Throw back to my presentation last week at #esm2025! It was great to finally get a chance to share these results to a broad audience of #microbialecologists!

Very happy to have shared the first results of my PhD research on the Leguminose project at the beautiful Ecology of Soil Microorganisms conference in Helsinki #esm2025 @pathanshamina.bsky.social

Today, I had an exiting opportunity to present our first results to the #esm2025 audience. 🤩 We are searching for an answer to the question ”Does the interaction of fungi and plants drive soil carbon stabilization in the boreal forests?”. Hopefully, the results will be published later this year. 🤩

Great week at #esm2025 in Helsinki! We shared our latest work on soil methanotroph and nitrifier viruses 🦠😁

great science, cool people, a beautiful city, and I won a poster prize - I had a awesome time at the @esmmicrobes.bsky.social conference!

Honoured to receive a poster prize for my work on factors limiting microbial growth and its link to microbial use of soil organic matter. Grateful for the recognition - and what an inspiring conference it was!

Thank you everyone of 260 ESM2025 participants 🤎 We at @luke.fi miss you, and already looking for Prague ESM2028 🤩

#esm2025 is proud to publish @newphyt.bsky.social grant winners for the best oral presentations by Elsa Hilaire and Elias Barmettler, and for the best posters by Karolina Jörgensen, Julian Ruggaber and Luise Brandt. Congrats!

#esm2025 is proud to publish @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org award winners for the best posters: Francisca Prieto Fernandez and Danica Kynast. Congrats!

#esm2025 is proud to publish @isme-microbes.bsky.social award winners: Anna Burns, Nompumemelo Dammie and Agnieszka Rzepczynska. Congrats for the memberships!

It was my pleasure to give a talk on Energetic and metabolic costs of organic P mineralization at #ESM-2025 in Helsinki this afternoon. Very thankful to @dfg.de for funding my project and @michaeladippold.bsky.social for hosting me at your group at Uni Tübingen.

Great talk from Guusje Koorneef about Roadmaps to improve #SoilHealth in EU at #ESM-2025 in Helsinki. Cool plan to follow!

Last talk of #esm2025, and the lecture room is still full of focused listeners! Big thanks to Inga Hilesalu and all today’s speakers for keeping the energy high and the content fascinating! #soils

Take-home message from Roey Angel: methanogenic Methanobacterium appears to be very common in upland soils as well. #esm2025

Soon to be a PhD Sirja Viitamäki presenting oroartic tundra microbes and their relationship with GHG emissions and vegetation. #esm2025

Zahra Islam took us into the world of hydrogen cycling microbes. #esm2025

The last day of #esm2025 congress starts with Chris Greening talking about microbial oxidation of atmospheric trace gases affecting global change.

Happy to present some of my recent research at the ESM meeting in Helsinki today @esmmicrobes.bsky.social 🦠

Soil Panel discussion claims ”Empathy for soils” #esm2025

Christoph Tebbe asked an important question: Can microbiome data help us identify healthy soils? #esm2025 #soils #soilhealth

Update on role and importance of #Microbiomes for #soilhealth from Chris Tebbe on #ESM2025 @esmmicrobes.bsky.social

Christoph Tebbe is talking about limitations and perspectives of monitoring the diversity of soil microbes as soil health indicators #esm2025

Jose Siles talks about relationship between microbial diversity and biomass across Europe (LUCAS network). #esm2025

First speaker of the day, Petr Kohout is telling us about ericoid mycorrhizal fungi and their specific features and global distribution. #esm2025

Another day of exciting and enlightning talks and memorable encounters! #esm2025

What an inspiring group of researchers! And they are all here in Helsinki for the soil microorganisms! 🤩 #esm2025 #soils

Elly Morrien: Most of the plant derived carbon ends up to soil fungi. #esm2025

Eeva Vainio talks about mycoviruses and their potential in biocontrol of plant pathogens. #esm2025

Tatiana Demina introduced #esm2025 community novel Tunturi virus isolates from Finnish Arctic tundra soils.

Christina Hazard says that richness of interacting virus populations increases with methylotroph host activity. #esm2025

First speaker of today Joanne Emerson is talking about soil viruses. #esm2025

@esmmicrobes.bsky.social and here we are! Thank you City of Helsinki @hel.fi for a great reception and your words

Almost ready at the City Hall reception

Ella Thoen: Microeukaryotes are not affected by forest treatments, but soil layer and edaphic factors. #esm2025

Petr Baldrian: Forest soil microbes change with global change. #esm2025

Nobuhiko Shigyo empasizes that soil microbes are largely affected by soil origin and local topography. #esm2025

Max Häggblom is telling us about acidobacteria isolated from sub-arctic and different forest types in Finland. #esm2025

First speaker of today Björn Lindahl from SLU talks about the influence of ectomycorrhizal fungi and how forest fertility affects the decomposition #esm2025

Are you an early career scientist? Remember to sign up to be included in the selection of #erc awards from @femsmicro.org @newphyt.bsky.social and @isme-microbes.bsky.social. QR code available at the registration desk

Ellen Kandeler talks about soil as a local microhabit for microorganims. #esm2025

The second keynote speaker Philip Poole tells #esm2025 audience how Rhizobium attaches and sticks the roots.

Sirpa Thessler, Vice President of Natural Resources Unit at Luke welcomes participants of Ecology of Soil Microorganism #esm2025

Getting ready for #ESM2025! See you soon! @luke.fi @minnamau.bsky.social

Getting ready for #ESM2025! See you soon! @luke.fi @minnamau.bsky.social

Fresh new abstract books are waiting for the #esm2025 congress, which starts in a few days. Don’t forget to follow us from Sunday onwards!

The preliminary list of posters for ESM2025 is now available! Make your poster stand out — it could earn you recognition! 🌟 FEMS Microbiology Ecology, ISME Society and New Phytologist will be awarding outstanding poster presentations by early-career researchers 🌟

We have a fantastic set of speakers and posters presentations at the Ecology of Soil Microorganisms 2025. The preliminary schedule is now out at www.lyyti.fi/p/Ecology_of...

Calls for papers from FEMS Microbiology Ecology: Thematic Issue on Ecology of Soil Microorganisms Editors: @pbaldrian.bsky.social @jennihultman.bsky.social Petr Kohout Minna Männistö @tainapennanen.bsky.social academic.oup.com/femsec/pages... Submission deadline: 28 November 2025

We received nearly 300 excellent abstracts and are now making the final touches to the scientific program 🤩 The only difficult task is to select the oral presentations from all the interesting topics.

Time to submit those abstracts! Abstract deadline is in less than 2 weeks on Feb 24th, more information www.luke.fi/esm2025! Also news from FEMS: we are pleased to inform a thematic issue for “Ecology of Soil Microorganisms” in FEMS Microbiology Ecology academic.oup.com/femsec/pages...