Microbiome sequencing has come so far in 2 decades. In my PhD— I used TRFLP…. am now doing long read sequencing of entire soil metagenomes! This review was great fun- thanks Gitta Szabó @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social Tanja Woyke of @jgi.doe.gov www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In these trying times, all the more important to keep attention to all the ways in which our world is affected by #climatechange Join us next week at #NYCW for a session on how biodiversity, water, food and health intersect with climate!

Our latest review is now live! Check out our thoughts on how the filamentous lifestyle of Actinomycetes and their ability to make a diverse array of natural products may be connected 👇: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social @appmtnclub.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s100...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #phagesky #phage

Charles Cockell said that “without lions there is life, but without microorganisms there can be no higher life forms” … Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A little wine with your mycorrhizal symbiosis? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now published in @newphyt.bsky.social, @1pantunes.bsky.social and I review evidence for the "Novel Weapons Hypothesis" and the role of allelopathy during invasion. Bottom line: there is very good reason to be skeptical. dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Transient microbial architects: tracing the legacy effects of ephemeral taxa during plant microbiome assembly Current Opinion in Microbiology by @logansuteau.bsky.social et al from @microbialmarie.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Most of us use rDNA for community analyses of AM fungi. Intragenomic variation in rDNA of AM fungi can be pretty huge, depending on the region. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social. This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more! 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Thrilled to launch yet another #CitizenScience campaign for @fundive-fungi.bsky.social ‪🙃 The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist

Scanning electron microscopy of hyphal ectobiont bacteria within mycelial extracellular matrices Bacillus subtilis on Basidiomycete fungus Hericium erinaceus -in Biophysical Reports doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal adaptation Penicillium solitum over 8 years in a cheese cave => green-to-white shift @currentbiology.bsky.social from @benwolfe.bsky.social with @kellerlab.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

Glad to be part of this team calling on global scientific and conservation communities to get on board to protect microbial life, which sustains all forms of life on our planet. in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/5) Distal to proximal: a continuum of drivers shaping tree growth and carbon partitioning doi.org/10.1111/nph....

2025 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science winner Dr Lucy Shapiro discusses her discovery of how bacteria coordinate their genetic logic to generate distinct daughter cells. #LaskerAward #Lasker25 @laskerfdn.bsky.social ja.ma/46vPmcF

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Our article "Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis with Tuber spp. Enhances host performances in Pinus and Carya and induces host-specific patterns in defense-related regulation in the leaf transcriptomes" has been published online in Mycorrhiza. Great job Xiaoping! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Agricultural disturbance reduces arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and biomass by excluding specialist species - Vahter - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧵 New preprint alert! From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Early germline sequestration in a basidiomycete fungus | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unearthing the invisible: simulating #maize root #domestication through deep time 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A Commentary by Peng Yu on research by Lopez-Valdivia, et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Many people ask how they can support me as a new author The best way right now: buy the book on Amazon and PLEASE leave a review Reviews help the algorithm make the book visible to more early-career researchers To reach ECRs, I need your reviews🙂

Beatiful article @tobykiers.bsky.social ! Source: NPR search.app/tP7Ep

Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Call for symposia at @ICOM2026 is open until 15 October. The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026! @southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi icom2026.org/symposia/

I'm a science journalist for @statnews.com looking to talk with folks who applied to biomedical Ph.D. programs and had offers rescinded earlier this year. What have you been up to since then? You can reach me at [email protected] or via Signal (username jwosen.27). #journorequest

New paper: ‘Soil inoculation improves tree seedling growth in substrates containing bitumen, but the effect varies by species and inoculum source’ led by James Franklin @jamesfranklin, a past PhD from my group. 🧵 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Big news🚨 A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉 This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published I hope it helps many Please share with anyone who might benefit! 👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide

My new paper is out! 🧪🦠 Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland restoration successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds: academic.oup.com/femsle/artic... Why microbes matter in restoration 🧵

Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition #ISMEComms academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Have you heard about MycoEd yet? A model educational program offering training for students on fungal genome sequencing and analysis. how powerful!! #mycofam #thefutureisfungal journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

One single tree can host up to 1 trillion bacteria on its wood. The hyphosphere microbiome seems to be fundamental for mycorrhizal functioning. I see things like this and wonder, how some colleagues still doubt about #Holobionts being units of selection? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“…when organisms interact can largely determine how they interact.” #Viewpoint: Is it all about timing? Identifying the symbiosis critical points that govern interactions among #bacteria, ectomycorrhizal #fungi, and land #trees By Louis Berrios 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nice to see in print at @newphyt.bsky.social the outcome of our collaborative genetic study of the ubiquitous ectomycorrhizal Pisolithus microcarpus. Special shout out to Ben Dauphin & Maira Pereira, with Daniel Croll & other 🇨🇭🇧🇷 friends + @jgi.doe.gov + @umr-iam.bsky.social

Outcome of soil microbiome transplants is controlled more by selective pressures of recipient soil environment (habitat filtering) than original composition of transplanted community, emphasising habitat’s characteristics, not microbiota origin, determine transplant success👇  doi.org/10.1093/isme...

A nice collaboration with Hai‐Sheng Yuan and his team from CAS: 'Host adaptation is driving genome evolution and ecological speciation in the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Tricholoma' in Journal of Systematics and Evolution doi.org/10.1111/jse....

New online! Blurred lines in the mycorrhiza world

📢 New preprint alert! We used comparative genomics on 72,000+ bacterial genomes to uncover the genetic basis of microbial adaptation to multicellular hosts—plants and animals alike. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New species are revealed in a subgeneric revision of the genus Suillus and novel taxa from Eastern Asia based on morphology and multigene phylogenies. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/imaf...

Invasive golden oyster mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/s... highlighting work from @majusino.bsky.social and team in a new article doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

The increasingly powerful term #mycorrhiza warrants attention #Editorial by Bonfante & Genre. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Inaccurate AI-generated image generated using: ‘Generate a photo of a plant root system interacting with fungal mycelium in a mycorrhizal interaction’.

The database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Australia is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... You can access data summaries via the website www.ausamf.com We have data from 610 sites with data from another 500 locations to be added by the end of the year! Thanks to all collaborators

I had a botany professor in school say that trees are some of the most vicious predators on the planet, and it really changed how I think about the plant world. Who knew that English ivy was an apex predator, choking the life out of all it touches...

Interested in applying cryogenic electron tomography to your research? Give our latest preprint a read to find out how. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Some folks have reached out about the photos I've taken of ectomycorrhizal root tips. I wrote a short article about this for my brand-new Substack. If this sort of long-form content interests you, please subscribe and let me know if you want to see more! timomendez.substack.com/p/photograph...

New paper out from the Cheeke Lab led by @raeberner.bsky.social with @balachaudhary.bsky.social & Geoff Zahn. Congrats Rae! academic.oup.com/femsle/advan...