Super proud to be part of this brilliant team. Check out this new paper and cool journal cover!

@unibirmingham.bsky.social @imibirmingham.bsky.social @marccamb.bsky.social @drcarriebrady.bsky.social @cenococcum.bsky.social @alejandra1909.bsky.social

Do go and check out this tour de force by @alejandra1909.bsky.social and @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social where we isolated a HUGE number of microorganisms from the oak microbiome in the UK. Impressive work and talent from Ale!

Large-scale culturing of the tree microbiome enables targeted disease suppression The tree microbiome is essential for host health and pathogen suppression. Synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) are emerging as important tools to understand microbiome dynamics and engineer micr...

🧵 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...

Go and check out the pre-print of the landscape-scale tree microbiome study from the Future Oak project. Huge amounts of efforts and talent went into this work, with a pinch of "this is crazy, but we can do it". Well done @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social @cenococcum.bsky.social et al. Thread below 👇

Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities Trees are essential to ecosystems in both natural and urban environments, yet they are increasingly threatened by abiotic and biotic stresses linked t…

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!

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Go and check out the great review by @xinmingxu.bsky.social and collaborators in this issue, and also shout-out to @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social for supporting amazing science art actually made by a real humans and not AI!

Many thanks @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social & @marccamb.bsky.social for the hospitality and organising everything so nicely for our visit. I had a great time! I look forward to continuing our tree-microbe discussions, with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social & @xinmingxu.bsky.social
Hope to see you soon!
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Really nice talk on developing synthetic microbial communities for plant growth (with a fantastic title slide!) by @xinmingxu.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #BhamLeidenpartnership

@a-gthy.bsky.social

Discussing about plants in the Winterbourne garden during our collaboration visit at University of Birmingham
#BirminghamLeidenCollaboration

-with @marccamb.bsky.social @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social & @xinmingxu.bsky.social

"How do you call this plant in 🇫🇷, 🇵🇹, 🇨🇳, 🇬🇧, or 🇭🇺?"

I am a bit late, but very proud of the achievements of Dr. Hussain who was my first co-supervised PhD researcher and brilliantly passed his viva. Well done Usman for processing thousands of samples to bring some fascinating insights on the resilience of oak tree microbiomes.

Thank you @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social for such a great organisation and everyone for the fantastic discussions. I even managed to visit Amsterdam Microbe Museum before catching my train! Looking forward to hosting you, @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social and Xinming in Birmingham !

It was a great day in Leiden today, with lots of cool science talks and future collaborations discussions. Thanks @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social and team for organising this mini symposium, and looking forward to more discussions tomorrow

Evaluating Agar-Plating and Dilution-to-Extinction Isolation Methods for Generating Oak-Associated Microbial Culture Collections Abstract. Microbial isolation methods are crucial for producing comprehensive microbial culture collections that reflect the richness and diversity of natu

Evaluating Agar-Plating and Dilution-to-Extinction Isolation Methods for Generating Oak-Associated Microbial Culture Collections

#ISMEComms from @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social

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Another great outcome for @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social's group with prizes for best talk and best poster with @alejandra1909.bsky.social 🥳🥳. Plus the next MMEG to be held in Birmingham! #MMEG2024

It's so nice being back at #MMEG2024 in Southampton finally presenting the results of our study in insect-bacteria interactions @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social @gathomas12.bsky.social

On our way to #MMEG2024 in Southampton. Looking forward to two days of exciting science! @marccamb.bsky.social

MMEG: Molecular Microbial Ecology Group 2024

MMEG: Molecular Microbial Ecology Group 2024, 16-17 Dec, Southampton.

Always a great meeting for PhD students and post-docs.

It is a privilege to be at the first ISME conference held on the African continent in Cape Town! Please come and have a chat if you are interested in bacteria-insect interactions and missed my presentation. #isme19

The picture shows a laptop with the NFDI4Microbiota Logo and a coffee mug.

📢 Join us for the next NFDI4Microbiota Coffee Talk on 26 August 2024 with Thomas Clavel from RWTH University Hospital, Aachen with a talk about "Microbiome Research Data Through the Lens of (Anaerobic) Cultivation." 🕒26 August| 02:30 PM| CEST |Online Meeting-ID: 633 6649 6382, Code: 490003