🎶 it never rains in California 🎶…. Yeah, nah. It actually hailed 😀. But smiles all round from the Team sampling Pinus radiata in its natural home. Just Awesome!!

You know what’s better then sampling in the rain? Sampling in the hail! Big day of sampling for TreeMicrobiome today! One day we’ll see the sun again…

Beautiful day out in Cambria sampling Pinus radiata with TreeMicrobiome, Dr Megan Rúa, Mariah Slaughter M.S., Madeline Greene

Busy providing, ahem, ‘oversight and support’ to the #treemicrobiome team extracting DNA from soil, roots, and needles this week. Thanks Mariah Slaughter M.S. Madeline Greene and Sarah Addison !

#Throwback to #SpringBreak2023 a feed ago when the #RuaLab went on our sampling trip out west

CoSM 23 Festival of Research Join us for Poster presentation session from 11 am to 12:15 pm.

Today WSU Biological Sciences Dept. BioLunch we get to hear from #RuaLab MSc student Madeline Greene who is sharing her proposed research examining the role of root traits in structuring the root microbiome. Madeline is transitioning to the ES PhD program this fall

Hanging out at the Midwest Microbiome Symposium co-hosted by OSU Center of Microbiome Science this week! Excited to see local work in this area. #RuaLab PhD student Madeline Greene will be presenting a poster later this week

Show time! #RuaLab PhD student Madeline Greene did an excellent job today sharing her poster on her work examining the role of root traits for structuring the microbiome OSU Center of Microbiome Science Midwest Microbiome Symposium today!

Calling all soil/plant/microbial ecologists in the Southern Hemisphere. The tree microbiome program needs samples of Pinus radiata growing in the Southern Hemisphere. Help us build the tree-microbiome model system. youtu.be/5BvoGlHWHUA

We have developed apps to guide your sampling. SOPs for work are available. We have video walkthroughs of all the steps! Become part of the global effort today. Details here: m.youtube.com/@treemicrobiome treemicrobiomeproject.net

The Pines were, perhaps, doing better than us by the time we made it!

Members of the sampling team had travelled from Ohio and some from New Zealand to be part of sampling. It’s a privilege to be on Isla Cedros. Marauding Microbiome hunters Sarah Addison , Madeline Greene , Dr Megan Rúa , and S.A.Wakelin here and with a great support team!

Amazing location to sample the microbiome from Pinus radiata in its endemic range #PinePals TreeMicrobiome Madeline Greene S.A.Wakelin Dr Megan Rúa