Just received this interesting work about assessment, didactics, learning and developing (in Dutch). I hope to obtain some interesting insights from it that I can use as a teacher. Looking forward to reading it. #teaching #didactics #education

Amazing northern lights last Monday and Tuesday in the Netherlands. #aurora #northernlight

A very nice talk by Aileen at the BioSB HotTopics & NIME microbial ecology symposium on Fusarium plant pathogens in tortoise leaf beetle symbiosis. Fusarium protects the beetle against predation and the beetle acts as a plant pathogen vector. @berasymbionts.bsky.social #symbiosis #insects #fusarium

A little bit of northern lights in the Netherlands tonight #northernlights #aurora #noorderlicht

What I did last weekend? I Collected 182 invasive pest insects for my research. #SouthernGreenShieldbug #Nezaraviridula #Entomology #PlantScience #Stinkbug

Incredible flower of my Stapelia hybrid carrion plant. Yes she stinks, but it is all woth it. #carrionflower #Stapelia #plant

Incredible to see the great camouflage of this shark moth (Cucullia umbratica). #insects #Entomology #moths

The Plant-Microbe Interactions group of @cornepieterse.bsky.social was well represented at #2025ISMPMI. Great to see all the interesting work that they do during one of the final presentations. @svanwees.bsky.social, @rlberendsen.bsky.social, @arsheed-sheikh.bsky.social #plantscience

Even the chairs at our hotel are really sciency #2025ISMPMI

Last session of the day, starting at 21:00. Very long day at #2025ISMPMI.

A really nice insect talk by @nataliagupa.bsky.social. #2025ISMPMI

It was a pleasure to present our work on ‘the role of pest-associated microbes in insect-plant interactions’ at the #2025ISMPMI congress in Cologne. @mrogowska.bsky.social, @cuwelte.bsky.social, @robertsjansen.bsky.social, @guidopmi.bsky.social

Nice tags for different occasions during #2025ISMPMI

Nice and visual talk by Soyon Park about parasitic plant bidirectional communication with their host plant. #2025ISMPMI #parasiticplants #plantscience

Another rare animal living in our garden (Achterhoek, the Netherlands), the paper wasp Polistes nimpha. #paperwasp #wasps #entomology #biodiversity

Save the date! The 2026 edition of UU Summer School in Environmental Signaling in Plants will be on 24th-26th August 2026! @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

Really cool talk by Talia Karasov on how headless phages (tailocins) kill non-self bacteria, shaping bacterial populations. #2025MPMI #plantscience #microbiology #phages

Come and find me today at my #2025ISMPMI poster (nr 235) if you are interested in insect-associated microbes and their effect on insect-plant interactions. #plantscience #insectscience

Come and find me at my poster (Wed 13:30-15:15, P-235) or at my talk on “the role of pest-associated microbes in insect-plant interactions” (Wed 16:15, room P+Q). #2025MPMI #plantscience #insectscience

Guido Van den Ackerveken@guidopmi.bsky.social · last yr.

Our Translational Plant Biology Team from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social is well represented at #2025ISMPMI. Come and see our posters: P077 Inigo Banales, P095 Dmitry Lapin, P235 @scoolen.bsky.social, P412 Bart Schimmel. Too bad I cannot attend this year. Enjoy!

How the choice of words makes insect excrement research sound fancy “frassomics”. Finally an insect talk at #2025ISMPMI congress by Dapeng Li. #plantscience #insectscience

Amazing talk by Xin Li about Sclerotinia (plant pathogen) ascospores that have two nuclei to house their chromosomes. Also another plant pathogen, Botrytis, has multiple nuclei. I never realized this! Really cool to see how having two nuclei functions in mitosis and meiosis. #2025MPMI

Enjoying the evening with Translational Plant Biology colleagues at the Rhine river in Cologne after an inspiring day of #2025ISMPMI congress. #plantscience

Amazing to see so many (~1280) dedicated plant scientists following all the talks in an intense #2025ISMPMI program.

Really interesting talk by Macarena about how Pseudomonas can colonize root nodules and how it influences nitrogen fixation #2025ISMPMI

There we go, #2025ISMPMI congress on molecular plant-microbe interactions. #plantscience

On my way to #2025ISMPMI congress (Cologne, Germany) by train from Ruurlo the Netherlands. #plantscience

No better way for a biologist to start the summer holiday. Bought myself a new camera (Nikon Z8 + 105mm) and photograped the very rare thick-headed fly (Abrachyglossum capitatum) and the rare European treefrog (Hyla arborea) in my garden. #Nikon #biology #treefrog #diptera

Look at these beautiful box bug nymphs (Gonocerus acuteangulatus)! They look like small dragons with spikes on their backs. #insects #shieldbugs

Just love going out into the garden and explore nature….this is crown rust (Puccinia coronata), a pathogen to many oats, on its alternative host glossy buckthorn (Fangula alnus). Isn’t it beautiful? #phytopathology #plantpathogen #crownrust #Puccinia

Check out the #FEMSmicroBlog from Magda on our insect symbiont Sodalis nezarae, isolated from the Southern green schieldbug. #microbiology #entomology #symbiont #science @mrogowska.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social @robertsjansen.bsky.social

Magda Rogowska-van der Molen @mrogowska.bsky.social · last yr.

Who shapes the lives of insects? Bacteria, of course! If you want to know more about how Sodalis nezarae and others do it, check out my latest #FEMSmicroBlog fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblo... @cuwelte.bsky.social @robertsjansen.bsky.social @scoolen.bsky.social @amanzanom.bsky.social