Liz Koziol
@lizkoziol.bsky.social
🦠 Mycorrhizal ecologist @ University of Kansas
🍄 Curator @invam.bsky.social
🌎 @mycobloom.bsky.social
https://elizabethkoziol.wixsite.com/lizkoziol
Prairies, AMF, microbial inoculants, restoration, conservation, sustainable ag, metabolites, NbS
🍄 Curator @invam.bsky.social
🌎 @mycobloom.bsky.social
https://elizabethkoziol.wixsite.com/lizkoziol
Prairies, AMF, microbial inoculants, restoration, conservation, sustainable ag, metabolites, NbS
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@lizkoziol.bsky.social
· Apr 4
New episode of Up From Dust!
Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough?
Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...
Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough?
Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...
I was so happy to participate with the whole invam.bsky.social team to be interviewed for this podcast, which covers the history of mycorrhizae, the INVAM fungal collection, and recent global research on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal inoculants.
The cats approach the jack-o'-lanterns with caution. Step one: administer several investigative smacks.
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The cats approach the jack-o'-lanterns with caution. Step one: administer several investigative smacks.
Such a long, warm fall we have been having, a Rudbeckia hirta starting to flower at the end of October. Crazy
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Such a long, warm fall we have been having, a Rudbeckia hirta starting to flower at the end of October. Crazy
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New paper on AM fungi in a prairie restoration experiment planted with community members back in 2021! Beyond the cool results we found, this was such a fun day where so many of my labmates and volunteers supported my first field experiment as a grad student. Feeling so grateful! ☺️
Inoculation with native, late-successional arbuscular mycorrhizal #fungi improves growth & establishment of desirable #forbs in low-quality #prairie restoration
New #AJB research by @mycorreb.bsky.social & James Bever
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #ecology #biodiversity
New #AJB research by @mycorreb.bsky.social & James Bever
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #ecology #biodiversity
October 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
New paper on AM fungi in a prairie restoration experiment planted with community members back in 2021! Beyond the cool results we found, this was such a fun day where so many of my labmates and volunteers supported my first field experiment as a grad student. Feeling so grateful! ☺️
Saw this little cutie on my way into the Kansas Biological Survey this morning.
iNat suggests it's Basiothia medea, the small verdant hawk moth caterpillar.
iNat suggests it's Basiothia medea, the small verdant hawk moth caterpillar.
October 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Saw this little cutie on my way into the Kansas Biological Survey this morning.
iNat suggests it's Basiothia medea, the small verdant hawk moth caterpillar.
iNat suggests it's Basiothia medea, the small verdant hawk moth caterpillar.
I love visiting my AMF inoculation experiments across every season. AMF diversity supports forbs, and floral diversity across seasons keeps wildlife thriving year-round. These New England asters still blooming in October host orange sulphurs, monarch butterflies, and some busy bees!
October 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I love visiting my AMF inoculation experiments across every season. AMF diversity supports forbs, and floral diversity across seasons keeps wildlife thriving year-round. These New England asters still blooming in October host orange sulphurs, monarch butterflies, and some busy bees!
Reposted by Liz Koziol
New paper!
I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on:
-Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi
-Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄
-Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920!
Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on:
-Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi
-Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄
-Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920!
Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi: belowground insights from South America
Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) are essential for nutrient cycling and plant symbiosis, yet their invasions remain understudied, particularly in South America. Large-scale forestry introductions have spr...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
New paper!
I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on:
-Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi
-Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄
-Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920!
Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on:
-Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi
-Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄
-Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920!
Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Excited to share our paper on grassland establishment 7 yrs after native #AMF inoculation—showing AMF result in higher diversity + prairie spread into old fields—was selected Editor’s Choice by @femsjournals.bsky.social.🦠🌎
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
🍄 Fungi to the rescue! Native AMF inoculation helps prairie restoration 🌱 by boosting native plant diversity and kicking weeds to the curb (even 7 years later). A long-term win for restoration ecology. 📄https://buff.ly/Uyl6f78 #FEMSMicrobiolLett #Mycorrhiza #Microbiology
September 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Excited to share our paper on grassland establishment 7 yrs after native #AMF inoculation—showing AMF result in higher diversity + prairie spread into old fields—was selected Editor’s Choice by @femsjournals.bsky.social.🦠🌎
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
I was honored to be an invited speaker at this year’s Grassland Restoration Network meeting! 🌾 I shared our work on using native inoculants to boost diversity in seed-based restorations—and learned so much from the community of practitioners & researchers. #RestorationEcology #Grasslands
September 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I was honored to be an invited speaker at this year’s Grassland Restoration Network meeting! 🌾 I shared our work on using native inoculants to boost diversity in seed-based restorations—and learned so much from the community of practitioners & researchers. #RestorationEcology #Grasslands
Reposted by Liz Koziol
Thrilled to see the INVAM fungal collection—and our dedicated curators—featured in the Fall issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social Preserving the world’s largest library of mycorrhizal fungi to power ecosystem restoration, science, and sustainable ag. 🦠🌱🌍
🔗 digital.sierramagazine.org/publication/...
