Prof. Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

The challenge of negotiating: put yourself to the test with a role-playing simulation A scientific delegation from Quebec visits CREAF to take part in a role-playing simulation exploring how science, politics, and society negotiate an energy project.

A really cool experience I was fortunate enough to participate in during our exchange with the @creaf.cat in Catalonia, Spain.
www.creaf.cat/en/articles/...
@cef-cfr.bsky.social @biologieuqam.bsky.social @ilafores.bsky.social @morganeurli.bsky.social @carlyziter.bsky.social @ovillemaire.bsky.social

🌱 Join us tomorrow for the seminar by Isabel Laforest-Lapointe (@ilafores.bsky.social) from the Sherbrooke University

👀 Don't miss it!

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/rnnzyjrwez

This work thanks to a fantastic group of grad students, including @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social @antoinepelletier.bsky.social @s-gauthier.bsky.social, 3 @usherbrooke.bsky.social undergrad coop students and collaborators Rosaëlle Perreault and @ilafores.bsky.social

Now out in @newphyt.bsky.social from @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social. We investigated the link between induction of chloroplastic ROS and the production of SA in defense and its suppression by effectors, as well as the importance of ABA in this phenomenon
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Everything Evolves: Why Young Scientists Should Read Beyond the Literature

As scientists, we are trained to read papers, and lots of them. We learn to scan abstracts, dissect methods, and critique results. Yet sometimes, stepping outside the narrow corridors of peer-reviewed literature can offer a…

Offre de MSc avec @pbbeauregard.bsky.social Mirella Aoun et moi #agriculture #durable #écologie #microbienne

Open MSc position #sustainable #agriculture #microbial #ecology

Un partenariat entre Bishop's University & @usherbrooke.bsky.social

C'est le temps d'appliquer! 🕐🤩

Time to apply! 🕐🤩

Reproducing plant microbiome research reveals site and time as key drivers of apple tree phyllosphere bacterial communities Scientific Reports - Reproducing plant microbiome research reveals site and time as key drivers of apple tree phyllosphere bacterial communities

👏 Big congrats to Sophie & thanks to the funding sources! #NSERC #CRSNG #FRQ #CRC @centre-seve.bsky.social

Thanks to all collab. & orchard partners who made it possible.

🔗 Read the full paper: rdcu.be/ewlVc

🍎🌿🧵7/7 the end

#Microbiome
#Phyllosphere
#PlantScience
#Agroecology
#OpenScience

This work supports a One Health approach to agroecosystem management.

Microbiome research needs to move beyond one-off studies.

Our work sets a precedent for reproducible, scalable designs in plant microbial ecology.

🍎🌿🧵6/7

Our study highlights the benefits for longitudinal, multi-site designs in plant microbiome research.

It shows that reproducibility is not a given, even in the same system.

To harness microbiomes for biocontrol & sustainable farming, we must account for spatiotemporal variation.

🍎🌿🧵5/7

In our results, site & time are the strongest drivers of bacterial community structure for both years.

Yet their relative influence shifts between years, according to the discrepancies in the abiotic conditions in May.

Organic orchards had lower alpha diversity than conventional ones.

🍎🌿🧵4/7

We sampled apple trees across 6 orchards (3 organic, 3 conventional) in Québec over 2 years (2022–2023).

We looked at both leaves & flowers to capture seasonal & spatial variation.

This 📖 has been led by Sophie since her final BSc year at @usherbrooke.bsky.social, when she was an intern.

🍎🌿🧵3/7

a cartoon minion with a question mark above his head ALT: a cartoon minion with a question mark above his head

🌱 Plant microbiomes are expected to be key on our path towards sustainable agriculture.

But many studies of plant microbiomes are limited in scope and rarely repeated.

