New record of #Echeveria for México, and the species is named after my father-in-law 🤩 doi.org/10.21829/abm...

June 2026 newsletter highlighting a few of @getgenome.bsky.social recent activities and opportunities. Remember, you can find this and our previous newsletters here getgenome.net/network

Symbioses are beautiful 🍄

View from the office, 8 am. Grateful for being surrounded by vegetation! 🌿

New paper from the lab- From “synthetic” to defined microbial communities for clearer terminology- in @natureportfolio.nature.com journal Nature Communications. Led by Hanna Koch & Angela Sessitsch

Great opportunity to work in a cutting edge lab!

Found another example today of #HelicopterResearch. Study on lichens of the Atacama desert, no co-author from Chile. Oh but the authors acknowledge the "exceptional understanding of the ecosystem" of the Chilean National Park rangers. 😕 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Buscamos candidato a Beca Doctoral Conicet llamado 2026 junto con javimorenook.bsky.social #Arabidopsis 🍀 #microbioma 🍄 IAL-FIL

On Wednesday I will be giving a talk (in Spanish) about our findings on how #Phytophthora rewires the avocado microbiome and metabolome. 🥑🦠🍄🧪🧬 #microsky

When a study is built on Global South 🇪🇨 biodiversity and field sites, you’d hope Global South scientists are involved in more than “acquired data” doi.org/10.1038/s415...

There is a LOT of attention for soil health, especially in agricultural systems, but there is very little awareness of the value of intact, undisturbed, native soils. Here, I argue that applying the old-growth concept to soils will help their protection. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Good news at last!

We are looking for a PhD candidate who will study the biogeography of above- and belowground fungi associated with several Scalesia species. We aim to develop an integrated view of diversity and distribution of three components of the fungal microbiome. Apply by 26 June: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Most recent photo from the lab! 🤩 I'm grateful for such amazing students.

Here is the latest @GetGenome activities and opportunities. Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here getgenome.net/network

#WeekendRead! 👌

When making analysis about the destruction of science and universities in the global North, you may wanna also include Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, etc. (soon also Kast's Chile). Much of the policies implemented there have been tested first in our territories by the same think tanks.

📢 New paper from the lab! "Phytophthora root rot induces compositional and functional changes in avocado rhizosphere bacterial communities" We analyzed through metabarcoding and metatranscriptomic analyses the shifts in the 🥑 microbiota induced by #Phytophthora academic.oup.com/femsmicrobes...

Excited to share my review in Nature Reviews Microbiology on soil fungal ecology. Fungal diversity, ecology and functions in soil ecosystems Hope people will find it useful! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbial diversity creates a global firewall against pathogens in soil Bickel & Berg Preview @prof-braj-singh.bsky.social work revealing human pathogens linked to disease(TB, melioidosis, sepsis) are widespread in agricultural soils w/reduced microbial diversity www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Empowering science and scientists! 🧬💪 Thank you @getgenome.bsky.social !

#postdoc offert #modelling #PlantEcology

Now officially published in @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Communications. Here We provide first global atlas of bacterial plant pathogens and demonstrates that high microbial diversity is associated with decline in plant pathogen prevalence at the globe scale. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Celebrating the acceptance of Rosaura's paper! 🥳 Alfaro-García et al., soon available in @femsjournals.bsky.social 😁

Receiving sequences from our #pine endophytic #fungi is like unlocking a whole new world: Ephemerocybe, Phialocephala, Auricularia... How different from the huge proportion of Fusarium in avocado roots. So exciting! 🍄🤩

It felt like being home again... Thank you Xalapa!

