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Corné Pieterse @cornepieterse.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@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

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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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

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Ronnie de Jonge @dejongepmi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🎉 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!

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

👉https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/plant-driven-assembly-of-disease-suppressive-microbiomes

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Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes

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Corné Pieterse @cornepieterse.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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...

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Ronnie de Jonge @dejongepmi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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

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Dolf Weijers @dolfweijers.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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...

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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

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

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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.

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Corné Pieterse @cornepieterse.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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...

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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

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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.

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Corné Pieterse @cornepieterse.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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!

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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'

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Utrecht PMI is on Bluesky!

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