I’m excited to share that one of the projects from my PhD is now published in Phytobiomes Journal! Super proud to have some former undergrad mentees and my collaborators from @emersys-irhs.bsky.social as coauthors. You can see the First Look here: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Check our new perspective paper exploring how the seed holobiont goes to sleep 😴 and reactivate for germination. A lot of exciting research to be done to understand dormancy mechanisms in microbes and plants ☘️ @emersys-irhs.bsky.social @irhs-angers.bsky.social

#PMS2025 Check the posters of my 2 wonderful PhD students @logansuteau.bsky.social & Louna Colaert-Sentenac! Results on multi-kingdom SynCom experiments inoculated on seeds to perform plant microbiome engineering & promote pathogen resistance on rapeseed & common bean 🫘 🌱 @emersys-irhs.bsky.social

Very happy to be in Antequera, Spain for #PMS2025 with my 2 PhD students @logansuteau.bsky.social and Louna Coleart-Sentenac We will present results from the SUCSEED project on culturomics and seed microbiome engineering using multi-kingdom SynComs 🫘🧫 @emersys-irhs.bsky.social

#OurTuesdaySeminar: delighted to have our two colleagues Alain Sarniguet and Matthieu Barret from @emersys-irhs.bsky.social @irhs-angers.bsky.social who gave us an overview of #bacteria-bacteria #interactions (T6SS & siderophores) in seed #microbiota.

Great night for the Fête de la Science at the stunning Digital Floralia exhibition (Miguel Chevalier)-Musée des Beaux Arts Angers I enjoyed chatting about our research on seed microbiota, holobionts and alternatives to pesticides 🦠👩‍💻🌱 @emersys-irhs.bsky.social @irhs-angers.bsky.social

We are very excited to make the first announcement of SeedCon 2026. Please mark your calendars and look out for further updates on seedcon.org #SeedCon2026 #SeedMicrobiome #MicrobialInheritance #PlantMicrobiome #Conference

New paper from the team 🎉 by M Briand, M-A Jacques & J Dittmer The hidden life of Xylella SRA data mining reveals new host plants & unrecognized infected areas in the world 🌍! Genomes provide evidence for a 3rd Xylella species infecting wild rice 🌾 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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...

Check this paper from the team in collaboration with Simon Law (CSIRO) on transient microbial architects in plant microbiota 🌱

New Tansley review out in @newphyt.bsky.social with @fdiniandreote.bsky.social and Gabriel Castrillo! We explore how the root is shaped by dialogue with soil microbes—highlighting emerging mechanisms and future research directions in root plasticity and microbiome interactions. tinyurl.com/38mkyx5t

Experimental evolution in an era of molecular manipulation @natrevgenet.nature.com by @joaoascensao.bsky.social and @mmdesai.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 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 pre-print from my group - project led by PhD student Michael Hoffert. We set out on a daunting mission to generate a 'periodic table' of bacterial diversity (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward? At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below The series is open, so do get in touch if you'd like to propose a new contribution!

Check out this new paper from the team led by former PhD student Tiffany Garin on the role of T6SS mediated competition on seed microbiota assembly and transmission 💉🦠🌱

Amateurs d'avocats 🥑 ? Mardi 27/05, deux collègues mexicains nous ont proposé un séminaire sur les microbiotes rhizosphérique et du nectar de l'avocatier afin de développer des approches de biocontrôle et biostimulation. Merci @drafred.bsky.social & Alfonso Mendez Bravo #microbiote #biocontrole

A great seminar by @lmatthieul.bsky.social from @emersys-irhs.bsky.social on seed microbiota today! FR: un séminaire merveilleux par Matthieu Barret d’équipe EmerSys sur le microbiote de la graine aujourd’hui ! @irhs-angers.bsky.social

Fantastic (and very busy) two days visiting @irhs-angers.bsky.social and sharing insights on plant #microbiota and #syncoms with the @emersys-irhs.bsky.social and #FungiSem teams. 🥑🍅🫘🐝 And what a greenhouse! 🤩 Thanks @microbialmarie.bsky.social for having us!

We are very happy to host you with Alfonso Mendez Bravo! Great talks and discussions about plant-microbiome interactions, pathobiomes, nectar yeasts! Really cool research on avocado 🥑 🦠

We had a lot of fun doing our "Proof by Underpants" 🩲experiment with 2 groups of middle schoolers from Angers ! We will compare the soil health of an orchard and a grassland from our Experimental station UE HORTI @inrae-france.bsky.social

Check our preprint led by our colleagues from the FungiSem team @irhs-angers.bsky.social High prevalence of Basidiomycota yeasts in seeds across multiple plant species 🌾🍅🫘🥬

Last week to apply to join our team in Angers as a PhD student with @fly-florian.bsky.social

#StandUpForScience protest here in Angers, France 🇫🇷 with @emersys-irhs.bsky.social and @irhs-angers.bsky.social represented 🥼 in front of @ua-recherche.bsky.social We stand with our American colleagues facing unprecedented attacks against Science, Research, Public & Environmental health ✊

📢 Open PhD Position With @fly-florian.bsky.social, we are recruiting a PhD student to develop CRISPR-Based Microbiome Editing to Study Microbial Interactions in Early Plant Life 🧬 🌿 Join us in Angers, France in the @emersys-irhs.bsky.social at @inrae-france.bsky.social 🗓️ Deadline 03/31 More info 👇

📆 Labmeeting IRHS : Boris Taillefer, postdoc de l’équipe EmerSys nous a présenté ses travaux sur le rôle des effecteurs T6SS de Stenotrophomonas rhizophila dans le microbiote des graines. 🦠 🌱 #Microbiote #T6SS #Stenotrophomonas #SeedMicrobiome #PlantHealth

We are very happy to contribute to this Proof by Underpants initiative as part of our @biodiversaplus.bsky.social project Grass4fun. We will conduct this experiment with middle schoolers at @irhs-angers.bsky.social on March 31st 🩲🦠🌾

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience! Feeling grateful for my amazing female mentors over the years who paved the way 👩‍🔬🥼 And also for my fantastic female colleagues @emersys-irhs.bsky.social from @irhs-angers.bsky.social 🦠🌾 Really inspired by the younger colleagues I'm supervising

Sowing success: ecological insights into seedling microbial colonisation for robust plant microbiota engineering by @microbialmarie.bsky.social et al In Trends in Plant Science www.cell.com/trends/plant...

The EmerSys research team from @irhs-angers.bsky.social just joined bluesky! We study the Emergence, Systematics & Ecology of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria. Watch this space if you like Xanthomonas, Xylella, Pseudomonas bacteria and also seed microbiome research 🧫🦠🌿 @inrae-france.bsky.social