If you are interested in microbiomes, plants, polyploids, or all of the above stop by the Ecology II talk session Tuesday 22nd to hear some of my postdoc research! #Evol2026

Can we use ecological principles to increase coexistence in synthetic bacterial communities? Our new paper is now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: "Environmental complexity shapes maintenance of bacterial diversity through context-dependent interactions among niche axes" doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Delighted to share my latest TED-Ed video, explaining how scientists discovered that cats use the chemicals from silvervine and catnip to protect themselves against mosquitoes. This discovery may open the way to the development of new mosquito repellents for human use. ed.ted.com/lessons/why-...

Even though its been out on early view our publication is now officially included in the Plant, Cell & Environment special issue Legumes adaptations and interactions with the environment! Check out here: doi.org/10.1111/pce....

Rhizosphere microbiome influences fruit quality in citrus Wu et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/9W2EUQ...

Deciphering microbial interactions using a label-free microbead sorting approach academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Cross-feeding options define genome evolution and community assembly of deep groundwater microbiome #microbiology #microbiome #MicroSky @microbiomej.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our work on 'hidden diversity' in unbinned contigs is now published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41... See the linked threads for more details!

Metagenomics is great, but applying it to soil is... complicated 🦠⛏️ Our new Perspective Article is out, diving into the the opportunities and limitations of metagenomics to study soil bacteria and archaea link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Quantifying microbiota impact on plant traits for the guidance of breeding programs Blouin et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Very neat agricultural microbiome research. There was legacy effect of potato plant vigor based on what production field it was grown in.

Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠

Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with the lab of @pengbo10.bsky.social. Here, we describe that a formin protein mediates the polarity switch from root hair to infection thread growth during symbiotic interactions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share this preprint that describes my latest work on using GPUs to accelerate processing of RNA-seq data. The title says it all: "RNA-seq analysis in seconds using GPUs" now on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and github github.com/pachterlab/k... Figure 1 shows they key result

New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social

I think this paper will be a game-changer for studying microbiome function. Matthew Schmitt and I found that a simple neural network, when trained on paired sequencing and functional data, can infer functional group structure directly from data. Pls read our preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are you a postdoc in a plant-related field such as🌿 Plant Biology 🌿 Agriculture & Crop Sciences 🌿 Ecology & Environment 🌿 Plant Pathology & Protection or 🌿 Biotechnology ? We invite you to join a community of 700+ postdoctoral researchers from around the world at www.plantpostdocs.com

Evolution of crop phenotypic spaces through domestication 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Wojcik et al. @maudtenaillon.bsky.social #PlantScience

This is an incredible resource: The MicrobeAtlas Database www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Hot off the press! If you’ve ever wondered how ecosystem-engineering gopher tortoises shape soil microbial and nematode communities, this paper is for you! 🐢💚 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How #citrus rewires its vascular system to fight #huanglongbing ... | #pathogen | #bacteria | #Liberibacter | Via eurekalert .org

Latitudinal patterns of surface bacterial community Li et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/WHUPK2...

#TansleyReview: Why, when, and how microbes can benefit ecological restorations: current approaches and future directions 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Crawford et al. @kerricrawford.bsky.social @collingdice.bsky.social Figure created in biorender.com/iwso49n.

Take a look at our paper on the soil microbiomes associated with the eastern Joshua tree after the 2020 dome fire! @arikchou.bsky.social @pulidofabs.bsky.social Lynn Sweet melanie davis link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A novel analysis workflow for simultaneous parsing prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial genes from metagenomes peerj.com/articles/207... #jcampubs

From death comes diversity! 🦠🧪🌐🌏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Community conservatism is widespread across microbial phyla and environments #microbiology #microbes #MicroSky @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/8) 🚨Thrilled to share our new research, now published on the cover of @science.org ! 🌳🦠 We discovered that tree #Bark — largely regarded as inert — hosts vast #Microbial communities that actively interact with the atmosphere. 🧵👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper up - inspired by the periodic table of the elements, we attempted to organize bacterial diversity in genome-inferred trait space academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

The Lariviere lab at UMiami is recruiting PhD students! Incoming students will join us in studying host-microbe interactions in the honey bee gut, using molecular and genetic approaches. Please see the attached flyer for more details. #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky #PhDOpportunity #AcademicJobs

Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases | Science

“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social 🧵1/6

Newly published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, we look within seeds of historic herbarium specimens for changes in the prevalence of beneficial fungal symbionts in response to climate change drivers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PhD Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication? Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids Details: shorturl.at/nQ8UW

Check out our new Tansley review on climate, plants, and microbes! I enjoyed working with a team of friendly and knowledgeable scientists. @meafkhami.bsky.social @kerricrawford.bsky.social @aclassen.bsky.social @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social @damianmicroeco.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper. #plantscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science! (1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Come check out my talk at #ESA2025 today! I'll be chatting about some of my Postdoc research on mutualisms and how they impact niche breadth and diversification in the Eco-Evolutionary processes session in BCC344 at 1:45pm!

Come check out my presentation on what community properties can predict microbiome resistance to drought today! #ESA2025 COS 015 BCC 336 3:30-5:00

Check out this video of our research on soil microbiomes at Archbold Biological Station! news.miami.edu/stories/2025...

Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation #ISMEJournal by @duhitasant.bsky.social et al from @timbarra.bsky.social with Tom Bell, @kayla-king.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Our guide to bees of Pennsylvania is available for free now, you can order print copy (just have to pay shipping) and/or download PDF from Penn State Extension page: extension.psu.edu/bees-of-penn... For every one of the 47 bee genera we have beautiful photo(s) and natural history facts

Fungal spores reveal a global climate footprint on microbes' traits! Incorporating microbial traits improves predictions of biogeographic shifts. Fun project w @balachaudhary.bsky.social @smriti-pehim-limbu.bsky.social @sturmer.bsky.social @aguilart.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm jealous of whoever that got to watch hundreds of cat videos to collect data for this study!

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

Check out our latest review on peptide signaling in beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. Signaling peptides are so fascinating! doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

My 2nd dissertation chapter is out in Plant, Cell, & Environment! We use a model legume to assess how plant host genotype and microbes non-additively interact to shape plant growth and disease ecology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/pce....

Paper just out in @natcomms.nature.com by @alvarordr.bsky.social Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...