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FEMS Research Bulletin - no. 002
 

This is the second edition of the FEMS Research Bulletin, designed to deliver all the latest top-quality science and developments from the FEMS Journals straight to your inbox!
 
 
microLife

The journal of the FEMS European Academy of Microbiology

Follow on Twitter: @microLifeJrnl

As the journal of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM), microLife is the platform for leading experts in microbiology, publishing outstanding papers of the highest standard, novelty, and significance. Submissions welcome.

Editors-in-Chief: Axel Brakhage & Carmen Buchrieser
FEMS Microbes

Open science towards a sustainable world

Follow on Twitter: @FEMSMicrobes 

FEMS Microbes is our community journal for sharing research findings, in particular for Early Career Scientists to read, publish, and contribute.

Submit your research now.

Editors-in-Chief: Jana Jass, Kimberly Kline, and Kathleen Scott
Cryptococcus neoformans releases proteins during intracellular residence that affect the outcome of the fungal–macrophage interaction

Cryptococcus neoformans is a facultative intracellular pathogen that can replicate and disseminate in mammalian macrophages. In this study, the authors analyzed fungal proteins identified in murine macrophage-like cells after infection with C. neoformans. To accomplish this, they developed a protocol to identify proteins released from cryptococcal cells inside macrophage-like cells; we identified 127 proteins of fungal origin in infected macrophage-like cells.

Eric H Jung, Yoon-Dong Park, Quigly Dragotakes, Lia S Ramirez, Daniel Q Smith, Flavia C G Reis, Amanda Dziedzic, Marcio L Rodrigues, Rosanna P Baker, Peter R Williamson, Anne Jedlicka, Arturo Casadevall, Carolina Coelho
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Detection of pneumococcus during hospitalization for SARS-CoV-2

Infections with respiratory viruses [e.g. influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)] can increase the risk of severe pneumococcal infections. Likewise, pneumococcal coinfection is associated with poorer outcomes in viral respiratory infection. However, there are limited data describing the frequency of pneumococcus and SARS-CoV-2 coinfection and the role of coinfection in influencing COVID-19 severity. The authors, therefore, investigated the detection of pneumococcus in COVID-19 inpatients during the early pandemic period.

Anne Stahlfeld, Laura R Glick, Isabel M Ott, Samuel B Craft, Devyn Yolda-Carr, Christina A Harden, Maura Nakahata, Shelli F Farhadian, Lindsay R Grant, Ronika Alexander-Parrish, Adriano Arguedas, Bradford D Gessner, Daniel M Weinberger, Anne L Wyllie
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FEMS Microbiology Ecology Webinar on Microbial Life Strategies

Microbial communities vary greatly as microbes adopt very different niches. Functional and physiological traits are underlying drivers of niche differentiation, while feeding patterns by eukaryotic predators also have a important role to play on the soil microbiota. Yet, microbial communities can have dramatically different compositions even among similar environments. This webinar will dive into the complex topic of microbial life strategies.

Date: Thursday 17th November 2022
Time: 9 am EDT / 3 pm CET / 11 pm JST
Register Now
 
New Section of FEMS Microbiology Letters: Clinical Microbiology 
 

Thematic Issue on Novel Molecular Approaches to Diagnostics in Clinical Microbiology and Clinical Veterinary Microbiology

Editor: Dr Tina Joshi, Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology, University of Plymouth, UK (tina.joshi@plymouth.ac.uk)

Coinciding with the launch of our new Clinical Microbiology and Clinical Veterinary Microbiology Section, the above Thematic Issue’s call for papers is now open.

Novel molecular diagnostics have played significant role in diagnosis of infectious diseases in recent years. The advent of highly transmissible infectious diseases such as COVID-19, monkeypox, avian influenza and rising antimicrobial resistance have necessitated the need for new innovative rapid diagnostic methods able to detect clinical pathogens of humans and captive animals (be they domestic, captive, agricultural etc) with high specificity and sensitivity to aid infection control and successful treatment through early diagnosis. This issue focusses on novel molecular methods that will be specifically suitable for use at point of care and/or in the field and could include applications of RT-qPCR, transcriptomics, pangenomics, metagenomics, microbiome sequencing and so on, underpinned by rigorous statistical analyses.

Submission Deadline: 30 April 2023
 
Calls for Papers
 
FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Your natural research habitat
FEMS Microbiology Letters

Promoting new ideas
FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Outstanding reviews from leading experts

Microbial biodiversity contributes to soil carbon release: a case study on fire disturbed boreal forests

Microbial communities often possess enormous diversity, raising questions about whether this diversity drives ecosystem functioning, especially the influence of diversity on soil decomposition and respiration. The authors found that microbial biodiversity plays the dominant role in soil carbon emissions in fire-disturbed boreal forests.

