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This article "Bacterial genome structural variation: prevalence, mechanisms, and consequences" is published in Trends in Microbiology.

Author:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Emma V. Waters

Journal:Trends in Microbiology

Year:2025

Podcast type:Short

The authors are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

⁠Emma V. Waters⁠⁠1⁠,⁠2⁠ ∙ ⁠Sarah K. Cameron⁠⁠3⁠ ∙ ⁠Gemma C. Langridge⁠⁠1⁠,⁠2⁠ ∙ ⁠Andrew Preston⁠

Affiliations:

1 Microbes and Food Safety, Quadram

Institute Bioscience, Norwich, UK

2 Centre for Microbial Interactions,

Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK

3 The Milner Centre for Evolution and

Department of Life Sciences, University

of Bath, Bath, UK

This article "Genomic evidence of symbiotic adaptations in fungus-associated bacteria" is published in iscience.

Author:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniyal Gohar

Journal:iScience

Year:2025

Podcast type:Short

The authors are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

Daniyal Gohar,1,2,9,* Kadri Po ˜ ldmaa,1,3 Mari Pent,1 Saleh Rahimlou,4 Klara Cerk,5,6 Duncan Y.K. Ng,5 Falk Hildebrand,5,6

and Mo Bahram7

Affiliations:

1Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, J. Liivi St. 2, 50409 Tartu, Estonia

2Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA

3Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51003 Tartu, Estonia

4Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

5Gut Microbes & Health, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UQ Norfolk, UK

6Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UZ Norfolk, UK

7Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark

8Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ulls va ¨ g 16, 756 51 Uppsala, Sweden

This article "Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged" is published in mSphere.

Author:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠F. Murilo Zerbini

Journal:mSphere

Year:2025

Podcast type:Short

The authors are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

F. Murilo Zerbini,1 Peter Simmonds,2 Evelien M. Adriaenssens,3 Elliot J. Lefkowitz,4 Hanna M. Oksanen,5 Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini,6

Frank O. Aylward,7 Juliana Freitas-Astúa,8 Holly R. Hughes,9 Małgorzata Łobocka,10 Mart Krupovic,11 Jens H. Kuhn,12 Arcady

Mushegian,13 Judit J. Penzes,14 Alejandro Reyes,15 David L. Robertson,16 Simon Roux,17 Luisa Rubino,18 Sead Sabanadzovic,19,20

Donald B. Smith,2 Nobuhiro Suzuki,21 Dann Turner,22 Koenraad Van Doorslaer,23 Arvind Varsani24

Affiliations:

1Departamento de Fitopatologia/BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, State

of Minas Gerais, Brazil

2Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United

Kingdom

3Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, England, United Kingdom

4Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham,

Alabama, USA

5Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and

Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

6Departamento de Microbiologia/BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, State

of Minas Gerais, Brazil

7Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

8Embrapa Cassava and Fruits, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Cruz das

Almas, Brazil

9Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

10Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw,

Poland

11Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Archaeal Virology Unit, Paris,

Île-de-France, France

12Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious

Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, USA

13Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, National Science Foundation, Alexandria,

Virginia, USA

14Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

15Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

16MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, Scotland, United

Kingdom

17Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

Berkeley, California, USA

18Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante,

Sede Secondaria di Bari, Bari, Italy

19Department of Agricultural Science and Plant Protection, Mississippi State University,

Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA

20Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology, Mississippi State University,

Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA

21Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

22School of Applied Sciences, College of Health, Science and Society, University of the

West of England, Bristol, England, United Kingdom

23Department of Immunobiology, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona Cancer Center,

Tucson, Arizona, USA

24The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, School of Life

Sciences, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona,

USA

This article "A blueprint for contemporary studies of microbiomes" is published in Microbiome.

Author:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laure B. Bindels⁠

Journal:Microbiome

Year:2025

Podcast type:Short

The authors are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

• Laure B. Bindels, 
• Joy E. M. Watts, 
• Kevin R. Theis, 
• Víctor J. Carrion, 
• Adam Ossowicki, 
• Jana Seifert, 
• Julia Oh, 
• Yongqi Shao, 
• Markus Hilty, 
• Purnima Kumar, 
• Falk Hildebrand, 
• Connie Lovejoy, 
• Paul Wigley, 
• Ke Yu, 
• Meiling Zhang, 
• Tong Zhang, 
• Jens Walter, 
• Mahesh S. Desai, 
• Sharon Ann Huws, 
• Lynn M. Schriml, 
• Jacques Ravel, 
• W. Florian Fricke, 
• Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh, 
• Charles K. Lee & 
• Thomas Clavel 

Affiliations:

1

Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group, Louvain Drug Research Institute,

UCLouvain, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. 2

Welbio

Department, WEL Research Institute, Wavre, Belgium. 3

School of Environment

and Life Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK. 4

Department

of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Wayne State University

School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA. 5

Departamento de Microbiología, Facul-

tad de Ciencias, Campus Universitario de Teatinos s/n, Universidad de Málaga,

Málaga, Spain. 6

Departamento de Protección de Cultivos, Instituto de Horto-

fruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Campus Universitario de

Teatinos, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientí-

ficas (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Málaga, Spain. 7

Institute of Biology, Leiden University,

Leiden, The Netherlands. 8

Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands

Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands. 9

HoLMiR –

Hohenheim Center for Livestock Microbiome Research, Functional Microbiol-

ogy of Livestock, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. 10

Department

of Dermatology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. 11

Faculty of Agriculture,

Life and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. 12

Insti-

tute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. 13

Depart-

ment of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, University

of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 14

Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich

Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7UQ, UK. 15

Earlham Institute, Norwich

Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7UQ, UK. 16

Département de Biologie

and Institut de Biologie Intégrative Et Des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec,

QC, Canada. 17

Bristol Veterinary School, Langford Campus, University of Bristol,

Bristol, UK. 18

Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen, China.

