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Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Lovely to see Sandra Denman presenting our work on bacteria-beetle interactions in AOD at the Herefordshire Parkland Conference @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social @gathomas12.bsky.social @imibirmingham.bsky.social Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1093/jamb...

Sandra Denman presenting results on bacteria-beetle interactions in Acute Oak Decline

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Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Super proud to be part of this brilliant team. Check out this new paper and cool journal cover!

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Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Do go and check out this tour de force by @alejandra1909.bsky.social and @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social where we isolated a HUGE number of microorganisms from the oak microbiome in the UK. Impressive work and talent from Ale!

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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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Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Go and check out the pre-print of the landscape-scale tree microbiome study from the Future Oak project. Huge amounts of efforts and talent went into this work, with a pinch of "this is crazy, but we can do it". Well done @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social @cenococcum.bsky.social et al. Thread below 👇

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Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Go and check out the great review by @xinmingxu.bsky.social and collaborators in this issue, and also shout-out to @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social for supporting amazing science art actually made by a real humans and not AI!

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Sofia Gomes @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Many thanks @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social & @marccamb.bsky.social for the hospitality and organising everything so nicely for our visit. I had a great time! I look forward to continuing our tree-microbe discussions, with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social & @xinmingxu.bsky.social Hope to see you soon! 🌳🍄🦠

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James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Really nice talk on developing synthetic microbial communities for plant growth (with a fantastic title slide!) by @xinmingxu.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #BhamLeidenpartnership

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Discussing about plants in the Winterbourne garden during our collaboration visit at University of Birmingham #BirminghamLeidenCollaboration -with @marccamb.bsky.social @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social & @xinmingxu.bsky.social "How do you call this plant in 🇫🇷, 🇵🇹, 🇨🇳, 🇬🇧, or 🇭🇺?"

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Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I am a bit late, but very proud of the achievements of Dr. Hussain who was my first co-supervised PhD researcher and brilliantly passed his viva. Well done Usman for processing thousands of samples to bring some fascinating insights on the resilience of oak tree microbiomes.

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Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thank you @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social for such a great organisation and everyone for the fantastic discussions. I even managed to visit Amsterdam Microbe Museum before catching my train! Looking forward to hosting you, @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social and Xinming in Birmingham !

Petri dishes with microorganisms from Amsterdam Microbe Museum Artis Micropia

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Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It was a great day in Leiden today, with lots of cool science talks and future collaborations discussions. Thanks @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social and team for organising this mini symposium, and looking forward to more discussions tomorrow

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Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Another great outcome for @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social's group with prizes for best talk and best poster with @alejandra1909.bsky.social 🥳🥳. Plus the next MMEG to be held in Birmingham! #MMEG2024

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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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Professor Lesley Hoyles @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

MMEG: Molecular Microbial Ecology Group 2024, 16-17 Dec, Southampton. Always a great meeting for PhD students and post-docs.

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MMEG: Molecular Microbial Ecology Group 2024

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Marine C. Cambon @marccamb.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

It is a privilege to be at the first ISME conference held on the African continent in Cape Town! Please come and have a chat if you are interested in bacteria-insect interactions and missed my presentation. #isme19

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NFDI4Microbiota @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

📢 Join us for the next NFDI4Microbiota Coffee Talk on 26 August 2024 with Thomas Clavel from RWTH University Hospital, Aachen with a talk about "Microbiome Research Data Through the Lens of (Anaerobic) Cultivation." 🕒26 August| 02:30 PM| CEST |Online Meeting-ID: 633 6649 6382, Code: 490003

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