Tanya Cheeke
@tanyacheeke.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology at Washington State University, plant-soil-microbe interactions, mycorrhizal fungi, restoration ecology, conservation|she/her 🌱🍄🌲🔥🦋
~1 billion times the distance from Earth to the Sun. That is approx the total length of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae in topsoils. These microscopic fungal networks form one of Earth’s circulatory systems moving carbon and nutrients. Out now in @science.org : lnkd.in/eKAsVN_Z
We have an unusual situation this year: we have more mentors than usual for our current number of Singletons! Please share the link with your network! We will match up as many as we can! #ASMicrobe #MicroSky 🦠🧪🔬
Microbe @asm.org attendees! The matching registration form is locked but you can still join the community! forms.gle/5roddkPnjuBt... Join us on Slack and IRL. We often gain up to an additional 50% more people after we've made matches! #ASMicrobe #MicroSky 🔬🧪🦠🏳️🌈
Such a devasting loss 💔 If you are able to, consider donating to support Adriana's family 👇🏽 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for Jovani Catalan & Family, organized by Ivette Guzman
Dearest friends and family, We have set up this page to support Jovani Catalan and h… Ivette Guzman needs your support for Support for Jovani Catalan & Family
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Prof. Adriana Romero-Olivares, UC Riverside, was doing incredible work on how fungi and ecosystems respond to global change. A rising voice, a dynamic scientist and educator, a young mother, wife and daughter gone far too soon. A huge loss. Her family, students and community are in my thoughts.
Heartbreaking loss of a colleague, fellow mushroom enthusiast, and friend. cnas.ucr.edu/news/2026/05...
Remembering Adriana Romero-Olivares: Scientist, Educator, and Advocate
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Devastating loss of Dr. Adriana Romero-Olivares this week. She was an amazing mycologist, a leader in her field, & my friend & collaborator. This is a tremendous loss for mycology, science, & the world. There is a meal train for her husband & two small children www.mealtrain.com/trains/l3kg64
Meal Train for Jovani Catalan (Spouse of Adriana Romero Olivares)
Hi all, Please help out the family of Adriana Romero Olivares. Her husband, Jovani, and kids can be helped with meals over the next weeks as Adriana recovers.
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Prof. Adriana Romero-Olivares, UC Riverside, was doing incredible work on how fungi and ecosystems respond to global change. A rising voice, a dynamic scientist and educator, a young mother, wife and daughter gone far too soon. A huge loss. Her family, students and community are in my thoughts.
If anyone would like to do PhD work in my plant-soil-microbe & restoration ecology lab at WSU, please email me about this opportunity. Apps due by June 30
Now accepting applications for our 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards support students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs to conduct #ecology and #evolution research. Deadline is June 30, 2026: bit.ly/4umYKZd #science
Come work with me at the Department of Soil Biology in Hohenheim, Postdoc position for three years. I am looking for someone who will support my current line of research and help establish novel methods of molecular soil ecology in the lab. Thanks for sharing. www.uni-hohenheim.de/stellenangeb...
Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim
Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.
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Friends! My university is hiring an Asst Professor of Biology and an Asst Professor of History and American Indian Studies. Our students are wonderful, my colleagues are great, we do good work. Please share! Happy to answer questions :) heritage.edu/wp-content/u... heritage.edu/wp-content/u...
Native Plant Trust (Wayland, MA) is hiring a Plant Conservation Scientist! 🌱 maintain research program on native plant conservation and ecological restoration 🫘 curate the conservation seed bank and herbarium 🎓MS, PhD or equivalent experience 💸 $75-85k www.nativeplanttrust.org/about/jobs-i...
Jobs + Internships - Native Plant Trust
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New study out from the EcoForest project: Long-term effects of clear-cutting on understory plant communities in boreal forests www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Long-term effects of clear-cutting on understory plant communities in boreal forests
After five centuries of selective cutting in the boreal Fennoscandian forest there was a shift to stand replacing harvest (clear-cutting) in the 1940s…
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A 2-year postdoc with Eco&Sols, hosted at CESAB (French Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity). Objective : a meta-analysis of tree diversity effects on forest drought resilience. Starting date: 1st September 2026. Application deadline : 17th May 2026 Job announcement 👇
Job opportunities - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
Créée en 2008, la FRB recherche régulièrement de nouveaux collaborateurs. Elle constitue un point de convergence entre la science et la société, autour des défis que doit aujourd’hui relever la recher...
