T-1 hour on site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center waiting for #SpaceX-24 to launch. It is cloudy but the clock is still in countdown. 🚀😎 GO #SyntheticCryptobiology! GO #ProbioticChallenge!

.Anne Kakouridis's desiccated cyanobacterial samples for rugged stowage of synbio parts were on the SpaceX CRS-24 (yes! seriously!) tinyurl.com/5ee4t9p9 We watched astronaut Raja Chari carefully unloading and logging our samples at the ISS! Incredible! Rhodium Scientific LBNL BioSci

They're baaack! @nasa Astronaut Raja Chari prepares Rhodium Scientific #SyntheticCryptobiology samples for return back to Earth on SpaceX-24 after a 30 day incubation ISS National Lab Aindrila Anne Kakouridis Defense Threat Reduction Agency Berkeley Lab biosciences.lbl.gov/2022/01/21/bse…

Our paper is officially out! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KSMNAEHR… Firestone Lab Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge

so cool! AMF hyphae act as extension of the #root system, moving up to 34.6% of the water transpired by host plants Routes to roots: direct evidence of water transport by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to host plants nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… fantastic work by Anne Kakouridis

Very happy to finally be able to share this work!! We used stable #isotopes to track water transport by #AMF to host plants💧🌱 Couldn’t have done this without the help and support of Jack Hagen Firestone Lab Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge and many others, thank you!

Very excited about this paper and cover being out! Thank you New Phytologist Firestone Lab Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge Jack Hagen for your help and support making this happen! #AMF #isotopes #microscopy

RT & Save the date: 6th international Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting #iMMM2023 25-27 Sep 2023 in Cambridge Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) more information will follow soon

Registration for #45NPS Ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant–fungal invasions is open! Organising committee: Erika Buscardo, Miranda Hart, Jason Hoeksema, László Nagy. Sessions on ecosystem and evolutionary consequences, traits and more 👇 ow.ly/JbuN50QweQw

Our paper exploring AMF carbon transfer to the hyphosphere microbial food web and mineral-assossiated organic matter is out today in a special issue of New Phytologist! 🌿 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph.19… 🍄Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge Jack Hagen Firestone Lab Erin Nuccio

New paper in Nature Communications demonstrates that land conversion to agriculture induces taxonomic homogenization of soil microbial communities globally. Based on 2400 samples across six continents. nature.com/articles/s4146… Work by Ziheng Peng, Gehong Wei, Shuo Jiao &