The recent publication of the genome sequence in Journal of Bacteriology has garnered the cover image for the journal. The picture is of a biorefinery in Illinois from where the strain was isolated. This work is a collaboration between researchers at USDA ARS in Peoria IL and Dr. Mills.
Ricky LoCascio's paper on the conservation of milk utilization genes in B. longum subsp. infantis recently published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology was profiled in two places recently.
Congrats to Marco Ventura and Francesca Turroni of the University of Parma, Italy on their recent PNAS paper describing how Bifidobacterium bifidum consumes host glycans (including human milk oligosaccharides). This work was recently profiled in GenomeWeb Daily News.