Activation – Edgardo Sepulveda – Frontiers in Microbiology

The effect of the 2015 Earthquake on the bacterial community compositions in water in Nepal – Sital R. Uprety – Frontiers in Microbiology

Rokubacteria: genomic giants among the uncultured bacterial phyla – Eric D. Becraft – Frontiers in Microbiology

A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity – Luke R. Thompson – Nature

Pregnancy and early life

Microbial Mechanistic Insight into the Role of Inulin in Improving Maternal Health in a Pregnant Sow Model – Pan Zhou – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

A practical molecular identification of nonfermenting Gram-negative bacteria from cystic fibrosis – Carolina Paulino da CostaCapizzani – Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Oral microbiome

Over-the-counter mouthwash use and risk of pre-diabetes/diabetes – Kaumudi J.Joshipura – Nitric Oxide

Profiling of Oral Microbiota in Early Childhood Caries Using Single-Molecule Real-Time Sequencing – Yuan Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Exploring the association between Alzheimer’s disease, oral health, microbial endocrinology and nutrition – Alice Harding – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Oral microbiomes from hunter-gatherers and traditional farmers reveal shifts in commensal balance and pathogen load linked to diet – Florent Lassalle – Molecular Ecology

Human skin microbiome

Evaluation of short exposure times of antimicrobial wound solutions against microbial biofilms: from in vitro to in vivo – K Johani – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Human gut microbiome

Review: Influence of microbiota on intestinal immune system in ulcerative colitis and its intervention – Sailong Zhang – Frontiers in Immunology

Exercise Alters Gut Microbiota Composition and Function in Lean and Obese Humans – Allen, Jacob M – Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

The Kynurenine Pathway As a Novel Link between Allergy and the Gut Microbiome – Aaron P. Van der Leek – Frontiers in Immunology

The gut microbiota: A new potential driving force in liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma – Marco Sanduzzi Zamparelli – United European Gastroenterology Journal

Animal experiments 

Aged Gut Microbiota Contributes to Systemical Inflammaging after Transfer to Germ-Free Mice – Floris Fransen – Frontiers in Immunology

Animal microbiome

Species-specific signatures of the microbiome from Camponotus and Colobopsis ants across developmental stages – Manuela Oliveira Ramalho – PLOS One

Spontaneous body contractions are modulated by the microbiome of Hydra – Andrea P. Murillo-Rincon – Sceintific Reports

Age-related differences in the respiratory microbiota of chickens – Laura Glendinning – PLOS One

A potential new species of porcine Actinobacillus defined by multi-locus sequence analysis – C. Turni – Animal Production Science

Prevalence survey of Toxoplasma gondii in hearts from Western Australian sows – K. Hodgson – Animal Production Science

Antibiotics reduce genetic diversity of core species in the honeybee gut microbiome – Kasie Raymann –  Molecular Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Rhizosphere Microbiome Recruited from a Suppressive Compost Improves Plant Fitness and Increases Protection against Vascular Wilt Pathogens of Tomato – Anastasis Antoniou – Frontiers in Plant Science

Exogenous nitrogen addition reduces the temperature sensitivity of microbial respiration without altering the microbial community composition – Hui Wei – Frontiers in Microbiology

Parallelized, aerobic, single carbon-source enrichments from different natural environments contain divergent microbial communities – Theodore M. Flynn – Frontiers in Microbiology

The effect of Lobelia dortmanna L. on the structure and bacterial activity of the rhizosphere – KatarzynaLewicka-Rataj – Aquatic Botany

Illumina-Based Analysis of Endophytic and Rhizosphere Bacterial Diversity of the Coastal Halophyte Messerschmidia sibirica – Xue-Ying Tian – Frontiers in Microbiology

Functionality of Root-Associated Bacteria along a Salt Marsh Primary Succession – Miao Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

An Integrated Insight into the Relationship between Soil Microbial Community and Tobacco Bacterial Wilt Disease – Hongwu Yang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Deep ocean prokaryotic communities are remarkably malleable when facing long-term starvation – Marta Sebastián – Environmental Microbiology

Interrogating marine virus-host interactions and elemental transfer with BONCAT and nanoSIMS-based methods – Alexis L. Pasulka – Environmental Microbiology

