July 14, 2017

Events and jobs

Postdoc, Lieberman Lab

General microbiome

Assembly of Microbial Communities in Replicate Nutrient-Cycling Model Ecosystems Follows Divergent Trajectories, Leading to Alternate Stable States – Eulyn Pagaling – Environmental Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Influence of lung CT changes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on the human lung microbiome – Marion Engel – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

Gut bacterial peptides with autoimmunity potential as environmental trigger for late onset complex diseases: In–silico study – Sapna Negi – PLOS ONE

Impact of environmental microbiota on human microbiota of workers in academic mouse research facilities: An observational study – Peggy S. Lai – PLOS ONE

Reduced Mass and Diversity of the Colonic Microbiome in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Their Improvement with Ketogenic Diet – Alexander Swidsinski – Frontiers in Microbiology

Longitudinal development of the gut microbiome and metabolome in preterm neonates with late onset sepsis and healthy controls – Christopher J. Stewart – Microbiome

Other Human microbiome

The oral bacterial microbiome of occlusal surfaces in children and its association with diet and caries – Apoena Aguiar Ribeiro – PLOS ONE

The oral fungal mycobiome: characteristics and relation to periodontitis in a pilot study – Brandilyn A. Peters – BMC Microbiology

Animal experiments

Three distinct pneumotypes characterize the microbiome of the lung in BALB/cJ mice – Julia Scheiermann – PLOS ONE

Assessment of gut microbiota populations in lean and obese Zucker rats – Reza Hakkak – PLOS ONE

Preparing the Gut with Antibiotics Enhances Gut Microbiota Reprogramming Efficiency by Promoting Xenomicrobiota Colonization – Shou K. Ji – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal microbiome

On the core bacterial flora of Ixodes persulcatus (Taiga tick) – Shuo Sui – PLOS ONE

Skin microbiota in frogs from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Species, forest type, and potential against pathogens – Ananda Brito de Assis – PLOS ONE

Brackish habitat dictates cultivable Actinobacterial diversity from marine sponges – Gregory A. Ellis – PLOS ONE

Effects of Kluyveromyces marxianus supplementation on immune responses, intestinal structure and microbiota in broiler chickens – Weiwei Wang – PLOS ONE

Dominance-function relationships in the amphibian skin microbiome – Jenifer B. Walke – Environmental Microbiology

Microbial community sequencing analysis of the calf eye microbiota and relationship to infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis – J.N.Cullen – Veterinary Microbiology

Bacterial community composition in Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae) and Chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarctica) Penguin stomach contents from Signy Island, South Orkney Islands – W. C. Yew – Polar Biology

Taxon abundance, diversity, co-occurrence and network analysis of the ruminal microbiota in response to dietary changes in dairy cows – Ilma Tapio – PLOS ONE

Honeybee (Apis mellifera)-associated bacterial community affected by American foulbrood: detection of Paenibacillus larvae via microbiome analysis – Tomas Erban – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Shifts in the bacterial community composition along deep soil profiles in monospecific and mixed stands of Eucalyptus grandis and Acacia mangium – Arthur Prudêncio de Araujo Pereira – PLOS ONE

Maize Phyllosphere Microbial Community Niche Development Across Stages of Host Leaf Growth – Heather C. Manching – bioRxiv

Major phylum-level differences between porefluid and host rock bacterial communities in the terrestrial deep subsurface – Lily Momper – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Patterns of soil bacterial richness and composition tied to plant richness, soil nitrogen, and soil acidity in alpine tundra – Xia Yuan – Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Water and extremophile microbiome

Unravelling riverine microbial communities under wastewater treatment plant effluent discharge in large urban areas – Yang Huo – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Phages and viruses

Marine viruses discovered via metagenomics shed light on viral strategies throughout the oceans – Felipe H. Coutinho – Nature Communications

Science, publishing, and career

Jonathan Eisen named Faculty Director of the UC Davis Microbiome Initiative

July 11, 2017

Welcome to your Tuesday Digest. Today, some interesting pieces from Science mag about scientific career. A few pre-prints in the Plant & Soil section, including a paper by Hubbard et al. that presents an interesting concept on plant’s diel cycle and rhizosphere community. Enjoy!

