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Elze Hesse

@elzehesse.bsky.social
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UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based at the University of Exeter, interested in understanding the ecology and evolution of public goods, cooperation and plant-microbe interactions in metal- polluted soils

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Elze Hesse @elzehesse.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I have a PhD position available within my group co-supervised by Gary Schenk (Queensland) on the use of biomolecules in lithium extraction – www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin.... Please share, and get in touch if interested!
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FEMS Journals @femsjournals.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Microbes grow in spatially structured communities. Bäcker et al. comprehensively synthesize evidence that spatial organization drives microbial ecological and evolutionary processes across scales. #FEMSMicrobiolRev buff.ly/wceLoPr @bramvandijk.bsky.social
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Jordan S. Martin @jsmartin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Strange discovery that an email about inclusive fitness was forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein, with the emailer quoting Jerusalem and comparing themself to Einstein. Are you one of the >100 evolutionary biologists now in the Epstein files? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Graduate School of Environment and Sustainability @exetergses.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Huge opportunity for marine scholarships! 🌊💸🧪 💸 2x £30k scholarships available 🎓 Available to black British students 🐟 Eligible courses: MSc Marine Environmental Management or MSc Marine Vertebrate Ecology & Conservation www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... @exetermarine.bsky.social
de Freitas Scholarship for black British students. Marine masters degree tuition and stipend. Background image shows two students smiling as the paddle in the shoreline of a beach in the south west of England. In the bottom left corner is the University of Exeter Cornwall logo.
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Elze Hesse @elzehesse.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Exciting PhD position on algal-driven metal remediation with Dr Michiel Vos and collaborators at the University of Exeter. This project combines plant and microbial ecology, and geochemistry to develop innovative biological solutions for metal pollution www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Green Rivers: harnessing freshwater algae for bioremediation and critical metal recovery. at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Green Rivers: harnessing freshwater algae for bioremediation and critical metal recovery. at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Louis-Marie Bobay @lbobay.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our latest paper is out with @adiop.bsky.social and @gmdouglas.bsky.social. We analyzed the extent of homologous recombination between bacterial species (introgression) and how it affects species borders (it can vary a lot depending on the approach used to classify species!). rdcu.be/eQAMf
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Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy
Nature Communications - It is commonly thought that bacterial species borders tend to be fuzzy, due to frequent exchange of DNA. Here, Diop et al. quantify the patterns of gene flow between core...
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Pablo García-Palacios @pablogarciapal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Our new paper from the MICROWILD consortium is published in ISME Comms, led by MJ Fernández-Alonso and @migueldc1.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
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Native edaphoclimatic regions shape soil communities of crop wild progenitors
Abstract. Unveiling the soil biological communities ecologically associated with crop wild progenitors (CWPs) in their habitats of origin is essential for
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience 3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social? www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...
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Bicentenary Early Career Research Fellowships | Biology, Medicine and Health | University of Manchester
Find out about and apply for a Bicentenary Early Career Research Fellowship.
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Ksenia Krasileva @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Spread the word 😃 Our department has an open position at the Assitant Professor level 🌱
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Ellinor Alseth @ellinoralseth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
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Elze Hesse @elzehesse.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
the current rate of extinction, as estimated by ourselves and others, whom we cited, and across diverse major taxa, we may well be headed in the direction of a new mass extinction event www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌐🧪
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Denying that we may be experiencing the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction paves the way for it to happen
Arguing that we are not currently experiencing a Sixth Mass Extinction, or at least playing down its possibility, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen. Wiens and Saban [1], in a...
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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
🇨🇭The #ETH in #Zürich is looking for an Assistant Professor in #Soil (Bio-/Geo-) Chemistry! Deadline to apply is September 30th! Please Share! #AcademicSky #Biochemistry #biogeochemistry #soilscience ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
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Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Soil Chemistry
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Re-reading this journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... “Holes in the Hologenome: Why Host-Microbe Symbioses Are Not Holobionts” and agreeing with a lot of it
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Holes in the Hologenome: Why Host-Microbe Symbioses Are Not Holobionts | mBio
ABSTRACT The advent of relatively inexpensive tools for characterizing microbial communities has led to an explosion of research exploring the diversity, ecology, and evolution of microbe-host systems...
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🌱Alien #plants are reshaping the #tropics -our review @ninadm.bsky.social et al explores how they interact w land-use & #climatechange driving novel ecosystems🌴We call for nuanced adaptive strategies incl nature-based solutions to navigate tropical futures 🔗Free access www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Alien plants and novel ecosystems in the Greater Tropics
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - The Greater Tropics are under substantial ecological pressure driven by anthropogenic change, including the introduction of alien plants. This Review explores the...
