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Vincent Merckx

@vincentmerckx.bsky.social
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Scientific Director and Group Leader at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Explorer of the underground 🌳🍄

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Museum duty today @naturalis.bsky.social These colleagues are giving me a skeptical look 👀
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The @erc.europa.eu MIXOTROPH sampling in Japan has come to an end. The success of this campaign was due to the support of Prof. Kenji Suetsugu (Kobe University) and his incredible team. I’m looking forward to continue our collaboration! 🌳 🍄
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The last leg of the fieldwork brought me to the beautiful island of Yakushima. The lush ceder forests are incredible examples of the power of nature conservation, as most have been replanted in the 1960s. And if you walk far enough, you can still see trees of more than 1000 year old…
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team headed to Shiga prefecture to sample a forest site with Burmannia cryptopetala. Sample site nr 3 in Japan ✅
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
A beautiful mixed forest near Nagoya with plenty of Petrosavia sakurai became our next sampling site 🌳 🌲
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team is in Kobe, Japan for some more sampling!
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I have a PhD position available at @naturalis.bsky.social to work on soil biodiversity and drought in urban environments, as part of the NWA Thirsty Cities project 🏡🌳🍄 👉🏻 www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...
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PhD student Thirsty Cities
Pursuing a PhD at Naturalis in Leiden (the Netherlands) means working on research with a truly global impact — contributing directly to biodiversity. And you'll be well supported every step of the way...
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Had a super inspiring visit to the lab of @vkokkoris.bsky.social today @vuamsterdam.bsky.social Sometimes the most promising opportunities are just around the corner 🍄‍🟫🌿
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Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Our newest research in @nature.com We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
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Peter Siegel @duurzamedocent.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Nature Today: Amsterdamse straatbomen leven samen met enorme diversiteit aan schimmels www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...
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Nature Today | Amsterdamse straatbomen leven samen met enorme diversiteit aan schimmels
De diversiteit aan 'goede' schimmels rond de wortels van Amsterdamse stadsbomen is verrassend hoog. Iepen op de meest verstedelijkte locatie bleken zelfs de meest diverse schimmelgemeenschappen te heb...
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Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Join our lab in Amsterdam. We are looking for a Netherlands-based Technician/Analist (MBO-4 level) to apply advanced microscopy, imaging, and molecular techniques to study fungal-plant interactions. 2-yr position See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd. workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
“It is predicted that the number of novel operational taxonomic units delimited by barcode sequencing is likely to eclipse the number of species described by Linnean taxonomy by as early as 2029” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Delimiting Species—Prospects and Challenges for DNA Barcoding
Discovering, describing and cataloguing global species diversity remains a fundamental challenge both for biodiversity research and for the management and conservation of biodiversity. Among animals,....
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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
‪When did herbarium in Leiden become this big? Trends in collection of regular specimens vs. types; fungi and lichens; notable collectors and expeditions. (Mind that only ca. 20% of fungarium is digitized.)
Histogram with a somewhat bell-shaped peak around 1980. X axis - years, Y axis - number of specimens collected.
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Timo Mendez @timomendez.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Some ectomycorrhizal root tips I recently had the pleasure of photographing. #mycorrhizal #emfungi #mycorrhizae
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Frontiers | Opinion: Response to questions about common mycorrhizal networks
Common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) are networks of mycorrhizal fungal hyphae held in common by at least two plants (Horton 2015;Rillig et al. 2024) and were ...
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Adam Frew @frewecologist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Arbuscular mycorrhiza in the urban jungle: Glomeromycotina communities of the dominant city tree across Amsterdam
Trees in cities provide a great number of benefits to people and nature, but they are challenged by harsh conditions. Trees rely on helpful fungi in their roots to get essential nutrients from the so...
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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Flags in the forest: the @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team is mapping mycorrhizal networks in Khao Yai National Park 🍄🌳 #mycorrhiza #mixotrophy
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Final stop in Thailand: Khao Yai National Park. Beautiful views and forests with giant members of the Burmanniaceae family: Burmannia disticha #mycoheterotrophy #mixotrophy @naturalis.bsky.social
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team at work: selecting sampling sites along the Mekong river in Thailand.
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A new year, new adventures! The ERC Mixotroph team of @naturalis.bsky.social arrived in Thailand for fieldwork in collaboration with Mahidol University 🌳🍄
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center @naturalis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Ons vlaggenschip-project @arisenl.bsky.social bouwt een infrastructuur die alle Nederlandse soorten kan herkennen, en vormt daarmee de basis voor onze nog veel grotere ambities. Daar hebben we wel wat hulp bij nodig. Kennen jullie een Data Engineer met biodiversiteitsambitie?
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Data Engineer
Naturalis is looking for a Data Engineer!
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We found this ghost redwood tree this weekend while camping this weekend @jrossibarra.bsky.social . It's a rare chlorophyll mutant growing clonally off of the base of huge coastal redwood
completely white needles of ghost redwood. Looks like a black and white photo, but is in fact full colour. Jeff Ross-Ibarra next to a ghost redwood tree with white needles.
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Popping up here!
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