🔗 digital.sierramagazine.org/publication/...
Sierra Magazine Fall 2025: The Library of Spores
Behind the effort to grow mycorrhizal fungi for ecosystem restoration Photos by Arin Yoon Share This Article NESTLED AMID KANSAS’S rolling hills and …
digital.sierramagazine.org
September 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thrilled to see the INVAM fungal collection—and our dedicated curators—featured in the Fall issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social Preserving the world’s largest library of mycorrhizal fungi to power ecosystem restoration, science, and sustainable ag. 🦠🌱🌍
🔗 digital.sierramagazine.org/publication/...
🔗 digital.sierramagazine.org/publication/...
Reposted by Liz Koziol
Call for symposia at @ICOM2026 is open until 15 October.
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
August 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Call for symposia at @ICOM2026 is open until 15 October.
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
Reposted by Liz Koziol
We're seeking a new Senior Editor! ⏰
Are you...
👉intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management?
👉a clear communicator who enjoys working as part of a team?
👉committed to maintaining high editorial standards?
More info 👇
bit.ly/4lPzaIx
Are you...
👉intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management?
👉a clear communicator who enjoys working as part of a team?
👉committed to maintaining high editorial standards?
More info 👇
bit.ly/4lPzaIx
Senior Editor for Journal of Applied Ecology - British Ecological Society
Join the editorial board on Journal of Applied Ecology! Apply by 07 Sep 2025.
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August 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We're seeking a new Senior Editor! ⏰
Are you...
👉intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management?
👉a clear communicator who enjoys working as part of a team?
👉committed to maintaining high editorial standards?
More info 👇
bit.ly/4lPzaIx
Are you...
👉intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management?
👉a clear communicator who enjoys working as part of a team?
👉committed to maintaining high editorial standards?
More info 👇
bit.ly/4lPzaIx
My new paper is out! 🧪🦠
Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland restoration successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds: academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
Why microbes matter in restoration 🧵
Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland restoration successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds: academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
Why microbes matter in restoration 🧵
Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds
Native mycorrhizal fungi enhance prairie restoration by boosting native plant diversity, supporting late-successional species, and reducing invasive plants
academic.oup.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new paper is out! 🧪🦠
Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland restoration successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds: academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
Why microbes matter in restoration 🧵
Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland restoration successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds: academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
Why microbes matter in restoration 🧵
First-year prairie restoration: we’re moving AM fungi from intact remnants to a disturbed site.
Foxtail may be the dominant weed now, but I know from experience it’ll be nearly gone next year—no management needed. And honestly? I think it’s very pretty. 🌾🦠🧪🌎🍄
Foxtail may be the dominant weed now, but I know from experience it’ll be nearly gone next year—no management needed. And honestly? I think it’s very pretty. 🌾🦠🧪🌎🍄
August 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
First-year prairie restoration: we’re moving AM fungi from intact remnants to a disturbed site.
Foxtail may be the dominant weed now, but I know from experience it’ll be nearly gone next year—no management needed. And honestly? I think it’s very pretty. 🌾🦠🧪🌎🍄
Foxtail may be the dominant weed now, but I know from experience it’ll be nearly gone next year—no management needed. And honestly? I think it’s very pretty. 🌾🦠🧪🌎🍄
Reposted by Liz Koziol
Job alert! Please share.
We're looking for an urban ecologist (PhD) to join the research team at the Holden Arboretum.
Develop an active research program while supporting stakeholders. 🌳
I'll be at #ESA2025 and happy to chat.
#AltAc #HoldenScience #UrbanEcology
holdenfg.org/career-and-i...
We're looking for an urban ecologist (PhD) to join the research team at the Holden Arboretum.
Develop an active research program while supporting stakeholders. 🌳
I'll be at #ESA2025 and happy to chat.
#AltAc #HoldenScience #UrbanEcology
holdenfg.org/career-and-i...
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August 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Job alert! Please share.
We're looking for an urban ecologist (PhD) to join the research team at the Holden Arboretum.
Develop an active research program while supporting stakeholders. 🌳
I'll be at #ESA2025 and happy to chat.
#AltAc #HoldenScience #UrbanEcology
holdenfg.org/career-and-i...
We're looking for an urban ecologist (PhD) to join the research team at the Holden Arboretum.
Develop an active research program while supporting stakeholders. 🌳
I'll be at #ESA2025 and happy to chat.
#AltAc #HoldenScience #UrbanEcology
holdenfg.org/career-and-i...
We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share.
Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
July 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share.
Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
Reposted by Liz Koziol
Prairie Blazing Star to the horizon on an old growth prairie on the edge of the KC metro. What a strong flowering response from a dormant season fire after 3 years of haying!
July 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Prairie Blazing Star to the horizon on an old growth prairie on the edge of the KC metro. What a strong flowering response from a dormant season fire after 3 years of haying!
When your dedicated DM has a 3D printer and zero chill, high-end minis magically appear.
