Rob Knight

TL;DR: A study on the impacts of geography, material type, human interaction, location in a room, seasonal variation, and indoor and microenvironmental parameters on bacterial communities in offices finds that offices have city-specific bacterial communities, such that it can accurately predict which city an office microbiome sample is derived from, but office- specific bacterial communities are less apparent.

TL;DR: A webenabled mass spectrometry (MS) search engine, named Mass Spectrometry Search Tool (MASST), is introduced by enabling searches of all small-molecule tandem MS (MS/MS) data in public metabolomics repositories, it is proposed that MASST will unlock these resources for clinical, environmental and natural product applications.

TL;DR: Clinical improvement of AD that is mediated by interleukin-4 receptor α inhibition and the subsequent suppression of type 2 inflammation is correlated with increased microbial diversity and reduced abundance of S. aureus.

TL;DR: A previously undocumented form of contamination, well-to-well contamination, is described, and it is shown that this sort of contamination primarily occurs during DNA extraction rather than PCR, is highest with plate-based methods compared to single-tube extraction, and occurs at a higher frequency in low-biomass samples.

TL;DR: The human microbiome serves as the interface between the authors' genes and their history of environmental exposures; explorations of their microbiomes offer the possibility of providing new insights into their neurodevelopment and their behavioral phenotypes by affecting complex processes such as inter- and intra personal variations in cognition, personality, mood, sleep, and eating behavior.