We asked:

***How reproducible are the phyllosphere bacterial community patterns across space and time?***

🍎🌿🧵2/7

Reproducing plant microbiome research reveals site and time as key drivers of apple tree phyllosphere bacterial communities Scientific Reports - Reproducing plant microbiome research reveals site and time as key drivers of apple tree phyllosphere bacterial communities

Our latest study led by Sophie Boutin (from @usherbrooke.bsky.social) just dropped in Scientific Rep. @natureportfolio.nature.com

We explored how site & time shape bacterial communities on apple tree leaves & flowers

A🍎🌿🧵1/7

🔗 rdcu.be/ewlVc

#Microbiome
#Phyllosphere
#PlantScience
#Agroecology

A pleasure to have time and space to share data that can anchor these conversations in the evidence. Thanks to organizers for the invitation.

Dans @ledevoir.com, ce matin. 👌

#polqc #eduqc

A group of people with conference name badges standing in front of a projector

A curly haired woman presents a slide about bee ecology at a conference

Another great @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social in the books! My 10th, and it just keeps getting better. Special thanks to @ilafores.bsky.social and Jérémy Fraysse for organizing a great symposium with so many fabulous colleagues! #CSEE2025

Last #MicrobialEcology talk of the day!

@annamob.bsky.social talks about How to build a microbiome to “breed” better plant-inoculants

Microbiome breeding can be unpredictable!

#CSEE2025
@csee-scee.bsky.social
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

🍃Please/svp attend the 2025 AGM/AGA de la SCÉÉ at Lac Mégantic-Memphrémagog at 17h00.

💡Come see what your Society is up to and keep our business moving forward.

Venez voir ce que votre Société fait et faire avancer notre entreprise.

See you soon! à bientôt!
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Nutrient Enrichment and Connectivity Jointly Shape Bacterioplankton Diversity It is increasingly important to understand the response of freshwater communities and ecosystems to fertilizers given their widespread usage and the propensity for these fertilizers to runoff into riv...

See the work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Haha so happy he is here! His project is very interesting 🎉💪

And we get to see you in Sherbrooke this fall for #BISP #MicrHub 🤩🎉

Final speaker!

Akhil Kholdwadala from the lab of @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social

Nutrient Enrichment & Connectivity Shape Bacterioplankton Diversity

#CSEE
#Microbialecology
@csee-scee.bsky.social
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Prof. @enviromics.bsky.social is next:

Plastisphere Microbiome - An ecological niche shaped by the city

Microplastics are organic molecules that can act as sponges for microbial inhabitants and pollutants

#MicrobialEcology
#CSEE2025
@csee-scee.bsky.social
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Now Jean-Baptiste Leducq from ULaval talks about:

The Hyphomicrobiales dark matter in the phyllosphere

#Phyllosphere
#MicrobialEcology
#CSEE2025
@csee-scee.bsky.social
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Next is Abdul-Rahman Adamu Bukari from Aleeza Gerstein’s lab

Global phylogenomic diversity of Candida albicans from diverse ecological niches

#MicrobialEcology
#CSEE2025
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social
@csee-scee.bsky.social

Last Day of #CSEE2025

We are launching our 🦠Ecology & Evolution Symposium with a talk by @monaparizadeh.bsky.social from Calgary

Early-Life Gut Microbiome Dynamics in Rural Infants: Microbial Succession and Environmental Impacts

#MicrobialEcology
@csee-scee.bsky.social
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

And that is a 🌯 for the plant-microbe symposium!

Thank you to Morgane & @mycocentriq.bsky.social for organizing!

@csee-scee.bsky.social
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social
#CSEE2025

Tipping the plant-microbe competition for nitrogen in agricultural soils Soil science; Microbiology; Plant biology; Soil chemistry; Soil ecology; Soil biology

Adding a reference on very long too long list of papers to read:

😭😭😭😬😬😬🤣🤣🤣

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Finishing the Symposium with Damian Hernandez from Michelle Afkhami lab:

Gene family expansions drive context-dependency in an ancient plant-fungal symbiosis

#CSEE2025
@csee-scee.bsky.social
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Part II of the 🌱🦠 Interactions Symp. is on:

Étienne Yergeau🏃‍♂️across a captivating 12min talk 😬🤣 Tipping the🌱🦠competition for nitrogen in agricultural soils

Jon Bennett: Microbial drivers of plant invasion across the Can. Great Plains

#CSEE2025
@csee-scee.bsky.social
@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social