@utrechtpmi.bsky.social VICI! The Plant-Microbe Interactions group will hug this guy to pieces! Roeland Berendsen received a prestigious VICI grant from NWO (Dutch Research Council). Congrats Roeland! Looking forward to some very nice #NPEC experiments!
For more: lnkd.in/eyr9a-tP

Really nice work from @jellespooren.bsky.social showing that disease-suppressive soils might sometimes be generated in the phyllosphere. Turning the concept of soilborne legacies upside down 🌱🦠 With @cornepieterse.bsky.social @svanwees.bsky.social and others @utrechtpmi.bsky.social

And so it was! Great defense, great thesis. #ProudSupervisor

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Jelle Spooren on the cum laude defense of his PhD thesis, "Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes" 🌱🦠 🎓
Thanks to @jurriaanton.bsky.social and @algazuccaro.bsky.social for their thoughtful opposition in the defense and the great talks during the seminar!

Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes

👉research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/plant-dr...

Only a few days left until the deadline...

We have a vacancy for a PhD position with our recently started PMI PI @arsheed-sheikh.bsky.social at Utrecht University. Please apply via: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

@rlberendsen.bsky.social kicks off a day of science starting with @jurriaanton.bsky.social on immune memory in plants.

Looking forward to it!

Happy to announce that NWO funded a project in which @cornepieterse.bsky.social and my team will explore the ancient links between rapid #auxin signaling and immune responses. My first careful steps in the plant-microbe interactions community…

www.nwo.nl/en/news/twen...

Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social

Bioinformatics Postdoc at UU/WUR: Map Metabolic Interactions in the Rhizosphere Contribute to plant health and our understanding of the metabolic interactions between microbes and plants in the rhizosphere by computational modelling!

We have an opening for a 4-year postdoc position to study the #rhizosphere #microbiome in @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social, joint project with @marnixmedema.bsky.social in the context of MiCRop. Please tag/forward this to potential candidates and/or repost: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

We have a vacancy for a PhD position with our recently started PMI PI @arsheed-sheikh.bsky.social at Utrecht University. Please apply via: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

The plant microbiome starter pack is far from complete. Let us know if you want to be on it! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

Inaugural lecture by Saskia van Wees: "Plants are anything but defenceless creatures" Saskia van Wees investigates the intricacies of plant resistance and the role plant hormones play in these processes. Today, she delivers her inaugural lecture.

Yesterday, our dear colleague Saskia van Wees delivered her inaugural address, 'Plants are anything but defenceless creatures'. A fascinating exploration of plant resilience, hormones and innovation. 🌱 Read more: www.uu.nl/en/news/inau... #Science #uubeta #UtrechtUniversity #Plants

With at the approving eye of founding mother of our group, Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961), Sietske van Bentum received her PhD diploma @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Happy supervisors @rlberendsen.bsky.social and Peter Bakker! For Peter, Sietske was the last successful delivery.... Thanks Peter!

Sietske van Bentum PhD defence

We're super proud of Doctor Sietske van Bentum! A more than outstanding defence of her thesis 'Disease-associated shifts in the rhizosphere microbiome: towards a soy-borne legacy'

Greetings back from Utrecht!

Utrecht PMI is on Bluesky!

Uitzending - Plantenlaboratorium Om ervoor te zorgen dat iedereen op de aardbol genoeg te eten heeft zullen we heel slim met ons voedsel om moeten gaan. Tirsa gaat naar een hightech plantenlaboratorium in Utrecht. Daar wordt uitvoeri...

First steps on Bluesky.... Let's test how it works by re-sharing Klokhuis Dutch national kids TV broadcast on our Netherlands Plant Ecophenotyping Centre: hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzendin... #PlantScience