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...
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Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.
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Ecological and genomic variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal exploration types
Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) produce mycelia with variable extension and complexity, which can be classified according to soil ‘exploration types’ (ETs). ETs have received attention as one of the few.....
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Integrating root exudation into belowground carbon economics #plantscience
Integrating root exudation into belowground carbon economics
The ecological significance of root exudation has long been recognized, yet most research on root-trait organization has focused on easily measurable morphological and chemical traits. Root exudation, despite representing a substantial carbon investment in rhizosphere processes and belowground interactions, remains largely overlooked in the current Root Economics Space (RES) framework. Emerging evidence reveals inconsistent correlations between root-exudation traits and the collaboration versus conservation gradients of the RES. We explore potential mechanisms underlying these inconsistencies and propose two testable hypotheses: that root exudation can either be integrated into the existing two-dimensional RES or constitute an independent axis that extends the framework to three dimensions. Finally, we identify key research priorities to address critical knowledge gaps and improve trait-based predictions of belowground carbon allocation.
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Thanks for writing this! I’ll be adding a link to it in my lab handbook and on the website for my undergrad scientific writing course.
Pat Thomson@patthomson.bsky.social · 5mo agoAcademic writers often feel uncomfortable but that’s often OK Here’s why patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...
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Excited to share our latest publication, just out. It has been a fantastic collaboration that took a lot of meticulous lab work and image analysis from Roos, and led to long discussions and deep dives into mycelial development and fungal life histories. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/6ZEPAC...
Differences in mycelial turnover and persistence of wood‐decay fungi at the microscale
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My colleague Christian Poll offers a PhD position in our group at University of Hohenheim, we would be glad if you share this opportunity with potential candidates. His project EcoFuture KAP4 is an interesting collaborative project with University of Tübingen. dbges.de/assets/Uploa...
Please join us at #ICOM2026 in Cairns, Australia, this summer. @anthomycota.bsky.social and me are organising a special session on mycorrhizae and biogeochemical cycles at the International Conference on Mycorrhiza (Session 23, icom2026.org). Abstract submission is open until February 28, 2026.
Congratulations to Sophia Kaschper on her first article published, based on her excellent master thesis 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/1365... How can we translate individual traits to functions in a community context? Functional traits do not simply add up, all interactions within the community are unique.
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Excellent study by Yolima Carrillo how fungal traits relate to necromass mineralization. Necromass mineralization (13C labeling) did not only depend on fungal melanin and C:N contents, but also reduced native soil carbon mineralization by negative priming onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Check out our new paper, Multilevel selection informs context-dependent mycorrhizal functioning! This is my very first first-authored publication, and I worked w some incredible folks to make it happen: @meafkhami.bsky.social @balachaudhary.bsky.social and Nancy Johnson! doi.org/10.3389/frmb...
Frontiers | Multilevel selection theory informs context-dependent mycorrhizal functioning
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form widespread, ancient, and critically important symbioses with plants, but their functioning and beneficial effects are ...
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Pyrophilous fungi are fungal species that thrive after wildfire. A genetic analysis of this group uncovered an ecologically important tradeoff between fast growth and the ability to break down post-fire aromatic carbon compounds. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/1A2P50XVxZc
Join us at #EGU26 in Vienna for our session SSS4.2 on microbial physiology, co-organized with @jpausch.bsky.social and @aguilart.bsky.social, featuring @edithhammer.bsky.social as Invited Speaker - meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio... Deadline for abstract submissions is 15th of January.
As a writer, teacher, AE, and reviewer, i share lots of their views. We need to work together to improve the system. The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system
Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.
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Happy to share this big piece on saprobic fungal traits and soil carbon cycling. Great collaboration in the SPP SoilSystems @dfg.de , with Damien Finn, Sören Thiele-Bruhn, Denise Vonhoegen, @mrillig.bsky.social and many others contributing to the study. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
What are all these soil fungi doing? Complex carbon use ability as a predictive trait for fungal community functions
Fungal communities in soil play important roles in decomposition processes and soil organic carbon cycling. These communities are tremendously diverse, making it challenging to assign relevant functio...
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Looks like a very useful tool, congrats to the group of Fernanda Pinheiro. A parallel R package would be nice :)
Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash.bsky.social · last yr.Translating microbial kinetics into quantitative responses and testable hypotheses using Kinbiont www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Systematic pairwise co-cultures uncover predominant negative interactions among human gut bacteria -in BMC Microbiome microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Systematic pairwise co-cultures uncover predominant negative interactions among human gut bacteria - Microbiome
Background Understanding pairwise bacterial interactions in the human gut is crucial for deciphering the complex networks of bacterial interactions and their contributions to host health. However, the...
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This is awesome work on fungal lignin breakdown. And I like this "simplified" overview graph of lignin breakdown. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cross-kingdom comparative genomics reveal the metabolic potential of fungi for lignin turnover in deadwood - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This study uses comparative genomics and phylogenetics to analyse the distribution and evolution of key enzymes involved in the catabolism of lignin-related aromatic compounds in the bacterial and fun...
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📢✨ONLINE FIRST!✨ How do anthropogenic drivers influence @soilbiodiversity change? Find out here! @bartoszbartk.com @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @mrillig.bsky.social @christianristok.bsky.social @doreenbabin.bsky.social Jörg Römbke, Frank Galante, Christina Lachman soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...
Systematic mapping of experimental approaches to studying common #mycorrhizal networks in arbuscular mycorrhiza #Review by Anika Lehmann and @mrillig.bsky.social 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #LatestIssue
Alptekin et al. suggest glomalin is a carbohydrate - glomalose. I wonder how this is different from EPS? nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
From glomalin to glomalose: unraveling the molecular identity of the MAb32B11 antigen
Glomalin, a substance produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, has well-documented benefits for plant and soil health, including water retention and soil aggregation. Glomalin quantification h...
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The Raunkiæran shortfalls to trait ecology. Great read on the limitations of trait concepts, and solutions. Led by Francesco de Bello esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology
Trait-based ecology, a prominent research field identifying traits linked to the distribution and interactions of organisms and their impact on ecosystem functioning, has flourished in the last three....
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Very important topic on the functional significance of AM root colonization nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
What does colonisation tell us? Revisiting the functional outcomes of root colonisation by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
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Exciting postdoc opportunity with Milda Pucetaite and us in the Soilchip group: Become the spectroscopy expert in our multimodal fungal recognition project within our interdisciplinary VR research environment:) lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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And congratulations to Yongxing Cui to this global analysis of microbial nutrient limitations, just published in @pnas.org Thank you for the fun collaboration
Matthias C. Rillig@mrillig.bsky.social · last yr.New paper out in @pnas.org by lab member Yongxing Cui et al. w/ @drlimnology.bsky.social, @manudelbaq.bsky.social & many others 🍾🧪 Global patterns of nutrient limitation in soil microorganisms www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In case somebody is still here, getting really quiet in blue skies.. There is some new research on EPS production under different resource conditions in bacteria and fungi, led by Rebeca Leme Oliva. Great collaboration with Rainer Joergensen bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Constituent of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) produced by a range of soil bacteria and fungi - BMC Microbiology
Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) produced by soil bacteria and fungi are crucial for microbial growth and provide many functions for the soil and its microbes. EPS composition may depend on mi...
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Wind dispersal shapes fungal communities, especially mushroom forming species. Nice study design by Peter Pellitier and @mykophile.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Wind Patterns Influence the Dispersal and Assembly of North American Soil Fungal Communities
Wind is the primary vector of fungal spore dispersal. We document that windflow patterns, both the direction and magnitude, exhibit a significant influence on the composition and diversity of soil fu....
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When thinking about soil microbial necromass composition and biomarker significance, having good knowledge of microbial cell wall composition is crucial. Another great review on the fungal cell wall by Neil Gow www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fungal cell wall biogenesis: structural complexity, regulation and inhibition
The cell wall is the defining organelle of filamentous and yeast-like fungi. It is responsible for morphology, biotic and abiotic interactions and its…
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The AmazonFACE project is offering post doc scholarships, based in Manaus, Brazil!
