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Microbial ecologist | CNRS director of research | Doonhamer in France
📢 We are thrilled to announce the International Soil Virus Conference 2026 in conjunction with the Saint Loup Research Institute. 🗓️ June 16 – 18, 2026 📍 Château de Saint Loup sur Thouet, France 👇 RSVP by October 31st, 2025
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#phage
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International Soil Virus Conference 2026! We are excited to announce and provide RSVP details for the next International Soil Virus Conference that will be held in Saint-Loup Lamaire, France on Jun…
https://soilmicrobes.fr/international-soil-virus-conference-2026/
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Soil Microbial Ecology Group
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Hot off the press! 📣 We demonstrate that soil physicochemical gradients alter virus community structure but not the presence of those infecting individual (cultivated) bacteria hosts 🦠🧫 @Sungeun Lee
@graemenicol.bsky.social
@christinahazard.bsky.social
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Soil pH influences the composition of bacteriophage communities infecting individual hosts
Bacteriophages (phages) are predicted to infect a range of hosts in highly diverse soil bacterial communities. However, selection of host communities …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071725002421?via%3Dihub
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Potential PhD opportunity studying soil virus ecology in our group. Please get in touch if interested!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Gareth (Gary) Trubl
6 months ago
Our paper is out and is open access! Phosphate amendment drives bloom of RNA viruses after soil wet-up.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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@jeffinerca.bsky.social
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Phosphate amendment drives bloom of RNA viruses after soil wet-up
Soil rewetting after a dry period results in a surge of activity and succession in both microbial and DNA virus communities. Less is known about the r…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071725000847?via%3Dihub
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Graeme Nicol
Soil Microbial Ecology Group
6 months ago
Great week teaching DNA-SIP and participating in a workshop on microbial ecology and biogeochemistry at ESALQ, Uni São Paulo. Great research and hospitality! Thank you
@lucascanisares.bsky.social
, Tsai Siu Mui, Maurício Roberto Cherubin,
@agenciafapesp.bsky.social
and CCARBON/USP for hosting us!
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Graeme Nicol
Soil Microbial Ecology Group
7 months ago
Our perspective on soil virus ecology research is out! Fantastic collab with
@christinahazard.bsky.social
@karthik-a.bsky.social
@lukehillary.bsky.social
@urineri.bsky.social
@simrouxvirus.bsky.social
@gtrubl.bsky.social
@KurtWilliams
@jeffinerca.bsky.social
@graemenicol.bsky.social
@JoanneEmerson
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Beneath the surface: Unsolved questions in soil virus ecology
Soil virus ecology is an exciting but still nascent field of research in soil microbiology. While there has been a recent surge in soil virus research…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071725000732
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Chris Greening
10 months ago
New life goal unlocked! Getting to work on marsupials, including kangaroos, koalas, and my all time faves, wombats. Privileged to help on this great UQ-led study showing differences in hydrogen cycling and electron flow explain low methane emissions in marsupials.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Metagenomic analysis of marsupial gut microbiomes provides a genetic basis for the low methane economy
The potent greenhouse gas methane is an end-product of plant biomass digestion by gut microbiota, though the amount produced and/or released varies among herbivorous animals. On a per unit of feed bas...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.04.626884v1
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Graeme Nicol
Emily Solly
10 months ago
Are you interested in soils, microbes and biogeochemistry? Join us at
#EGU25
for session SSS4.5 ‚Soil microbial responses to climate change‘. With
@loutsi.bsky.social
@albertocanarini.bsky.social
and Albert Brangarí we are thrilled to have
@ashish-malik.bsky.social
as solicited keynote speaker!
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Nice to see the formatted paper out in the wild. New ISME Journal paper by Sungeun Lee describing the use of differential inhibition to identify novel active virus families infecting soil nitrifiers.
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
10 months ago
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Ashish Malik
10 months ago
📢New paper in ISME Journal: 7 years in the making spanning three affiliations. Really excited to present a trait analysis in populations. Bacterial population-level trade-offs between drought tolerance and resource acquisition traits impact decomposition
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
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Graeme Nicol
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
11 months ago
In June 2025 we are hosting
#ICoN9
– the 9th
#International
#Conference
on
#Nitrification
and Related
#Processes
! These are our invited speakers. Stay tuned for more news!
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