{"title":"Reviews and Resources:Microbe, 2nd Edition: BOOKS","authors":"Mark O. Martin","doi":"10.1128/MICROBE.11.451.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/MICROBE.11.451.1","url":null,"abstract":"Twenty years ago, I took the transformative “Microbial Diversity” course at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, Mass., taught by the late Edward Leadbetter and the late Abigail Salyers. Awed by the depth and breadth of what I soon called “matters microbial,” and perplexed by textbook options for use in the classroom, Ed laughed and told me I needed three texts: one for the students, and two for me. Microbiology is changing constantly, and expanding its scope to so many other disciplines as it changes. There was simply, as he put it, not enough paper for the subject matter in one book.","PeriodicalId":87479,"journal":{"name":"Microbe (Washington, D.C.)","volume":"11 1","pages":"451-451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1128/MICROBE.11.451.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63642855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virome Affects Host Immune Status, Susceptibility to Range of Diseases","authors":"Shannon Weiman","doi":"10.1128/MICROBE.11.414.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/MICROBE.11.414.1","url":null,"abstract":"While the limelight shines on the bacterial microbiome for its role in shaping human health and disease, the virome remains more in the shadows. However, viruses associated with human hosts can have profound impacts on their health, according to several researchers who spoke during the ASM 2016 Microbe Conference held in Boston last June. Even though some chronic viral infections appear asymptomatic, the viral particles being generated during such latent periods can stimulate innate immune responses, dictating immune reactivity as well as susceptibility to infections and inflammatory and other diseases, including cancer.","PeriodicalId":87479,"journal":{"name":"Microbe (Washington, D.C.)","volume":"11 1","pages":"414-415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63641551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Take Note: Yeast Turns the Lichen Duet of Fungi and Algae into a Trio","authors":"C. Potera","doi":"10.1128/MICROBE.11.416.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/MICROBE.11.416.1","url":null,"abstract":"Microbiologists recently realized that lichens, formerly defined as pairings of fungi and algae (cyanobacteria), instead include a third component—yeast. Indeed, yeast cells are found embedded in the cortexes of lichens collected on six continents—thus overturning a definition for lichens that was established about 150 years ago, according to Tony Spribille at the University of Montana (UM) in Missoula and his collaborators at several institutions. Details appeared 29 July 2016 in Science (doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf8287).","PeriodicalId":87479,"journal":{"name":"Microbe (Washington, D.C.)","volume":"11 1","pages":"416-417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1128/MICROBE.11.416.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63642127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Different Strokes: Blending Microbiology and Art: Microbiologists collaborating with artists uncover new ways to find beauty and importance in microbes and to make them into art","authors":"J. Maloy","doi":"10.1128/MICROBE.11.421.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/MICROBE.11.421.1","url":null,"abstract":"Although Michele Banks is not a microbiologist, she found herself speaking to a packed room of microbiologists at the 2016 ASM Microbe meeting in Boston last June. “It all started with the paint,” she says. “I was working with wet-in-wet watercolor, making abstract paintings with a kind of bleeding look and fuzzy edges. I had a show at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and the art coordinator told me that … my work looked like ‘friendly little things under a microscope.’”","PeriodicalId":87479,"journal":{"name":"Microbe (Washington, D.C.)","volume":"48 1","pages":"421-426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63642209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Universal Influenza Vaccine: Quest in Sight?: Several efforts to develop a vaccine that might work against all or most flu virus strains fortify hopes for fulfilling this one-time “flight of fancy”","authors":"Marlene Cimons","doi":"10.1128/MICROBE.11.433.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/MICROBE.11.433.1","url":null,"abstract":"William Schaffner, professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, remembers the countless times he and other flu experts mused about the possibilities of a universal vaccine, one that would not need modifying each year. These days, however, thanks to modern molecular technology, this dream no longer appears so improbable. “Now or very soon, these may no longer be flights of fancy,” he says. “There are some very impressive scientific efforts underway to make this real.”","PeriodicalId":87479,"journal":{"name":"Microbe (Washington, D.C.)","volume":"11 1","pages":"433-437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1128/MICROBE.11.433.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63642385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One 2016 Nobel: Yeast-Based Autophagy Work; 3 MacArthurs: Microbiology","authors":"J. Fox","doi":"10.1128/MICROBE.11.419.