Thrilled to have got hold of this super useful book by @martin-nunez.bsky.social ! It will make a great gift to celebrate the upcoming PhD confirmations of my students 👌
Frédérique Reverchon
@drafred.bsky.social
#MicrobialEcologist working at the Instituto de Ecología #INECOL 🇲🇽. Interested in #PlantMicrobeInteractions, #SoilEcology, #Microbiomes, #Biocontrol, #Biogeochemistry, #EcosystemServices, #WomenInSTEM.
✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Rethinking the soil core microbiome nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
" Forêt – ce pays qui se referme derrière vous dès le premier pas, avec ses troncs répétés à l’infini, son silence qui n’est pas l’absence de bruit mais une autre qualité du monde, et cette impression persistante que quelque chose vous a regardé passer sans se montrer. "
We're hiring 🔬🌱🦠 We're looking for someone with confocal microscopy expertise to join our work on plant–microbe interactions @thesainsburylab.bsky.social . A whole new suite of genetically encoded reporters + 3D spatial gene expression tools like PHYTOMap and more. Please share!
The Sainsbury Laboratory@thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 4w ago📣 VACANCY: Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Researcher - Tatsuya Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Join the team to work on work on live-cell and 3D spatial imaging of plant–microbe interactions 🔬🌱 📍Norwich, UK ⏰ Apply online by 14 Sept 2026 Apply here: www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...
Adding this one to the "To-Read" list 👀
Journal of Experimental Botany@jxbotany.bsky.social · 4w ago🫛🦠 RESEARCH 🦠🫛 Host sanctions result in the collapse of bacteroid populations and lead to premature nodule senescence. Peas cannot selectively punish strains within mixed nodules, instead sanctioning the whole nodule - Underwood et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
Our botanical artist Alfonso Barbosa took on the challenge and drew this wonderful illustration of fungal endophytes 🌱🍄
New paper from lab in @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Sustainability A global atlas of soil microbial genetic resources exposes protection shortfalls. Fewer than 25% of hotspots for soil microbial genetic resources fall within designated protected areas www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A global atlas of soil microbial genetic resources exposes protection shortfalls - Nature Sustainability
Soil microbiomes harbour diverse genetic resources that underpin their capacity to provide crucial ecosystem services (for example, nutrient cycling). Here the authors map global hotspots of soil micr...
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Biocontrol of plant diseases from a holobiont perspective: microbiome-mediated mechanisms and applications link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Biocontrol of plant diseases from a holobiont perspective: microbiome-mediated mechanisms and applications - Australasian Plant Pathology
Plant disease resistance is increasingly recognized as an emergent property of the plant holobiont, shaped not only by host genotype and pathogen virulence but also by the composition and function of ...
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Our new meta-analysis on how #biochar decreases soil nutrient leaching is out! 🥳 Applying Biochar With Fertilisers Decreases Nitrogen and Phosphorus Leaching and Improves Phosphorus Availability: A Meta-Analysis A great collab' with our Griffith University colleagues 🤝 doi.org/10.1111/gcbb...
Applying Biochar With Fertilisers Decreases Nitrogen and Phosphorus Leaching and Improves Phosphorus Availability: A Meta‐Analysis
Applying biochar with fertilisers significantly reduced N and P leaching. NO3−, NH4+, and PO43− leaching decreased by 13.2%, 1.5%, and 16.5%, respectively. Applying biochar with fertilisers did not a...
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That's a wrap for #MeeHubs2026! Today at the Morelia hub: plenary talk by Ana Escalante on bridging the gap between diversity and function in soil microbial communities
What, is it over already? MEEHubs2026 concluded just minutes ago. It's been a blast, and here are some stats for you: 711 registrations, 241 posters, 71 talks, 3 days, participants from 32 countries. Bye from all the hubs 🩵🩵🩵 #MEEHubs2026 #MEEHubs26
If you want to keep MEEHubs alive and see it back in 2028, consider being an organizer yourself! Please fill out this very short survey by scanning the QR code or clicking here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
MEEhubs@meehubs.bsky.social · last mo.What, is it over already? MEEHubs2026 concluded just minutes ago. It's been a blast, and here are some stats for you: 711 registrations, 241 posters, 71 talks, 3 days, participants from 32 countries. Bye from all the hubs 🩵🩵🩵 #MEEHubs2026 #MEEHubs26
Day 2 at #MEEHubs2026 Morelia. Plenary talk by Etzel Garrido on bacteria shaping plant-insect interactions #MEEHubs26
Fantastic talks and discussions today at #MEEHubs2026 Plenary talk by Dr Esperanza Martínez from CCG-UNAM on small molecules as currency in plant-microbe interactions
The next few sessions were hosted by Chernihiv, Morelia, and Montreal. That's excellent science spanning 9h of time difference! #MEEHubs2026 Sad you missed out on one of these talks? Don't worry! They're all recorded so you can view whenever you want!
