Multiple articles on plant and soil microbiome, along with new BSCs (under “Water and extremophile microbiome) and some new computational methods! And a search for a microbiome core director from my thesis lab, please forward!

Events and jobs
Microbiome Core Director (Research Associate/Research Scientist) – Huttenhower Lab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Microbiology/Majors Biology Professor – College of the Sequoias Community College District in Visalia, CA

Pregnancy and early life
Modeling Metabolic Interactions in a Consortium of the Infant Gut Microbiome – Francisco Pinto – Frontiers in Microbiology

Faecal microbiota transplant in a child with very early onset inflammatory bowel disease – Carlos Sierra Salinas – Anales De Pediatria (Barcelona, Spain : 2003)

Multi-site human microbiome
Review: Gut microbial balance and liver transplantation: alteration, management, and prediction – Xinyao Tian – Frontiers of Medicine

Human respiratory microbiome
Atopobium and Fusobacterium as novel candidates for sarcoidosis-associated microbiota. – Alexandra Zimmermann – The European Respiratory Journal

Associations between infant fungal and bacterial dysbiosis and childhood atopic wheeze in a nonindustrialized setting – Marie-Claire Arrieta – The Journal Of Allergy And Clinical Immunology

Human vaginal microbiome
High rates of bacterial vaginosis and Chlamydia in a low-income, high-population-density community in Cape Town – Katie S. Lennard – South African Journal of Science and Technology

Human gut microbiome
Subspecies in the global human gut microbiome – Paul I Costea – Molecular Systems Biology

Investigation of bioaccessibility of Cu, Fe, Mn, and Zn in market vegetables in the colon using PBET combined with SHIME. – Naiyi Yin – Scientific Reports

Improving regulation of microbiota transplants – Diane Hoffmann – Science

The Human Gut Microbial Metabolome Modulates Fungal Growth via the TOR Signaling Pathway – Carlos García – MSphere

Review: Our Gut Microbiome: The Evolving Inner Self. – Parag Kundu – Cell

Review: The gut microbiota – an emerging risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease – Stefanie Ascher – European Journal of Immunology

Animal experiments
Microbial communities exhibit host-species distinguishability and phylosymbiosis along the length of the gastrointestinal tract – Kevin D. Kohl – Molecular Ecology

Bile acid is a significant host factor shaping the gut microbiome of diet-induced obese mice. – Xiaojiao Zheng – Bmc Biology

Rumen Bacteria Communities and Performances of Fattening Lambs with a Lower or Greater Subacute Ruminal Acidosis Risk – Fei Li – Frontiers in Microbiology: Systems Microbiology

Dietary Antioxidant Micronutrients Alter Mucosal Inflammatory Risk in a Murine Model of Genetic and Microbial Susceptibility  – JF Pierre – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Dietary stachyose altered the intestinal microbiota profile and improved the intestinal mucosal barrier function of juvenile turbot, Scophthalmus maximus L. – Pei Yang – Aquaculture

Diversity, in-vitro virulence traits and antifungal susceptibility pattern of gastrointestinal yeast flora of healthy poultry, Gallus gallus domesticus. – Supram Hosuru Subramanya – Bmc Microbiology

Animal microbiome
Dispersal limitation promotes the diversification of the mammalian gut microbiota – Andrew H. Moeller – PNAS

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Multiple new cryptic pathogenic Phytophthora species from Fagaceae forests in Austria, Italy and Portugal – Thomas Jung – IMA Fungus

Soil characteristics determine the rhizobia in association with different species of Mimosa in central Brazil – Raquel de Castro Pires – Plant and Soil

Effects of organochlorine pesticides on plant growth-promoting traits of phosphate-solubilizing rhizobacterium, Paenibacillus sp. IITISM08 – Rupa Rani – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Duration of continuous cropping with straw return affects the composition and structure of soil bacterial communities in cotton fields – Lei Yang – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

The greater roles of indigenous microorganisms in removing nitrobenzene from sediment compared with the exogenous Phragmites australis and strain JS45 – Xiangqun Chi – Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering

Seasonal Variations in Soil and Bacteriological Properties as Affected by Phytogenic Mounds (Nebkhas) of Halocnemum strobilaceum in Lake Manzala, Egypt – Heba K. Issa – Egyptian Journal of Botany

Investigating monsoon and post-monsoon variabilities of bacterioplankton communities in a mangrove ecosystem – Anwesha Ghosh – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Invasion by Cordgrass Increases Microbial Diversity and Alters Community Composition in a Mangrove Nature Reserve – Min Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Effects of temperature, soil substrate, and microbial community on carbon mineralization across three climatically contrasting forest sites – Zuoxin Tang – Ecology and Evolution

