I am super excited that one of the most interesting finding in my lab was published in Nature Microbiology !! Have you heard about the fungus that helps carnivorous plants digest insects? 🐜🍃

Healthy wood contains vast numbers of bacteria, archaea, and fungi that might lead to ways to protect trees. scim.ag/7Sn News from Science

Give Bethan Manley a listen as she speaks to Becky Ripley & Emily Knight 💚🌎 on #Naturebang on BBC Radio 4. "It's just infinitely complex. There are multiple plant species and multiple fungal species engaging in symbiosis and trading at the same time." bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

**PhD positions available in plant-microbe interactions & global change** Jenny Bhatnagar (she/her) and myself are seeking PhD students (starting Jan or May 2025) to work on a DOE-funded project on the roles of mycorrhizal fungal traits in vegetation responses to global change

I appreciate what Stella Sandford brings to the discussion on plant ‘intelligence’—thoughtfulness and no need for the anthropomorphism that saturates pop media on the topic

Lianas associated with continued forest biomass losses following large‐scale disturbances - Mackintosh - Biotropica - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bt…

Blaine Martin of #ASMSA Class of 2020 was selected to receive the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. It will allow him to continue his tropical research in Panama while working on his Ph.D. program this fall. Read more at asmsa.me/martin24. #DolphinPride

Pathogens act as drivers of long-term fluctuations of plant populations! New paper out in New Phytologist : nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Most commonly asked PhD interview questions and how to answer them🥇🎯 OpenAcademics

Made it to Champaign! Here’s to a new chapter of my life and my academic career. 🧡💙

We’re incredibly excited to award grants to 41 new Underground Explorers! 🎉 We’re now working with almost 100 experts sampling Earth's mycorrhizal fungi in remote corners of our world. They play a huge part in enriching our global knowledge of #fungi. spun.earth/expeditions/un…

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…

Just spent 4 hours working on code that still doesn’t work, and I still have reading for class tomorrow. Day 3 and officially feel like a grad student 😅

Setting the stage for plant–soil feedback: Mycorrhizal influences over conspecific recruitment, plant and fungal communities, and coevolution besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Does anyone know or have a clue what these chunky web like structures in these roots are? These are two species of Podocarp from different locations. I am leaning toward plant cellular structure instead of fungal, but I honestly have no clue.

What determines transfer of carbon from plants to mycorrhizal fungi? For the past 2 years, we debated this question. And I mean debated. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #TansleyReview New Phytologist 1/n

Rethinking the "wood wide web" - thx to ⁦Many Minds podcast⁩ for having me on the show. I love a great conversation! Mycoheterotrophic friends, starting at 1:08, this is for you! disi.org/rethinking-the…

Just made the move over 🦋 I’ll probably still be posting on both for now. bsky.app/profile/martin…

Meta-analysis reveals globally sourced commercial mycorrhizal inoculants fall short Koziol et al. Liz Koziol 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

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