Soil Biogeochemistry at UNIL (Keiluweit Lab)

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Job Alert 🚨 : 2-year Postdoc in Redox Biogeochemistry of Coastal Soils available. Focus on oxygen, metal and carbon cycling in the rhizosphere. shorturl.at/NybzX Start date: April 1st 2026, or upon mutual agreement. Salary: ~82 000 CHF/yr Deadline: Jan 5

🌍Thrilled that our article "Soil Microbiome Interventions for Carbon Sequestration and Climate Mitigation" is featured in a special #SDG focused collection on #LifeOnLand recognizing the @UN’s theme for May 👇 doi.org/10.1128/msyste…

Organic matter associated with reactive minerals (#MAOM) is often assumed to be the most persistence soil #carbon pool. Here we introduce a new mechanistic framework for the vulnerability of this vast #carbon reservoir to disruption in the #rhizosphere. #article-info" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4146…

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 within the @NCCRMicrobiomes nccr-microbiomes.ch/education/nccr… Interested? DM or Email.

Today at #EGU2025: Samuel Steiner on controls of nitrogen use efficiency in agroecosystems

Come find us #EGU2025 this morning, featuring @soil_tycoon on anoxic microsites and Junna Frei on MAOM destabilization in the rhizosphere.

Last chance to apply for the postdoc/junior lecturer position in our group --> Deadline Jan 30th.

🚨We are filling a 5-year postdoc/junior lecturer position in Soil Biogeochemistry at @UNIL @UNIL_FGSE. Fully-funded, independent research on microbe-mineral-organic matter interactions, #climate, #soils. Deadline: Jan 30. Start: Sept 2025. #postdocjobs #phdchat #phdone Info👇

🚨 Always wanted to take a closer 👀 at mineral-organic interfaces in #soils? Then check out Floriane Jamoteau's new paper on pros/cons of photothermal IR microscopy to resolved interactions among microbes, minerals, and organics at sub-micron scales. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

📢Job alert! The @NCCRMicrobiomes is recruiting a new Financial administrator. Thanks for reposting 😃 More info and application link here👇 nccr-microbiomes.ch/about-us/open-…

🪴#rhizosphere alert: @DraSuelosMari 's new paper in @EnvSciTech revealed how different exudates released along growing roots create functionally distinct soil microenvironments that evolve over time! Thx team: @ReneBoiteau @EMSLscience @CardonZG! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

New Paper Alert🚨! Is soil C turnover about energy or kinetics? Exciting work by @CareAboutSoils highlights how energetic vs enzymatic constraints impact microbial decomposition over season cycles. Thx to collaborators @StanfordSoils @EMSLscience etc.pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

This has to be one of the most humble experiments ever! Any guesses what's dissolving in the beaker? (it's not gold)

Very proud and honoured to receive the PM Huang award (@IUSS_ORG), and looking forward to talking microbes, minerals and organic matter with everyone at ISMOM 2024 in Japan! 🦠🔬🔶🍀🇯🇵

Check out this cool new paper on anoxic microsites in ag soils by @soil_tycoon!

Peut-on gérer les sols agricoles à la fois pour la sécurité alimentaire et le climat ?Venez assister à l'@unil à la conférence exceptionnelle de Claire Chenu, spécialiste mondiale des sols.🗓️22 mai 2024, 18h15-20h00, Amphipôle (diffusion en ligne dispo). agenda.unil.ch/display/171507…

Expeditions can be hard to maneuver as a mother & scientist. Intense & exciting to have my essay published in @nytimes exploring how Expeditions can be an Academic Act of Defiance Mapping fungi w/family @spununderground @nytopinion: tinyurl.com/5adc5cwf (photo 2011, Kenya)