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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Shravan Sharma Parunandi Parunandi delivered a talk in the Sustainability Session and earned hashtag#3rd_place in the student competition. We are proud of your achievement! Dr. Gayan Abeysinghe gave a talk and Dr. Tanya Wagner shared a poster in the Disease Council.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Starting 2026 on a strong note at the Beltwide Cotton Conference! Antony-Babu Lab was represented at the Beltwide Cotton Conference in San Antonio, TX, with contributions spanning sustainability and disease-focused sessions. #BeltwideCottonConference #CottonResearch #StudentSuccess #PlantPathology

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Congratulations to all members of the BNI Team, including Dr. Sanjay Antony Babu, Dr. Nithya Rajan, Dr. Muthukumar Bagavathiannan, Dr. William Rooney, Dr. Sakiko Okumoto, Dr. Shuyu Liu, on this well-deserved honor.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Since 2015, the team has built strong global partnerships and secured major competitive funding, including a multi-million-dollar effort to develop crops that thrive with lower nitrogen inputs.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The BNI Team brings together expertise across plant breeding, soil science, agronomy, and microbiology to advance a natural plant trait biological nitrification inhibition that helps retain nitrogen in soils, reduce fertilizer losses, and support more sustainable cropping systems.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We’re proud to share that Dr. Sanjay Antony Babu is part of the Texas A&M Biological Nitrification Inhibition (BNI) Team, which has been recognized with a Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence from Texas A&M AgriLife. #TexasAM #AgriLife #TeamScience #SustainableAgriculture #SoilHealth

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Congratulations to our undergraduate intern Joshua Santos for winning 1st Place at the #BESC_Symposium Poster Session #TAMU #PLPM 🎉 Josh presented an innovative #hyphal-baiting_method to study #hyphosphere-bacteria associated with #FOV4. Mentors: Dr. Gayan Abeysinghe & Dr. Sanjay Antony-Babu.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Great Mini Symposium at Texas A&M PLPM with delegates from National Taiwan University and Chung-Hsing University. From the #AntonyBabu_Lab, Dr. Esaú Camarillo presented machine-learning guided synthetic microbial communities for pollutant degradation. #TAMU #MachineLearning #SyntheticBiology

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We kicked off sampling at Stiles Farm, part of the Texas Water Observatory, uniting hydrology, biogeochemistry, and microbiology to develop a framework predicting how water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles interact across landscapes for sustainable land and water management.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Antony-Babu lab’s role focuses on microbial communities; how soil microbes respond to wet-dry cycles, redox shifts, and landscape heterogeneity, and how those microbial “ecotraits” help scale biogeochemical processes from individual pores to whole watersheds.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

In this collaboration, led by Dr. Binayak P. Mohanty, our lab joins forces with the Mohanty lab and Dr. Salvatore Calabrese’s group.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We’re excited to announce the launch of a new collaborative project funded by NSF titled “Multiscale Eco-Structures Linking Soil Water, Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling”. #Antony-Babu_Lab #Biogeochemistry #SoilHealth #EcosystemScience #MicrobialEcology #CollaborativeResearch

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We’re delighted to share that Antony-Babu Lab proudly represented at the 9th Texas A&M Postdoctoral Symposium. Dr. Gayan Abeysinghe and Dr. Esaú De la Vega-Camarillo showcased the breadth and impact of research excellence emerging from our group. #TAMU #PostdocSymposium #ResearchCommunity #ABLab

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

#Looking_Ahead This study spotlights Pseudomonas as a pivotal member of the #hyphosphere_pathobiome, suggesting a broader perspective on plant disease, highlighting microbial network interactions in determining outcomes and inform targeted interventions beyond “one-pathogen” strategies.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

#Insights_Gained Early recruitment and dominance of Pseudomonas comprising >95% of the community. Hyphal association in action, revealing active spatial colonisation. Metabarcoding and correlation analyses indicated competitive exclusion within the hyphosphere coinciding with Pseudomonas dominance.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

#Our_Approach We combined confocal time-lapse microscopy, 16S rRNA metabarcoding, culture-dependent isolation, whole-genome sequencing, and co-culture assays to characterize hyphosphere dynamics

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

#Why_It_Matters FOV4 is among the most devastating soil-borne pathogens in cotton. Traditional disease models focus on the pathogen. Our findings show that disease outcomes are shaped by hyphosphere-associated bacteria, shifting the paradigm from single-pathogen to community-driven pathogenesis.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

