Congratulation, @xinmingxu.bsky.social! Nice to see your review being among the top 10 cited publication of 2024 in Environmental Microbiology! 👏
#Bacillus at #MicrobiomeEcology #InstituteMicrobiologyLeiden

Our review has been published online first a year ago, and later with a cover in the July issue of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social... now above 60 citations!
with @xinmingxu.bsky.social and @neftalyl.bsky.social

#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

The Microbiome Ecology group wishes all a relaxing holiday!

#MicrobiomeEcology at #InstituteofBiologyLeiden / @leidenscience.bsky.social

One more manuscript acceptance letter before the end of 2025! 🎉

Congratulations, @jiyuxie.bsky.social! What a superb story on Bacillus-Trichoderma cooperation to fight against plant pathogen Fusarium

The 4th acceptance letter that I received in 2025 from #ISMEJournal 😀

#MicrobiomeEcology

2025 has been generous with 17 publications in ISME J(3x), Cell Rep(2x), Trends Microbiol, Nat Microbiol, mSystems(2x), Biofilm(2x), Commun Biol, Curr Opin Microbiol, microLIFE, Nucleic Acids Res, Anim Microbiome, FEMS Microbiol Eco

#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology @leidenscience.bsky.social

Nice talk by Xinli on years of work with SQR9 from the role of siderophores (paper coming soon in Cell Reports) and three species interactions in biofilms (preprint coming soon) - all for plant growth promotion
#MicrobiomeEcology

#BGIspatialmicrobiome

Bartje at BGI in Shenzhen for 2 days workshop of Spatial microbiomes

#MicrobiomeEcology
#BartjeAroundTheWorld

Seminar at Nanjing Agricultural University along with @xinmingxu.bsky.social and also joined by Martin Jahn @microscape.bsky.social this time

Thanks to Zhihui Xu and members of his team (Xinli Sun and @jiyuxie.bsky.social) for organizing this event

#MicrobiomeEcology

Nice to see our paper made it to the top 5 most cited publications of ISMEJournal...

published in the January issue of 2022 and 347 citations so far

academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

#MicrobiomeEcology #Bacillus #PlantGrowthPromotion

Glad to share a collaboration with Yicen Lin's group at Kunming University of Science and Technology published in ISME Journal

Synergistic biodegradation of polyethylene by experimentally evolved bacterial biofilms
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Marijan Višić (from our group 🤗) on experimental evolution of Pseudomonas nunensis In5 reveals a ClpX mutation associated with increased fungal inhibition

#LeidenBiology #MicrobiomeEcology

#NIME2025

See our @natmicrobiol.nature.com News&Views on the publication from Yun Chen laboratory

A rapid writing exercise for María Negre Rodríguez, a PhD student in my group

Ecological function of phenazine in soil
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

ISME Journal published our first collaborative paper with Nanjing Agricultural University in 2022, which received 300 citations now (including few citations on preprint version).

Glad to see the interest in Bacillus-Pseudomonas interaction for plant health.

#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Glad to be among the new Senior Editors at #mSystems from 1st July, to engage with #ASM more on systems microbial ecology, host microbiomes, and biofilms

- #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Group retreat with fun during Boerengolf
#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

July issue of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social is now online, with our review by @xinmingxu.bsky.social @neftalyl.bsky.social on Composing a microbial symphony and a matching cover illustration by @lizahaart.bsky.social

#SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

BACELL 2025 in the heart of Amsterdam was attracting over 100 participants

2 presentations and a poster from the #MicrobiomeEcology group at #LeidenBiology, Adele Pioppi, @jingtinyc.bsky.social, María Negre Rodríguez, @microclockerc.bsky.social talk by Jack Dorling from @antdodd.bsky.social
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Now, poster session starts at #BACELL2025

Visit the poster of María Negre Rodríguez presenting a cool screen system for plant-microorganism interactions, a joint project with @xinmingxu.bsky.social in our group on #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Adele Pioppi from our lab is now on the scene at #BACELL2025 presenting on Sorghum-derived flavonoids influence Bacillus growth
#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Small collaboration with Jerko Hrabar at Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split 🇭🇷 published in BMC Animal Microbiome
Prospecting microbiota of Adriatic fish: Bacillus velezensis as a potential probiotic candidate
animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#MicrobiomeEcology

Species turnover within cystic fibrosis lung microbiota is indicative of acute pulmonary exacerbation onset - Microbiome Background Acute pulmonary exacerbations (PEx) are associated with increased morbidity and earlier mortality for people living with cystic fibrosis (pwCF). The most common causes of PEx in CF are by b...

Our new paper out now in Microbiome: Species turnover within #cysticfibrosis lung microbiota is indicative of acute pulmonary exacerbation onset

doi.org/10.1186/s401...

#CF #microbiomeecology #microbiome

4k morning walk with doggie out and in the city + #CollaborativePaperAccepted

#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Group photo update - #MicrobiomeEcology at #InstituteofBiology @leidenscience.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

Congratulations, Dr Stannius, a well deserved PhD title on sociomicrobiology of secondary metabolites

-project within @cemist.bsky.social funded @dg.dk + an external stay at #LeidenBiology of @unileiden.bsky.social

#MicrobiomeEcology

14th PhD from my research group

Happy to see this multi country collaboration published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social led by Polonca and Anna

Ecology of prophage-like elements in Bacillus subtilis at global and local geographical scales
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

#Phage #Bacillussubtilis

#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Few more days left of 2024 and yet another manuscript acceptance email🎉

Congratulations, Rune!

@cemist.bsky.social project funded by #GrundforskFond and finalised at #MicrobiomeEcology of #LeidenBiology

2024 in publications

🙏 to all the enthusiastic group members and collaborators

-in TrendsMicrobiol, ISMEJ (2x), NatureCommun, NatureMicrobiol, EnvironMicrobiol (2x), mSystems, ScientificData, CurrentBiology, Biofilm, PlantScience, PhysiolPlantarum, NAR, NPJBiofilmsMicrobiomes

#MicrobiomeEcology

#LeidenScience Holiday Celebration with #Glühwein and #WarmChocolate
- and #MicrobiomeEcology group of #LeidenBiology

End of the year group activity with bowling and dinner - I am grateful for the “gezelligheid” and the fun to work with and for them
#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Mark your calendar: the 6th Plant Microbiome Symposium will be held at Hotel Antequera, in Antequera, Spain, 3-7 Nov 2025

- organized by @microsos.bsky.social, @vcarryon.bsky.social, @gstringlis.bsky.social, and colleagues

6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com

#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology