Emilia Hannula

Time to harvest some rucola! They were grown in different microbiomes (inocuated to common sterilized soil). Not to eat (this time) but to analyse microbiomes, metabolites and nutrients. #Soils2Guts #soils #harvesttime

We are officially well into one of my favorite seasons: field work season. I do not get to do it often enough but sometimes I am still needed at least to show sampling locations (and take some soil samples...) and water plants.

What are all these soil fungi doing? Complex carbon use ability as a predictive trait for fungal community functions Fungal communities in soil play important roles in decomposition processes and soil organic carbon cycling. These communities are tremendously diverse, making it challenging to assign relevant functio...

Happy to share this big piece on saprobic fungal traits and soil carbon cycling. Great collaboration in the SPP SoilSystems @dfg.de , with Damien Finn, Sören Thiele-Bruhn, Denise Vonhoegen, @mrillig.bsky.social and many others contributing to the study. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Legacy article from times @niooknaw.bsky.social on legacy of drought on soil fungal communities and functions. Key finding is that communities in bulk soil recover pretty fast while soil C related functions remain changed. Photos of the experiment for attention!

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For more information: www.nwo.nl/nieuws/veert... . And yes, we will be hiring PhDs and Post-docs beginning of next year.

Specifically, I will work on soil health and microbiomes including matching right (novel) crops with right soils and soil life. Others in CML work on bigger (global) environmental impacts.

To have an impact on society, we need to work together. Our broad consortium (Reap2Sow) got funding from NWA-ORC to investigate the environmental and societal impacts and obstacles of transition from animal based protein to plant based protein. Looking forward to working together to make this happen

Soil fungi influence the relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality - Nature Communications Fungal diversity is critical for ecosystem functioning, yet its role in mediating the relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality remains unclear. This study finds that funga...

Soil fungi influence the relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality

manipulating plant species richness/soil fungal diversity in 190 plant communities => measuring 10 ecosystem functions

-in @natcomms.nature.com

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Afterwards we celebrated the end of the lab work (for them) and start of the summer. Socks with fungi made everyone happy! Was a pleasure to have them in our group and wish them all success in the future!

Yesterday we had 4 thesis presentations and a lovely soil group gathering! Esmee (Bsc) had looked at fungal CUE, Nio (Bsc) worked on fungal melanin and stress, Jacco (Msc) worked on fungal traits and interactions and Arman (Msc) on mycoviruses affecting soil functions. All did amazing (1/2)

Happy 71st birthday @niooknaw.bsky.social and thanks for organising an event for alumni. Was nice to see sl many 'old' colleagues (and both of my PhD supervisors) and dance together. Hearing from panel of old directors was very insightful. South side to the win in the tug of war!

Could not stop the streak with Soil Biology and Biochemistry. I have published with them in 2010 (felt like 2011), 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 (x3), 2023 ... and this week heard that our manuscript got accepted making it come out in 2025. Now on to doing some cool experiments for 2027! 😀

Day 2 highlights were the session I chaired in the morning (especially talk by F. Van der Bom on root traits), climbing to a mountain with some grassland scientists, poster presented by PhD candidate S. Planchenault and the party held at the Scottish museum (with loads of dancing). #rhizosphere6

Day 3 of #rhizosphere6 and conference fatigue would hit in if talks would not be this interesting. My highlights for today so far were talk by Claudia Knief showing their results on 11C/13C dual labeling, plenary by Ina Meier on hyphosphere and climate and Eva Oburger telling about root exudates.

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Back in the stately McEwan Hall for @ehannula.bsky.social presenting on interactions in the rhizosphere #rhizosphere6

One castle in France, 40 (micro) soil scientists, 3 days. What is not to love! #microsoil was one of the best meetings I have ever been to. During the week talked about (microbial) death under the fig tree, pores (and non-excisting) aggregates and about persistence and stability of carbon. #soils

Figure 2 in De Goede et al. (2025): "Conceptual model of the continuum of soil aggregation, with underlying mechanisms within the processes deposition/formation, stabilization, and destabilization related to Fig. 1."

New publication: Fungal-mediated soil aggregation as a mechanism for #carbonstabilization, by @stevendegoede.bsky.social @ehannula.bsky.social and others. #fungidiversity #carbonsinks #greenhousegas
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Register for this free meeting organized by @anapineda.bsky.social for new PI!
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Had the pleasure to attend 3 PhD defences in 3 weeks, 'working' in only one of them (hence the 📸 of walking to the hall). For others, as a colleague and co-author. Meanwhile, I have evaluated 3 more as a reader 😀 in the past weeks. Congrats to all new doctors (and all almost there!) #lovemyjob

I personally find this frustrating - giving over 2 pages of comments that get ignored only because the decision is to reject by that journal. Should I just then write 'reject' and not give comments in future? I tell my group members always to take in comments even if submitting to another journal.

Opinions from fellow academics needed! I am handling a manuscript that seemed very familiar and checked to see that I have indeed reviewed it for another journal end of last year. It got rejected but 2 reviewers wrote many comments to improve the ms. Yet the ms has not changed. What to do? Reject?

As a supervisor I often only hear when things go wrong or when there is a problem/question. I rarely hear when things get solved (no news is good news) or that there are good news. That is why in the group meeting I implement 'good news/happy about' round and have weekly meetings with all individual

Postdoctoral Researcher: Contribution of genetic background and gut microbiome on thermal physiology A post-doctoral Researcher position is available at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in the group of Dr. Suvi Ruuskanen. The post-doctoral res...

3-year #Postdoc position on the role of #genetics and #microbiome on #thermal #physiology in @erc.europa.eu project in my group at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social FIN! We establish #selection lines on quails, collab @btschirren.bsky.social DL 15.7., start Nov25-Jan26
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A review written by PhD candidate (when he was still a Msc student...) @stevendegoede.bsky.social on fungal induced soil aggregation mechanisms and its effects on soil C stocks. Publishing this was a long process, but hope this is helpful for all (especially early careers)!
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170(!!!) people representing provinces, cities, farmers, food growers, NGOs, health care organisations, chefs, etc. came together today to talk about soils. Such an amazing atmosphere and overwhelming interest in #soils. Isabel Siles-Asaff (CML) did a great job representing #soils2guts!

EukFunc: A Holistic Eukaryotic Functional Reference for Automated Profiling of Soil Eukaryotes The soil eukaryome constitutes a significant portion of Earth's biodiversity that drives major ecosystem functions, such as controlling carbon fluxes and plant performance. Currently, however, we mis...

Looking for a database to functionally assign your 18S (terrestrial)data to trophic groups? Look no further! Our article is published here: doi.org/10.1111/1755... and you can find the database here as a R package: github.com/lentendu/Euk... #soils #eukaryotes #protists #fungi

Fully agree, would be super interesting to look into this also from Northern perspective (soils have relatively more C so different patterns and responses than in poor soils in Med regions).

Horizon Europe work programmes What the work programmes cover in Horizon Europe and where to view them.

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Dear #soil (research) people! Anyone planning on applying for Horizon Soil Mission this round? We would be especially interested in joining the Soil-03 (resilience through management of soil-water nexus) with knowledge on soil biodiversity vs. structure.