Meet:
💎Rock (the rock barbarian)
🐝 A drow beekeeper/ crossbow sniper
🍄 Myc the spore druid
🕵️♂️ Mildew (two gnome rogues in a trench coat)
🐺 A nasty Wild Shape wolf
#DnD #minis #3dprinting
Meet:
💎Rock (the rock barbarian)
🐝 A drow beekeeper/ crossbow sniper
🍄 Myc the spore druid
🕵️♂️ Mildew (two gnome rogues in a trench coat)
🐺 A nasty Wild Shape wolf
#DnD #minis #3dprinting
July 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
When your dedicated DM has a 3D printer and zero chill, high-end minis magically appear.
Meet:
💎Rock (the rock barbarian)
🐝 A drow beekeeper/ crossbow sniper
🍄 Myc the spore druid
🕵️♂️ Mildew (two gnome rogues in a trench coat)
🐺 A nasty Wild Shape wolf
#DnD #minis #3dprinting
Meet:
💎Rock (the rock barbarian)
🐝 A drow beekeeper/ crossbow sniper
🍄 Myc the spore druid
🕵️♂️ Mildew (two gnome rogues in a trench coat)
🐺 A nasty Wild Shape wolf
#DnD #minis #3dprinting
Myles stands next to an absolutely giant compass plant (Silphium lacinatum). Myles is 6'3 for reference!
This plot is part of a grassland restoration experiment in its 8th year and it included a native AM fungal addition.
#nativeplants
🌎🧪🦠🍄🌱🌾
This plot is part of a grassland restoration experiment in its 8th year and it included a native AM fungal addition.
#nativeplants
🌎🧪🦠🍄🌱🌾
July 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Myles stands next to an absolutely giant compass plant (Silphium lacinatum). Myles is 6'3 for reference!
This plot is part of a grassland restoration experiment in its 8th year and it included a native AM fungal addition.
#nativeplants
🌎🧪🦠🍄🌱🌾
This plot is part of a grassland restoration experiment in its 8th year and it included a native AM fungal addition.
#nativeplants
🌎🧪🦠🍄🌱🌾
Reposted by Liz Koziol
Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi
I enjoyed writing this piece with Tan Hao for the Current Biology special issue on Fungi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I enjoyed writing this piece with Tan Hao for the Current Biology special issue on Fungi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi
Fungi are one of the most diverse and ecologically important groups of organisms on Earth. They exhibit remarkable diversity in their ecological roles…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi
I enjoyed writing this piece with Tan Hao for the Current Biology special issue on Fungi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I enjoyed writing this piece with Tan Hao for the Current Biology special issue on Fungi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Liz Koziol
Excellent job opportunity at @unihohenheim.bsky.social: build your own team in Experimental Plant Biodiversity Research (within @plantecology.bsky.social, group of Frank Schurr). Great environment (also b/c of new @greenrobust.de and #TERRA @dfg.de clusters of excellence), and great people!
June 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Excellent job opportunity at @unihohenheim.bsky.social: build your own team in Experimental Plant Biodiversity Research (within @plantecology.bsky.social, group of Frank Schurr). Great environment (also b/c of new @greenrobust.de and #TERRA @dfg.de clusters of excellence), and great people!
Reposted by Liz Koziol
New episode out now! We sit down to chat with @lizkoziol.bsky.social to discuss prairie fungi!
Available wherever you get your podcasts!
Available wherever you get your podcasts!
June 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
New episode out now! We sit down to chat with @lizkoziol.bsky.social to discuss prairie fungi!
Available wherever you get your podcasts!
Available wherever you get your podcasts!
Reposted by Liz Koziol
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
June 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
Spring forbs in the prairie are so dramatic, the droopy petals of the pale purple cone flower, the giant flowering spikes of the Baptisia standing 4 feet taller than all the rest of the vegetation. Ridiculous #nativeplants
#restorationecology
#restorationecology
May 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Spring forbs in the prairie are so dramatic, the droopy petals of the pale purple cone flower, the giant flowering spikes of the Baptisia standing 4 feet taller than all the rest of the vegetation. Ridiculous #nativeplants
#restorationecology
#restorationecology
Reposted by Liz Koziol
For Australian Domestic students interested in pursuing a PhD in molecular mycorrhizal studies, please consider applying for a scholarship-funded position in my lab (tinyurl.com/jxcdhp3p) - our lab is a diverse group studying plant-microbe interactions from genes to landscapes
May 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
For Australian Domestic students interested in pursuing a PhD in molecular mycorrhizal studies, please consider applying for a scholarship-funded position in my lab (tinyurl.com/jxcdhp3p) - our lab is a diverse group studying plant-microbe interactions from genes to landscapes
The Baptisia in the pocket prairie at work busted up the earth as it emerged.
#nativeplants
#plantpower
#nativeplants
#plantpower
May 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The Baptisia in the pocket prairie at work busted up the earth as it emerged.
#nativeplants
#plantpower
#nativeplants
#plantpower