Events and jobs
Director, Sterile and Microbiology Quality Assurance Job
Merck – West Point – PA, US

Multi-site human microbiome
The influence of the commensal microbiota on distal tumor-promoting inflammation.
Buchta Rosean CM, Rutkowski MR – Seminars in Immunology

Human gut microbiome
Genome-resolved metaproteomic characterization of preterm infant gut microbiota development reveals species-specific metabolic shifts and variabilities during early life
Weili Xiong et al. – Microbiome

Genome-scale model and omics analysis of metabolic capacities of Akkermansia muciniphila reveal a preferential mucin-degrading lifestyle
Ottman N et al. – Applied Environmental Microbiology

Longitudinal profiling reveals a persistent intestinal dysbiosis triggered by conventional anti-tuberculosis therapy
Sivaranjani Namasivayam et al. – Microbiome

Animal experiments
Host specificity of Segmented Filamentous Bacteria (SFB) flagellins affects their interaction patterns with mouse ileal mucosal proteins.
Chen H et al. – Applied Environmental Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Pre-print: The plant circadian clock influences rhizosphere community structure and function
Charley Hubbard et al. – bioRxiv

Microbial functional diversity responses to 2 years since biochar application in silt-loam soils on the Loess Plateau
Zhu LX et al. – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Review: Microbes from mined sites: Harnessing their potential for reclamation of derelict mine sites
Thavamani P. et al – Environmental Pollution

Review: Microbial activity and the dynamics of ecosystem processes in forest soils
Baldrian P. – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Pre-print: Maize Phyllosphere Microbial Community Niche Development Across Stages of Host Leaf Growth
Heather C. Manching et al. – bioRxiv

Water, estuarine and sediment microbiome
Distinct Aeromonas Populations in Water Column and Associated with Copepods from Estuarine Environment (Seine, France)
Gautier Chaix et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Vertical and horizontal assemblage patterns of bacterial communities in a eutrophic river receiving domestic wastewater in southeast China.
Gao Y et al. – Environmental Pollution

Extremophile and space microbiome
Human presence impacts fungal diversity of inflated lunar/Mars analog habitat
A. Blachowicz et al. – Microbiome

Built environment
Metagenomic analysis reveals wastewater treatment plants as hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements
Guo J et al. – Water Research

Review: The potential implications of reclaimed wastewater reuse for irrigation on the agricultural environment: The knowns and unknowns of the fate of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria and resistance genes – A review.
Christou A et al – Water Research

New insights into the spatial variability of biofilm communities and potentially negative bacterial groups in hydraulic concrete structures.
Cai W. et al – Water Reseach

Pre-print: Cyanobacterial Growth on Municipal Wastewater Requires Low Temperatures
Travis C. Korosh et al. – bioRxiv

Microbial biotechnology
Expanding landscapes of the diversified mcr-1-bearing plasmid reservoirs
Qingjing Wang & Jian Sun et al. – Microbiome

General microbiology and evolution
Effect of a Pseudomonas fluorescens tailocin against phytopathogenic Xanthomonas observed by atomic force microscopy
M. Fernandez et al. – Journal of Biotechnology

Natural-Product Antibiotics: Cues for Modulating Bacterial Biofilm Formation
Townsley L. & Shank EA – Trends in Microbiology

Bioinformatics and statistics
VirFinder: a novel k-mer based tool for identifying viral sequences from assembled metagenomic data
Jie Ren & Nathan A. Algren et al. – Microbiome

Pre-print: A supervised statistical learning approach for accurate Legionella pneumophila source attribution during outbreaks
Andrew H. Buultjens et al. – bioRxiv

Review: Mining Metagenomic Data Sets for Ancient DNA: Recommended Protocols for Authentication
Key FM et al – Trends in Genetics

Techniques and methods
Formulation, stabilisation and encapsulation of bacteriophage for phage therapy
Malik DJ et al. – Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

A novel ultra high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing library preparation method for the Illumina HiSeq platform
Eric J. de Muinck et al. – Microbiome

Microbes in the news
I gave my cat a poop transplant—here’s what happened next
Jonathan Gitlin – arstechnica

Gonorrhea is getting even harder to treat
Ashley Welch – CBS News

Science, publishing, and career
Reprogramming my career
Charmaine Tam – Science

The cyberscientist
John Bohannon – Science

The scientists’ apprentice
Tim Appenzeller – Science

Food and microbiota in the FDA regulatory framework
Jonathan M. Green et al. – Science

July 9, 2017

Double Day Digest! Today we have picks for the entire weekend in one post, so here is a great selection!