19

School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241,

China. 20

Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Labora-

tory, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University

of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. 21

School of Public Health, The University

of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China. 22

APC Microbiome Ireland,

School of Microbiology, and Department of Medicine, University College Cork,

Cork, Ireland. 23

Nutrition, Microbiome and Immunity Group, Department

of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Esch‑Sur‑Alzette,

Luxembourg. 24

School of Biological Sciences, Institute for Global Food

Security, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. 25

Department of Epidemiology

and Public Health, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland

School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 26

Center for Advanced Microbiome

Research and Innovation, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Mary-

land School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 27

Department of Microbiology

and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD,

USA. 28

This article "A prebiotic dietary pilot intervention restores faecal metabolites and may be neuroprotective in Parkinson’s Disease" is published in njp Parkinson's disease.

Author:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Janis Rebecca Bedarf⁠

Journal:njp Parkinson's disease

Year:2025

Podcast type:Short

The authors are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

• Janis Rebecca Bedarf, 
• Stefano Romano, 
• Silke Sophie Heinzmann, 
• Anthony Duncan, 
• Maria H. Traka, 
• Duncan Ng, 
• Daniella Segovia-Lizano, 
• Marie-Christine Simon, 
• Arjan Narbad, 
• Ullrich Wüllner & 
• Falk Hildebrand 

Affiliations:

1Departent of Movement Disorders (PSB), Centre of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany. 2German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, DZNE

Bonn, Bonn, Germany. 3Food, Microbiome, and Health, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norfolk, UK. 4Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Helmholtz Centre

Munich, Neuherberg, Munich, Germany. 5Decoding Biodiversity, Earlham Institute, Norfolk, UK. 6Food & Nutrition National Bioscience

Research Infrastructure, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norfolk, UK. 7Institute of Nutritional and Food Sciences (IEL), Nutrition and Health,

This article "Population structure and gene flux of Listeria monocytogenes ST121 reveal prophages as a candidate driver of adaptation and persistence in food production environments" is published in Microbial Genomics.

Author:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ana Victoria Gutiérrez

Journal:Microbial Genomics

Year:2025

Podcast type:Short

The authors are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

Ana Victoria Gutiérrez1​, Michaela Matthews1​, Maria Diaz1​, Thanh Le Viet1​, Leonardo de Oliveira Martins1​, Frieda Jørgensen2​, Heather Aird2​, Anaïs Painset2​, Nicolle Som1​, Oleksii Omelchenko1​,3​, Evelien M. Adriaenssens1​,3​, Robert A. Kingsley1​,3​ and Matthew W. Gilmour1​

Affiliations:

Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK; 

2UK Health Security Agency, Food, Water and Environmental Microbiology Laboratories and the Gastrointestinal Bacteria Reference Unit, London, UK; 

3University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

This article "Relative Validity of the Food Recording Smartphone App Libro in Young People Vulnerable to Eating Disorder: A Preliminary Cross-Over Study" is published in Nutrients.

Author:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Melissa Basso

Journal:Nutrients

Year:2025

Podcast type:Short

The authors are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

Melissa Basso 1,2,Liangzi Zhang 3,George M. Savva 4,Kathrin Cohen Kadosh 1 andMaria H. Traka 3,*

Affiliations:

School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK2School of Biosciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK3Food and Nutrition National Bioscience Research Infrastructure, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Rosalind Franklin Rd., Norwich NR4 7UQ, UK4Core Science Resources, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Rosalind Franklin Rd., Norwich NR4 7UQ, UK

This article "Genome sequence of Eubacterium callanderi AM6, isolated from a Parkinson’s disease patient" is published in Microbiology resource announcements.

Author:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Madhav Kumar

Journal:Microbiology resource announcements

Year:2025

Podcast type:Short

The authors are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

Madhav Kumar, Lizbeth Sayavedra, Dave J. Baker1, Yogesh S. Shouche2, Arjan Narbad1

Affiliations:

1Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

2Gut Microbiome Division, SKAN Research Trust, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

This article "Extended recommendations on the nomenclature for microbial catabolites of dietary (poly)phenols, with a focus on isomers" is published in Food and Function.

Author:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Samuel J. Bloomfield

Journal:Food and Function

Year:2025

Podcast type:Expert

The authors are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

Samuel J. Bloomfield, Raphaёlle Palau, Nicol Janecko, Craig Baker-Austin, Alison E. Mather 

Affiliations:

a Quadram Institute Bioscience, Rosalind Franklin Road, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, United Kingdom

b Centre for Microbial Interactions, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UG, United Kingdom

c Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth, DT4 8UB, United Kingdom

d University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom

This article "Throwing a spotlight on genomic dark matter: The power and potential of transposon-insertion sequencing" is published in JBC Reviews.

Author:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laura M. Nolan

Journal:JBC Reviews

Year:2025

Podcast type:Short

The authors are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

Laura M. Nolan, Mark A. Webber, and Alain Filloux

Affiliations:

Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering and 

2School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; 

3Quadram Institute Bioscience, 

4Norwich Medical School and 

5Center for Microbial Interactions, Norwich, UK;

 6Lee Kon Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; 

7Imperial, Centre for Bacterial Resistance Biology, London, UK