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Charles Warren

@charlesrwarren.bsky.social
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Plant and soil scientist @ University of Sydney. interested in metabolomics, mass spectrometry and everything plants and soil

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Charles Warren @charlesrwarren.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Just published in Plant & Soil we explored how mucilage affects microbial survival and respiration over a dry-rewet cycle. Read more: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/AxuGC4QOPEim…
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Charles Warren @charlesrwarren.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I’m excited to announce Sydney Plant Ecophys Group is hosting two talks 16 April from 4PM (Australian Eastern time) Thomas Roberts: Australian native grass seeds as indigenous grains & Shreya Veeravelli: NSC storage & allocation in almond crops sydneyplantecophysiologygroup.wordpress.com/talks/
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Sydney Plant Ecophysiology Group (SPEG)
Sydney Plant Ecophysiology (SPEG)
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Charles Warren @charlesrwarren.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It was great to contribute to paper led by Tsai-Hsuan Tony Hsu on fish corallivory. Turns out storage lipids may play a role in resilience of corals to chronic butterflyfish predation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Behavioural, physiological, and biochemical responses of two species of scleractinian coral to butterflyfish predation
The negative effects of coral loss on fish assemblages are well established, particularly for obligate corallivores. In contrast, the impacts of coral…
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Charles Warren @charlesrwarren.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Paper led by by @bahar (not on Bluesky) is methodological tour de force: 13C labelling, mass spec, NEXAFS. Nitrogen availability alters the contribution of ex-vivoand in-vivo pathways to carbon formation in particulate- and mineral-associated organic matter www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Nitrogen availability alters the contribution of ex-vivo and in-vivo pathways to carbon formation in particulate- and mineral-associated organic matter
Soil carbon (C) sequestration depends on the formation of particulate- and mineral-associated organic matter (POM and MAOM). These soil organic matter…
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Aaron Greenville @aarongreenville.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
PhD opportunity: Maximising the resilience of grasslands in an age of rapid environmental change Brief Project Summary: This project aims to address the significant knowledge gap of how species composition may change due to extreme rainfall events (droughts and flooding rainfall), grazing and…
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PhD opportunity: Maximising the resilience of grasslands in an age of rapid environmental change
Brief Project Summary: This project aims to address the significant knowledge gap of how species composition may change due to extreme rainfall events (droughts and flooding rainfall), grazing and nutrient addition, and in-turn, quantify the loss of ecosystem function resulting from species turnover. Further, this project will identify species that contribute the most to function.
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Charles Warren @charlesrwarren.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I moved into a “new” #lab last week. A welcome surprise is finding I’m not the oldest thing in the lab. Case in point: Schott bottle labelled 9/5/71
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Charles Warren @charlesrwarren.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I’m excited to announce Sydney Plant Ecophys Group is hosting two talks 9 Dec from 4PM (Australian Eastern summer time) Andrew Merchant: plant source-sink dynamics using low field NMR & Davide Siclari: thermal metrics in a warming climate sydneyplantecophysiologygroup.wordpress.com/talks/
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Sydney Plant Ecophysiology Group (SPEG)
Sydney Plant Ecophysiology (SPEG)
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Charles Warren @charlesrwarren.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We’ve all seen pictures of weird #genAI images, well #biochem images are equally confused. Copilot offered to draw isocitrate to ketoglutarate. It failed!
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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 12/05/2025
⚒️ Article: Microbial physiology conserves phosphorus by reducing phosphorus contributions in membrane lipids and increasing intracellular carbon storage during long-term ecosystem development @charlesrwarren.bsky.social @manzonilab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Microbial physiology conserves phosphorus across long-term ecosystem development - Nature Geoscience
Microbial physiology conserves phosphorus by reducing phosphorus contributions in membrane lipids and increasing intracellular carbon storage during long-term ecosystem development, according to measu...
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Charles Warren @charlesrwarren.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We're hiring! 3 year #postdoc position in microbial ecology of gut and soil at University of Sydney. Suits folk with expertise in experimental microbial ecology (e.g. microbiome manipulation, chemostat measurements, metabolomics, metagenomics) tinyurl.com/4yn4ed5u
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Microbial Ecology
Full time, 3-year fixed term position. Located at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences on the Camperdown Campus Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research and collaborate with leading...
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Charles Warren @charlesrwarren.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We investigated heat tolerance mechanisms of sorghum genotypes differing in heat tolerance. Spoiler: there are multiple constitutive and inducible responses, thus multiple targets for breeding. t.co/YijVjjotu6
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https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/doi/10.1093/jxb/erae506/7928822
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Charles Warren @charlesrwarren.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Out now. Orpheus Butler used root splitting to determine if #soil #microbial biomass is affected by #plant nutrient status. Spoiler: microbial P is lower when plants are P limited. rdcu.be/d8xjK
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Microbial phosphorus in loamy, basalt-derived forest soil is altered by plant nutritional status: a root-splitting study
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Charles Warren @charlesrwarren.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Paper published by PhD student Bright Amenkhienan: Understanding extractable metal species relationships with #phosphorus sorption and #organiccarbon in #soils www.publish.csiro.au/SR/SR24118
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Understanding extractable metal species relationships with phosphorus sorption and organic carbon in soils
Context Iron and aluminium oxides are important in phosphate sorption capacity of soils and preservation of soil organic carbon (SOC). However, there is a complex interplay between among Fe/Al oxides,...
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