MiCRop Harnessing the second genome of plants

One week left to apply for our PhD positions on insect-plant-microbiome interactions! @micropresearch.bsky.social 👇

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We are hiring a PhD student to investigate the ecology and genomics of phyllosphere yeasts combining lab experiments with computational approaches. Joins us at @niooknaw.bsky.social in collaboration with @micropresearch.bsky.social @cmelkonian.bsky.social @marnixmedema.bsky.social

MiCRop - Microbial Imprinting for Crop Resilience consortium members Harro Bouwmeester, lemeng dong, Kathrin Wippel and Age Smilde publish a review that provides a theoretical framework for studies… ... MiCRop - Microbial Imprinting for Crop Resilience consortium members Harro Bouwmeester, lemeng dong, Kathrin Wippel and Age Smilde publish a review that provides a theoretical framework for studies o...

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MiCRop PhD Roland Berdaguer in the news.

@micropresearch.bsky.social researchers Lemeng Dong, Aalt-Jan van Dijk and @harrobouwmeester.bsky.social contribute to research showing that the microbiome affects plant growth and development also through strigolactone signaling.

Emulsion technique boosts plant growth with bacteria Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens. The tec...

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Happy to share some good news! March has been a big month for me. I got tenure (thanks letter writers!!) and was awarded a NSF CAREER grant to study the genetics and evolution of plant-microbiome interactions. I'll be recruiting MS students and a postdoc.

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When we use seedlings instead of seeds, even when we plant seeds, we disrupt the microbiome cycle. Time to accept how ecology works. Time to accept Charles Darwin. Time to accept that germs are real. Many rewilding projects play Minecraft and not Nature. See meat too
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Remarkably, the same locally trained model also predicted plant growth differences in global datasets, suggesting a highly conserved interconnection between the soil microbiome and plant performance across environments.

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Vacancy — PhD Candidate Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience Are you an early-career researcher with a passion for plant science? Would you like to apply your enthusiasm to a highly relevant project in the field of plant-microbiome interactions? Then we have th...

📌Vacancy at the University of Amsterdam!
Join us at the Green Life Sciences with three open positions by my colleagues. 🌱🌻
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PhD position on "Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience" in the group of Dr. Kathrin Wippel: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Postdoc Position in Integrating Plant Microbiome Omics Data for Causal Inference Do you enjoy using computational approaches to study biological problems? Are you interested in developing and applying methodology to investigate plant-microbiome-interactions? We invite enthusiastic...

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Postdoc in "Integrating Plant Microbiome Omics Data for Causal Inference" with Prof. Aalt-Jan van Dijk
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