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/MICROBE.11.419.1","url":null,"abstract":"The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, about $936,000 this year, recognizes Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his efforts to understand autophagy, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components, research that he began by studying yeast. Separately, among the 2016 MacArthur Foundation Fellows, who receive $625,000 “genius awards,” are microbiologist Dianne Newman, who studies bacteria that played roles in shaping the Earth as well as in modern biomedical contexts; geobiologist Victoria Orphan, whose focus is on microbial communities in extreme environments; and physical biologist Manu Prakash, who invented several devices that can be used for diagnostic work in microbiology. Also noteworthy, the 2016 LaskerDeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is shared by three scientists whose research on hepatitis C virus (HCV) led to development of drugs for treating HCV infections.","PeriodicalId":87479,"journal":{"name":"Microbe (Washington, D.C.)","volume":"80 1","pages":"419-420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1128/MICROBE.11.419.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63642425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crystalized Proteins from Thermophile Reveal Transcription Insights","authors":"C. Potera","doi":"10.1128/MICROBE.11.377.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/MICROBE.11.377.1","url":null,"abstract":"The recently determined three-dimensional (3D) structure of a bacterial class II transcription complex helps to reveal how it binds to specific DNA sequences, thus driving transcription of downstream genes. This X-ray-based structural analysis provides the first atomic structure for such an intact class II transcription activation complex, according to Richard H. Ebright at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. He and his colleagues reported their findings on 10 June 2016 in Science (doi:10.1126/science.aaf4417).","PeriodicalId":87479,"journal":{"name":"Microbe (Washington, D.C.)","volume":"11 1","pages":"377-378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63641647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Branches: ASM Activity at the Local Level:","authors":"T. Soule, S. Knight","doi":"10.1128/MICROBE.11.396.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/MICROBE.11.396.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87479,"journal":{"name":"Microbe (Washington, D.C.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"396-398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63641905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviews and Resources:Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story: BOOKS","authors":"Dennis F. Mangan","doi":"10.1128/MICROBE.11.404.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/MICROBE.11.404.2","url":null,"abstract":"Randy Olson gives us yet another tool for our communication belts…and I'm glad to say my pants are beginning to sag! We are blessed to have excellent books, videos, podcasts, blogs, online training, and workshops available to help us improve our communication skills. One of the best books I've come across recently is Olson's Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story. Following his popular book, Don't Be Such a Scientist (2009), Olson takes a deeper analysis of the substance (not style) of science communication, which remains shamefully in need of improvement. I am delighted to report that by applying some of the methods explained in this book, Olson is helping me and many other emotionally stingy scientists, engineers, and technicians better connect with fellow humans.","PeriodicalId":87479,"journal":{"name":"Microbe (Washington, D.C.)","volume":"11 1","pages":"404-405"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1128/MICROBE.11.404.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63641958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviews and Resources:The Amoeba in the Room (Lives of the Microbes): BOOKS","authors":"A. Huang","doi":"10.1128/MICROBE.11.404.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/MICROBE.11.404.1","url":null,"abstract":"Although most introductory biology courses offered in high school or college contain at least one session that examines microscopic organisms, Nicholas Money feels that these small organisms deserve much more attention and research support. So he passionately and expertly goes on to demonstrate that there are all sorts of fascinating and weird microbes in the earth, in the water, in the air, and even in and on our bodies. They don't just exist but have essential roles interacting intimately with each other, their environment, and the larger hosts that they inhabit. Over time these small organisms have even begun to share some or all of their genetic information, sometimes integrating their genetic information into the DNA of the host or existing as organelles within the host cell.","PeriodicalId":87479,"journal":{"name":"Microbe (Washington, D.C.)","volume":"11 1","pages":"404-404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63641950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}