 

Events and jobs

Laboratory Technician – Cranleigh Scientific – Cambridge, England

General microbiome

Review – Food-animal production and the spread of antibiotic resistance: the role of ecology – Benjamin J Koch – Frontiers in Ecology and the Enviroment

Human skin microbiome 

Impact of coated TiO2-nanoparticles used in sunscreens on two representative strains of the human microbiota: Effect of the particle surface nature and aging – Laura Rowenczyk – Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces

Human gut microbiome

Review – Gut microbiome, metabolome, and allergic diseases – So-ichiro Hirata – Allergology International

Review – Bile Acids and Intestinal Microbiota in Autoimmune Cholestatic Liver Diseases – You Li – Autoimmunity Reviews

Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis LKM512 reduces levels of intestinal trimethylamine produced by intestinal microbiota in healthy volunteers: A double-blind, placebo-controlled study – Mitsuharu Matsumoto – Journal of Functional Foods

Animal experiments

Long-term consumption of caffeine-free high sucrose cola beverages aggravates the pathogenesis of EAE in mice – Guangchao Cao  – Cell Discovery

Review – Using probiotics to improve swine gut health and nutrient utilization – Shengfa F. Liao – Animal Nutrition

Dietary and lifestyle disease indices and caecal microbiota in high fat diet, dietary fibre free diet, or DSS induced IBD models in ICR mice – Takashi Kuda – Journal of Functional Foods

Head-injury profoundly affects gut microbiota homeostasis: results of a pilot study – Anne-Judith Waligora-Dupriet – Nutrition

Animal microbiome

Review – Marine animal microbiomes: towards understanding host-microbiome interactions in a changing ocean – Amy Apprill – Frontiers in Marine Science

Influence of elevation in structuring the gut bacterial communities of Apis cerana – S Sudhagar – Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Comparison of soil biosolarization with mesophilic and thermophilic solid digestates on soil microbial quantity and diversity – Jesús D. Fernández-Bayo – Applied Soil Ecology

Contrasting habitats but comparable microbial decomposition in the benthic and hyporheic zone – Ute Risse-Buhl – Science of The Total Environment

Beneficial traits of bacterial endophytes belonging to the core communities of the tomato root microbiome – Baoyu Tian – Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Long- term grapevine cultivation and agro-environment affect rhizosphere microbiome rather than plant age – L.M. Manici – Applied Soil Ecology

Comparison of soil biosolarization with mesophilic and thermophilic solid digestates on soil microbial quantity and diversity – Jesús D. Fernández-Bayo – Applied Soil Ecology

Positive effects of plant association on rhizosphere microbial communities depend on plant species involved and soil nitrogen level – Barbara Pivato – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Water and extremophile microbiome

Current Trend of Metagenomic Data Analytics for Cyanobacteria Blooms – JianDong Huang – Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection

Early bacterial biofilm colonizers in the coastal waters of Mauritius – Sillma Rampadarath – Electronic Journal of Biotechnology

Metagenomic analysis reveals wastewater treatment plants as hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements – Jianhua Guo – Water Research

Characterization of microbial signatures from advanced treated wastewater biofilms – Leddy, Menu B – AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION

Greater diversity of soil fungal communities and distinguishable seasonal variation in temperate deciduous forests compared with subtropical evergreen forests of eastern China – Jinhong He – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Microbes from mined sites: Harnessing their potential for reclamation of derelict mine sites – Palanisami Thavamani – Environmental Pollution

Bacterial communities and chemical parameters in soils and coastal sediments in response to diesel spills at Carlini Station, Antarctica – Susana Vázquez – Science of The Total Environment

Food microbiology

Elucidating microbial community adaptation to anaerobic co-digestion of fats, oils, and grease and food waste – Yamrot M. Amha – Water Research

Techniques

Personalized microbiome dynamics – Cytometric fingerprints for routine diagnostics – Christin Koch – Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Development of a real-time PCR method for quantification of Prevotella histicola from the gut – Baskar Balakrishnan – Anaerobe

Microbes in the news

Why Life on Mars May Be Impossible – TIME – Jeffrey Kluger

July 7, 2017

Human Microbiome

Review: Altered molecular signature of intestinal microbiota in irritable bowel syndrome patients compared with healthy controls: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Liu et al. – Digestive and Liver Disease

Non-antibiotic Isotretinoin treatment differentially controls Propionibacterium acnes on skin of acne patients. – Ryan-Kewley et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Longitudinal profiling reveals a persistent intestinal dysbiosis triggered by conventional anti-tuberculosis therapy – Namasivayam et al. – Microbiome (BMC)

Research Highlights: Obesity: Gut microbiome and serum metabolome changes – Claire Greenhill – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Research Highlights:  Gut microbiota: Link between the gut and adipose tissues – Alan Morris – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Review: The gut microbiome and liver cancer: mechanisms and clinical translation – Yu & Schwabe – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

 

Pathogens

Reactive Oxygen Species-Dependent Essential Genes in Salmonella Typhimurium – Karash and Min Kwon – BioRxiv

