Microbiome in patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome, gastric bypass operations induces long-term microbiome changes, environmental enteropathy in a mouse model, respiratory viruses in large families, and microbiology of restaurant grease waste.
Events
Microbiome R&D and Business Collaboration Forum – September 10-11, 2015, San Diego, USA
European Microbiome Congress 2015 – 18 and 19 November 2015, London, UK
Microbiome of pregnancy and birth
Review: Antibiotics and the developing infant gut microbiota and resistome – Molly K Gibson – Current Opinion in Microbiology
Review: Early Life Experience and Gut Microbiome: The Brain-Gut-Microbiota Signaling System – Cong, Xiaomei – Advances in Neonatal Care
Review: The Prescient Placenta – Christopher Coe – The Scientist
Human respiratory microbiome
Community Surveillance of Respiratory Viruses Among Families in the Utah Better Identification of Germs-Longitudinal Viral Epidemiology (BIG-LoVE) Study – L. Byington – Clinical Infectious Diseases
Human gut microbiome
Reduction of butyrate- and methane-producing microorganisms in patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Marta Pozuelo – Scientific Reports
Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Vertical Banded Gastroplasty Induce Long-Term Changes on the Human Gut Microbiome Contributing to Fat Mass Regulation – Valentina Tremaroli – Cell Metabolism
Gut-Microbiota-Metabolite Axis in Early Renal Function Decline – Clara Barrios – PLOS ONE
Editorial: Microbiome reflects status of RA and response to therapy – Robert Phillips – Nature Reviews Rheumatology
Microbiome models
Bacterial sensing underlies artificial sweetener-induced growth of gut Lactobacillus – Kristian Daly – Environmental Microbiology
Diet and specific microbial exposure trigger features of environmental enteropathy in a novel murine model – Eric M. Brown – Nature Communications
Animal microbiome
Dominant ectosymbiotic bacteria of cellulolytic protists in the termite gut also have the potential to digest lignocellulose – Masahiro Yuki – Environmental Microbiology
Two gut community enterotypes recur in diverse bumblebee species – Jilian Li- Current Biology
Unique metabolites protect earthworms against plant polyphenols – Manuel Liebeke – Nature Communications
Streptococcus panodentis sp. nov., from the oral cavities of chimpanzees – Masaaki Okamoto – Microbiology and Immunology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Fungal root endophytes of Quercus robur subjected to flooding – H. Kwaśna – Forest Pathology
Land Use and Precipitation Affect Organic and Microbial Carbon Stocks and the Specific Metabolic Quotient in Soils of Eleven Ecosystems of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania – Holger Pabst – Land Degradation & Development
The Phytophthora species assemblage and diversity in riparian alder ecosystems of western Oregon, USA – Laura Lee Sims – Mycologia
Bacterial community structures as a diagnostic tool for watershed quality assessment – Luigimaria Borruso – Research in Microbiology
Water microbiome
Planktonic and sedimentary bacterial diversity of Lake Sayram in summer – Lei Fang – Microbiology Open
Waste and bioreactor microbiome
Reactor performance and microbial community dynamics during anaerobic co-digestion of municipal wastewater sludge with restaurant grease waste at steady state and overloading stages – Vahid Razaviarani – Bioresource Technology
Arsenic toxicity effects on microbial communities and nutrient cycling in indoor experimental channels mimicking a fluvial system – Baigal-Amar Tuulaikhuu – Aquatic Toxicology
Metagenomics and bioinformatics
Xander: employing a novel method for efficient gene-targeted metagenomic assembly – Qiong Wang – Microbiome
Metabolomics
Symposium report: Olfaction in the Kidney: ‘Smelling’ gut microbial metabolites – Niranjana Natarajan and Jennifer L. Pluznick – Experimental Physiology
Microbial Ecology
Clustering in community structure across replicate ecosystems following a long-term bacterial evolution experiment – Hasan Celiker & Jeff Gore – Nature Communications
Microbes in the news
Interview with Peter DiLaura, CEO of Second Genome: Data Mining The Microbiome Toward A Cure For Inflammatory Disease – Peter High – Forbes
Weight loss surgery benefits for gut microbiome last at least a decade – MedicalXpress
Extreme weight loss surgery works, but is it thanks to the knife—or the microbes? – Mitch Leslie – Science
A Belated Look at New York’s Cooling Towers, Prime Suspect in Legionnaires’ Outbreak – Winnie Hu and Noah Remnick – NY Times
Amid Legionnaires’ Fears, City Proposes New Cooling Tower Rules – Mara Gay and Corinne Ramey – Wall Street Journal
Randomised clinical study: Aspergillus niger-derived enzyme digests gluten in the stomach of healthy volunteers – B. N. Salden – Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Study: Citrus Greening Bacterium Gives Vector Unexpected Boost – Paul Rusnak – Growing Produce
Team identifies mutations that allow bacteria to resist antibiotics – Phys.org
Africa is within reach of being declared a polio free region – The Conversation
Viruses Thrive In Big Families, In Sickness and In Health – University of Utah
Science, career, and publishing
Where Next for Genetics and Genomics? – Chris Tyler-Smith – PLOS Biology
Tech Women Triumph: $30k Funding In A Day, Success Under Pressure, True Leaders Inspire – Leo King – Forbes
#ilooklikeanengineer wants to challenge your ideas about who can be a scientist – Susan Svrluga – Washington Post
#FieldWorkFail: Gluing Yourself to a Live Crocodile and Other Mistakes: Scientists share the gross, scary, and often hilarious reality of doing experiments in the wild – Robinson Meyer – The Atlantic
9 Scientists Told Us What Scares Them The Most – Kelly Oakes – BuzzFeed
Bik’s Picks
Jack the Ripper’s final victim set to be exhumed following new theory on the killer’s identity – Doug Bolton – Independent
Scientists unearth earthworm’s ability to digest plant toxins – LiveMint
Are monarch butterflies really being massacred? A new study says it’s a lot more complicated than it seems – Sarah Kaplan – Washington Post
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