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...

Excited to announce a 4-year PhD position at @niooknaw.bsky.social investigating the island biogeography of plant-associated fungi in the giant daisy radiation on the Galapagos. Please apply, share, and reach out with any questions! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Wagening...

Traveling to Angers, France for the @newphyt.bsky.social workshop "From Deep Time to Living Networks: The Evolution of Plant–Microorganism Interactions". Looking forward to some really cool work and great conversations! 🌱🇫🇷

A beautiful day for a visit to @unileiden.bsky.social yesterday with the KU Self Graduate Fellowship, and a side trip to the botanical gardens🌿☀️

There's still time to submit an abstract for consideration for the 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions Be quick - the deadline is midnight PDT (UTC-7), 20 May! www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps #PlantScience

When research assistants come demanding a team photo they are so excited about an experiment 😍 @niooknaw.bsky.social

Measured, supported, and randomized 🤓

This is what research looks like. And also what makes it a sometimes ridiculous, but fun adventure 🤓 Transporting our cultures from Prague on a night train 🫠

We finished planting the first experiment - a 'pilot' study for the role of AMF in invasion of grassland species in the Netherlands! 30 species, almost 700 pots 🪴🤓

Day 1 of planting: 160/720 pots, done! 🪴🪴🪴

Always a great time at @ibotcz.bsky.social. Spores, roots, walks in the castle park. And we made it to our train with ~35 kg of inocula for the first experiment in my group at @niooknaw.bsky.social 🤓🎉

From oak spring garden foundation in Middleburg, VA, USA to @ibotcz.bsky.social in Pruhonice, CZ: one car ride, two trains, and two flights 🫠🤓 Looking forward to looking at our mycorrhizal cultures and taking them to back to @niooknaw.bsky.social to conduct our first invasion experiment!

Weekend home, then off to a writing retreat in Virginia 😇🤓

The conetainers have arrived, 3 months and many emails later. Now the fun part - our first greenhouse experiment!🪴🪴🪴

So happy that our @cu-esiil.bsky.social working group was funded! Excited to keep developing tools for molecular identification of arbsucular mycorrhizal fungi! @niooknaw.bsky.social @invam.bsky.social esiil.org/working-grou...

When you just get mycorrhizal culture updates on whatsapp😍🤓 @ibotcz.bsky.social

What a whirlwind week, but no better group to do it with. Sampling of 5 Ericaceous species at the Hoge Veluwe National Park. Followed by a lot of root washing, subsampling, and culturing!

Excitedly showing the conetainer trajectory to our department research assistant 😜 What a weird person I've become.

Happy to report that I have a new paper out in PLOS Biology, journals.plos.org/plosbiology/.... Some very interesting findings on plant-fungal mutualistic feedbacks from my PhD work I am excited to finally get to share.

Holiday =) And uncharacteristically beautiful Dutch weather!

Sampling some soil for our greenhouse experiment assessing mycorrhizal response in native vs. non-native grassland species! @niooknaw.bsky.social

Nice visit earlier this week to @vuamsterdam.bsky.social to visit @tobykiers.bsky.social and @vkokkoris.bsky.social; thanks for having me!

We're pleased to welcome @camilledelavaux.bsky.social to the New Phytologist Board of Advisors! Camille is the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science. www.newphytologist.org/news/new-phy...

Visiting the @westerdijkinst.bsky.social yesterday was really fun! So so many cultures and storage methods. Looking forward to working together soon!

Things got real. We bought an apartment in lovely Wageningen!!😍🏡🎉 @dancoviello.bsky.social

@invam.bsky.social collection, prairies, and AMF all featured in the awesome article Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I am honored to have received the 2025 Tansley Medal @newphyt.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone who pushed, challenged, and supported me along the way to complete the underlying work.

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social! Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social 🧵1/2

Abstracts are open for #ICOM2026! I can’t wait to spend a week immersing myself in all things #mycorrhiza in beautiful Cairns 🌴 There are so many symposia to choose from - go and have a look! icom2026.org/symposia/

Great visit at @ibotcz.bsky.social again with collaborators. And such a nice visit around Prague this afternoon ✨

New study from @mvanderheijden.bsky.social lab, showing that many commercial mycorrhizal inoculants are snake oil. So important for this data to be published! Between this, @lizkoziol.bsky.social and Matt Salomon’s work… well I think we make a strong point. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am on the website! 🎉https://nioo.knaw.nl/en/employees/camille-delavaux

First short introduction to @niooknaw.bsky.social before I officially start Monday! Even more excited to become part of the community 🌱

Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share! Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu

🌿 New paper by @camilledelavaux.bsky.social shows how naturalised nitrogen-fixing #plants are more likely and abundant on islands compared to mainlands, especially on remote islands.

🚨 Early Career Researcher Travel Award! 🚨 Open to grad students & postdocs presenting at #ICOM2026 @ICOM2026 Apply now! All info👉 url-shortener.me/6QQF 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 14, 2025 📢 Decisions: Jan 30, 2026

🚨FEW DAYS TO GO!🚨 The submission deadline for the Call for Symposia for #ICOM2026 is October 15th! Form and submission details here: icom2026.org/symposia/

Top find of the day in Wageningen 🤩

Here we go. First night train as we move to Wageningen, Netherlands! @dancoviello.bsky.social 🐈🐈‍⬛ 🚆

Last Swiss mountain trip a success! @dancoviello.bsky.social

After almost 5 years, we are leaving Zurich🇨🇭for Wageningen 🇳🇱 T-2 weeks! @dancoviello.bsky.social

Ever since my InfoFlora course last week, I'm spotting neophytes all over Zurich 🌱 Fun, but also not...

Thrilled to see the INVAM fungal collection—and our dedicated curators—featured in the Fall issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social Preserving the world’s largest library of mycorrhizal fungi to power ecosystem restoration, science, and sustainable ag. 🦠🌱🌍 🔗 digital.sierramagazine.org/publication/...

What a beautiful exhibit by the Lausanne botanical garden on peat bogs, with some ericaceous plants and even mention of their mycorrhizal fungi! 🍄‍🟫

Huge congratulations to my final @ethz.ch Master's student Linda Muller for completing her thesis! Across three research groups, two cantons, and a lot of bureaucracy, she tested mycorrhizal colonization in three invasive plant species. Spoiler - it is higher in invaded compared to native soils. 🌱🍄

My new paper is out! 🧪🦠 Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland restoration successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds: academic.oup.com/femsle/artic... Why microbes matter in restoration 🧵

I am somehow finding myself applying for 4 grants simultaneously. Wish me luck 🌱🍄

Check out our paper "Ericoid mycorrhizal growth response is influenced by host plant phylogeny", now out in Mycorrhiza! Led by Alice Neves, a former Master's student in our group. And amazing cross-european collaborations with @ibotcz.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social and several others!

Bever/Schultz lab micro-reunion at ESA! 🤓 @invam.bsky.social

So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social