Whole transcriptome sequencing of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae-infected kiwifruit plants reveals species-specific interaction between long non-coding RNA and coding genes – Wang et al – Scientific Reports (Nature)

Effects of different substrates/growth media on microbial community of saliva-derived biofilm – Li et al – FEMS Microbiology letters

 

Methods (including bioinformatics)

Selective imaging of Gram-negative and Gram-positive microbiotas in the mouse gut – Wang et al. – Biochemistry (ACS)

Methodology: VirFinder: a novel k-mer based tool for identifying viral sequences from assembled metagenomic data – Ren et al. – Microbiome (BMC)

Methodology: A novel ultra high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing library preparation method for the Illumina HiSeq platform – de Muinck et al. – Microbiome (BMC)

Completing bacterial genome assemblies with multiplex MinION sequencing – Wick et al. – BioRxiv

Axe: rapid, competitive sequence read demultiplexing using a trie – Murray & Borevitz – BioRxiv

 

Water microbiome

Unraveling the microbial interactions and metabolic potentials in pre- and post-treated sludge from a wastewater treatment plant using metagenomic studies – Sidhu et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Nutrient dynamics and stream order influence microbial community patterns along a 2914 km transect of the Mississippi River – Henson et al. – BioRxiv

 

Extremophiles

Oxidative weathering and microbial diversity of an inactive seafloor hydrothermal sulfide chimney – Li et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Hidden biofilms in a far northern lake and implications for the changing Arctic – Mohit et al. – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

 

Probiotics – Fermented Food

Amplicon sequencing of the slpH locus permits culture-independent strain typing of Lactobacillus helveticus in dairy products – Moser et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Probiotic Enterococcus mundtii Isolate Protects the Model Insect Tribolium castaneum against Bacillus thuringiensis – Grau et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Animal Microbiome

Regulation of gut luminal serotonin by commensal microbiota in mice –  Hata et al. – PLoS ONE

 

News

News: How Gut Bacteria Tell Their Hosts What to Eat – Knvul Sheikh via Scientific American Mind (Nature)

News: Mind over Meal: Does Weight-Loss Surgery Rewire Gut-Brain Connections? – Bret Stetka via Scientific American Mind (Nature)

 

Fellowships

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Microbiome and Vaccine Induced Immunity – Seattle, WA, United States

Postdoctoral Fellow (Listeria monocytogenes research) – Dunedin, New Zealand

 

Other

The earth is flat (p > 0.05): significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research – Amrhein et al. – PeerJ

 

July 6, 2017

The microbiota of spotted hyenas, a review of potential interactions between olfactory sensation and the microbiome-gut-brain axis, phylogenetic analysis of host-microbe symbioses to examine the evolution of dependence over time.

General microbiome

Synthetic Microbial Ecology: Engineering Habitats for Modular Consortia – Sami Ben Said – Frontiers in Microbiology

The evolution of host-symbiont dependence – Roberta M Fisher – Nature Communications

Review: The microbiota revolution: Excitement and caution – Maria Rescigno – European Journal of Immunology

Review: The Microbiome and Blood Pressure: Can Microbes Regulate Our Blood Pressure? – Souhaila Al Khodor – Frontiers in Pediatrics

Human oral microbiome

Suppression of αvβ6 Integrin Expression by Polymicrobial Oral Biofilms in Gingival Epithelial Cells – Jiarui Bi – Scientific Reports

Proteomic shifts in multi-species oral biofilms caused by Anaeroglobus geminatus – Kai Bao – Scientific Reports

Human vaginal microbiome

Quantifying the human vaginal community state types (CSTs) with the species specificity index – Zhanshan Ma – PeerJ

Animal experiments

Effects of iron supplementation on growth, gut microbiota, metabolomics and cognitive development of rat pups – Erica E Alexeev – PLOS ONE

Review: Disruptive physiology: olfaction and the microbiome-gut-brain axis – John Bienenstock – Biological Reviews Cambridge Philosophical Society

Effects of melanin from Sepiella Maindroni ink (MSMI) on the intestinal Microbiome of mice – Hui Dong – BMC Microbiology

Animal microbiome

The Intestinal Eukaryotic and Bacterial Biome of Spotted Hyenas: The Impact of Social Status and Age on Diversity and Composition – Emanuel Heitlinger – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Perspective: The deep, hot biosphere: Twenty-five years of retrospection – Daniel R Colman – PNAS

Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas koreensis CI12, a Bacillus cereus “Hitchhiker” from the Soybean Rhizosphere – Gabriel L Lozano – Genome Announcements