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Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867
Cornell University, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Job #AJO31867, WDR-00057721 Postdoctoral Associate, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Just spotted! - the rare and elusive tenure track position. This one in forest conservation genetics in my department - Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State. Help spread the word! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/178...
Assistant Professor: Forest Genetics and Genomics
The Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure-track, Assistant Professor: Forest Genetics and Genomics position.We seek a scholar-edu...
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Postdoc (2 years) in mycorrhizal fungal biogeography & species distribution modelling @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Work with large-scale metabarcoding data and modelling. Deadline is 30th April www.umu.se/en/work-with...
Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) in mycorrhizal biogeography and species distribution modelling
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www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/pivot-... - a terrific opportunity for a cross-disciplinary focused postdoc training
Pivot Fellowship
Pivot Fellowship on Simons Foundation
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📣 Open position: We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️ You will be responsible for guiding the development of this important resource and for curating the SILVA taxonomy🌳and more! 👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/... Read and share ‼️ #sciencejobs 🦠🧪 #career #taxonomy
ROOT & SHOOT 2026 travel awards are open for SACNAS, MANRRS, or AISES student/mentor pairs. Up to $3,000 per pair (US) / $4,000 (intl) to attend select plant-science conferences. Apply by Dec 5, 2025. Details & application: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
NSF Research Coordination Network: ROOT & SHOOT. 2026 travel award application for members of SACNAS, MANRRS, or AISES
The NSF-funded LEAPS: RCN: ROOT & SHOOT (Rooting Out Oppression Together and SHaring Our Outcomes Transparently) aims to strengthen plant science to become more welcoming to all. Part of this mission ...
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The Tumber-Dávila Lab and Michael Cox are looking for a postdoctoral Fellow to join the Environmental Studies Department at Dartmouth through the Society of Fellows Program 🌎🧪🌳🍁 apply.interfolio.com/176741
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New paper out with my PhD student as a co-author. Nice work, Zac Shortt!
Mycorrhizal fungi provide plants with nitrogen, but in exchange they take up to half the carbon plants pull from the atmosphere. In a new study, researchers investigate how the environment influences this give-and-take. 🧪🌱🍄 eos.org/research-spo...
I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp
Have you heard about MycoEd yet? A model educational program offering training for students on fungal genome sequencing and analysis. how powerful!! #mycofam #thefutureisfungal journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Myco-Ed: Mycological curriculum for education and discovery
Fungi are important and hyperdiverse organisms, yet chronically understudied. Most fungal clades have no reference genomes, impeding our understanding of their ecosystem functions and use as solutions...
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Diversify Microbiology is now open to all professionals working in the microbiology field. Nominate yourself at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Diversify Microbiology
This is a self-nomination form, entries submitted on behalf of someone else will be deleted. This list is intended for individuals who have completed a PhD or otherwise are employed in a professional ...
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Dream job in an awesome lab if anyone is looking for a technician position: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Research Technician - University of Kansas - Job Details
Job Details: A full-time lab/field research technician position is available to support research in the ecology and evoluti
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Mark your calendar for the International Monarch #MonitoringBlitz! 🦋 From July 25 to August 3, 2025 you can snap pictures of milkweed plants and monarch butterflies in any life stage - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis or adult - and upload your observations to iNaturalist.
New paper out from the Cheeke Lab led by @raeberner.bsky.social with @balachaudhary.bsky.social & Geoff Zahn. Congrats Rae! academic.oup.com/femsle/advan...
Annual grass invasion is associated with differences in the community structure and abundance of biocrusts and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Abstract. Interactions between biocrusts and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi may increase plant resilience to environmental stress in native grasslands.
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