Leducq Lab

Notre labo recrute pour 2025-2026!🧑‍🎓 👀🦠🫶🪴
#canola #switchgrass #chrismastree #hyphomicrobiales #methylobacterium #plantmicrobiome

10.11.2025 21:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Check out our preprint on #Methylobacterium ’s relative, #Lichenibacterium (aka 1174-901-12), my new favorite bacteria from the #phyllosphere ! Thanks to @skembel.bsky.social and our students David Ross and Louis-Philippe St-Amand for this work!
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

20.08.2025 11:52 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Oussama with certificate

Alyson presenting

all the team

Bye #CSPB2025 ! 🌿An inspiring conference packed with amazing plant science! Thanks to the organizers, @cspbscbv.bsky.social executive, and my team for making us proud! 💚
Special shoutout to Oussama from @leducq-lab.bsky.social / @eplopez.bsky.social for winning the Agrisera poster award! 🏆 #ProudPI

12.08.2025 23:13 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

#scee2025 #csee2025 in Sherbrooke!
Thanks @ilafores.bsky.social and @monaparizadeh.bsky.social for the invitation :)

09.07.2025 19:23 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

After a 24-hours journey, ready for #phyllosphere meeting in #okinawa #oist !

04.06.2025 23:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

16S rRNA is just like AI.
If you don't know how to use it, just don't, or train first.

14.02.2025 03:44 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats to our PhD candidate Oussama Yahmi for his 3rd place in the poster competition at Congres RQRAD
2025!

14.02.2025 03:28 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Joshua

Jordanne

Oussama winning

Jordanne winning

So proud of our team at Congrès RQRAD 2025! Jordanne won 2nd🥈place in the oral competition, Oussama (Dir. @leducq-lab.bsky.social) took 3rd🥉place for his poster, and Joshua delivered an awesome presentation in French.
Congratulations to all three of you for your outstanding performances! #ProudPI 🎉💚

13.02.2025 23:11 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Since the release of our perspective in the ISMEj (doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wraf011), I realized that Methylorubrum and especially Methylobacterium pages in wikipedia desesperatly needed some updates...
This is just a begining and other PPFM nerds are welcome to participate to this peer process! 😇

06.02.2025 03:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Led astray by 16S rRNA: phylogenomics reaffirms the monophyly of Methylobacterium and lack of support for Methylorubrum as a genus Abstract. Although the 16S (and 18S) rRNA gene has been an essential tool in classifying prokaryotes, using a single locus to revise bacteria taxonomy can

Spread the word! Methylorubrum is no more! Thread below (1/4):
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

21.01.2025 21:55 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Led astray by 16S rRNA: phylogenomics reaffirms the monophyly of Methylobacterium and lack of support for Methylorubrum as a genus Abstract. Although the 16S (and 18S) rRNA gene has been an essential tool in classifying prokaryotes, using a single locus to revise bacteria taxonomy can

Stop relying only on #16S for bacteria taxonomy! Our last paper revoking #Methylorubrum as a genus and reinstating #Methylobacterium is out in the #ISMEjournal!

doi.org/10.1093/isme...

25.01.2025 00:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0