Mallory Choudoir

@malladapted.bsky.social

microbial ecology & soil ecology asst. professor & extension specialist queer scientist

Our paper, Pangenomes suggest ecological-evolutionary responses to experimental soil warming, is published! Led by @malladapted.bsky.social, this study of 91 isolate genomes shows lineage specific trends climate adaptation. Thanks to the many reviewers who helped make this a stronger publication. 🧪

Pangenomes suggest ecological-evolutionary responses to experimental soil warming | mSphere

Anthropogenic climate change threatens soil ecosystem health in part by altering below-ground carbon cycling carried out by microbes. Microbial evolutionary responses are often overshadowed by communi...

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We will be recruiting a postdoc to work on a CIHR-funded project in microbiome stewardship. The aim is to understand how different definitions of microbial diversity influence how we interpret the "health" of microbiomes. Job ad will be forthcoming, but if this sounds interesting do get in touch!

I love this phase of my life where all my favorite bands from the 90's are going on tour again. Artists are thriving, in their 50s, well hydrated, and eating more vegetables. And I get to sing along in the crowd with all the cool dads 😎

Ahh it's 6P and you are justifying some wild assumptions to figure out the calculations you didn't consider... my brain had to ditch something important to extract the volume of a cylinder. But soils are flooded and on the column! Burp baby burp :)

A glass Mason jar with saturated soil sitting inside of a PVC column, read to be hooked up to an auto-sampler for greenhouse gas flux measurements.