Happy to share the first story from my postdoc in @schnittger-lab.bsky.social We studied TITAN9, a Csm1-like protein in Arabidopsis. Even though I now work with soil, chromosome segregation and meiosis still have a special place in my heart. #meiosis4eva #meiosis #chromosomesegregation

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🌱 Talk Dirt(y) to Me: Why Soil Health Matters I’m kicking off Pint of Science Hamburg 2025 on May 21 with a talk about why soil health is key to our future. Come for the science, stay for the beer, and leave with a new appreciation for dirt! 🍻

Such a cool format! Looking forward ☺️ Check out Hasibe's talk from @schnittger-lab.bsky.social about transcriptional regulation of meiosis! Super interesting results from an awesome scientist 😍👌 #meiosis4eva

When your spindle apparatus is more Easter Bunny than science 🎀🐇 #chromosomesegregation #livecellimaging #mitosis #easter

NEWS & VIEWS: Arabidopsis accessions and their difference in heat tolerance during meiosis (Joke De Jaeger-Braet) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Remarkably, the same locally trained model also predicted plant growth differences in global datasets, suggesting a highly conserved interconnection between the soil microbiome and plant performance across environments. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... #SoilMicrobiome #MachineLearning #AgTech (2/2)

#Soil microbiome signatures predict maize yield - and beyond. 🌱🧬 A recent study by us demonstrates that within-field differences in maize yield on a German farm can be well predicted using machine learning models trained on soil microbiome data. (1/2)

Great work by @joellanos.bsky.social and team! This study highlights the power of eDNA in tracking soil biodiversity - especially earthworms, the unsung heroes of healthy soils. A step forward for precision monitoring in regenerative agriculture! 🌍🪱🔬 #SustainableFarming #SoilScience

1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Happy earthworm day! #dayoftheearthworm #soilhealth #soilscience

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧬🔬, and I’m thinking of all the brilliant, inspiring women I’ve had the chance to work with—each bringing their unique ideas, curiosity, and resilience to the table. 💡✨ (1/3)

Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

New paper led by the amazing Sierra Jech, @ecoss-nau.bsky.social post-doc. Crucial steps toward realizing the dream of #biocrust farming. Collaboration between TNC, USGS, NAU's DIRT lab and Mayberry Seed Co. farminghttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929139324005924

There is always a beauty in chromosome segregation especially with the synchronizity of meiosis. Even though the process is super long, all cells arrive at the second meiotic division at the same time. Crazy, isn't it? Kinetochores in green, TUA5 in magenta. #meiosis4eva #fluorescentfriday

In all the debates about #biodiversity, we tend to forget about the belowground part of it – even though (1) more than 50% of all species live in the soil, (2) soil biodiv is central for ecosystem functioning and (3) has different needs than aboveground biodiv onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

➡️ Soil microbiomes provide robust, scalable predictions for crop yields beyond local contexts. 🌱🦠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #soilhealth #soilbiodiversity

Fluorescent fireworks for #FluorescentFriday! 🎆✨ My Arabidopsis protein of interest (green) cozying up to tubulin (magenta) in a tobacco leaf cell. Science or art? Both! Heterologous systems make tough-to-study proteins (looking at you, #meiosis4eva) shine! #plantscience #chromosomesegregation

Pseudomonas in the spotlight: emerging roles in the nodule microbiome www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events www.nature.com/articles/s41...