How to write a grant? 1. Write it 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. pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10…

New @NComms paper from Plant-Soil Interactions Lab 🥳 Soil carbon's stability under future climate change is uncertain. We challenge current understanding demonstrating how plant inputs interact with soil microbes and soil minerals to determine soil carbon stability nature.com/articles/s4146…

PhPosition: Exploring Ancient Microbiomes for a Sustainable Agriculture. Interested to explore how microbes influence plant growth and whether we can learn something from ancient microbiomes. Please apply (start Spring 2025). jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/… This position is part of

Breeding-induced changes in the rhizosphere microbial communities in Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) | Applied Soil Ecology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

How does metabolomics help agriculture? Human health? A brief overview of this fungal metabolite-Fumonisin B2- shows the importance of this overlap. Check out more at cmmc.gnps2.org

Our latest paper in The ISME Journal 🌱 Rapid natural modulation of the plant microbiome enhances plant tolerance to global change. 🦠 A prerequisite for this effect is a high local diversity of microorganisms. 🏞️ Microbial conservation is essential. doi.org/10.1093/ismejo…

New paper from lab- in New Phytologist Integrating ecological and evolutionary frameworks for SynCom success. Led by ManuDelgadoBaquerizo with contribution from Yurong Liu Tadeo Saez Claudia Coleine @miriammunozr Felipe Bastida PANKAJ TRIVEDI nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

We developed MetaFlowTrain, an easy-to-build, highly parallelized, and cheap fluidic system for discovering microbial bioactive molecules, studying exometabolite-mediated cooperation/competition in microbiomes and much more. 👏 Chesneau Guillaume Give it a try: nature.com/articles/s4146…

📣 GSBI's latest blog has just been published 🎉 In this blog, Drs. Pankaj Trivedi, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, and Brajesh Singh discuss synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) and theories to help scientists better understand them 🦠 Read it here 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath-o…

📣The Plant Cell is recruiting Assistant Features Editors. The application period opens now and runs through September 15, 2025!🌱 👉Application information can be found at this link: blog.aspb.org/the-plant-cell… #plantscience

Longitudinal profiling of low-abundance strains in microbiomes with ChronoStrain nature.com/articles/s4156…

Kicking off #ISMPMI2025! Looking forward to a few days packed with cutting-edge science, insightful discussions, and exciting collaborations. Let’s dive in! 🌱🧬

An exciting talk by Dr. Wenbo Ma on the novel role of AGO10 in plant defense 👏. #ISMPMI2025

Navigating the road to becoming an independent researcher through a PhD can be challenging 😬. Together with Gourav Arora and Rini, we unpack key challenges and share actionable insights for a successful PhD journey. A quick and insightful read—check it out! 👇

‘By characterizing the composition, structure and functions of tree internal microbiomes, our work opens up pathways for understanding tree physiology and forest ecology’ A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Gene-Set Enrichment Analysis and visualization on the web using EnrichmentMap: RNASeq. #GSEA #WebTool #RNAseq Bioinformatics Advances academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…