Effects of biotic and abiotic factors on soil organic matter mineralization: Experiments and structural modeling analysis – Husen Qiu – European Journal of Soil Biology

Available forms of nutrients and heavy metals control the distribution of microbial phospholipid fatty acids in sediments of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China – Hongyan Sun – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Temporal diversity dynamics of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of Larrea tridentata (Sesse & Mocino ex DC) Coville in a semi-arid ecosystem – G Hernández-Zamudio – Revista Argentina de Microbiología (Article in Spanish)

Water and extremophile microbiome
Comparative transcriptomics as a guide to natural product discovery and biosynthetic gene cluster functionality – Gregory C. A. Amos – PNAS

Molecular Mechanisms for Microbe Recognition and Defense by the Red Seaweed Laurencia dendroidea. – Louisi Souza de Oliveira – Msphere

Mycobiota of the disused ore mine of Marcinków in Śnieżnik Masiff (western Poland) – Wojciech Pusz – Journal of Mountain Science

Thermophilic bacterial communities inhabiting the microbial mats of “indifferent” and chalybeate (iron-rich) thermal springs: Diversity and biotechnological analysis. – Xue-Ping Wang – Microbiologyopen

Review: The Seagrass Holobiont and Its Microbiome – Kelly Ugarelli – Microorganisms

Built environment
PCR–DGGE Analysis on Microbial Community Structure of Rural Household Biogas Digesters in Qinghai Plateau – Rui Han – Current Microbiology

Deciphering the core fouling-causing microbiota in a membrane bioreactor: Low abundance but important roles – Shaoqing Zhang – ChemoSphere

Increasing tetracycline concentrations on the performance and communities of mixed microalgae-bacteria photo-bioreactors – Yanghui Xiong – Algal Research

Biostimulation of nutrient additions on indigenous microbial community at the stage of nitrogen limitations during composting – Huan Wang – Waste Management

Food microbiology
Mutually stimulating interactions between lactic acid bacteria and Saccharomyces cerevisiae in sourdough fermentation – S. Sieuwerts – LWT – Food Science and Technology

Review: The Mediterranean diet: metabolic and molecular mechanisms – Valeria Tosti – The Journals Of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences And Medical Sciences

Probiotics / prebiotics/ antibiotics
Prebiotic Dietary Fiber and Gut Health: Comparing the in Vitro Fermentations of Beta-Glucan, Inulin and Xylooligosaccharide – Justin L Carlson – Nutrients

Review: Finding the needle in the haystack: systematic identification of psychobiotics. – Aisling Bambury – British Journal Of Pharmacology

Comment: Narrowing the spectrum: the new frontier of precision antimicrobials – Alexandra E Paharik – Genome Medicine

Bioinformatics
A Dirichlet-Multinomial Bayes Classifier for Disease Diagnosis with Microbial Compositions. – Xiang Gao – Msphere

Techniques
Amplicon sequencing of the 16S-ITS-23S rRNA operon with long-read technology for improved phylogenetic classification of uncultured prokaryotes – Joran Martijn – bioRxiv

Novel ITS1 Fungal Primers for Characterization of the Mycobiome. – Mykhaylo Usyk – Msphere

Microbes in the news
BIDMC Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Identify Bacteria Quickly and Accurately – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Magnetically Guided Bacteria Move Confidently Within Strong Currents, May Soon Deliver Drugs Inside Body – MedGadget

Is hand sanitizer bad for my microbiome? – Claire Maldarelli – Popular Science

Nanoparticles as a solution against antibiotic resistance? – Science Daily

Microbes on the market 
Light ‘Em Up: S&N’s Device Images Bacteria in Wounds – Nancy Crotti – MDDI

Contemplating Regulatory Frameworks for FMT – Cristi Rosa – Contagion Live

Vedanta Granted Four U.S. Patents for Therapeutics Based on Beneficial Gut Bacteria – Carolina Henriques – IBD News Today

Science, publishing, and career
What’s Responsible for the Retraction Boom? – Adam Marcus – Research Ethics in the Digital Age

Microbiology jobs and a PhD are posted today along with a review of microbiota and aging, and research looking at if/how the Gut microbiome modulates response to anti–PD-1 immunotherapy in melanoma patients. Plus a slew of other research highlights –  Enjoy!

