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fungal ecologist loving soil science
- My colleague Christian Poll offers a PhD position in our group at University of Hohenheim, we would be glad if you share this opportunity with potential candidates. His project EcoFuture KAP4 is an interesting collaborative project with University of Tübingen. dbges.de/assets/Uploa...
- Please join us at #ICOM2026 in Cairns, Australia, this summer. @anthomycota.bsky.social and me are organising a special session on mycorrhizae and biogeochemical cycles at the International Conference on Mycorrhiza (Session 23, icom2026.org). Abstract submission is open until February 28, 2026.
- Congratulations to Sophia Kaschper on her first article published, based on her excellent master thesis 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/1365... How can we translate individual traits to functions in a community context? Functional traits do not simply add up, all interactions within the community are unique.
- Excellent study by Yolima Carrillo how fungal traits relate to necromass mineralization. Necromass mineralization (13C labeling) did not only depend on fungal melanin and C:N contents, but also reduced native soil carbon mineralization by negative priming onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by did:plc:tcqje32kjutt4bqmmukavxo4Check out our new paper, Multilevel selection informs context-dependent mycorrhizal functioning! This is my very first first-authored publication, and I worked w some incredible folks to make it happen: @meafkhami.bsky.social @balachaudhary.bsky.social and Nancy Johnson! doi.org/10.3389/frmb...
- Reposted by did:plc:tcqje32kjutt4bqmmukavxo4Pyrophilous fungi are fungal species that thrive after wildfire. A genetic analysis of this group uncovered an ecologically important tradeoff between fast growth and the ability to break down post-fire aromatic carbon compounds. In PNAS: ow.ly/1A2P50XVxZc
- Join us at #EGU26 in Vienna for our session SSS4.2 on microbial physiology, co-organized with @jpausch.bsky.social and @aguilart.bsky.social, featuring @edithhammer.bsky.social as Invited Speaker - meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio... Deadline for abstract submissions is 15th of January.
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- Happy to share this big piece on saprobic fungal traits and soil carbon cycling. Great collaboration in the SPP SoilSystems @dfg.de , with Damien Finn, Sören Thiele-Bruhn, Denise Vonhoegen, @mrillig.bsky.social and many others contributing to the study. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Looks like a very useful tool, congrats to the group of Fernanda Pinheiro. A parallel R package would be nice :)
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- This is awesome work on fungal lignin breakdown. And I like this "simplified" overview graph of lignin breakdown. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Alptekin et al. suggest glomalin is a carbohydrate - glomalose. I wonder how this is different from EPS? nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- The Raunkiæran shortfalls to trait ecology. Great read on the limitations of trait concepts, and solutions. Led by Francesco de Bello esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Very important topic on the functional significance of AM root colonization nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- And congratulations to Yongxing Cui to this global analysis of microbial nutrient limitations, just published in @pnas.org Thank you for the fun collaboration
- In case somebody is still here, getting really quiet in blue skies.. There is some new research on EPS production under different resource conditions in bacteria and fungi, led by Rebeca Leme Oliva. Great collaboration with Rainer Joergensen bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
- Wind dispersal shapes fungal communities, especially mushroom forming species. Nice study design by Peter Pellitier and @mykophile.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- When thinking about soil microbial necromass composition and biomarker significance, having good knowledge of microbial cell wall composition is crucial. Another great review on the fungal cell wall by Neil Gow www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Nice take on SynComms by Delgado-Baquerizo et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- So true
- Reposted by did:plc:tcqje32kjutt4bqmmukavxo4www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Should we all be evaluating how we can better measure AM fungal colonisation? It should be very informative right? But is it? Probably depends what you're after. How well does it predict plant outcomes?
- Reposted by did:plc:tcqje32kjutt4bqmmukavxo4RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...
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- Such an amazing study 👍
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- Such nice examples of creative processes in science. And a fun podcast 👍
- Short reminder to everyone. Deadline for EGU abstract submissions is the 15th, still two days, easy 😅 #EGU25
- Do you like soil, microbes and beautiful cities? Join us at #EGU25 in Vienna for our session SSS4.1 "Microbial physiology shapes soil biogeochemical processes across scales". Organized with @edithhammer.bsky.social and @kaleklett.bsky.social. Happy to welcome François Maillard as invited speaker
- besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Interesting question addressed by the group of @j-karst.bsky.social
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- Time to sort your conferences for next year. #EGU25 abstract submission deadline is the 15th of January. Come join us 🦠
- Do you like soil, microbes and beautiful cities? Join us at #EGU25 in Vienna for our session SSS4.1 "Microbial physiology shapes soil biogeochemical processes across scales". Organized with @edithhammer.bsky.social and @kaleklett.bsky.social. Happy to welcome François Maillard as invited speaker
- Reposted by did:plc:tcqje32kjutt4bqmmukavxo4My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990
- Very interesting outreach article in the "Berliner Zeitung" by @joanabergmann.bsky.social and her team. German peatlands as carbon sinks www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metro...
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- Do you like soil, microbes and beautiful cities? Join us at #EGU25 in Vienna for our session SSS4.1 "Microbial physiology shapes soil biogeochemical processes across scales". Organized with @edithhammer.bsky.social and @kaleklett.bsky.social. Happy to welcome François Maillard as invited speaker
- Here is the link meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... EGU25 takes place from 27 April–2 May 2025, abstract submission deadline will be 15th of Jan 2025. Please be aware that the deadline for support applications is already the 2nd of December.
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- Such a happy moment we have been working on for so long. Our article "Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi" is now online, open access, in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41... based on trait data the whole @mrillig group collected since 2014
- You can now find our study presenting refined conversion factors for soil fungal biomarkers online - open access link.springer.com/article/10.1... Sven Marhan, Stefan Hempel and others from DFG SPP_SoilSystems
- This interesting study led by Rebeca Oliva and Rainer Joergensen just came out. It shows that the amino sugars galactosamine and mannosamine represent potential biomarkers for microbial EPS in soil (DFG SPP SoilSystems) academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
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- Interesting concepts to connect carbon-use and energy-use efficiency in soil microbes. Structural carbon can be recycled, while energy can only be used once and is needed constantly. Wang & Kuzyakov onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