#Key_Concept We demonstrate that the hyphosphere of Fusarium wilt Race 4 (FOV4) is not a neutral microbial niche but a pathobiome hotspot, overwhelmingly dominated by Pseudomonas. Our work reframes plant disease as an outcome of microbial partnerships between pathogens and their bacterial associates

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

New Publication Alert: We are back with one more publication in our Fusarium pathobiome series, in #Frontiers_in_Microbiology. We demonstrate the genetic potential and the growth effect of a stable core microbiome of Fusarium wilt. Thanks to all the collaborators. Read more; doi.org/10.3389/fmic...

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

We congratulate them on their new roles, Ilksen as a Lead Research Scientist at #NewLife_Biosciences LLC, and Lucia as a Laboratory Assistant at Little Beakers Science Lab for Kids.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A heartfelt farewell to İlksen Topcu, Ph.D., and Lucia Gonzalez Rodriguez as they move forward in their careers. Wishing you both continued success and happiness ahead! 🌟 #LabLife #NewBeginnings #CareerMilestones

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

We bid farewell to two wonderful colleagues, Dr. Vanessa Thomas and Dr. Amanda Quattrone as they move forward in their careers. They have been instrumental in advancing our research on plant health and microbiomes. We know they will continue to make meaningful contributions to science and beyond.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

#Looking_Ahead The implications extend far beyond this single pathosystem. Plant disease, as our findings underscore, is rarely the consequence of a solitary pathogen. It emerges from the complex interplay of microbial communities that shape both resilience and susceptibility.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

#Insights_Gained Microbial dysbiosis often precedes visible disease symptoms, highlighting early warning signs within the microbiome. Most importantly, we found that pathobionts in the hyphosphere can be distinguished as a potentially distinct pathobiome within the broader dysbiosis community.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

#Our_Approach We integrated microbiome analyses, disease ecology concepts, and pathobiome frameworks to analyze how microbial community dynamics influence the development of Fusarium wilt TR4.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

#Why_It_Matters Fusarium wilt TR4 threatens one of the world’s most important food crops: banana. Highlights how microbiome perspectives looking beyond the pathogen to the entire microbial community can provide new strategies to mitigate this global threat.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Key Concept Highlight We distinguish between microbial dysbiosis and the pathobiome in the context of banana Fusarium wilt (TR4). Understanding this distinction can reshape how we view plant health decline.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Grateful to my collaborators Vanessa E. Thomas, Gayan Abeysinghe, Paul K. Goetze and Young-Ki Jo. We explore how rethinking plant-microbiome interactions can inform strategies to address one of the most pressing challenges in global banana production.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Excited to share our latest publication! “The Distinguished Microbiome: Differentiating Microbial Dysbiosis and the Pathobiome of Banana Fusarium Tropical Race 4”, is now published in Phytobiomes Journal. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1094/PBIO...

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A huge congratulations to @ilksentt.bsky.social on successfully completing her PhD! We are incredibly proud of her accomplishments and look forward to seeing the impact she will continue to make in her field and beyond. #PhDGraduation #AcademicExcellence #NextChapter

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Exciting news from the @santonyb.bsky.social Lab! 🎉 Our high school intern, Arun Muthukumar will join UT Austin this fall to study Electrical & Computer Engineering. We are proud of his contributions and eager to see all the amazing things he will achieve #TAMU #PLPM #UTAustin #AntonyBabuLab #STEM

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Sanjay Antony-Babu @santonyb.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Thanks @plantdisease.bsky.social and everyone who participated in the discussion.

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🌱 At #PlantHealth2025, we’re going beyond pathogens Join our IDEA CAFÉ: Beyond Pathogens: Rethinking Microbial Dynamics in Plant Health Decline On August 5th, 10.00 – 10.45 AM #IdeaCafe #APS #Microbiomes #PlantPathology #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobialEcology #Dysbiosis #Pathobionts #Hyphosphere

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Antony-Babu Lab @Texas A&M @antony-babu-lab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Two of our undergraduate summer interns presented their work at the #IPMB2025 #PLPM poster session. Congratulations Victor Fraga and Saurav Mathur for your hardwork throughout your summer #REEU. @santonyb.bsky.social #microbiomes #pathobiomes #syncoms #PFAS #atrazin

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