EUKARYOME: a new SSU-ITS-LSU reference database, well suited for analysis of SSU and LSU short-read amplicons of protists, animals and early-diverging fungi, and long-read amps of all eukaryotes! Curated by specialist researchers. eukaryome.org academic.oup.com/database/artic…

Dear all, I have computed similarity cutoffs for different fungal clades of the newly released UNITE+INSD dataset. Please visit our github github.com/vuthuyduong/dn… to see how to use these cutoffs to improve eDNA fungal identification. Westerdijk Institute

For anyone DNA metabarcoding or DNA barcoding fungi, here are four recent articles examining the variation of the fungal ITS (internal transcribed spacer) DNA barcode region within specimens: something to be aware of when assessing metabarcoding and barcoding results! 👇 1)

We have a post-doc opportunity available. Come work on this really amazing project. See below! Sharifa Crandall 🏳️‍🌈 Post-Doctoral Fellow - Spermosphere Microbiome Assembly and Seedling Metagenomics jobs.apsnet.org/job/post-docto…

For anyone trying to get to grips with DNA metabarcoding data pipelines, here’s a detailed overview of a whole “pile” of pipelines by Hakimzadeh et al. (2024), covering metabarcoding pipeline structures, 32 software suites or precompiled pipelines, and lots of tools 👇 In their

Do you want to run a microbial GWAS but are put off by installing a dozen different bioinformatic tools, are unsure about best practices, and how to transform the list of threshold passing variants into a neat annotated table? Then we have just the thing for you!

📢 Stage de Master 2 (Janvier - Juin 2025) Nous recrutons un étudiant de Master dans l'équipe EmerSys-IRHS à l'INRAE d'Angers pour travailler sur l'ingénierie du microbiote des graines par l'inoculation de SynComs (bactérie, levure, champi filamenteux). SUCSEED Info👇

Orchids acquire fungal carbon for seed germination: pathways and players: Trends in Plant Science cell.com/trends/plant-s…

We are pleased to announce that the 17th Plant Bacteria Meeting will take place in #Aussois (French Alps) from January 13 to 17th, 2025. Registrations are now open: plants-bacteria-2025.colloque.inrae.fr

Thrilled to share our last paper in Ecology Letters 👏👏🥳 Unfolding the dynamics of ecosystems undergoing alternating wet-dry transitional states #WaterDrivenTransitionalEcosystems 👇 doi.org/10.1111/ele.14…

OUT NOW: Aspergillus cvjetkovicii protects against phytopathogens through interspecies chemical signaling in the phyllosphere Mengcen Wang 王蒙岑 Tomi Cernava University of Southampton Gabriele Berg Hongda Read it here: rdcu.be/dP76E nature.com/articles/s4156…

Microbial communities living inside plant leaves or on the leaf surface are differently shaped by environmental cues ISME Communications from Kemen Lab academic.oup.com/ismecommun/adv…

Superiority of native soil core microbiomes in supporting plant growth nature.com/articles/s4146…

Honored to receive the Tom Brock Award for the most innovative post doctoral research presentation at #ISME19! 🏆 Big thanks to the committee and my supervisor Stéphane Hacquard for the support! Super happy to share my work with this amazing community! 🙏

Awesome day on the field for the Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) Grass4fun project! We sampled maize fields and grasslands with curious friends 🐮 Looking forward to the soil and plant microbiome data at the European scale

Fantastic output from MASTER IA H2020 now published in Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Valenzuela et al. show how a few mutations in an evolved community can cause niche-differentiated ecotypes with interplay that improves productivity of the interacting community across sediment & groundwater subpopulations. Jacob Valenzuela Nitin Baliga nature.com/articles/s4146…

Disturbances can facilitate prior invasions more than subsequent invasions in microbial communities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Understanding and tackling impact of widespread chemical pollutants is one of the greatest challenges of our times. Our small step towards this. 🙏Anna Lindell StephanKamrad Maier_Lab Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer Thread below by Indra Roux biorxiv.org/content/10.110…