Increased Denitrification Rates Associated with Shifts in Prokaryotic Community Composition Caused by Varying Hydrologic Connectivity – Abigail Tomasek – Frontiers in Microbiology

Chapter 4.1 – The Biota of Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams: Prokaryotes, Fungi, and Protozoans – Anna M. Romaní – Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams

Fungal diversity in deep-sea sediments of a hydrothermal vent system in the Southwest Indian Ridge – Wei Xu – Deep Sea Research Part I

Environmental factors shape water microbial community structure and function in shrimp cultural enclosure ecosystems – Dongwei Hou – Frontiers in Microbiology

Taxonomic and Functional Differences between Microbial Communities in Qinghai Lake and Its Input Streams – Ze Ren – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Diversity and Community Structure of Sulfate-Reducing and Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria in Sediment Cores from the East China Sea – Yu Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology
Stratified Bacterial and Archaeal Community in Mangrove and Intertidal Wetland Mudflats Revealed by High Throughput 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing – Zhichao Zhou – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Food microbiology

Novel insights into microbial community dynamics during the fermentation of Central European ice wine – Mária Bučková – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Diversity within Italian Cheesemaking Brine-Associated Bacterial Communities Evidenced by Massive Parallel 16S rRNA Gene Tag Sequencing – Marilena Marino – Frontiers in Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Lactobacillus acidophilus Metabolizes Dietary Plant Glucosides and Externalizes Their Bioactive Phytochemicals – Mia C. Theilmann – mBio

Phages and viruses

Bacteriophage Transcytosis Provides a Mechanism To Cross Epithelial Cell Layers – Sophie Nguyen – mBio

MVP: a microbe–phage interaction database  – Na L. Gao – Nucleic Acids Research

Biotechnology

Enrichment of lignocellulose-degrading microbial communities from natural and engineered methanogenic environments – Emine Gozde Ozbayram – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Escherichia coli as a model organism for systems metabolic engineering – Paul A.Adamczyk – Current Opinion in System Biology

Bioinformatics

Review: Computational Approaches for Integrative Analysis of the Metabolome and Microbiome – Jasmine Chong – Metabolites

Techniques

Nucleic acid purification from plants, animals and microbes in under 30 seconds – Yiping Zou – PLOS Biology

Lighting Van Leeuwenhoek’s samples – Lesley A. Robertson – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Analysis of Microbiome Data in the Presence of Excess Zeros – Abhishek Kaul – Frontiers in Microbiology

Stripping flow cytometry: How many detectors do we need for bacterial identification? – Peter Rubbens – Cytometry

Microbes in the news 

Plague Bacteria Entered Europe During Neolithic Age, Genetic Analysis Finds 

How the Immune System Identifies Invading Bacteria

Scientists Program Remote-Controlled Nanobots to Kill Cancer

Microbes on the market 

Qualitative Report on Human Microbiome Market 

Microbes and art

Superbugs And Rockets Side By Side At Science Museum

 

 

 

November 17, 2017

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Jobs and events

Lab Assistant – Microbiology, Dublin Ohio

General microbiome

Evolution of the hygiene hypothesis into biota alteration theory: what are the paradigms and where are the clinical applications? – Chantal Villeneuve, Microbes and Infection

Human gut microbiome

Identifying predictive features of Clostridium difficile infection recurrence before, during, and after primary antibiotic treatment – Sepideh Pakpour, Microbiome

Gastric microbiome of Indian patients with Helicobacter pylori infection, and their interaction networks – Anubhav Das, Scientific Reports

Discovery of an expansive bacteriophage family that includes the most abundant viruses from the human gut – Natalya Yutin, Nature Microbiology

Fecal Transplantation for Treatment of Clostridium Difficile Infection in Elderly and Debilitated Patients – Tali Friedman-Korn, Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Myocardial infarction and gut microbiota: an incidental connection – Sepideh ZununiVahed, Pharmacological Research

Anxiety, Depression, and the Microbiome: A Role for Gut Peptides – Gilliard Lach, Neurotherapeutics

The nursing home elder microbiome stability and associations with age, frailty, nutrition and physical location – John P. Haran, Journal of Medical Microbiology

Human nearly-sterile sites

Risk of Subsequent Sepsis within 90 Days of a Previous Hospital Stay by Type of Antibiotic Exposure – James Baggs, Clinical Infectious Diseases