Warmer winters increase the rhizosphere carbon flow to mycorrhizal fungi more than to other microorganisms in a temperate grassland – Johanna Birgander – Global Change Biology

Negative plant-phyllosphere feedbacks in native Asteraceae hosts – a novel extension of the plant-soil feedback framework – Briana K Whitaker – Ecology Letters

Water and extremophile microbiome

Size and composition of subseafloor microbial community in the Benguela upwelling area examined from intact membrane lipid and DNA analysis – Thomas W Evans – Organic Geochemistry

FurukawaMarine microbes as a valuable resource for brand new industrial biocatalysts – Azadeh Beygmoradi – Biocatalysts and Agricultural Biotechnology

Antagonistic Interactions and Biofilm Forming Capabilities Among Bacterial Strains Isolated from the Egg Surfaces of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) – M Fujimoto – Microbial Ecology

Probiotics/prebiotics

Effects of the probiotic Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis on the non-surgical treatment of periodontitis. A histomorphometric, microtomographic and immunohistochemical study in rats – Milla S T Ricoldi – PLOS ONE

Phages and viruses

Virus-host relationships of marine single-celled eukaryotes resolved from metatranscriptomics – Mohammad Moniruzzaman – Nature Communications

Occurrence of Bacillus thuringensis Bacteriophages in the Egyptian Arid Soil – Amel S M Abo-Senna – International Journal of Virology and Molecular Biology

Bioinformatics

A conceptual framework for quality assessment and management of biodiversity data – Allan Koch Veiga – PLOS ONE

Techniques

SParticle, an algorithm for the analysis of filamentous microorganisms in submerged cultures – Joost Willemse – bioRxiv

Mapping-based all-RNA-information sequencing analysis (ARIseq) pipeline simultaneously revealed taxonomic composition, gene expression, and their correlation in an acidic stream ecosystem – Arisa Tsuboi – bioRxiv

More microbes

Review: Metabolic engineering pathways for rare sugars biosynthesis, physiological functionalities, and applications – A review – Muhammad Bilal – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Microbes in the news

Microbes aren’t the enemy, they’re a big part of who we are – Amy Loughman – Medical Xpress

What Cheese Can Tell Us About Antibiotic Resistance – Jason Tetro – Huffington Post Canada

Cases of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection are soaring – Medical Xpress

Helium ions reveal how viruses attack bacteria – ScienceDaily

July 5, 2017

General microbiome

Letter to the editor: Introducing the sporobiota and sporobiome – George Tetz – Gut Pathogens

Human oral microbiome

Oropharyngeal and Sputum Microbiomes Are Similar Following Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – Hai-Yue Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Review: Respiratory microbiota and lower respiratory tract disease – Miguel Lanaspa – Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy

Human gut microbiome

Review: Feeding the microbiota: transducer of nutrient signals for the host – Fergus Shanahan – Gut

Animal microbiome

Early Postnatal Diets Affect the Bioregional Small Intestine Microbiome and Ileal Metabolome in Neonatal Pigs – Brian D Piccolo – The Journal of Nutrition

Variation between the oral and faecal microbiota in a free-living passerine bird, the great tit (Parus major) – Lucie Kropáčková – Plos One

Temperature variation, bacterial diversity, and fungal infection dynamics in the amphibian skin – Ana V. Longo – Molecular Ecology

Early-Life Diet Affects Host Microbiota and Later-Life Defenses Against Parasites in Frogs – Sarah A. Knutie – Integrative & Comparitive Biology

Animal experiments

Relative variations of gut microbiota in disordered cholesterol metabolism caused by high-cholesterol diet and host genetics – Tao Bo – Microbiology Open

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Nutrient and Rainfall Additions Shift Phylogenetically Estimated Traits of Soil Microbial Communities – Kelly Gravuer – Frontiers in Microbiology

Long-term rock phosphate fertilization impacts the microbial communities of maize rhizosphere – Ubiana C. Silva – Frontiers in Microbiology

Global change and the soil microbiome: A human-health perspective – Raúl Ochoa-Hueso – Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The Impact of Hydration and Temperature on Bacterial Diversity in Arid Soil Mesocosms – Adam Št’ovíček – Frontiers in Microbiology

Contrasting bacterial communities in two indigenous Chionochloa (Poaceae) grassland soils in New Zealand – Jocelyn C. Griffith – Plos One

Water and extremophile microbiome

Bacterial diversity and population shifts driven by spotlight wastewater micropollutants in low-temperature highly nitrifying activated sludge – Antonina Kruglova – JScience of The Total Environment

