
Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment
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A-LIFE advances innovative science about the interplay between life and its environment, from molecule to ecosystem including human populations @VUamsterdam
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28-02-2022 12:17:16
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In total shock from today's news that I am youngest scientist to EVER receive the Spinoza Prize NWO Nieuws This award is recognition of the radically brilliant teams I work w/ Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment AMOLF MiCRop - Microbial Imprinting for Crop Resilience SPUN Fungi in the spotlight! vu.nl/nl/nieuws/2023…

Been pitching a part of the #MetaAnts project on quantitative underpinnings of metabolic division of labor in ant colonies. To be continued, in collab with our #HSFP grant colleagues at Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment AIMMS @[email protected] aka Adria LeBoeuf Laboratory of Social Fluids


What shapes flow dynamics & vesicular networks in bodies of slime mold? We wrote an insight article for eLife - the journal on the incredible work of Sophie Marbach, Karen Alim & team about how veins spontaneously shrink/grow in Physarum to increase nutrient spread elifesciences.org/articles/88052

A-LIFE microbiologist Remco Kort is organising the @ARTIS Planetary Health Congress on July 5, 6 and 7 with @HealthHolland Topsector TU and Topsector Agri&Food Great workshops and keynotes on the connections between #Earth, #Water, #Food and #people More info: tinyurl.com/4h3za59r



Last week 10 black-tailed godwits were equipped with GPS trackers as part of @Veenvitaal, a unique interdisciplinary #NWA project led by Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment professor Matty Berg. Make peat meadows futureproof and protect biodiversity! NWO Nieuws Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) vu.nl/en/news/2023/l…

VU-hoogleraar @JacinthaEllers: 'Het is hard nodig, wetenschappers die hun lijf in de strijd werpen om de politiek te laten luisteren' VU Faculteit der Bètawetenschappen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) Scientist Rebellion advalvas.vu.nl/blog/zitten-vo…



De klimaatbeloftes van olie- en gasbedrijven zijn een wassen neus. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek dat Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) klimaatwetenschapper Mathieu_Blondeel samen met twee Japanse wetenschappers uitvoerde naar de klimaatstrategie van de fossiele industrie. vu.nl/nl/nieuws/2023…

SAVE THE DATE! On Sept 4th 2023 the NLSEB Junior Board organises the 2nd lab rotation event for PhDs and Postdocs of evolutionary biology, hosted by Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment in Amsterdam.


Happy to host the NLSEB lab rotation event at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief)!

Excellent scientific detective work by Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment fungal researcher @Kokkoris_Vas and team: They made the amazing discovery that the model species in AMF research produces dimorphic spores! Next questions are WHY, HOW and WHEN?




Out now: Genome content predicts the carbon catabolic preferences of heterotrophic bacteria Matti Gralka Otto X. Cordero Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment MIT CEE nature.com/articles/s4156…


Watch our executive director and chief scientist Toby Kiers talking about the importance of mycorrhizal fungi at AtlanticLIVE’s Climate Summit this Thursday at 3:30 EST. theatlantic.com/live/atlantic-… #TAF23


Development of a split-luciferase assay to establish optimal protein secretion conditions for protein production by Bacillus subtilis in Microbiology from Joen Luirink and Leendert Hamoen@HamoenLab at Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…