Human vaginal microbiome

Microbial Diversity of Genital Ulcers of HSV-2 Seropositive Women – Supriya D. Mehta, Scientific Reports

Animal experiments

The green tea modulates large intestinal microbiome and exo/endogenous metabolome altered through chronic UVB-exposure – Eun Sung Jung, PLOS ONE

Acute Administration of the Nonpathogenic, Saprophytic Bacterium, Mycobacterium vaccae, Induces Activation of Serotonergic Neurons in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus and Antidepressant-Like Behavior in Association with Mild Hypothermia – Philip H. Siebler, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Maternal High Fat Diet and its Consequence on the Gut Microbiome: A Rat Model – Phyllis E. Mann, Gut Microbes

Environmental Burkholderia cenocepacia Strain Enhances Fitness by Serial Passages during Long-Term Chronic Airways Infection in Mice – Alessandra Bragonzi, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Enteric Delivery of Regenerating Family Member 3 alpha Alters the Intestinal Microbiota and Controls Inflammation in Mice With Colitis – Marion Darnaud, Gastroenterology

Animal microbiome

Novel viruses in salivary glands of mosquitoes from sylvatic Cerrado, Midwestern Brazil – Andressa Zelenski de Lara Pinto, PLOS ONE

New evidence showing that the destruction of gut bacteria by antibiotic treatment could increase the honey bee’s vulnerability to Nosema infection – Jiang Hong Li, PLOS ONE

Relative importance of honeydew and resin for the microbial activity in wood ant nest and forest floor substrate – a laboratory study – Veronika Jílková, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Common Cutaneous Bacteria Isolated from Snakes Inhibit Growth of Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola – Aubree J. Hill, EcoHealth

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Fungal community reveals less dispersal limitation and potentially more connected network than that of bacteria in bamboo forest soils – Xian Xiao, Molecular Ecology

Influence of compost and biochar on microbial communities and the sorption/degradation of PAHs and NSO-substituted PAHs in contaminated soils – Gabriel Sigmund, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Epiphytic Bacteria Alter Floral Scent Emissions – Carola Helletsgruber, Journal of Chemical Ecology

In vitro bacterization of banana (Musa spp.) with native endophytic and rhizospheric bacterial isolates: Novel ways to combat Fusarium wilt – M. Kavino, European Journal of Plant Pathology

Foliar microbiome transplants confer disease resistance in a critically-endangered plant – Geoffrey Zahn, PeerJ

The response of soil microbial communities to variation in annual precipitation depends on soil nutritional status in an oligotrophic desert – Cristina Montiel-González, PeerJ

Entomopathogenic Fungi as Dual Control Agents against Both the Pest Myzus persicae and Phytopathogen Botrytis cinerea – Hwi-Geon Yun, Mycobiology

Glycomyces rhizosphaerae sp. nov., isolated from the root and rhizosphere soil of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) – Wenchao Li, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

A comparison between biostimulation and bioaugmentation in a solid treatment of anaerobic sludge: Drug content and microbial evaluation – G. Llorens-Blanch, Waste Management

Iron Chloride Flocculation of Bacteriophages from Seawater – Bonnie T. Poulos, Bacteriophages

Multi-Level Contact Oxidation Process Performance When Treating Automobile Painting Wastewater: Pollutant Removal Efficiency and Microbial Community Structures – Yufang Zhu, Water

Insights from the Genomes of Microbes Thriving in Uranium-Enriched Sediments – Brodie Sutcliffe, Microbial Ecology

Biogeography at the limits of life: Do extremophilic microbial communities show biogeographical regionalization? – Dave R. Clark, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Diversity of microbiota found in coffee processing wastewater treatment plant – Josiane Ferreira Pires, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Food microbiology

Epiphytic fungal community in Vitis vinifera of the Portuguese wine regions – M. Oliveira, Letters in Applied Microbiology

Bioinformatics

HgtSIM: a simulator for horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in microbial communities – Weizhi Song, PeerJ

Techniques

Significance estimation for large scale metabolomics annotations by spectral matching – Kerstin Scheubert, Nature

Single primer isothermal amplification (SPIA) combined with next generation sequencing provides complete bovine coronavirus genome coverage and higher sequence depth compared to sequence-independent single primer amplification (SISPA) – Mette Myrmel, PLOS ONE

