Bernard Berger

TL;DR: The 2.26-Mb genome sequence of an infant-derived strain of Bifidobacterium longum was determined in this article, and 1,730 possible coding sequences organized in a 60%-GC circular chromosome.

TL;DR: The probiotic Bifidobacterium longum NCC3001 normalizes anxiety‐like behavior and hippocampal brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in mice with infectious colitis and test whether the anxiolytic effect of B. longum involves vagal integrity, and changes in neural cell function.

TL;DR: Calypso is an easy‐to‐use online software suite that allows non‐expert users to mine, interpret and compare taxonomic information from metagenomic or 16S rDNA datasets and has a focus on multivariate statistical approaches that can identify complex environment‐microbiome associations.

TL;DR: In a placebo-controlled trial, the probiotic BL reduces depression but not anxiety scores and increases quality of life in patients with IBS, associated with changes in brain activation patterns that indicate that this probiotic reduces limbic reactivity.

TL;DR: Genome analysis predicted an abundance of large and unusual cell-surface proteins, including fimbrial subunits, which may be involved in adhesion to glycoproteins or other components of mucin, a characteristic expected to affect persistence in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT).