Honored to be giving the first plenary 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024 Monday 9:45am entitled, "Continent-scale Aerial Dispersal of Mycorrhizal Fungi". Will share lots of cool stuff going on in the lab including new data from our 20 site, 3 yr NEON dust study. Hope to see you there!! #icom12

Speaking today at #ICOM12 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024 session entitled: “Common mycorrhizal networks – who’s the boss?” Can you guess my answer? Studying the inner lives of AM fungi with Vasilis Kokkoris+ Shimizu lab AMOLF SPUN

Looking forward to another exciting day 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024, and to sharing my research on the dynamics of nutrient exchange during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis 🍄🪸🔬Parallel Session B2 if you're interested! Paszkowski Lab

Today at #ICOM12 Vasilis Kokkoris speaks at 16:45 in Workshop 4: "Molecular and Extraradical Hyphal Network Traits in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi."

Check out my talk at 4pm 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024 on what the allometric scaling of spore sizetell us about the "juvenile" phase of AM Fungi! Workshop 4 organized by Pedro M. Antunes and Sidney Stürmer

In the floor pre-workshop prep. for 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024 #ICOM12 International Mycorrhiza Society, “Natural selection in mycorrhizal symbioses”, August 8 at 16:00-17:30, Hall C. Vasilis Kokkoris come & find out how philosophy of biol. & complexity can be used to understand natural selection on mycorrhizas!

There’s still time to catch us at our booth at #ICOM12! Come say hi to Rachel and the rest of the SPUN crew!

Just a few weeks left to apply for our postdoc position before we start reviewing applicants (August 20th deadline). Maybe someone at #ICOM12 would be interested?

Are you IMS member? Don’t forget to vote! It will close tomorrow Thursday 8th at noon (12:00 pm). The directions were sent by e-mail to IMS active members. If you had any problem let us know! Check SPAM folder as well. #ICOM12 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024

Don’t miss tomorrow our workshop “Natural selection in mycorrhizal symbioses” at 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024 #ICOM12 International Mycorrhiza Society Hall C, 16:00-17:30. It includes me, Sander van Otterdijk (Vasilis Kokkoris lab), #LetianWang (Gu Feng’s lab), #JimBever (lead of INVAM), & #NancyCollinsJohnson

Sporulation sounds so basic for fungi, but do we know its genetics? New preprint Zhihao Hou of BRC Biochem explores the transcriptional network of postmeiotic spore morphogenesis in mushrooms. Csenge Földi Hongli Wu Mate.Viragh Xiao-Bin Liu biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New #preprint alert! #Lichen symbiosis is a great conundrum: how can multiple microbes create a large, 3D, and structurally complex organism? To answer this question, we used metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and a bit of protein structure modeling 🧵1/7 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check the Workshop “Natural selection in mycorrhizal symbioses” at 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024 #ICOM12 International Mycorrhiza Society with talks by Dr. César Marín #LetianWang (Gu Feng’ lab), Sander van Otterdijk (Vasilis Kokkoris lab), #JimBever (lead of INVAM), #NancyCollinsJohnson (NAU) youtu.be/vKDwfqW6Ask?si…

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Depth-coloured image of an arbuscule in a daisy root cell. Intricate branches of the fungal hypha almost entirely fill the plant cell 🪸🪸🪸

Tortoise beetles snuck into the opening plenary of #ICE2024! If you are intrigued about their cool symbioses, be sure not to miss talks by Hassan Salem, Marleny García Lozano, Ines PONS, and a poster by Christiane Emmerich! I will talk about their fungal mutualists on Thursday.

Wanna know how natural selection operates across the ‘mycorrhizal hierarchy’ (from nuclei to holobionts)? Then check our Workshop in 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024 #ICOM12 International Mycorrhiza Society Sander van Otterdijk Vasilis Kokkoris INVAM #LetianWang #NancyCollinsJohnson (NAU) youtu.be/vKDwfqW6Ask?si…

I haven’t made this kind of announcement in awhile…we are recruiting a PhD! Start is summer/fall 2025. Details below or at karstlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/upl…

Cities differ from their surrounding rural areas in many ways, but one distinctive difference is that cities are warmer. We show that plants are adapting to the city heat. Led by Yannick Woudstra and in collaboration with Barbara Gravendeel and others. Go #dandelions!

Revisiting life-history theory in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with stoichiometric principles 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #Viewpoint by Camenzind et al. Tessa Camenzind Jeff Powell Carlos Aguilar-T 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 🇸🇻 🇫🇮, Matthias C. Rillig #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi

Some news 🎉 Elated to share that our work will soon be supported by an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant! There will be openings to join the lab, so if you are keen to learn how plant pathogens double as insect mutualists, do reach out! Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam VU Faculteit der Bètawetenschappen #ERCStG