3 days of Microbial Ecology and Evolution, starting tomorrow! 🤩 #MEEHubs2026 meehubsmorelia2026.org Of you' re attending from another hub, check our online poster on multiomics to elucidate the effects of #Phythophthora on the 🥑 #microbiome and #metabolome (no. 171). #microsky
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🎙️ Hace un par de semanas salió el nuevo episodio del podcast " Del suelo al Cielo", en el cual participé para hablar de raíces, exudados radiculares e interacciones 🌱-🦠 🎧 Disponible en Spotify! open.spotify.com/episode/10zc...
El lenguaje invisible de las raíces
Del Suelo al Cielo · Episode
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New preprint led by @logansuteau.bsky.social ! What really drives the success of seed-applied multi-kingdom SynComs ? -> Strain selection matters more than assembly strategy -> SynComs can reshape native bacterial communities via recruitment from soil and network integration doi.org/10.64898/202...
Seed-applied multi-kingdom synthetic communities selectively reshape bacterial communities and highlight key criteria for strain selection
Defined microbial communities (also known as synthetic communities) are showing promising results for plant health but are lacking an efficient lab to field transition. This is the due to limited know...
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Meet our first four Rising Stars of IS-MPMI! Join us on Wednesday 29 July, 3PM UTC to hear about the latest advances in plant-microbe interactions from the next generation of scientists. Free, online, and open to all! Register here: uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
New #preprint from the lab! "Root rot by Phytophthora cinnamomi shifts the composition and structure of avocado rhizosphere fungal communities" doi.org/10.64898/202...
New record of #Echeveria for México, and the species is named after my father-in-law 🤩 doi.org/10.21829/abm...
June 2026 newsletter highlighting a few of @getgenome.bsky.social recent activities and opportunities. Remember, you can find this and our previous newsletters here getgenome.net/network
View from the office, 8 am. Grateful for being surrounded by vegetation! 🌿
New paper from the lab- From “synthetic” to defined microbial communities for clearer terminology- in @natureportfolio.nature.com journal Nature Communications. Led by Hanna Koch & Angela Sessitsch
Great opportunity to work in a cutting edge lab!
Prof Braj Singh@prof-braj-singh.bsky.social · 3mo ago2X Postdoctoral Research Associate (Agriculture & Plant Microbe) are available at the intersection of microbial ecology, soil health and crop disease management at UWA, Perth. Closing date: 19/07/2026. Pl repost Details on opportunity& eligibility below external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
Found another example today of #HelicopterResearch. Study on lichens of the Atacama desert, no co-author from Chile. Oh but the authors acknowledge the "exceptional understanding of the ecosystem" of the Chilean National Park rangers. 😕 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Fog, Symbiosis, and Survival: The Ecological Architecture of the Grit Crust From the Atacama Desert Represents a Lichen Holobiome Rather Than a Soil Microbiome
Multi-marker metabarcoding (16S rRNA, 18S rRNA, ITS2) of the fog-dependent grit crust in the Atacama Desert reveals a community structured by lichen symbioses rather than typical soil-derived microbi...
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Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhen a study is built on Global South 🇪🇨 biodiversity and field sites, you’d hope Global South scientists are involved in more than “acquired data” doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Buscamos candidato a Beca Doctoral Conicet llamado 2026 junto con javimorenook.bsky.social #Arabidopsis 🍀 #microbioma 🍄 IAL-FIL
On Wednesday I will be giving a talk (in Spanish) about our findings on how #Phytophthora rewires the avocado microbiome and metabolome. 🥑🦠🍄🧪🧬 #microsky
