I moved into a “new” #lab last week. A welcome surprise is finding I’m not the oldest thing in the lab. Case in point: Schott bottle labelled 9/5/71

I’m excited to announce Sydney Plant Ecophys Group is hosting two talks 9 Dec from 4PM (Australian Eastern summer time) Andrew Merchant: plant source-sink dynamics using low field NMR & Davide Siclari: thermal metrics in a warming climate sydneyplantecophysiologygroup.wordpress.com/talks/

We’ve all seen pictures of weird #genAI images, well #biochem images are equally confused. Copilot offered to draw isocitrate to ketoglutarate. It failed!

⚒️ Article: Microbial physiology conserves phosphorus by reducing phosphorus contributions in membrane lipids and increasing intracellular carbon storage during long-term ecosystem development @charlesrwarren.bsky.social @manzonilab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're hiring! 3 year #postdoc position in microbial ecology of gut and soil at University of Sydney. Suits folk with expertise in experimental microbial ecology (e.g. microbiome manipulation, chemostat measurements, metabolomics, metagenomics) tinyurl.com/4yn4ed5u

We investigated heat tolerance mechanisms of sorghum genotypes differing in heat tolerance. Spoiler: there are multiple constitutive and inducible responses, thus multiple targets for breeding. t.co/YijVjjotu6

Out now. Orpheus Butler used root splitting to determine if #soil #microbial biomass is affected by #plant nutrient status. Spoiler: microbial P is lower when plants are P limited. rdcu.be/d8xjK

Paper published by PhD student Bright Amenkhienan: Understanding extractable metal species relationships with #phosphorus sorption and #organiccarbon in #soils www.publish.csiro.au/SR/SR24118