The UN continues work on focusing on dangers of overuse of antibiotics. See the Guardian article below about a new effort from the UN in this regard. Source: Overuse of antibiotics in farming is a major new threat to human health, says UN | Society | The Guardian
Of potential interest – new paper from the Banfield Lab – thanks to Elisabeth Bik for pointing me to this on Twitter. Preterm infants exhibit different microbiome colonization patterns relative to full-term infants, and it is speculated that the hospital room environment may contribute to infant microbiome development. Here, we present a genome-resolved metagenomic …
This may be of interest to folks. Multiple stakeholders have, as a result, criticized the aquaculture industry, resulting in consequent regulations in some countries. AM use in aquaculture differs from that in livestock farming due to aquaculture’s greater diversity of species and farming systems, alternative means of AM application, and less consolidated farming practices in …
Well, this paper is generating a lot of buzz on social media. Nucleic acid purification from plants, animals and microbes in under 30 seconds. For example see Eric Topol’s Tweet about it Now this is innovative: paper dipstick extraction of DNA or RNA in < 30 seconds https://t.co/RKuLsAW7fM @PLOSBiology @UQ_News pic.twitter.com/FH1krTFYMw — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) …
This paper may be of interest: Unpacking factors influencing antimicrobial use in global aquaculture. Henriksson, P.J.G., Rico, A., Troell, M. et al. Sustain Sci (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-017-0511-8 Abstract: Global seafood provides almost 20% of all animal protein in diets, and aquaculture is, despite weakening trends, the fastest growing food sector worldwide. Recent increases in production have …
This seems like it is a must read for anyone working on microbiomes: Frontiers | Microbiome Datasets Are Compositional: And This Is Not Optional | Microbiology Gloor GB, Macklaim JM, Pawlowsky-Glahn V and Egozcue JJ (2017) Microbiome Datasets Are Compositional: And This Is Not Optional. Front. Microbiol. 8:2224. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02224 Summary from the paper: Datasets …
There is a nice article by Katherine Wu on the history of antibiotic usage in livestock that is worth a look: A Taste of Our Own Medicine – I Contain Multitudes – Medium This is part of the HHMI/Tangled Bank Studio’s series on “I Contain Multitudes” based on Ed Yong’s book of the same name. It …
This looks good Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting – DOE JGI User Meeting 2018 Also bonus meeting: Viral EcoGenomics and Applications (VEGA) 2018: Big data approaches to help characterize earth’s Virome
Source: Disneyland shuts down 2 cooling towers after Legionnaires’ cases – Las Vegas Review-Journal Maybe Disney needs a full time person working on microbiology of the built environment.
So just yesterday I was looking for the original paper describing the isolation of Thermus aquaticus (which is by the way the name I have given my hiking thermos, but that is another story). I wanted to see from which hot springs Brock and Freeze (yup, his real name) had isolated this important (e.g., the …