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Lactobacillus buchneri genome paper - Journal Bacteriology cover pic

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.

Recent PNAS paper profiled

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