Developing selective media for quantification of multispecies biofilms following antibiotic treatment – Eva Vandeplassche, PLOS ONE

Microbes in the news

Microbiology: Bacteria disarm host-defence proteins – John D. MacMicking, Nature News and Views

Probiotics: Health boost or waste of cash? – Anne Allred, 5-ON-YOUR-SIDE

Cygnus Open for Business; Crew Unloading New Bacteria, Plant and Tech Studies – Mark Garcia, NASA blog

Bacteria Hysteria

Your supermarket is filled with germs — here are 7 facts that will make you dread grocery shopping –  Joanna Fantozzi, Insider

November 15, 2017

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Virome analysis of bats and archaea, bioinformatics tools for metatranscriptomics analysis, using mass spectrometry for studying microbiome metabolomics.

General microbiome

Review: An integrative omics perspective for the analysis of chemical signals in ecological interactions – A E Brunetti – Chemical Society Reviews

Pregnancy and early life

Pre-print: Hospitalized premature infants are colonized by related bacterial strains with distinct proteomic profiles – Christopher T Brown – bioRxiv

Human respiratory microbiome

The role of the microbiome in childhood asthma – Giovanna Pisi – Immunotherapy

Human vaginal microbiome

Pre-print: A new sequencing-based women’s health assay combining self-sampling, HPV detection and genotyping, STI detection, and vaginal microbiome analysis – Elisabeth M Bik – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiota and body composition in anorexia nervosa inpatients in comparison to athletes, overweight, obese, and normal weight controls – Sabrina Mörkl – International Journal of Eating Disorders

Review: Gut Microbiota-Dependent Modulation of Energy Metabolism – C N Heiss – Journal of Innate Immunity

Animal experiments

Antimicrobial emulsifier – glycerol monolaurate induces metabolic syndrome, gut microbiota dysbiosis and systemic low-grade inflammation in low-fat diet fed mice – Zengliang Jiang – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

A temperature sensitive Mycobacterium paragordonae induces enhanced protective immune responses against mycobacterial infections in the mouse model – Byoung-Jun Kim – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

Review: The B vitamin nutrition of insects: the contributions of diet, microbiome and horizontally acquired genes – Angela E Douglas – Current Opinion in Insect Science

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Brassica napus has a key role in the recovery of the health of soils contaminated with metals and diesel by rhizoremediation – Rafael G Lacalle – Science of the Total Environment

Water and extremophile microbiome

Purification of eutrophic water containing chlorpyrifos by aquatic plants and its effects on planktonic bacteria – Xing-Jian Xu – Chemosphere

Cultivation of an immobilized (hyper)thermophilic marine microbial community in a bioreactor – M Landreau – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Pre-print: Dynamics of finely resolved, abundant symbiotic marine plankton and other interacting microbes via automated high-frequency sampling – David M Needham – bioRxiv

Food microbiology

Pre-print: Fusicatenibacter Is Associated with Kefir Drinking – Richard Sprague – bioRxiv

Probiotics/prebiotics

A novel double-layer mucoadhesive tablet containing probiotic strain for vaginal administration: Design, development and technological evaluation – María Teresa Sánchez – European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Efficacy and Safety of a Multistrain Probiotic Formulation Depends from Manufacturing – Vito Trinchieri – Frontiers in Immunology

Phages and viruses

Virome analysis of two sympatric bat species (Desmodus rotundus and Molossus molossus) in French Guiana – Arielle Salmier – PLOS ONE

Review: The enigmatic archaeal virosphere – David Prangishvili – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Old meets new: most probable number validation of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic datasets in soil – Tim H Mauchline – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Pre-print: AQMM: Enabling Absolute Quantification of Metagenome and Metatranscriptome – Xiao-Tao Jiang – bioRxiv

Metabolomics

Review: Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: Targeting the crosstalk between gut microbiota and brain in neurodegenerative disorders – Hemi Luan – Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Pre-print: Coupling MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry protein and specialized metabolite analyses to rapidly discriminate bacterial function – Chase Clark – bioRxiv

Techniques

Evaluating in vitro culture medium of gut microbiome with orthogonal experimental design and metaproteomics approach – Leyuan Li – Journal of Proteome Research

