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George Thomas

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Microbial Plastic Degradation PhD Student 👨‍🎓 James McDonald Lab, University of Birmingham 🥼

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Alejandra Ordonez @alejandra1909.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The pre print of my PhD research is out! 📣 Check it out for some cool results on high-throuhput microbial isolation, #SynComs and #Tree #Microbiome 🌳🧫 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #PhDone 💯
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Large-scale culturing of the tree microbiome enables targeted disease suppression
The tree microbiome is essential for host health and pathogen suppression. Synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) are emerging as important tools to understand microbiome dynamics and engineer micr...
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James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🧵 1/ New preprint alert! From the FUTURE OAK project, led by the super talented @alejandra1909.bsky.social Large-scale culturing of the tree microbiome enables targeted disease suppression Here's what we found... 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Large-scale culturing of the tree microbiome enables targeted disease suppression
The tree microbiome is essential for host health and pathogen suppression. Synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) are emerging as important tools to understand microbiome dynamics and engineer micr...
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James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
🧵 New preprint alert! From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Environment and disease have tissue-specific effects on the tree microbiome
Trees are essential for ecosystem function, but due to their long lifespan, are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disease. Tree-associated microbiota are critical for tree health and r...
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MMEG @mmeg25.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
MMEG registration is now live! Resister now to Join us on the 15-16th December 2025 at the University of Birmingham. appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...
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Molecular Microbial Ecology Group Meeting 2025
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James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Had a great time with the team at #MMEG2024 and catching up with lab alumnus @lukehillary.bsky.social @marccamb.bsky.social @alejandra1909.bsky.social @sophie-e-powell.bsky.social @alexanderwoodley.bsky.social @g-thomas.bsky.social
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Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
It's so nice being back at #MMEG2024 in Southampton finally presenting the results of our study in insect-bacteria interactions @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social @gathomas12.bsky.social
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James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
On our way to #MMEG2024 in Southampton. Looking forward to two days of exciting science! @marccamb.bsky.social
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