James McDonald
Prof. of microbial ecology at the University of Birmingham.
Decoding the tree microbiome 🌳🌲. He/him
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- Who’s on their way to #MMEG2025 @unibirmingham.bsky.social today?
- Still time to register for MMEG but book fast to avoid disappointment!
- Great to be part of this work led by our collaborators @gathomas12.bsky.social and Jozsef Vuts @rothamsted.bsky.social
- Reposted by James McDonald📢 New preprint is out on bioRxiv 📢: How much does virome prep influence our view of the human gut virome? Short answer: a lot. Long answer: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Different methods lead to distinct community structures, richness, and major virus-host abundance patterns. 🧵 1/5
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- 🧵 1/ New preprint alert! From the FUTURE OAK project, led by the super talented @alejandra1909.bsky.social Large-scale culturing of the tree microbiome enables targeted disease suppression Here's what we found... 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 2/ Trees rely on their microbiome for health and resilience, but are increasingly impacted by disease. We asked ‘can we engineer these microbial communities to fight disease?’ 🌳🦠.
- 🧵 New preprint alert! From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 2/ Trees rely on their microbiome for health and resilience, but are increasingly impacted by disease. We asked ‘can we engineer these microbial communities to fight disease?’ 🌳🦠.
- Had a great week at #PSM2025 - excellent science, great organisation, and super friendly people. Really enjoyed presenting our work on the oak microbiome and leaving here with lots of ideas for future work and collaborations. Thanks @vcarryon.bsky.social & team for organising @microsos.bsky.social
- A pause on the live posts from @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social as he is on stage giving the next presentation at #PSM2025 on single species and community living of Bacillus on plants @microsos.bsky.social
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- @vcarryon.bsky.social opening #PSM2025
- Great to be at #PMS2025 in Malaga. Looking forward to 5 days of science and giving a presentation on our group’s work on Thursday (session 4)
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- Really Nice work by @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social and colleagues
- MMEG is coming to @unibirmingham.bsky.social in December - look out for some exciting announcements about the programme in the next few weeks! Abstract submission and registration is open 👇🏻
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- Reposted by James McDonaldWe have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III. Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...
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- Check out our new preprint on @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social
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- Had a great day out with the team at Black County Museum yesterday. Lucky to work with such a great group of scientists and people 🌞🍦 @g-thomas.bsky.social @alejandra1909.bsky.social @sophie-e-powell.bsky.social @alexanderwoodley.bsky.social @marccamb.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social
- Really exciting and important tree microbiome paper published in @nature.com ‘A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees’ 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Really pleased to be involved in this exciting project led by @hendrikschaefer.bsky.social !
- Which #methanotrophs drive methane degradation in the #phyllosphere of #trees? This project involves Sinchan Banerjee at Warwick and Professors Yin Chen, James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social and Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social at University of Birmingham www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...
- Wonderful day @bangoruniversity.bsky.social Huge congratulations to Dr. @alejandra1909.bsky.social for passing her viva with minor corrections. Thanks to Carrie Brady and @mojganrabiey.bsky.social for examining and George Turner for chairing. Look out for some cool papers in the near future!
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- New #openaccess opinion piece, the first of our brilliant collaboration with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social @xinmingxu.bsky.social & @marccamb.bsky.social - thanks to @unibirmingham.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social for funding! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Always a great day at @unibirmingham.bsky.social graduation. Congratulations to all of the School of Biosciences 2025 graduates - and great to see Becca get her degree after being an excellent project student in our lab this year 👏
- If you’re at #2025ISMPMI, drop by @alejandra1909.bsky.social ‘s poster. Some really cool results on pathogen suppression using syncoms in trees