Probiotics / prebiotics

The potential synergistic behaviour of inter- and intra-genus probiotic combinations in the pattern and rate of short chain fatty acids formation during fibre fermentation – Warnakulasuriya M. A. D. B. Fernando – International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition

Review: Structural features underlying prebiotic activity of conventional and potential prebiotic oligosaccharides in food and health – Subin R. C. K. Rajendran – Journal of Food Biochemistry

Phages and viruses

Case control comparison of enteric viromes in captive rhesus macaques with acute or idiopathic chronic diarrhea – Beatrix Kapusinszky – Journal of Virology

A viral metagenomic approach on a non-metagenomic experiment: Mining next generation sequencing datasets from pig DNA identified several porcine parvoviruses for a retrospective evaluation of viral infections – Samuele Bovo – Plos One

Bioinformatics

Does colorectal cancer significantly influence the assembly of gut microbial communities? – Lin Dai – PeerJ

Review: Using metagenomics to investigate human and environmental resistomes – Johan Bengtsson-Palme – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

RRmix: A method for simultaneous batch effect correction and analysis of metabolomics data in the absence of internal standards – Stephen Salerno Jr – Plos One

Predicting the ecological quality status of marine environments from eDNA metabarcoding data using supervised machine learning – Tristan Cordier – Environmental Science and Technology

Anitha’s non-microbiology picks

AI is changing how we do science. Get a glimpse

Scientists explain ancient Rome’s long-lasting concrete

July 4, 2017

Happy 4th of July!

Events and jobs
Microbiology Team Lead – Bentleyville, PA

General microbiome
Host Microbiome Richness Predicts Resistance to Disturbance by Pathogenic Infection in a Vertebrate Host – Xavier A. Harrison – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life
Review: SALSA—A dance on a slippery floor with changing partners – M.P. Reichhardt – Molecular Immunology

Review: The Microbiome and Biomarkers for Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Are We Any Closer to Prediction? – Brigida Rusconi – Journal of Pediatrics

Human skin microbiome
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Induces a Transmissible Dysbiotic Skin Microbiota that Promotes Skin Inflammation – Ciara Gimblet – Cell Host and Microbe

Human oral microbiome
Hydrogen sulfide exposure induces NLRP3 inflammasome-dependent IL-1β and IL-18 secretion in human mononuclear leukocytes in vitro – Amina Basic – Clinical and Experimental Dental Research

Human gut microbiome
Immunoregulatory effect of mast cells influenced by microbes in neurodegenerative diseases – Francesco Girolamo – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Review: Host Genetics and Gut Microbiome: Challenges and Perspectives – Alexander Kurilshikov – Trends in Immunology

Review: Shaping functional gut microbiota using dietary bioactives to reduce colon cancer risk – Derek V. Seidel – Seminars in Cancer Biology

Review: Extracellular vesicles in gastrointestinal cancer in conjunction with microbiota: On the border of Kingdoms – Natasha S. Barteneva – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Reviews on Cancer

Microbial ecology
Small subsets of highly connected taxa predict compositional change in microbial communities – Cristina Herren – bioRxiv

Animal experiments
Effect of administration route and dose alteration on sulfadiazine-trimethoprim plasma and intestinal concentrations in pigs – Joren De Smet – International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Isomalto-oligosaccharides, a prebiotic, functionally augment green tea effects against high fat diet-induced metabolic alterations via preventing gut dysbacteriosis in mice – Dhirendra Pratap Singh – Pharmacological Research

6-Shogaol ameliorates injury to the intestinal mucosa and increases survival after high-dose abdominal irradiation – Jinhan Wang – Journal of Functional Foods

Total abdominal irradiation exposure impairs cognitive function involving miR-34a-5p/BDNF axis – Ming Cui – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Molecular Basis of Disease

Bidirectional Brain-Gut Interactions and Chronic Pathological Changes after Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice – Elise L. Ma – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

An increase in corn resistant starch decreases protein fermentation and modulates gut microbiota during in vitro cultivation of pig large intestinal inocula – Xiangyu He – Animal Nutrition

Animal microbiome
Natural products and morphogenic activity of γ-Proteobacteria associated with the marine hydroid polyp Hydractinia echinata – Huijuan Guo – Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Feedbacks between plant N demand and rhizosphere priming depend on type of mycorrhizal association – Benjamin N. Sulman – Ecology Letters

Cyanobacterial and rhizobial inoculation modulates the plant physiological attributes and nodule microbial communities of chickpea – Radha Prasanna – Archives of Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics
Development of Carboxymethyl Cellulose-Chitosan Hybrid Micro- and Macroparticles for Encapsulation of Probiotic Bacteria – P. Singh – Carbohydrate Polymers

