Eoin L. Brodie

TL;DR: The PhyloChip detected richness of low abundance phyla, and showed marked differences in the structure of the gastric bacterial community according to H. pylori status.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which incorporation of microbial ecology into ecosystem models improves predictions of carbon dynamics under warming, changes in precipitation regime, and anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment.

TL;DR: Detailed assessment of the COPD airway microbiota using high-throughput, culture-independent methods may prove key to understanding the relationships between airway bacterial colonization, acute exacerbation, and clinical outcomes in this and other chronic inflammatory airway diseases.

TL;DR: Whole-genome amplification of metagenomic DNA from very minute microbial sources, while introducing an amplification bias, will allow access to genomic information that was not previously accessible.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found correlations between bacterial community profiles and clinical disease markers in respiratory tracts of 45 children with cystic fibrosis and found that bacterial community complexity was inversely correlated with patient age, presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and antibiotic exposure, and was related to CF genotype.