🚀 Excited to share SMART-PTA (miniaturized Primary Template Amplification) a high-throughput single-cell whole-genome amplification method that preserves clonal lineage information while enabling deep genomic and transcriptomic profiling.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... How much environmental chaos to embrace in plant-microbe research, and to what end? A commentary on setting (with all choices OK as long as all options considered) w/ bergelsonlab.org, @fabriceroux7.bsky.social, @plantevolution.bsky.social, tkarasovlab.org

New Review Out! We explore how droplet microfluidics is opening new doors in microbial ecology - enabling single-cell functional insights into growth, metabolism & interactions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fems... #MicrobialEcology #DropletMicrofluidics #Microbiology

📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social rdcu.be/exBSp

Curious about plasmid biology? Our latest paper is out now in Nature Communications! 🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s414... We analyzed thousands of diverse bacterial plasmids to shed light for the first time on a key aspect of plasmid biology: plasmid copy number. 1/7 👇

Thanks to everyone who came by my poster today for discussion! #2025ISMPMI If you weren’t able to make it but still interested in the potential role native plasmids play within Sphingomonas-plant interactions. Can check it out now on Zenodo zenodo.org/records/1591...

This work started nearly 10 years ago and was once my main postdoctoral project at @plantevolution.bsky.social before I slowed work on it to a trickle because it became confusing. But it always remained extremely interesting. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Last week, I had a great time at the New Phytologist EiC Symposium: “Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life” in Tartu, Estonia! Honored and very happy to receive the Best Poster Award! ✨ Big thanks to the organizers and all the inspiring scientists I met! 🌱 @newphyt.bsky.social