Characterisation of isolated nitrite oxidiser Ca. Nitrobacter laanbroekii, originally enriched >35 years ago by Wietse de Boer during his PhD & named in honour of Riks Laanbroek. It also makes acidophilic Nitrosotalea behave a bit more like regular AOA! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🌍🔬 Our third ACTIONr mission at École Centrale de Lyon, with PhD students Paraskevi Amanatidou and Valia Moutzoureli, and Dr. Evangelia Papadopoulou, explored microbial ecology & GHG emissions. Huge thanks to ECL & Laboratoire Ampère for the training! 🚀🔍

Applications are now open for the PhD Summer School on: “Microbial insights into non-CO2 greenhouse gas production and terrestrial biogeochemical cycles under climate change” organized by ACTIONr and the University of Vienna! More information: shorturl.at/soDbh ACTIONr

Arbuscular #mycorrhiza in tropical trees poster 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024 Robin Sen Christina Hazard Camila

We are at #ICOM12! Check out our work on AMF and N-cycling (P-116; “Exploiting arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to decelerate the nitrogen cycle"). Manon Longepierre can tell you more during Poster Session 4 on Tuesday. 😀

We are at #ISME19! Come check out our work on soil viruses this Thursday 😀🦠! PS3.16.009 🎗Ella Sieradzki 🐈🐕; PS3.16.036 Huaiyu Wang; PS3.16.037 Zhongyi Cheng; PS3.16.040 Yuanyuan Zhang; Talk at 16:00 Christina Hazard

Still a week to apply for a Senior Research Technician post (109526-0824) ⁦⁦⁦Life Sciences⁩ to work on soil nitrogen cycling processes combining microbial, molecular and chemical analyses jobs.ac.uk/job/DJD015/sen…

Very happy to be a speaker and mentor at the FEMS summer school. A real pleasure to share my thoughts and discuss about strategies for mitigating nitrogen pollution from agriculture.

One more week until the EIC Jack Gilbert webinar on Dormancy! Register now, it's free! ASM ASM EEB asm.org/webinars/msyst…

Wonderful week with a great group of scientists!

📢Hey Tweeps! We have an open Master internship (Jan-May 2025) We are looking for motivated candidates to study the microbiota of non-mycorrhizal plants🧫🦠🍄🌱 Send your applications (CV+Motivation letter) before Nov 1st. Please RT 💖 sites.google.com/view/juliana-a…

Super excited to announce the 5th IBSE International Symposium - Microbiomes in Environment, Space and Human Health at IIT Madras in Chennai, India from Feb 19-21. Amazing sessions and and a great lineup of speakers. Please RT and spread the word! ibse.iitm.ac.in/symposium-05/

New preprint! 📣 A continuation of our work on soil pH impacts on virus communities. Mia Sungeun LEE Graeme Nicol Christina Hazard biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Well it only took 13 years (or maybe ~1,600 generations) to get validated since the first publication, but now that it has entered its teenage years, Nitrosotalea is Candidatus no more! microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… Laura Lehtovirta-Morley Cecile Gubry-Rangin Christina Hazard Soil Microbial Ecology Group

Curious about soil viruses? Join my talk tomorrow for the The CSU bioinformatics webinar series. Archana Anand @arunsethuraman

📢PhD opportunity! Are you interested in 🌱plant-microbe 🦠metagenomics? We are looking for an excellent candidate for an Eiffel PhD scholarship, in collab with Ashley Shade, Ph.D. Conditions: born after March 31st 1992, non-french, excellent grades (top 10%) More info 👇 Please RT 💞

New preprint alert: We define two new metrics V-score and VL-score for genomes and protein families with applications in viral genomics and ecology. These metrics for KEGG, Pfam, eggNOG, VOG, PHROG, are publicly available -anantharamanlab.github.io/V-Score-Search/. Pls RT. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

I'm thrilled this paper is finally submitted! What happens to RNA viruses after wet-up of dry soil? What if you add phosphate? What changes if you check back weeks later? This is the first paper from my pandemic project 🎗Ella Sieradzki 🐈🐕 Christina Hazard Graeme Nicol Erin Nuccio Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge

I’ve switched universities! You can find me here 👇