Sofia Gomes

My research about planting trees with the help of microbes to create new forests from abandoned agricultural land, as part of the #SilvaNova project @unileiden.bsky.social, has been featured in @volkskrant.nl 🌳🌳

tinyurl.com/mspk652u

Super cool to see this extensive work out! Congrats to the team! 👏🏼

Soil microbes and nutrient inputs influence root nodulation and tree performance in Alnus glutinosa The symbiotic relationship between the nitrogen-fixing bacteria Frankia alni and the pioneer tree species Alnus glutinosa plays an important role for …

Proud of collaborating with Kostas Georgopoulos (first PhD I helped supervise) who just got the last publication of his thesis out while waiting for his defence in November 19th.

Check out how soil microbes and nutrient inputs influence root nodulation and tree performance: tinylink.net/dV8Mr 🌳🦠🍄

See our review on SynComs for tree microbiome engineering by @marccamb.bsky.social @xinmingxu.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social

seed grant between @imibirmingham.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities Trees are essential to ecosystems in both natural and urban environments, yet they are increasingly threatened by abiotic and biotic stresses linked t…

New #openaccess opinion piece, the first of our brilliant collaboration with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social @xinmingxu.bsky.social & @marccamb.bsky.social - thanks to @unibirmingham.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social for funding!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 If you are interested to investigate how urban soil biodiversity can help cities to be more climate resilient, consider applying to this PhD position @unileiden.bsky.social:

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

#UrbanEcology #ThirstyCities

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Thanks for sharing it, Akos. I finally found time to post it myself as well!

Many thanks @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social & @marccamb.bsky.social for the hospitality and organising everything so nicely for our visit. I had a great time! I look forward to continuing our tree-microbe discussions, with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social & @xinmingxu.bsky.social
Hope to see you soon!
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Discussing about plants in the Winterbourne garden during our collaboration visit at University of Birmingham
#BirminghamLeidenCollaboration

-with @marccamb.bsky.social @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social & @xinmingxu.bsky.social

"How do you call this plant in 🇫🇷, 🇵🇹, 🇨🇳, 🇬🇧, or 🇭🇺?"

Starting our symposium on ‘restoring ecosystem functions and biodiversity in post-agricultural forest’ at KU (Denmark) with Per Gundersen introducing the aims of our SILVA NOVA project

@jamesemcdonald.bsky.social and @marccamb.bsky.social from @imibirmingham.bsky.social visiting us at #LeidenBiology for discussing collaborations, so we organized a Mini Symposium on plant-microbe research, with @dinglab.bsky.social, Salma Balazadeh, & @kostasgeo.bsky.social from IBL

Our newest research in @nature.com

We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social

Fungal endophytes could potentially promote plant resilience to climate change. However, across 3 warming experiments (differing in age/species/climate), warming disrupted plant-fungal endophyte symbiosis, with stronger effects in leaves than roots.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Soil Microbiome Inoculation for Resilient and Multifunctional New Forests in Post‐Agricultural Landscapes Soil inoculations can help forests grow faster on former farmland by fixing problems such as poor soil health and a lack of helpful microbes. Adding beneficial microbes to the soil can restore its bi...

In our Opinion paper, we propose that soil inoculations can help overcome agriculture legacies in newly planted forests. Also, we consider that a re-evaluation of afforestation targets is needed to set realistic expectations of ecosystem recovery.
#SilvaNova

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Arbuscular mycorrhiza in the urban jungle: Glomeromycotina communities of the dominant city tree across Amsterdam Trees in cities provide a great number of benefits to people and nature, but they are challenged by harsh conditions. Trees rely on helpful fungi in their roots to get essential nutrients from the so...

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Communicating the importance of microbes for healthy trees in cities By Floris Baas, Zoë Bor, Jonathan Meijers, Norika Narimatsu, and Anna ZuidgeestFor a project within our Master’s specialization Science Communication & Society, Sofia Gomes asked us to make a video about the importance of microbes for healthy trees. We decided to make a stop-motion video, as this is entertaining while still being informative. Also, we thought this would be easier than learning digital animation :)With our video, we primarily hope to reach people between 25-39 years old who are s

Check out the very creative 📽️ that students from the MSs Science Communication & Society
@unileiden.bsky.social made to highlight the importance of soil microbes for healthy trees in cities 🌳🍄🐛🕷️🪲

Read also their blog post: tinyurl.com/ysjuedjj

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpip...

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can I also join please?

Can I also join please?

I’m an assistant professor at Leiden University