Events and jobs

PhD: Mining and Modelling the Human Gut Microbiome to Elucidate its Metabolic Potential – Aberdeen University

Professor or Associate Professor – Medical Microbiology – University of Oslo

Part-Time Microbiology Laboratory Technician – Miami Dade College

Microbiology Laboratory Manager – Georgia Department of Public Health

General microbiome

Review: Microbiota and Aging. A Review and Commentary – Carmen García-Peña – Archives of Medical Research

 Pregnancy and early life

Influence of the intestinal microbiota on the immunogenicity of oral rotavirus vaccine given to infants in south India – Edward P.K. Parker – Vaccine

 Human respiratory microbiome

Microbial diversity within the airway microbiome in chronic pediatric lung diseases – Andrea Hahn – Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Compositional and functional variations of oral microbiota associated with the mutational changes in oral cancer – Shun-Fa Yang – Oral Oncology

 Human gut microbiome

Metabolic analysis of Panax notoginseng saponins with gut microbiota-mediated biotransformation by HPLC-DAD-Q-TOF-MS/MS – Man-Yun Chen – Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Towards utilization of the human genome and microbiome for personalized nutrition – Stavros Bashiardes – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Gut microbiome modulates response to anti–PD-1 immunotherapy in melanoma patients – V. Gopalakrishnan – Science

 Animal microbiome

Co-occurrence of early gut colonization in neonatal piglets with microbiota in the maternal and surrounding delivery environments – Xue Chen – Anaerobe

 Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Ralstonia solanacearum pathogen disrupts bacterial rhizosphere microbiome during an invasion – Zhong Wei – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Substrate-driven microbial response: A novel mechanism contributes significantly to temperature sensitivity of N2O emissions in upland arable soil – Alin Song – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

 Water and extremophile microbiome

Environmental DNA metabarcoding of benthic bacterial communities indicates the benthic footprint of salmon aquaculture – Thorsten Stoeck – Marine Pollution Bulletin

 Probiotics / prebiotics

The Role of Prebiotics and Probiotics in Gastrointestinal Disease – Martin H. Floch – Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Alzheimer’s disease and gut microbiota modifications: the long way between preclinical studies and clinical evidence – Cesare Mancuso – Pharmacological Research

Microbes in the news

It might be possible to remodel a baby’s microbiome (But we still don’t really know what a healthy microbiome really is) – PopularScience

Do you want to know what microbes are in the international space station? the effects of Arsenic exposure on childrens microbiomes? or perhaps you are interested in tree leaf bacterial diversity along an urban gradient?  Well, today we have it all and more! Enjoy Saturdays microbiome digest for links to the latest research on microbiomes.

General microbiome

Microbial Ecology: Community Coalescence Stirs Things Up – Matthias C. Rillig – Current Biology

Multi-site human microbiome

Distinct fecal and oral microbiota composition in human type 1 diabetes, an observational study – Pieter F. de Groot – PlosONE

Human skin microbiome

The role of the skin microbiome in atopic dermatitis: a systematic review – R.D. Bjerre – British Journal of Dermatology

Human gut microbiome

Preprint: Comparison of Small Gut and Whole Gut Microbiota of First-Degree Relatives with Adult Patients with Celiac Disease and Controls – Sudarshan A Shetty et al – BioRxiv

Delivery Mode and the Transition of Pioneering Gut-Microbiota Structure, Composition and Predicted Metabolic Function – Noel T. Mueller et al – Genes

Correlations between gut microbiota community structures of Tibetans and geography – Daoliang Lan et al – Scientific Reports

Arsenic exposure and intestinal microbiota in children from Sirajdikhan, Bangladesh – Xiaoxi Dong – PlosONE

The role of gut microbiota in the modulation of drug action: A focus on some clinically significant issues – Diego Currò – Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology

Review: Codevelopment of Microbiota and Innate Immunity and the Risk for Group B Streptococcal Disease – Julia Kolter – Frontiers in Immunology

Animal experiments

Glucerabacter canisensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from dog feces and its effect on the hydrolysis of plant glucosylceramide in the intestine of dogs – Misho Kawata et al – Archives of Microbiology

Meta-Analysis of Fecal Microbiota and Metabolites in Experimental Colitic Mice during the Inflammatory and Healing Phases – Toshifumi Osaka – Nutrients

Animal microbiome

Hierarchical social networks shape gut microbial composition in wild Verreaux’s sifaka – Amanda C. Perofsky – Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Tree Leaf Bacterial Community Structure and Diversity Differ along a Gradient of Urban Intensity – Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe – mSystems

Microbial and Plant-Assisted Bioremediation of Heavy Metal Polluted Environments: A Review – Omena Bernard Ojuederie and Olubukola Oluranti Babalola – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Soil microbial communities of three grassland ecosystems in the Bayinbuluke, China – Keqiang Shao – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Response of soil microbial community dynamics to Robinia pseudoacacia L. afforestation in the loess plateau: a chronosequence approach – Jinliang Liu – Plant and Soil

Microbes in space

A microbial survey of the International Space Station – Jenna M. Lang et al – PeerJ