Really nice work from @jellespooren.bsky.social showing that disease-suppressive soils might sometimes be generated in the phyllosphere. Turning the concept of soilborne legacies upside down 🌱🦠 With @cornepieterse.bsky.social @svanwees.bsky.social and others @utrechtpmi.bsky.social

@y-song.bsky.social doing a great job at explaining the importance of the potato microbiome at the @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social microbiome day! Hoping the medical and veterinary microbiome scientists in the audience enjoy the change in perspective.

🔬 Exciting #JournalClub in our group today by @nielsaerts.bsky.social! We discussed the immense and multilayered complexity of hormonal cross-regulation in plant immunity, based on this preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🌿🧬A must-read for those fascinated by plant defense and signaling!

Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting journal club by @mpapadopoulou.bsky.social about www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Evidence for the promotion of specific microbial ecological clusters to increase soybean plant fitness in response to nutrient deficiency. Also interesting for microbiomes4soy.eu

We continue to build the Plant Microbiome Starter Pack. Please let us know if you or others are missing! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

Great talk by Heribert Hert on microbiomes in relation to drought resistance, regreening strategies and the orphan crop Fonio microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

And so it was! Great defense, great thesis. #ProudSupervisor

Symposium in celebration of the PhD defense of @gijsselten.bsky.social is of course kicked off by @gijsselten.bsky.social following intro by @dejongepmi.bsky.social!

@gijsselten.bsky.social demonstrated that plants select bacterial functions using a SuperSynCom (1000 strains)

Next up: Simon Radutoiu about the role of LysM receptors in symbiosis between legumes and rhizobia

Maria Suarez Diez (WUR) about constraint-based modelling of SynComs: already complex with a SynCom of three!

Great line up before the PhD defense of @gijsselten.bsky.social: now Ruben Garrido-Oter on experimental evolution on the plant

Five years of hard work has paid off! 🎉 What a nice new year surprise—we made it to the cover of Nature Microbiology! 🌟 Acknowledgment to all co-authors and specially Elisa Atza for producing this cover image!

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Jelle Spooren on the cum laude defense of his PhD thesis, "Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes" 🌱🦠 🎓 Thanks to @jurriaanton.bsky.social and @algazuccaro.bsky.social for their thoughtful opposition in the defense and the great talks during the seminar!

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great journal club bij @gijsselten.bsky.social about www.nature.com/articles/s42... showing how to get passed the linear limitations of traditional methods in microbiome research!

Short on time? Read the Research Briefing for a short overview of the paper by @rlberendsen.bsky.social @y-song.bsky.social here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OUT NOW: The seed tuber microbiome can predict future growth of potato varieties in the field 🥔🦠🌱 @rlberendsen.bsky.social @y-song.bsky.social & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New RESEARCH BRIEFING - Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome By Yang Song & Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social

The plant microbiome starter pack is far from complete. Let us know if you want to be on it! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

We have a vacancy for a PhD position with our recently started PMI PI @arsheed-sheikh.bsky.social at Utrecht University. Please apply via: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

We have an opening for a 4-year postdoc position to study the #rhizosphere #microbiome in @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social, joint project with @marnixmedema.bsky.social in the context of MiCRop. Please tag/forward this to potential candidates and/or repost: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

I tried to make a bioml starter pack. DM if you want me to add or remove you? go.bsky.app/2VWBcCd

Yesterday, our dear colleague Saskia van Wees delivered her inaugural address, 'Plants are anything but defenceless creatures'. A fascinating exploration of plant resilience, hormones and innovation. 🌱 Read more: www.uu.nl/en/news/inau... #Science #uubeta #UtrechtUniversity #Plants

It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're super proud of Doctor Sietske van Bentum! A more than outstanding defence of her thesis 'Disease-associated shifts in the rhizosphere microbiome: towards a soy-borne legacy'

The plant microbiome starter pack is far from complete. Let us know if you want to be on it! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

Great journal club today! @sophievijverberg.bsky.social guided us through an exciting Nature Microbiol paper by Karasov et al., exploring the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere microbiome across Europe. A valuable resource for the plant microbiome field: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Digging up Europe! 🌍🪱 The UUPMI - Microbiomes4Soy team just collected 100 soil samples from soybean fields across five countries. Why? To unlock the secrets of soil microbiomes for better crops! Stay tuned for some 'ground-breaking' discoveries! 🌱🔬 #Microbiomes4Soy #plantmicrobiome

First steps on Bluesky.... Let's test how it works by re-sharing Klokhuis Dutch national kids TV broadcast on our Netherlands Plant Ecophenotyping Centre: hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzendin... #PlantScience

Utrecht PMI is on Bluesky!

Utrecht PMI is on Bluesky!