Bioinformatics
Evaluating Metagenome Assembly on a Simple Defined Community with Many Strain Variants – Sherine Awad – bioRxiv

Techniques
Magic pools: parallel assessment of transposon delivery vectors in bacteria – Hualan Liu – bioRxiv

Imaging Bacterial Colonies and Phage–Bacterium Interaction at Sub-Nanometer Resolution Using Helium-Ion Microscopy – Miika Leppänen – Advanced BioSystems

Microbes in the news
Essays on health: microbes aren’t the enemy, they’re a big part of who we are – Amy Loughman and Tarsh Bates – The Conversation

Modified sugar compound can clear intestinal colonization by UPEC – Irene Vacca – Nature Reviews Microbiology
Original paper: Selective depletion of uropathogenic E. coli from the gut by a FimH antagonist – Caitlin N. Spaulding – Nature (June 14, 2017)

Human Emotions Really Are Affected by Gut Bacteria, New Study Suggests – Peter Dockrill – Science Alert
Original paper: Brain structure and response to emotional stimuli as related to gut microbial profiles in healthy women – Kirsten Tillisch – Psychosomatic Medicine (June 28, 2017)

Eliminating harmful bacteria from oil reservoirs – Newcastle University

Woman contracts flesh-eating bacteria in Fairhope – Allison Marlow – Gulf Coast News Today

Second LA Fitness also tests positive for Legionnaires’-causing bacteria – Kyle Arnold – Orlando Sentinel

Microbes on the market
EPS for DexCom, Inc. (DXCM) Expected At $-0.14; Profile of 6 Analysts Covering Seres Therapeutics (MCRB) – Clifton Ray – Herald KS

Using Microbiome Analytics to Improve Milk Safety – Joel Hans – RT Insights

Bacteria Hysteria
These terrifying photos show why you really should throw your old makeup away – Laura Capon – Cosmopolitan

Science, publishing, and career
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? – The Guardian
This sure made the round on Twitter a few days ago!

The vagueness problem in academic writing – The Thesis Whisperer

Laid Off From the Tenure Track – a Guest Post – The Professor is In
I read her book a while back and thought it was fantastic. Karen Kelsky’s blog focuses on academia in the humanities, but there are overlaps in science!

July 3, 2017

 

Pregnancy and early life
Maternal inheritance of bifidobacterial communities and bifidophages in infants through vertical transmission – Sabrina Duranti –  Microbiome

 
Mini Review: The microbiome and disorders of the central nervous system – Valeria D. Felice – Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

 
Human respiratory microbiome

 
Short Report: The metabolic footprint of the airway bacterial community in cystic fibrosis – Vaishnavi Narayanamurthy – Microbiome

 
Human gut microbiome

 
Gut microbial transformation of the dietary imidazoquinoxaline mutagen MeIQx reduces its cytotoxic and mutagenic potency – Jianbo Zhang –  Toxicological Science

 
Review: Practical considerations for large-scale gut microbiome studies – Doris Vandeputte – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

 
Association of altered gut microbiota composition with chronic urticaria – Edris Nabizadeh – Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology

 
Animal microbiome 

 
A genomic investigation of ecological differentiation between free-living and Drosophila-associated bacteria – Nathan J. Winans –  Molecular Ecology

 
The Gut Bacterial Community Composition of Wild Cervus albirostris (White-Lipped Deer) Detected by the 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequencing – Jun-gang Li –  Current Microbiology

 
Microbial influence on Drosophila biology – ME Martino – Current Opinion in Microbiology

 
Plant, root, and soil microbiome

 
Organic carbon and nitrogen availability determine bacterial community composition in paddy fields of the Indo-Gangetic plain – Arvind Kumar –  Biotech

 

Water and extremophile microbiome

 
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Bacterial Microbiota on Lacustrine Cladophora glomerata (Chlorophyta) – Michael J. Braus –  bioRxiv

 
Quantity and quality of particulate organic matter controls bacterial production in the Columbia River estuary – Byron C. Crump – Limnology and Oceanography

 
Relating genomic characteristics to environmental preferences and ubiquity in different microbial taxa – Marta Cobo-Simón –  BMC Genomics

 
Comparison of four DNA extraction methods for comprehensive assessment of 16S rRNA bacterial diversity in marine biofilms using high-throughput sequencing – Natàlia Corcoll – FEMS Microbiology Letters

 
Food microbiology

 

Cleaning and disinfection of biofilms composed of Listeria monocytogenes and background microbiota from meat processing surfaces – Annette Fagerlund – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

 

Probiotics / prebiotics

 
A human gut commensal ferments cranberry carbohydrates to produce formate – Ezgi Özcan – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

