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Gaurav Pandharikar
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Love microbes 🍄🦠 and plant roots, Plant microbiologists🌱Phytopathology, microbial ecologists. India 🇮🇳, Kiel🇩🇪, Nice 🇫🇷, Nancy 🇫🇷
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Packed room for Emma Corre's PhD defense on transposable elements in rust fungi genomes.
Congratulations Dr @emma--c.bsky.social 👏👏👏

And what a lovely tribute to Barbara McClintock who discovered transposable elements in 🌽!!!
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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@umr-iam.bsky.social Very beautiful sunny day for our mycology lab inventory
"Champignoux day"
October 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌿 Excited to share our Primer on fungal endophytes, the elusive members of the fungal kingdom that defy easy classification. Neither pathogens nor symbionts in the strict sense, they challenge how we define ecological guilds. @umr-iam.bsky.social
Fungal endophytes
Organisms are commonly grouped into ecological guilds that reflect their shared resource use and similar ecological roles. The guild concept has been …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Yesterday we presented our work on the impact of 🌳🌲 conversion to 🥑 orchards on soil microbial communities at #ISMELat2025.

If you're in Mérida and want to know more about how pathogens modulate the 🥑 rhizosphere #microbiome, I'll give a talk tomorrow in the "host-microbiome" session.
August 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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In our review of CMNs, water stood out as a resource that might be transferred between plants via fungal connections. This new study provides further support (and in DSEs!). Nice expt by Bea Bock et al 👍 Great to see new research.

doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor - Communications Biology
A lab experiment shows that Dark Septate Endophytes can form common fungal networks between plants, increasing biomass and enabling water movement, suggesting that non-mycorrhizal fungi may contribute...
www.nature.com
July 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
We are proud to have so many brilliant female scientists in our #IAM department! 👩‍🔬🎓🍄🦠🧫🔬🌳🌲📊
We must never give up on #equality, #diversity & #inclusion 💪
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
@inrae-france.bsky.social @univlorraine.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Today in our weekly @umr-iam.bsky.social seminar, @gpandharikar.bsky.social introduced us to the fantastic world of poplar roots and of the role of triterpenes for fungal colonization 🍄🤝🌱
February 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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#OurNewPaper in #JHazardMater:
Carla Vandekerkhove et al. 2025. Dissecting the mechanisms of copper-azole wood preservatives detoxification by ligninolytic fungi
doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
@melmorel-rouhier.bsky.social @rodnay.bsky.social @gpandharikar.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Imagine you could reconstruct and separate environmental impacts on complex metabolic processes from tree rings 🌲 - multidimensional isotopic fingerprints might make it possible: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 27, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Christmas lunch @Ecogenomic team @fmartin54.bsky.social @mrmbuee.bsky.social @SebbyRust
December 19, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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15 examples of when to use AI, and 5 uses to avoid

Substack by Ethan Mollick

#generativeAI
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/15-times-t...
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
www.oneusefulthing.org
December 11, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Excited to share our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing that soil fungi, unlike bacteria, remain fully active under severe drought conditions, and also invest in synthesis of storage compounds.
Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini.
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rdcu.be/d1Tyg
Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions
Nature Communications - How climate change will impact microbial community growth is unclear. Here, the authors use a field experiment with varying global change factors, finding fungal growth more...
rdcu.be
November 29, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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#Introduction
We study the effects of plant pathogens on the plant microbiome, using #meta-omics. Our main model is 🥑 and we have investigated diseases such as #Fusarium dieback or #Phytophthora root rot.
Some papers here 👇
November 20, 2024 at 8:33 AM