More microbes

Pre-print: Chemotaxis allows bacteria to overcome host-generated reactive oxygen species that constrain gland colonization – Kieran D Collins – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Specimens of Earth’s Oldest Known Life Forms Have Been Discovered in Tasmania – Michelle Starr – Science Alert

Shape-shifting agent targets harmful bacteria in the stomach – Phys.Org

Opinion: Not Just Antibiotics: Is Cancer Chemotherapy Driving Antimicrobial Resistance? – Lito E Papanicolas – Trends in Microbiology

Microbes on the market

A Silicon Valley Startup Wants Women To Test Their Vaginal Microbiota At Home – Ellie Kincaid – Forbes

Seres teams with cancer heavyweights for microbiome-checkpoint inhibitor combination trial – Nick Paul Taylor – FierceBiotech

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General microbiome

Rapid colonization of artificial endolithic uninhabited habitats – Charles S. Cockell, International Journal of Astrobiology

A bacterial pioneer produces cellulase complexes that persist through community succession – Sebastian Kolinko, Nature Microbiology

Endoglucanase and Xylanase Production by Chryseobacterium Species Isolated from Decaying Biomass – Asisipho Nkohla, Polish Journal of Environmental Studies

Human gut microbiome

Extended screening costs associated with selecting donors for fecal microbiota transplantation for treatment of metabolic syndrome-associated diseases – Laura J Craven, Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Fecal microbiota signatures of adult patients with different types of short bowel syndrome – Yuhua Huang, Gastroenterology

Association Between Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth by Glucose Breath Test and Coronary Artery Disease – Andre Fialho, Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Fungi in Gastrointestinal Tracts of Human and Mice: from Community to Functions – Jiayan Li, Microbial Ecology

Animal experiments

Transcriptomics-driven lipidomics (TDL) identifies the microbiome-regulated targets of ileal lipid metabolism – Anirikh Chakrabarti, npj Systems Biology and Applications

Vitamin A deficiency in mice alters host and gut microbial metabolism leading to altered energy homeostasis – Yuan Tian, The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Subtle Microbiome Manipulation Using Probiotics Reduces Antibiotic-Associated Mortality in Fish – Victor Schmidt, mSystems

Effect of partially replacing a barley-based concentrate with flaxseed-based products on the rumen bacterial population of lactating Holstein dairy cows – E. Castillo-Lopez, Journal of Applied Microbiology

How gut transcriptional function of Drosophila melanogaster varies with the presence and composition of the gut microbiota – Alyssa Bost, Molecular Ecology

Gut microbiomes and reproductive isolation in Drosophila – Philip T. Leftwich, PNAS

Composition, diversity and function of intestinal microbiota in pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) at different culture stages – Shenzheng Zeng, PeerJ

Animal microbiome

FVD: The fish-associated virus database – Yaxin Chen, Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Bats host diverse parvoviruses as possible origin of mammalian dependoparvoviruses and source for bat–swine interspecies transmission –  Susanna K. P. Lau, Journal of General Virology

Forest canopy, water level, and biopesticide interact to determine oviposition habitat selection in Aedes albopictus – Christopher A. Binckley, Journal of Vector Ecology

Ecological characterization of Aedes aegyptilarval habitats (Diptera: Culicidae) in artificial water containers in Girardot, Colombia – Diana C. Garcia-Sánchez, Journal of Vector Ecology

Microbiota associated with tubes of Escarpia sp. from cold seeps in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean constitutes a community distinct from that of surrounding marine sediment and water – Renata Medina-Silva, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Changes in the soil bacterial community along a pedogenic gradient – Manuel Sánchez-Marañón, Scientific Reports

 

Rhizosphere activity and atmospheric methane concentrations drive variations of methane fluxes in a temperate forest soil – Jens-Arne Subke, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

The Impact of the Diurnal Cycle on the Microbial Transcriptome in the Rhizosphere of Barley – Divyashri Baraniya, Microbial Ecology

The temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition is constrained by microbial access to substrates – Gabriel Y.K. Moinet, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Application of Aspergillus aculeatus to rice roots reduces Cd concentration in grain – Yan Xie, Plant and Soil

Screening Bacillus species as biological control agents of Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici on wheat – Lirong Yang, Biological Control

Soil geochemical factors regulate Cd accumulation by metal hyperaccumulating Noccaea caerulescens (J. Presl & C. Presl) F.K. Mey in field-contaminated soils – Carla E. Rosenfeld, Science of The Total Environment