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Meaghan Castledine @mcastd.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
How do macrophages influence the evolution of phage resistance? We show that macrophages reduce the efficacy of a bacteriophage cocktail 🦠, resulting in greater bacteria population densities which, in-turn, facilitate greater rates of phage resistance. Pre-print 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Antagonism between bacteriophages and macrophages decreases efficacy of a bacteriophage cocktail and increases bacteriophage resistance
Phage therapy, the use of viruses that infect bacteria (bacteriophages), is a promising complement to antibiotics during the antimicrobial resistance crisis, but treatment success is very variable. Ev...
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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #MicroSKy #Microbiology
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Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities
In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Microbial siderophores for One Health #Pseudomonas @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion by Zhong Wei et al with @rkmicrobes.bsky.social @veraeva.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...
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Microbial siderophores for One Health
One Health is an integrative concept striving for healthy environments, animals, and humans. Microbes play a fundamental role for this concept as they are key drivers of ecosystem stability and host h...
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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
MSc and PhD students abroad: If you are interested in #microbiomes in #soils (or other systems) and keen on research in #Switzerland, consider applying for these #fellowships with us other other groups of the #NCCR Microbiomes nccr-microbiomes.ch/education/nc.... Interested? DM or Email.
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NCCR Microbiomes Fellowships - NCCR
Since 2023, the NCCR Microbiomes invites applications for short-term research fellowships. These fellowships will support undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs from outside of the NCCR who ...
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Kate Parr @funkyant.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Closing tomorrow! Last chance to apply for postdoc to explore the role of animals in savanna ecosystem productivity & nutrient cycling! Link to job: tinyurl.com/53dy4584 #savanna #termites #largemammals
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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A must read
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#Mevosky
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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Are you an early career researcher looking to establish your own group with as fellowship? Come and join us at @ucllifesciences.bsky.social!
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025
Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
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Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles
The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.
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Molecular Biosystems Conference @molbiosystems.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🎯 Calling all students & postdocs! Applications for #mbiosys25 fellowships are now open! 🧬 We have multiple fellowships to support ECRs attend the meeting and join us in Chile for cutting-edge discussions in gene regulation & functional genomics. 📆 Apply by April 30! 🔗 molbiosystems.com
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Molecular Biosystems Conference
Molecular Biosystems Conference
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.
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Hundreds of research grants at Columbia canceled following Trump edict, administrator says
The National Institutes of Health is terminating 232 grants for scientific research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, according to an email an administrator sent to faculty.
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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
From Vincent Doublet et al "Host ecology and phylogeny shape the temporal dynamics of social bee viromes" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🐝🦠
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Host ecology and phylogeny shape the temporal dynamics of social bee viromes - Nature Communications
Viromes, or viral communities, may evolve host-specificity. Here, the authors use 100 plant and insect viral sequences to find that plant-pollinator interactions and phenology shape the plant virus co...
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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Host-Microbe Symbioses- Our favorite summer school is back! Help us spread the word!
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 05/02/2025
“In response to the shocking news predicting up to 10,000 imminent job losses across the UK higher education sector, we write to flag up a fact that the article largely misses: the degree to which arts and humanities subjects are bearing the brunt of these cuts.” ⮛ #academicsky
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The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters
Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...
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Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Lectureship in Evolutionary Biology up for grabs @bristolbiosci.bsky.social for someone who studies "evolutionary processes and the emergence of large-scale patterns of organismal diversity using comparative genomics, and/or bioinformatics. Application deadline February 16
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025
Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
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Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
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University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@davehodgson.bsky.social @stubearhop.bsky.social @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social @brendangodley.bsky.social @elzehesse.bsky.social @kjhockings.bsky.social @marinemollyk.bsky.social @blongdon.bsky.social @ilyamaclean.bsky.social @kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social @padpadpadpad.bsky.social
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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New paper from my group and the group of @kiranrpatil.bsky.social: Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities By Ghada Yousif @metagenomez.bsky.social with @swagatika.bsky.social @isamirgiri.bsky.social Sharvari Harshe et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇
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Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities
Many microorganisms are refractory to laboratory cultivation. One possible explanation, known as the great plate count anomaly, is metabolic dependencies among community members. However, systematic s...
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Yo, micro/evo/qbio/physics of living systems/astrobiology/renegade cell bio folks- if you are interested in starting a feed, reply/repost this. Let's get the crew back together!
