Come and join us to the UK Treescapes conference in Glasgow!

Emma Fromm’s first PhD article is now out! Congrats Emma! Check it out if you’re interested in the combined effects of #warming 🌡️ and #habitatconnectivity on #lizard ’s #microbiota 🦎🦠.
👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…
CNRS Écologie & Environnement European Research Council (ERC) #CRBE #SETE

4 years, 9 projects, 150 team members, many meetings, experiments and papers, but it's time for the Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme to say farewell. Thanks to everyone who has been a part of it! #helpingkeepplantshealthy 🦠🌿See our highlights reel here
bacterialplantdiseases.uk/thank-you-and-…

Come and join us for the 8th BIFoR annual meeting in Birmingham, with an amazing program. Get your free in person ticket and secure your place for a poster!

Registration: birmingham.ac.uk/research/bifor…
Poster: birmingham.ac.uk/research/bifor…

First year microbiology practicals UoB Biosciences. Students are looking at fungi that live on leaves. This cool experiment was shown to me by a now retired colleague. The leaf never touches the agar, but the fungi fire off spores giving a perfect image of the leaf.

The 'tree surgery' was finally on today 🤩 We started the last experimet of the FUTURE OAK project, testing the effect of microbial SynComs in oak saplings! Happy to have the best team all along James McDonald Usman Hussain Ed Pyne Marine C. Cambon Jim Downie (@[email protected])

First SynCom preprint from Gontran Arnault PhD thesis 🎉
We inoculated 13 different SynComs on bean seeds & tracked their transmission / impacts on seedling and rhizosphere microbiota.
With mass effects, SynComs strains are dominant & reduce to 20% the colonization of soil microbiota

I am very happy that the pre-print of our work is out, showing that chemical elicitors from a beetle larvae triggers proliferation and virulence of a plant bacterial pathogen. See the thread below and check out the paper to learn more: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

1/7 New preprint from the group, led by Marine C. Cambon. We show that chemical elicitors from Agrilus bigutattus beetle larvae trigger proliferation and virulence of a plant pathogen biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Guess: there are very local negative interactions between Corythucha arcuata and Neuroterus sp. gall inducing herbivores #herbivory #oak

Marine Cambon and colleagues found that the composition of leaf fungal communities, but not bacterial communities, is related to #droughttolerance in #Neotropical trees.

🔓 Read this trending paper from our #phyllosphere focus issue: doi.org/10.1094/PBIOME…

I am very happy that the last paper from my postdoc with Corinne Vacher at INRAE umr biogeco is out in Molecular Ecology

Can anyone recommend any methods (statistical or otherwise) for dealing with tag jumping in amplicon sequencing data? Seems to be a big problem in my current dataset (combinatorial indexing, Illumina), but short of redoing the library prep, solutions in the lit seem very ad hoc

Really happy to see our first paper out in PCI Microbiol !
We studied the transmission of synthetic microbiota from seed to seedling & the effects on plant phenotype 🌿
with Gontran Arnault, A Préveaux, T Garin, C Marais, A Sarniguet, M Barret EmerSys-IRHS
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After a great meeting with Charlie Pauvert & Thomas Hitch in Aachen, I am officially starting my new postdoc project on oak microbiota SynCom: purification of 452 oak isolates with Alejandra Ordoñez and the FUTURE OAK project! 💪🌳🧫
James McDonald

Big congrats to newly minted Dr. Bethany !! 🙌🏻👏 Thanks to AberMycol and Dr Lars Markesteijn 🇺🇦 for examining and Nia Whiteley for chairing. #PhDone CoESE Postgrads @ Bangor University BU Biology & Zoology

Fully funded MSc by Research opportunity! Come work w/ me & Prof John Healey @BangorSNS to explore the value of UK farm woodlands for timber products and carbon using terrestrial laser scanning. Partnership w/ Woodknowledge Wales Pls RT & share w/ interested parties
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