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Alanna Leale

@alannaleale.bsky.social

microbial community ecology & evolution 🧫🦠 Current - postdoc: EPFL Valais Wallis 🏔️❄️ PhD: Wageningen University🥛🍷 lover of tea, cheese, chocolate, cold water swims 🫖🧀🍫🌊 (she/her)

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Alanna Leale @alannaleale.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm happy to share a new perspective paper, with co-author Sijmen Schoustra, which grew out of my PhD at WUR Laboratory of Genetics. ☺️ 🦠A big thank you to my former colleagues for the motivating discussions and invaluable feedback over the years! academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

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An experimental outlook on investigating temporal-scale dynamics of microbial communities

Environments in nature harbour complex species communities [1], which are known to respond to environmental changes, such as climate change and shifts in a

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Alanna Leale @alannaleale.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

MACE Lab at EPFL in Sion is looking for a Molecular Biology and Microbiology technician at 40-60% 🏔️ ❄️ 🦠 🧫 🧬 careers.epfl.ch/job/Sion-Mol...

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Molecular Biology and Microbiology Technician

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Alanna Leale @alannaleale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Now in Oikos! 😊🧪🦠🌟 "Shifts and rebound in microbial community function following repeated introduction of a novel species" w/ F. Reyes Marquez, B. Zwaan, E. Smid, S. Schoustra doi.org/10.1111/oik....

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Shifts and rebound in microbial community function following repeated introduction of a novel species

Natural microbial communities continually encounter novel species that may successfully establish or simply be transient, yet both outcomes can alter the resident community composition and function. ...

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