From our FY26 New Investigators: @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social will examine why com140 supports growth by tracking gene activity & chemical exchanges between plants &microbes. @xinmingxu.bsky.social Full portfolio: jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/jgi-announces-2026-new-investigator-portfolio

We are beyond excited to reveal the full line-up for our Environmental Signaling in Plants summer school 2026! Registration is now open here eps.sites.uu.nl - we look forward to seeing you in Utrecht on 24th-26th August!

what a nice reunion in 🇪🇸🥰

Ákos T Kovács@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thank you, Dirk-Jan! We indeed enjoyed it with our Birmingham-Leiden collaboration group! (Not tapas but restaurant part) -with @marccamb.bsky.social @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social @xinmingxu.bsky.social and María Negre Rodríguez

The first talk of #PMS2025 by Julia Vorholt concentrates on SynCom for plant microbiomes research, a phyllosphere perspective 🌱

See our review on SynComs for tree microbiome engineering by @marccamb.bsky.social @xinmingxu.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social seed grant between @imibirmingham.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New #openaccess opinion piece, the first of our brilliant collaboration with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social @xinmingxu.bsky.social & @marccamb.bsky.social - thanks to @unibirmingham.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social for funding! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities

Trees are essential to ecosystems in both natural and urban environments, yet they are increasingly threatened by abiotic and biotic stresses linked t…

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I needed google translate to read into this blog, but appreciated the honesty of @xinmingxu.bsky.social on her academic path, the @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social cover, and the test of co-authors' friendships while preparing the connected SynCom review mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QH_TPdhSpk...

Closing keynote by Eran Elinava🌙🦠 at #FEMS2025 Eran explained why circadian rhythms matters——Industrial evolution allow us disrupt day-night cycles which highly boost human productivity; we can work night shifts and fly over time zones It’s time to unlock the power of microbe clock 🌱🕒 #FEMS2025

FEMS wouldn’t be complete without plant microbes! 🌿🦠 Ines Mandic Mulec hosts today’s plant-microbe interactions session, opening with Tessa Reid from Rothamsted Research. Did you know the wheat genome is five times bigger than the human genome?!

Now at #FEMS2025: Soil Biotechnology & Agriculture session chaired by Ivica Dimkić. Kicking off with Maria Elena Antinori’s talk on regenerative agriculture and microbial solutions.

Tuesday morning started from space 🚀🌕! As a microbiologist, there’s hardly anything cooler than sending soil samples into space for experiments! Prof. Janet Knutson Jansson opened today’s session on how space environmental factors affects soil microbial communities #FEMS2025

Kicking off by Roderik van grieken from Leiden😆 #FEMS

Here I come! Milano 🇮🇹 Excited to be here for #FEMS2025 🎉 Come find me and let’s chat about FalconSyn👀(if you wonder what it is! 🌱) 📅 Date: 17 July Thursday 📍 Poster Number: 297.17P

Just like last year, this was definitely the highlight of my year. Thanks to all the hard work and fun with my girls 🥰

Ákos T Kovács@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · last yr.

6 BSc students finished their (paired) internship projects with final presentations today - supervised by @xinmingxu.bsky.social and María Negre Rodríguez #Bacillus #SynCom #Arabidopsis #PGPRtraits #lignin #microbiome

I absolutely love this illustration for our review!! My favorite little microbe 🦠 is definitely this one! What about you?😆 Many many thanks to the great artist 🥰@lizahaart.bsky.social

Ákos T Kovács@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · last yr.

July issue of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social is now online, with our review by @xinmingxu.bsky.social @neftalyl.bsky.social on Composing a microbial symphony and a matching cover illustration by @lizahaart.bsky.social #SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Very much appreciated the hosting by @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social & @marccamb.bsky.social! I loved all the discussions we had—both scientific and non-scientific 🥰 Looking forward to seeing this collaboration—and even more so, the friendship—continue. Also, amazing work about 🌲🦠

James McDonald@jamesemcdonald.bsky.social · last yr.

Really nice talk on developing synthetic microbial communities for plant growth (with a fantastic title slide!) by @xinmingxu.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #BhamLeidenpartnership

Have you ever written a review with your best friends? Let me tell you, it's the ultimate testimony to true friendship! 😱Like a SynCom: if you want to play a symphony and help the plant thrive, you have to collaborate! Check out our new publication: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kdNr_,2Ci...

Join the MicroClock team and work on the discovery of the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock components: #PostDocPosition in Leiden 🇳🇱 via the @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project Deadline: 17 January www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20... please share with your network🙏

How to write a grant? 1. The application is for the reviewer, not you, the applicant. 2. Communicate in stories. 3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps. 4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading. 5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Our new paper is published in Scientific Data describing the genome sequences of 121 Bacillales isolates from all around the world -together with @tilmweber.bsky.social Joint DTU-BGI PhD project and nice collaborative effort providing the isolates www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Bacillus

Me supervising my supervisor， who is only in the lab once per year @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social