 
Review: Lifestyles in transition: evolution and natural history of the genus Lactobacillus – Rebbeca M. Duar – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

 
Phages and viruses

 
Synergistic elimination of bacteria by phage and the innate immune system – Chung Yin (Joey) Leung – Journal of Theoretical Biology

 
Biotechnology

 
Effect of zinc oxide nanoparticles on nitrogen removal, microbial activity and microbial community of CANON process in a membrane bioreactor – Xiaojing Zhang – Bioresource Technology

 
Microbes in the news

 
A new approach to tackling drug-resistant bacteria

New technology to cool the body: make the clothes made of microorganisms

 
Microbes on the market (news about biotech companies)

 
New Belgian Biotech will use Microorganisms to Replace Pesticides and Fertilizers

July 2, 2017

Events and jobs

Post-doc in High-Throughput Metagenomics – University of Cambridge

Microbes in the news

Before you head out to the beach this weekend, check bacteria levels – ABC News

Oil-Munching Bacteria Helped Clean Up the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill –  Cynthia Wallentine, Invisiverse

Bacteria Hysteria

Here’s What the Gross Bacteria on Your Expired Makeup Really Looks Like – Erin Reimel, Glamour Magazine

July 1, 2017

General microbiome

The microbiome in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients and cancer patients: Opportunities for clinical advances that reduce infection – AY Koh – PLoS Pathogens

Research Highlight: New insights into the BAT–liver–gut axis – A Morris – Nature Reviews

Biodiversity and ecosystem function: making sense of numerous species interactions in multi-species communities – C Brophy – Ecology

Obstruction of pilus retraction stimulates bacterial surface sensing – CK Ellison – bioRxiv

 

Human gut microbiome

Hospital association of the gut microbiota mobilome in preterm infants – A Ravi – Pediatric Research

 

Human respiratory microbiome

Maturation of the Infant Respiratory Microbiota, Environmental Drivers and Health Consequences: A Prospective Cohort Study – AATM Bosch – Am J Respir Crit Care Med.

Review: Perna canaliculus and the Intestinal Microbiome – ET Saltzman – Marine Drugs

 

 

Animal microbiome

Host-specific associations affect the microbiome of Philornis downsi, an introduced parasite to the Galápagos Islands – MY Ben – Molecular Ecology

Comparative genome analysis of the Flavobacteriales bacterium strain UJ101, isolated from the gut of Atergatis reticulatus – JA Yang – Journal of Microbiology

 

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Ammonia oxidizer populations vary with nitrogen cycling across a tropical montane mean annual temperature gradient – S Pierre – Ecology

Bacterial periphytic communities related to mercury methylation within aquatic plant roots from a temperate freshwater lake (South-Western France) – S Gentès – Environ Sci Pollut Res Int.

Consistently inconsistent drivers of microbial diversity and abundance at macroecological scales – JN Hendershot – Ecology

Living cover crops have immediate impacts on soil microbial community structure and function – DM Finney – Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas koreensis CI12, a Bacillus cereus “Hitchhiker” from the Soybean Rhizosphere – GL Lozano – Genome Announcements

Colonization and Maize Growth Promotion Induced by Phosphate Solubilizing Bacterial Isolates – Y Li – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Biogeography and ecological diversity patterns of rare and abundant bacteria in oil-contaminated soils – S Jiao – Molecular Ecology

 

Water microbiome and extremophiles

Organohalide respiration with chlorinated ethenes under low pH conditions – Y Yang – Environmental Science & Technology

 

Microbes in news

These Cleaning Bots Can Zap Bacteria Out of Your Water Supply in Minutes – D Nield – Science Alert

Four strains of bacteria work together to produce pigment for food and cosmetics industry – ML Martialay – Phys.org

Texas: Fecal bacteria levels at Gulf beaches ahead of Fourth of July holiday weekend – K Bradshaw – mySA

Gut microbiome’s link to the brain – S Downing – Nine.com

Breast Milk Bacteria are Important for Establishing Infant Gut Microbiome – S Parmar – Medical News Bulletin

Fig Enzyme could Help to fight Infection and Heal Wounds – DN Gameiro – Labiotech.eu

Gut Health: The Next Mega-Trend in Health and Wellness – H Schieber – Researchci

I spent three days as a hunter-gatherer to see if it would improve my gut health – T Spector – Medical Xpress

Altering gut bacteria pathways may stimulate fat tissue to prevent obesity – Medical Xpress

The broiler chicken intestine – an apt target for proteomic studies – E O’Reilly – BMC Blog Network