I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into small mammals and population ecology then check this out. Please share/repost widely!

Join me with some 🍿 for this!

What Jen said - so many reasons the aspen deserves love (not just because it’s dual mycorrhizal 😂)!

I'm pleased to share our recent collaborative publication in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research investigating the impacts and drivers of the 2023 wildfires in British Columbia and identifying six transformative strategies to coexist with wildfire. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Give it a read, suuuper cool - ever think you’d root for an STI? 😂

Check out our new paper experimentally demonstrating hub taxa in microbial networks are keystone microbes during community assembly. Published this month in Ecology Letters : tinyurl.com/keystonemicrobe So excited about this paper & proud of @amanda_rawstern & Damian Hernandez !👏

It all started with the💫elegant writing of Morgane Enea (PhD) and the💥energy & knowledge of Jacob Beauregard (MSc). With the🔥mentoring @MariaFaticov (pdoc) and I, & the💪support of Tonia DeBellis, we decided to✍️a review on sugar maple🌳-🦠 interactions. Université de Sherbrooke CEF_CFR 1/12

I mentioned "microbial dark matter" to a non-microbial ecologist and he pointed out that dark matter is hypothetical, whereas unknown microbes are real. How about we call it what it is : the Unknome. *micdrop* #microbiome #microbes #metagenomics #sequencing

New podcast: Journey to Colombia’s cloud forests with SPUN scientist Adriana Corrales 🎧🌳 Hear first-hand from expedition leader Adriana as she explains her quest to identify mycorrhizal #fungi critical to the endangered Colombian black oak's survival. buff.ly/3E0zV0v

Keeping this account active for a while because I don’t want to lose contact with so many of the great folk I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with over these years - but y’all can find me active on 🦋 Every day I see less science and more disturbing content - à tantôt!

A fourpartite protist-bacteria-fungal-plant symbiosis as a driver of the mycorrhizal symbiosis? our study indicates that mycorrhizal fungal hyphae not only associate with specialised bacterial communities (see link.springer.com/article/10.118…) but also associate with specific protist

Are you interested in phytopathogenic fungi? are you interested in how plants and fungi work together? #CFN25 will showcase these topics and more! Submit your abstracts to speak in one of these sessions by TODAY!!!: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca/registration

Biodiversity hotspots of ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are located in other parts of the world: at low and high latitudes. And these important symbiotic partners of crops and trees deserve more protection! See nature.com/articles/s4158… and GlobalFungi.

Our new newsletter is now published! Dig into the latest updates on IMS’s 20th anniversary, ICOM2026 preparations, our new website & logo, top 10 research papers, and upcoming events. Read more at mycorrhizas.org/news. Stay connected! #Mycorrhiza

Check out the latest IMS newsletter! Pls note that going fwd members will continue to receive the newsletter but non-members must subscribe (for free) here mycorrhizas.org/news/

Our new global study led by Dr. Smriti Pehim Limbu is now out in PNASNews. TLDR: Certain spore traits were linked to climate AND species range sizes! YES we can use traits to gain insight into env. adaptations for microbes. #mycorrhizas #spores #traits #NSFfunded eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

A THREAD: Our new paper, with @colauttilab.bsky.social , critically assesses whether allelopathy truly gives invaders their edge. Key takeaways 👇🧵 doi.org/10.1111/nph.70…

Can you believe #CFN25 is just one week away? Keep an eye on your emails for updates from us! Speakers and Moderators — please double-check the times and locations for your sessions. Registration is open—don't miss our lineup of plenary speakers! Sponsored by The Company of Biologists.

“…when organisms interact can largely determine how they interact.” #Viewpoint: Is it all about timing? Identifying the symbiosis critical points that govern interactions among #bacteria, ectomycorrhizal #fungi, and land #trees By Louis Berrios 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…