🥑🌸 RESEARCH 🌸🥑 The floral nectar in avocado hosts microbes with anti-pathogenic activity and probiotic properties in a model plant species - López-García et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Our collection of rhizobacteria from Mexican wild legumes has officially started 🌿🦠

Our new field study on liquid #biochar mineral complex fertilisers is now online 🎉 Distinct forms of liquid biochar mineral complex fertilisers differently increase crop yield, nutrient balance and economic return ☘️🐄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 New preprint from the lab! Endophytic fungi from avocado trees exhibir potencial for multi-target biocontrol applications tinyurl.com/yt6arv95 2nd manuscript from PhD student Daniel Sánchez-Hernández 🍄🥑 #MexicanScience #Fungi #Endophytes

Your favorite hybrid microbial ecology and evolution conference is back! #meehubs2026. I am hosting a Hub for the US West in Irvine, CA and there will be travel fellowships for some students. Abstract deadline extended to April 26th! meehubs2026.oa-event.com

Snapshot of the endophytic fungal diversity of Mexican oaks. 🌳🍄 What a better way to start a day than to look at some #fungi?

Come join us in Morelia, Mexico! 🇲🇽🧬🦠🍄

Just a few days left‼️ Abstract submission deadline for MEEHubs2026 is April 19! Come present at one of the hubs August 3-5, 2026✨ Links and more info here: meehubs.org

🚀 New paper out! What happens below the soil doesn’t stay below the soil—it reshapes the microbiome on plant leaves 🌱 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We even made the cover & title: "Humans, micro-organisms, fauna, flora... 2100, the Earth, the great biodiversity redistribution has started" This is the April issue of S&V, available in 🇨🇵 bookstores 🤩 @cnrs.fr @upjv-univ.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Back from the cloud forest and on to a field day in temperate forests to sample #PGPR from wild legumes. Mexico is a beautiful country.

REMINDER - Abstract submission deadline for MEEHubs2026 is April 19! Get you abstract in and present at one of the hubs August 3-5, 2026✨You'll be in great company! We have a fantastic lineup of speakers‼️ Links and more info here: meehubs.org

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Apply to be an editor at an ASM Journal! Open call for editors at mBio, mSphere, mSystems, and Microbiology Spectrum. This is a very fulfilling way to share your expertise and give back to our society journals. @asm.org journals.asm.org/asm-call-for...

Great day today. Only science and no admin. 🙌 Our PhD student Daniel Sanchez giving a seminar at #UNAM and a post-seminar lunch to celebrate Marina López 's paper on nectar microbes, and her postdoc renewal. 🍾 Time for holidays!

🚨Happy to be Guest Editor for a BMC Genomics collection on the genomics of plant pathogens and plant–pathogen interactions. We welcome studies on pathogen and host genomics, microbiome, functional genomics, multi-omics approaches. 🗓 Deadline: 14-12–26 🔗 link.springer.com/collections/...

📢 Our article on the avocado #nectar #microbiota is now put in @jxbotany.bsky.social ! 🥑🌸🦠🐝 The microbiota of avocado floral nectar inhibits pathogens and improves plant fitness #microsky #MexicanScience

ViroiDoc MSCA Doctoral Network announces workshop: What: Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper When: Thursday, 2 April 2026, 9:30–12:30 CET Where: online, Webex This event in English is open free of charge. Registration will open soon. www.viroidoc.eu/b/dont-peris...

Muy contenta de participar en este conversatorio en el marco del #8M 💜 "Ciencia en femenino: mujeres científicas en Pátzcuaro" 💪 #MujeresEnLaCiencia

Addressing gaps: Brazil’s approach to microbial biobanks

📢 Our Editorial is out! Check the special issue of Journal of Soils and Sediments on fire effects on #soil and #sediment systems🔥 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧵 New paper out in @PlantPhysiology! We asked: how do trees talk to their fungal partners during ectomycorrhizal symbiosis? Turns out, tiny secreted peptides play a big role. 1/ Read the full paper here 👇 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Are we thoroughly thinking/discussing about Open Access models? We invite you to think about OA not only as a chance to read science freely, but as an opportunity to make science more equitable, inclusive, with more voices from different places

48th New Phytologist Symposium: Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology. 13 October 2026 - 16 October 2026 Leysin, Switzerland www.newphytologist.org/events/48-np...