iPlantMicro Lab

Last week, with zero planning, most of the lab fell into the culture-verse 🧫 Watching everyone struggle to count colonies and debate if this was a new morphotype or just the same creamy-transparent thing 🤣 Oddly… kind of therapeutic? @itqbnova @greenit_bio4sus

Celebrating International Forest Day!! 🌲🌳🪾🌍 Forests don’t grow alone 🌱 Beneath every tree, complex microbial communities support nutrient cycling, resilience, and health. #InternationalForestDay #SoilMicrobiology #PlantScience #COSTAction

Milli McQ water! Hahaha sorry, needed to share this internal joke (student's name is actually Millia McQuade!!! Hilarious 😜). We all love you Milli! @itqbnova

The project goes on, optimizing the inoculant production! And these two are learning to work together 😅 @itqbnova

🧫 Some Bacillus don’t just grow, they build! Species like B. subtilis, B. licheniformis and B. amyloliquefaciens can form wrinkled, structured colonies linked to biofilms. These same microbes are powerful biocontrol agents and help plants cope with stress 🌱 @itqbnova

Wait what? Please, swipe right for more details😅🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫 @itqbnova

We are very happy to host Weronika and Natalia from @p_lodz_pl for their PhD internship! They will learn some of our protocols to identify key metabolites in their strains supernatants, welcome! 🇵🇱 @itqbnova

Please welcome our new Erasmus+ students! Alex 🇬🇷, Elena 🇷🇸 and Celia 🇫🇷 came to enjoy and learn about seed microbiota and heavy metals bioremediation! Joining Europe feeling for science! @itqbnova

Lab is full of smiles 😊🇪🇸🇵🇹🇬🇷🇮🇷🇬🇧🇳🇵🇩🇰🇧🇷🇷🇸🇬🇷🇫🇷🇵🇱 @itqbnova

Nahhhh fungi are crazy things🤪🧫 @itqbnova

Proud to be together @itqbnova

Seems the are having fun, so brilliant team! 😄

New after-lab activity at iPlantMicro: Cheese & Wine 🧀🍷 An excellent excuse to step away from the bench, share some cheese, enjoy a glass of wine, and continue solving the world’s problems… or at least trying! Good science, good company, and very good cheese! @itqbnova

Ahhhhhh yes, our very traditional Christmas dinner... In a Chinese restaurant... In February... At lunchtime... Gathered old ones and fresh ones around a bubbling hotpot...Another year proudly preserving our deeply questionable traditions 🔥🎄🥢😜 @itqbnova @greenit_bio4sus

@sadamkhan2998 @itqbnova @greenit_bio4sus @istecnico Would be happy to talk😊

@iPlantMicro @itqbnova @greenit_bio4sus @istecnico My research direction quite similar if I have a chance I would be happy to share my experience with you guys

🔬🌱 A warm welcome to Rita, Inês and Teresa, IST bachelor students joining the lab. Their project will dive into nodulation, microbiota dynamics under drought, and FP-labelled strains to follow root colonization! @itqbnova @greenit_bio4sus @istecnico

Very intense days in the lab, making our best effort to achieve our goals! So proud of this team😊 @itqbnova @greenit_bio4sus

Very happy to welcome Ella and Moses from the Master in Plant Biology for Sustainable Agriculture lab rotations! They will participate in our projects to characterize exudates in recruiting process, and evaluate potential plant growth-promoting traits! @itqbnova @greenit_bio4sus

Lab meeting agenda: 1️⃣Data analysis 2️⃣Coffee 3️⃣Rigorous comparison of Manteigaria vs Pastéis de Belém 4️⃣Non-conditioned group of scientists Result: statistically insignificant difference, p>nata Conclusion: further sampling required (for science)☕️ @itqbnova @greenit_bio4sus

📢 Si eres joven investigador en interacciones beneficiosas planta-microorganismo, te recordamos que el envío de comunicaciones para el XX Congreso de la SEFIN y III BeMiPlant está abierto y se pueden solicitar bolsas de viaje hasta el 31 de marzo ➡️Info: sefincadiz2026.com