Antibiotics in the Soil: Sources, Environmental Issues, and Bioremediation – Umesh B. Jagtap, Antibiotics and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Soils

Water and extremophile microbiome

Microaerophilic alkane degradation in Pseudomonas extremaustralis: a transcriptomic and physiological approach – Paula M. Tribelli, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Potential Role of Halophile in Crude Glycerol Based Biorefinery – Noopur Singh, Biorefining of Biomass to Biofuels

Structural basis of antifreeze activity of a bacterial multi-domain antifreeze protein – Chen Wang, PLOS one

Imaging of Cellular Oxidoreductase Activity Suggests Mixotrophic Metabolisms in Thiomargarita spp. – Jake V. Bailey, mBio

Carbohydrate active enzyme domains from extreme thermophiles: components of a modular toolbox for lignocellulose degradation – Jonathan Botha, Extremophiles

Prospects of Solvent Tolerance in Butanol Fermenting Bacteria – Shuvashish Behera, Biorefining of Biomass to Biofuels

Association between degradation of pharmaceuticals and endocrine-disrupting compounds and microbial communities along a treated wastewater effluent gradient in Lake Mead – Susanna M. Blunt, Science of the Total Environment

Effect of TiO2 and CeO2 nanoparticles on the metabolic activity of surficial sediment microbial communities based on oxygen microelectrodes and high-throughput sequencing – Lingzhan Miao, Water Research

Performance and microbial communities in a combined bioelectrochemical and sulfur autotrophic denitrification system at low temperature – Dan Chen, Chemosphere

Ongoing biodegradation of Deepwater Horizon oil in beach sands: Insights from tracing petroleum carbon into microbial biomass – Joel T. Bostic, Marine Pollution Bulletin

Antibiotic degradation and microbial community structures during acidification and methanogenesis of swine manure containing chlortetracycline or oxytetracycline – Fubin Yin, Bioresource Technology

Metagenomics profiling for assessing microbial diversity in both active and closed landfills – Mohamad Yusof Zainun, Science of The Total Environment

Development of a microbial community-based index of biotic integrity (MC-IBI) for the assessment of ecological status of rivers in the Taihu Basin, China – Lihua Niu, Ecological Indicators

Microbial community response to silver nanoparticles and Ag+in nitrifying activated sludge revealed by ion semiconductor sequencing – Carley A. Gwin, Science of The Total Environment

Anaerobic co-digestion of pig manure and food waste; effects on digestate biosafety, dewaterability, and microbial community dynamics – C. Dennehy, Waste Management

Evaluating the impacts of triclosan on wastewater treatment performance during startup and acclimation – R. M. Holzem, Water Science and Technology

Nitrifier Gene Abundance and Diversity in Sediments Impacted by Acid Mine Drainage – Bhargavi Ramanathan, Frontiers in Microbiology

Live Faecalibacterium prausnitzii induces greater TLR2 and TLR2/6 activation than the dead bacterium in an apical anaerobic co-culture system – Eva Maier, Cellular Microbiology

Food microbiome

A mathematical model to predict early quality attributes in hake during storage at low temperature – C. Vilas, Journal of Food Engineering

Chemical, Physiochemical, and Microstructural Properties, and Probiotic Survivability of Fermented Goat Milk Using Polymerized Whey Protein and Starter Culture Kefir Mild 01 – Hao Wang, Food Microbiology & Safety

Re-evaluation of mono- and di-glycerides of fatty acids (E 471) as food additives – EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food (ANS), European Food Safety Authority

Opportunities and hurdles of edible insects for food and feed – D. Dobermann, Nutrition Bulletin

Re-evaluation of alginic acid and its sodium, potassium, ammonium and calcium salts (E 400–E 404) as food additives – EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food (ANS), European Food Safety Authority

The SALAMANDER project: SALivAry bioMarkers of mediterraneAN Diet associated with long-tERm protection against type 2 diabetes – G. B. Proctor, Nutrition Bulletin

Polyphenols and health: Interactions between fibre, plant polyphenols and the gut microbiota – C. A. Edwards, Nutrition Bulletin

Techniques

Optimization of Culture Conditions for the Production of Halophilic Protease by Newly Isolated Bacillus sonorensis – S. Sankaralingam, American-Eurasian Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Science