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planthums-uk.bsky.social @planthums-uk.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
#SOIL - THE WORLD AT OUR FEET new #exhibition 23 Jan-13 Apr 2025 @Somerset House inc: Merlin Sheldrake @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social Anya Gallaccio @dianascherer.bsky.social @elzehesse.bsky.social Book: www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/soil @kewgardens.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
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Tobias Plieninger @plieningerlab.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
"The people shepherding livestock across the continent's great open grasslands have been widely seen as the enemies of its charismatic wild mammals — to be fenced out of protected areas and policed by armed rangers. But that image is outdated..." @yalee360.bsky.social. e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
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How African Communities Are Taking Lead on Protecting Wildlife
A new analysis shows that African wildlife increasingly depend on lands managed by villagers and herders. In many areas, locally-run conservancies now more effectively protect wildlife than national p...
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
An important read for all microbiome researchers #microbiomania www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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There’s little evidence of a ‘brain microbiome’ | Letter
Letters: Prof Mark Pallen, Dr Aimee Parker, Prof Nick Loman and Prof Alan Walker take issue with an article that discussed the existence of a brain microbiome and its impact on diseases
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Ana Nuno @ananuno.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
What are the barriers and enablers for smallholders in Western Kenya to increase tree diversity on farms? Read our post in advance of @peopleandnature.bsky.social paper relationalthinkingblog.com/2024/12/18/p... Paper amazingly led by Ennia Bosshard! @uniexecec.bsky.social @isleconserv.bsky.social 🌍
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Plain Language Summary: What are the barriers and enablers for smallholders in Western Kenya to increase tree diversity on farms?
Photo by Anne Spratt on Unsplash. By Ennia Bosshard, Harrison Carter, Lillian Aluso, Reuben Chumba, Christopher N. Kaiser-Bunbury, Chris JKettle, Ana Nuno. This Plain Language summary is published …
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Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🌍🌎🧪🌎🌱🌾🌴🌳🌼🌻🌺🍄‍🟫🍄Lovely new plants and fungi from around the world. Found in biodiversity hot spots like Indonesia but also intensively recorded places like UK. Seen this year, maybe not again, as land use is changed. So sad. #BUC2025 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Toadstool with teeth and ghostly palm among plant and fungus finds of 2024
Scientists race to discover new species before destruction of natural world drives them to extinction
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Neglect, it is. WHO finds that the direct cause of "the mystery disease" in Congo is malaria, exacerbated by malnutrition. Malaria can be *cured* by a few cheap pills, as long as it's caught early. So these are deaths of neglect. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Congo's health ministry says unknown disease is severe malaria
Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry said on Tuesday that a previously unidentified disease circulating in the country's Panzi health zone is a severe form of malaria.
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 17/12/2024
#Bioremediation using synthetic #microbiomes offers significant advantages over traditional single‐strain‐based approaches 🧫🦠. This Perspective outlines 5 important considerations for the rational design of pollutant‐degrading microbiomes for enhanced bioremediation: plos.io/3ZZbBEA
This figure describes the potential advantages of microbiome-based bioremediation compared with single-strain-based bioremediation, and details the 5 factors to consider when constructing synthetic microbiome for enhanced bioremediation.
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Paul Kardol @paulkardol.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Curious how forest microclimate and soil microbes drive carbon cycling in a changing climate? 🌡️🌳🍄We're offering a 4-year PhD position at @mycopat.bsky.social, SLU-Uppsala. A cool new project in collaboration with @linegreis.bsky.social Apply now or help spread the word! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share! #exetercec jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Tatiana Dimitriu @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
PhD opportunity in St Andrews on plasmids, antibiotics and defence systems, in collaboration with Helen Alexander in Edinburgh. Funding via BBSRC EastBio, please share & pass on to anyone interested! #microsky🦠🧫🧬 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
PhD opportunities - including in @uniexecec.bsky.social
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Malcolm White @mfwhite2.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Shameful. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds
Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate
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Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The rhizosphere has been called “one of the most complex ecosystems on earth” But how do host plants control benefits derived from their microbial partners? Read our paper in Nature Microbiology on how legumes mediate conflict & cooperation with N2-fixing symbionts. Here: tinyurl.com/4y4tjx6k
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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A postdoctoral position is available in the lab of Faizan Said @ Cardiff University to work on multispecies bacterial biofilms and metabolic cross-feeding interactions in the context of antimicrobial tolerance and resistance evolution. Deadline: 3.01.2025 Please RT More info: shorturl.at/md3A8
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