Excited to be back at #mSystems (@asm.org), now as a Senior Editor, working to support our new Editor-in-Chef @ashley17061.bsky.social 🤩

Support society journals! If you have work at the boundary between microbiology & systems biology, send us your manuscript!

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Yesterday, I started my term as Editor in Chief of @asm.org journal #mSystems

Looking forward to working with this amazing community to advance publication of our highest quality and most rigorous science!

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Check out this new piece about critical precautions and controls needed to conduct microbiome analyses on low biomass samples (like seed endophytes!)

Thanks to
@noahfierer.bsky.social & @greening.bsky.social for leading the charge!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tomorrow #TeamRhizo and project #MicroRescue are attending the Indo-French workshop on the "Plant microbiome as a driver for the next green agricultural revolution" - so looking forward to meeting new colleagues from India, sharing research, and thinking about harnessing microbes for plant health

#TeamRhizo & @erc.europa.eu #ERC project #MicroRescue were in the field collecting soil for our big upcoming host-mediated-microbiome-engineering experiment!

Can't wait to find out which microbes respond to the plant's stress signals!

@ecomicrolyon.bsky.social
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social

thanks to @ou.edu Biological Sciences and especially Kara De León for hosting me for a seminar today - It was great to meet with students and share some new #MicroRescue @erc.europa.eu data!

The recording of Part 2 of the ASM #mSystems Critical Concepts in Dormancy Webinar is now available

An inspiring panel of researchers share their thoughts about how to measure and discriminate different levels of microbial activity

Enjoy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZub...

Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers

#mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief
@leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social

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Congrats to @sambarnett15.bsky.social on our team's paper accepted at the special issue of Soil Biology & Biochemistry
We use a 7 year spatio-temporal study of heat disturbance in soil to investigate the coupling of viral community dynamics with bacterial.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us for the upcoming American Society for Microbiology #mSystems webinar on microbial dormancy and activity!

Free registration here: asm.org/Webinars/mSy...

9 minutes ago
Free registration is open for our next Critical Concepts in Dormancy webinar 20 Feb, hosted by American Society for Microbiology journal mSystems!
asm.org/Webinars/mSy...

Discuss how to evaluate microbial activity, including in challenging environments!

A stellar speaker line up 🤩

Check out this article about defining microbial activity and dormancy, and why it's important for thinking about climate change

There will be an in-depth symposium moderated by me at the ASM #Microbe2025 in LA! and, good news you can still submit your abstract!

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Congrats to my EcoMicroLyon colleagues on their new publication about pollution gradients, microbial communities, and mosquito larvae! Nice assessment of host-environment-microbiome systems in urban environments
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Look at the new cover of mSystems! Beautiful seeds and their microbiomes

In this study we found stable transmission of particular bacterial taxa across plant generations via the seed, despite parent plant exposure to stress

@microbialmarie.bsky.social

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Submit your abstract for the American Society for Microbiology
#Microbe2025 annual meeting in Los Angeles!

I'm organizing a symposium on Microbial Dormancy! Hope to receive your abstract and discuss with you there.

Early abstracts close Dec 3, don't delay!
abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20974...

Did you catch our Thinking Series Webinar on Microbial Dormancy? If not, no fret: it's available on youtube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytz1...

I am proud to have represented our research #MicroRescue and THE MICROBES at the recent colloquium by the Fondation Pierre Verots

My talk (in English!) is an accessible overview as to why microbes are important for climate change