Kyle Gervers

@posybusby @SpataforaJoey We are esp grateful to George Carroll and Jeff Stone, who set the natural history groundwork essential to the interpretation of our results. Also, I cannot recommend JRR's #lidR package enough! Check it out: github.com/r-lidar/lidR Here's how we used it: tinyurl.com/yur7k955

Host specificity of fungal functional groups covaries with elevation: implications for intraspecific plant interactions biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_ecology

Rarefaction is better than robust Aitchison PCA and other compositional data analysis methods at controlling for uneven sequencing effort biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Ectomycorrhizal fungi recruit hyphae-associated bacteria that metabolize thiamine to promote pine symbiosis academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

Our new discovery that bacteria utilize extracellular vesicles to deliver RNAs into fungi substantially broadens the paradigm of Cross-Kingdom RNA communication! Big congrats to ⁦@J_NinoSanchez⁩, ⁦@HuaitongW⁩ and all! Thanks for your hard work! cell.com/molecular-plan…

MMEG is coming to @unibirmingham in December - look out for exciting announcements about the programme over the next two weeks. Abstract submission and registration is open 👇🏻 come join us!

If you’d like to explore it in more detail, you can check out my poster on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/158813… zenodo.org/records/158813…

Last week, I had a great time at the New Phytologist EiC Symposium: “Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life” in Tartu, Estonia! Honored to receive the Best Poster Award! ✨ Big thanks to the organizers and all the inspiring scientists I met! 🌱 @NewPhyt

First international conference at #2025ISMPMI Happy to be here sharing some work from my first year of PhD. Curious about the potential role native plasmids play in Sphingomonas-plant interaction? Come by at p162 on Tuesday!

I was waited two years to see this out!! The genomic location of bacterial genes is not random. Congratulation on the authors (@MartinJLercher and Team!). An impresive piece of work! #tab-contributors" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… A small thread !

Happy to share our paper from a new research line led by @camolsan, where we engineered the T6SS of Pseudomonas putida to deliver effectors against bacterial competitors and fungal pathogens like Botrytis cinerea. jbioleng.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… @IHSM_CSIC_UMA #T6SS

"we engineered Pseudomonas strains as inducible platforms for the delivery of antifungal and antibacterial effectors, targeting both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and fungi."

Starships 🚀- a natural system of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes. Very interesting. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The remarkable Starships - large mobile elements capable of moving large genomic regions in fungal populations. Changes everything we thought we knew about horizontal gene transfer among fungi and the mobility of large proportion of pan genomes ⁦@Hulk_Vogan⁩ #ECFG17

You can now download the entire community matrix for ~83,000 samples (with metadata) and ~75,000 fungal taxa with just one click! Explore the GlobalFungi database.

Timing Matters: Viticultural Land Use Determines Responses in Structure and Function of Fungal Stream Communities Across One Growing Season 📄 buff.ly/yGJYeJr

The GlobalFungi team is happy to announce that data downloads are now available from GlobalFungi (globalfungi.com). No matter if you are interested in fungal genera, species or species hypotheses, you can now get their sequence counts in all samples at once.

“Even faced with the same data, ecologists sometimes come to opposite conclusions.” science.org/content/articl…

Happy to receive my tenure & promotion letter today! Grateful to my amazing lab group who are kind, work hard, and share a passion for knowledge & microbial community ecology 😄. And for early career awards from @NSF & @SimonsFdn and support from @BoiseState @BSUBiology

On the cover of our #LatestIssue: A mature Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) that established under the protection of a large boulder in #Yellowstone #NationalPark. Image is ‘Courtesy of’ Douglas A. Wielfaert 📖 See Shemesh et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… @WileyPlantSci

We are pleased to announce our new book: The World of Zero-Inflated Models: Using GLLVM. Zuur and Ieno (2025) This book explores modern statistical methods for analyzing complex datasets, focusing on multivariate models, mixed-effects models, and latent variable models. GLLVMs integrate GLMs and GLMMs with multivariate analysis techniques, allowing multiple response variables to be modeled within a single framework. Key topics include count data models with excess zeros and distributions such as Poisson, negative binomial, zero-inflated Poisson, zero-inflated negative binomial, and Tweedie. The book also provides practical guidance on implementing these models in R using the gllvm package. Designed for researchers, statisticians, and analysts working with multivariate ecological, environmental, or social science data, this book is also a practical resource for R users looking to apply complex statistical models effectively. Each chapter includes detailed R code and case studies, demonstrating how to fit and interpret complex models, diagnose potential issues, and refine model performance. Emphasizing practical solutions, the book helps readers apply these methods to real-world datasets.