Xuan Zhou, Hui Sun, Jussi Heinonsalo, Jukka Pumpanen, Frank Berninger
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Roles of intestinal Parabacteroides in human health and diseases

Parabacteroides spp. are closely associated with human health and diseases. Parabacteroides distasonis and Parabacteroides goldsteiniiare may be viewed as potential next generation probiotic candidates due to their protective effects on inflammation and obesity in mice.

Yanlong Cui, Leshan Zhang, Xin Wang, Yanglei Yi, Yuanyuan Shan, Bianfang Liu, Yuan Zhou, Xin Lü
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Zebrafish models of COVID-19

The authors review here the main animal models developed so far to study COVID-19 and the unique advantages of the zebrafish model that may help to contribute to understand this disease, in particular to the identification and repurposing of drugs to treat COVID-19, to reveal the mechanism of action and side-effects of Spike-based vaccines, and to decipher the high susceptibility of aged people to COVID-19.

Sylwia D Tyrkalska, Sergio Candel, Annamaria Pedoto, Diana García-Moreno, Francisca Alcaraz-Pérez, Álvaro Sánchez-Ferrer, María L Cayuela, Victoriano Mulero
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Follow the new FEMS Microbes Twitter Account

We have launched a new Twitter account for out Open Access journal FEMS Microbes. From here you can keep up to date with all the most recent research from the journal. You can learn about the features of the journal and keep up to date with developments from the Editors-in-Chief.

Follow @FEMSMicrobes to stay up to date. And don’t forget to tag us with your research and any questions!

Open science toward a sustainable world.
@FEMSMicrobes
 
Pathogens and Disease

Next generation host pathogen research
FEMS Yeast Research

The yeast community journal 
Special Issue

Out Now: Virtual Special Issue on Climate Change

Phages, anti-CRISPR proteins, and drug-resistant bacteria: what do we know about this triad?

Phages are viruses that infect bacteria, relying on their genetic machinery to replicate. To survive the constant attack of phages, bacteria have developed diverse defense strategies to act against them. In this review, the authors illustrated the biological and clinical aspects of using phage therapy; furthermore, the CRISPR-Cas mechanism, and the interesting activity of anti-CRISPR proteins as a possible weapon to combat bacteria.

Andres Ceballos-Garzon, Angela B Muñoz, Juan D Plata, Zilpa A Sanchez-Quitian, Jose Ramos-Vivas
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Recent advances and challenges in the early diagnosis and management of invasive fungal infections in Africa

Invasive fungal infections are a serious concern globally, especially in African settings which are typified by poorly funded and fragile healthcare systems. Here the authors highlight key successes recorded and gaps in this journey and argue that national governments and relevant stakeholders need to do more to prioritise invasive fungal infections. Pragmatic and context-specific measures are proposed to mitigate the peculiar challenges Africa faces in tackling invasive fungal infections.

Chibuike Ibe, Akaninyene Asuquo Otu
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Virtual Special Issue on Microbes in a Changing Climate

Climate change is having a major impact around the world and there is thus considerable interest in understanding the roles and responses of microbes in these rapidly changing environments. This virtual special issue highlights recent articles in FEMS Microbiology Ecology that explore microbes in a changing climate.

These articles take us to different biomes across the world, with studies charactering microbial responses, metabolic adaptations of microbial communities and their impacts on biogeochemical cycles, and the effect on symbioses and the interactions of complex microbial assemblages.

Associated with this Virtual Issue is our webinar on Microbial Ecology in a Changing Climate
Read the Special Issue
 
The FEMS Journals fund our Grants
 

As a not-for-profit organization, our revenues from publishing the FEMS Journals are used to fund and support the microbiology community. A key way we are Investing in Science this is through awarding grants to researchers.

Members of FEMS Member Societies can apply for grants for research and training, or for support when organizing a scientific meeting, or attending a scientific meeting – including our Member Societies’ national and regional congresses.

To further support our growing microbiology community, we are increasing the amount offered for three of our grants! We appreciate that costs are increasing in many areas so we hope that this will better reflect the current needs of our community. And just as a reminder that all of our grants have two application rounds each year, except the Ukraine Support Grant that accepts applications on a rolling basis year-round.

This time of year there are several grants awaiting applications! Make sure you don’t miss the deadlines for:
Meeting Organizer Grants (Deadline: 1 December 2022)

Members of FEMS Member Societies can apply for our grants. FEMS supports selected meetings within the European Area with a Meeting Organizer Grant. Scientific conferences, laboratory workshops and training courses will be considered for such support.

The maximum amount of a Meeting Organizer Grant is € 15,000.
Apply Now
Research and Training Grants (Deadline: 1 January 2023)

Members of FEMS Member Societies can apply for our grants. Research and Training Grants assist early career scientists in pursuing research and training at a European host institution in a country other than their own country of residence (and exceptionally to support research and training projects outside Europe).

These grants may be used to contribute to travel, accommodation and subsistence costs of making the visit. Support is limited to a maximum of €5000.
Apply Now
 
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