📢 Announcing our latest SPECIAL ISSUE!

Mycorrhizal research now: from the micro- to the macro-scale

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🍄 The #mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers
🍄 Microbe-dependent and independent nutrient acquisition
🍄 The #hyphosphere core #microbiome

Happy to share a preprint of the work of my student EP Kanold et al. Addition of Polyester Microplastic Fibers to Soil Alters the Diversity and Abundance of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Affects Plant Growth and Nutrition SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The preliminary program is up: npf-events.evessiocloud.com/45NPS/en/page/…

This just made my day: 'We are delighted to share that your work, published in Ecological Applications on behalf of Ecological Society of America, is one of our top 10 most-cited papers published (2022-23)
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#Budget2024 💰 makes the largest investment in 20+ years for grad students & postdocs! It will support financial needs, boost mental well-being, allow focus on research, & promote diversity by easing barriers for underrepresented groups. 🎉💪🏽 #SOSBudget2024

A nitrogen-fixing organelle, or “nitroplast,” has been identified in a marine alga. This discovery sheds light on the evolutionary transition from endosymbiont to organelle.

Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/6yX

The view from topsail island near our campus in Sault Ste Marie last evening.

First results on the study of AMF traits in Claroideoglomeraceae being presented at VI Symposium on Agriculture Microbiology by Lidia Lídia Klestadt Laurindo in collaboration with Pedro M. Antunes . Symposium is at ESALQ/USP /USP in Piracicaba, São Paulo.

Interesting read. A message to my students. Avoid using AI at all cost; be yourselves. Your writing style is an important part of who you are.

Opinion: Generative artificial intelligence is simply a waste of our time and money /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

Today I’m attending a conference organized by this forward thinking lab ⁦Algoma University⁩ Bridge lab, clever idea

Sad to hear this news. Dr. Wall as someone who really cared about the world and who pushed hard, like few people can, to create a more advanced society.

For our South American Mycorrhizal Research Network International Mycorrhiza Society YT channel/Newsletter please find this very interesting to Adam Frew by Luke Florence on hypothesis & mechanisms by which AMF communities are structured due to plant defence youtu.be/uh3iEmygoiU?si…
Justine Karst van der Heijden Lab

Looking forward to speaking and meeting everyone at MSU this week eeb.msu.edu/events/seminar…

Check our 13 issue of the International Mycorrhiza Society Newslett. with important IMS & 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024 news. Top 10 papers. Short articles about large-scale AMF in situ inoculation, large Amanitas in Europe/US, mycoheterotrophic orchids. South American Mycorrhizal Research Network van der Heijden Lab

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Yesterday Tamiris Marandola defended her Master's thesis on life history traits of Acaulosporaceae. Superb work w/ collaboration of Pedro M. Antunes. Empty nest feeling after her 5 years in the lab. Success in your job as high school teacher now. You will be missed!

We've got an important deadline coming up! If you are planning to attend 45th New Phytologist Symposium on the consequences of plant–fungal invasions, the travel grant deadline is this Friday, 1 March!

Thousands of tree seedlings gearing up for deployment at our #boreal forest field sites this summer. #climatechangescience #fireecology #mycorrhiza