Alexandre Jousset

Soil health as a driver of plant productivity. Our new paper in @NatureEcoEvo using data from >500 sites and 27 European countries shows that soil health is associated with higher primary productivity. see: nature.com/articles/s4155… Variables of soil fertility including total N content, pH, soil organic carbon and specific soil biodiversity indicators were identified as important drivers of the relationship between soil health and productivity. The relative importance of these variables depended on land-use type. Lead by @fromeroblanch . Very nice collaboration using the LUCAS data base with @lultimoalbero; @PanosPanagos33; @ManuDelBaq; @PabloGarciaPal ; @EisenhauerLab ; @carlosguerra_pt et al.

Only 6 more days to apply to this PhD position in my group. 👇 Please RT

The post includes the opportunity to establish independent research topics and to help shape the group's research and teaching together with my team and me. We are a vibrant and international group @UniOsnabrueck. Please feel free to contact me in case you have any questions.

@plant_holobiont Thanks for the great organisation!

This was it! The 4th #EUCARPIA workshop on microbiome-assisted plant breeding came to an end. Thanks everyone for the fruitful discussions! We've come a long way and really build up momentum towards bringing microbiome insights into practice. #miCROPe2024

Jiang gaofei presents Biodiversity restoration based on microbial volatiles at micrope conference. Great work by Waseem Raza and colleagues in nanjing and Utrecht

Do you want to run a microbial GWAS but are put off by installing a dozen different bioinformatic tools, are unsure about best practices, and how to transform the list of threshold passing variants into a neat annotated table? Then we have just the thing for you!

Want to work on the sweet sites of bacterial life? Then apply for a fully funded PhD-student position in my lab.👇👇👇 (Please spread the word and retweet)

🚨Job Alert🚨 The Chair of Nature Conservation & Landscape Ecology @UniFreiburg is hiring a junior scientist for the EU Horizon project @WildPoshProject 🐝🔬 Research on wild pollinator toxicology, starting 01.10.2024, apply by 24.06.2024. More info: nature.uni-freiburg.de/ressourcen/the…

@EvolvedBiofilm I feel the same everytime I come back to Europe! Why aren't we able to build a high speed train network?

Compared to the high speed trains in 🇨🇳, the speed of an ICE in 🇳🇱/🇩🇪 explains why 300km travel takes 4 hours compared with the 3,5 hours travel time between Nanjing and Beijing (of 1000km)

Intermittent water stress favors microbial traits that better help wheat under drought @ISMEComms by @RuthLSchmidt et al from Etienne Yergau lab academic.oup.com/ismecommun/adv…

Out today after peer review: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Congratulations @jdiazc9 @metaboli3am @jccvila & Abby Skwara

I don't want to hear anymore that gmo ate not "natural"

Great opportunity with a very innovative scientist!

#Job alert! #Postdoc position on apple #microbiome! micropbiomes.eu/job-opening-po… deadline May 16

@mrillig @ISMEJournal Thanks, hope you enjoyed it!

Reading in journal club Suleiman et al. @ISMEJournal Pollutant profile complexity governs wastewater removal of recalcitrant pharmaceuticals academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

New preprint by #BenOyserman on microbiome assembly in tomato. Identified various host QTLs for abundance of microbial taxa, but also microbial SNP alleles in MAGs associated with recruitment by either modern or wild host genotypes. @niooknaw @WURplant biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/3

Competition for iron is one of the most universal pressure on microorganisms. But predicting siderophore structure used up be a hassle. No longer! doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… @eLife

Glittr.org has been selected as SIB remarkable output! 🎉 To get a quick idea what is, and why it is important, watch the movie

Potato Endophytes predict vigor. Insightful work by my previous Utrecht colleagues. A big step toward microbiome- based breeding.

If you’re interested in rapid in-situ metagenomics with Oxford @nanopore MinION, here’s a great example of how a lab-in-a-suitcase approach can achieve same-day on-site results, allowing “real-time functional and taxonomic monitoring of microbial communities in remote areas”. The article, by Tamames et al. (2024), features two case studies: ⭐Investigating the microbial communities associated with volcanic rocks on La Palma island, Canary Islands, Spain. Here the authors investigated bacterial and eukaryotic communities on lava rocks of different ages, producing results within a 24-hour window. To validate the results, the data produced with ONT MinION were later compared with those produced with Illumina NextSeq2000. The taxa and functional genes detected with both sequencing technologies were very similar, confirming the results were accurate. ⭐ Investigating the sulphur metabolism genes in planktonic microbial communities in Ria de Vigo, an estuary in Galicia, Spain. In this study the aim was to test a results-driven sampling approach over two days. On the first day surface waters were sampled and analysed from three sites, with the results indicating the most interesting site for sulphur metabolism genes to be sampled and analysed in greater detail during the second day. The authors suggest several advantages of their in-situ approach, such as: 🧬 Rapid monitoring of microbial communities: where rapid results can guide rapid appropriate responses, for example pathogen and antimicrobial resistance gene detection, rapidly evolving microbial blooms, fermentations, and bioreactors. 🧬 Rapid surveys of remote sites: where rapid results can allow researchers to determine whether a site is of interest or not, and whether to sample in more depth or sample elsewhere. 🧬 Rapid discussion of results: the authors' software pipeline allows immediate publishing of the results on a web interface (provided there is an internet connection) allowing collaborators elsewhere in the world to access and interrogate the results as if they were present. Very cool stuff! You can read the article here: Tamames et al. (2024). In situ metagenomics: A platform for rapid sequencing and analysis of metagenomes in less than one day. Molecular Ecology Resources, 24(2), e13909. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… You can also find a complete experimental protocol to accompany the article here: github.com/jtamames/In-si…