Microbiome and mood, bone marrow transplantation, archaea in kangaroos, tardigrade genome contamination.
Events
UC Berkeley Event: Archaea and the Three Domains: Classification of Life for Middle School
Microbiome expert to speak at UB – Martin Blaser is a former president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, April 6-7 – Charlotte Hsu – University of Buffalo
Pregnancy and birth
Microbiome: Antibiotics and the infant microflora – Kristen Meyer & Kjersti Aagaard – Nature Microbiology
Human mouth microbiome
Accuracy of commercial kits and published primer pairs for the detection of periodontopathogens – Elisabeth Santigli – Clinical Oral Investigations
Human gut microbiome
Gut microbes in correlation with mood: case study in a closed experimental human life support system – L. Li – Neurogastroenterology & Motility
Anti-TNF Therapy Response in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis Is Associated with Colonic Antimicrobial Peptide Expression and Microbiota Composition – Maria K. Magnusson – Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis
Gut microbiota profiling of pediatric NAFLD and obese patients unveiled by an integrated meta-omics based approach – Federica Del Chierico – Hepatology
Commentary: Role of gut flora after bone marrow transplantation – Jonathan U. Peled – Nature Microbiology
Animal microbiome
Differences down-under: alcohol-fueled methanogenesis by archaea present in Australian macropodids – Emily C Hoedt – The ISME Journal
Mussel biofiltration effects on attached bacteria and unicellular eukaryotes in fish-rearing seawater – Eleni Voudanta – PeerJ
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Tobacco, Microbes, and Carcinogens: Correlation Between Tobacco Cure Conditions, Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamine Content, and Cured Leaf Microbial Community – Audrey D. Law – Microbial Ecology
Plant and soil fungal but not soil bacterial communities are linked in long-term fertilized grassland – Noriko A. Cassman – Scientific Reports
Drinking water microbiome
Flow cytometric examination of bacterial growth in a local drinking water network –
Sam Van Nevel – Water and Environment Journal
Animal microbiome
Breakdown of coevolution between symbiotic bacteria Wolbachia and their filarial hosts – Emilie Lefoulon – PeerJ
Built environment microbiome
Review (but did not make much sense to me): Toward a microbial Neolithic revolution in buildings – David S. Thaler – Microbiome
Bioreactor microbiome
Functional maintenance and structural flexibility of microbial communities perturbed by simulated intense rainfall in a pilot-scale membrane bioreactor – Yuya Sato – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Fungi
News: Microbiology: Fungus produces a toxic surprise – Aaron P. Mitchell – Nature
Candidalysin is a fungal peptide toxin critical for mucosal infection – David L. Moyes – Nature
Biofilms
Spatio-temporal assembly of functional mineral scaffolds within microbial biofilms – Yaara Oppenheimer-Shaanan – NPJ Biofilms
Metagenomics and bioinformatics
Identifying contamination with advanced visualization and analysis practices: metagenomic approaches for eukaryotic genome assemblies – Tom O Delmont – PeerJ
myPhyloDB: a local web server for the storage and analysis of metagenomic data – Daniel K. Manter – Database
Detection of low-abundance bacterial strains in metagenomic datasets by eigengenome partitioning – Brian Cleary – Nature Biotechnology
Metabolomics
Optimization of metabolomics of defined in vitro gut microbial ecosystems – Dirk K. Wissenbach – International Journal of Medical Microbiology
Microbial ecology
Review: Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics – Stefanie Widder – The ISME Journal
Microbes in the news
Another reason to break the habit: Smoking alters bacterial balance in mouth – EurekAlert
Pseudomonas aeruginosa in shampoos and shower gels made by Gilchrist and Soames – FDA warning letter
Acne bacteria and hot dog cookers: Science projects take center stage at regional fair – Matt Barney – The Joplin Globe
Cave bacteria could control superbugs – News24
The 8-Bit Game That Makes Statistics Addictive – Ed Yong – The Atlantic
Microbes and art
“World’s First” Bacteria-Grown Book Combines Science and Culture – Nathaniel Ainley – The Creators Project
WTF
Polish company to brew beer from Czech model’s vagina bacteria – Ben Hooper – UPI
First Vaginal Beer: Bottled Instinct – Wojciech Mann – IndieGoGo
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