First paper from Nea’s PhD is out! DOC and ultra-small bacteria in thawing palsa and palsa ponds.

In 2026 the focus will be on those ultra-small microbes 🦠

End of the field season in our @koneensaatio.fi funded project — exciting times ahead as we start analyzing the data! @luke.fi

Soil Panel discussion claims ”Empathy for soils” #esm2025

Another day of exciting and enlightning talks and memorable encounters! #esm2025

Spending next week with this wonderful group at the @esmmicrobes.bsky.social in Helsinki!

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Kannanotto: Luonnonvarakeskus vastaa kritiikkiin hiilitaselaskelmista - Metsälehti "Asian käsittely oli yksipuolista ja kritiikki perustui merkittävältä osin tietämättömyyteen ja väärinymmärryksiin."

Tutkijamme laativat Metsälehdelle vastineen Lukessa tehtäviä hiilitaselaskelmia ja niiden taustalla olevaa tutkimusta koskevaan kritiikkiin. "Kritiikki perustui suurelta osin tietämättömyyteen ja väärinymmärryksiin," Juha Mikola ja Paavo Ojanen kirjoittavat. www.metsalehti.fi/artikkelit/k...

Our group’s first study on soil viruses hot off the press! In the work led by @deminatanja.bsky.social we introduce Tunturiviruses from tundra soils.

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We are looking for a grant-funded doctoral resarcher on a project focusing on how tree and shrub expansion into the tundra impact biodiversity and carbon balance @Department of Geosciences and Geography @helsinkiuni.bsky.social! DM me if you are interested, and please share!

Looking forward to #esm2025!

Tunturi virus isolates and metagenome-assembled viral genomes provide insights into the virome of Acidobacteriota in Arctic tundra soils bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

#Acidobacteriota is one of the most abundant bacterial phyla in #soil, yet extremely little is known about their #viruses. New insights into Acidobacteriota-associated #virome in #climate-critical #Arctic #tundra #soils in our preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Discovery of Eremiobacterota with nifH homologues in tundra soil Here we describe Candidatus Lamibacter sapmiensis, a novel population of Eremiobacterota from tundra soil. Gene annotation and metabolic reconstruction suggest that Ca. Lamibacter sapmiensis is able ....

Happy to share our latest work on #tundra #metagenomes. We describe the genome of an Eremiobacterota population from tundra soil that suggests that N2 fixation might also be a part of the metabolic repertoire of this phylum.

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I’m sure I will figure something out. We need to do SIP experiments so you could come and tell us about best practises

Lukessa zoomataan tieteelle tuntemattomiin maaperäeliöihin - DNA- ja RNA-menetelmillä päästää...

First of December and my Research council of Finland funded project on N cycling in the Arctic started with full speed. Here some news in Finnish