Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
@mycoresearch.bsky.social
Researching mycorrhizal fungi for food and nutrition security at Wageningen Uni 🌾 living the cycling dream 🚴🏻♀️ ik leer Nederlands 📖
Counting down to #ICOM2026
Counting down to #ICOM2026
Everyone knows that the New Year hasn’t really started until the UCI cyclocross calendar ends and the UCI road cycling calendar starts ramping up (after it leaves Australia) 🤩
February 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Everyone knows that the New Year hasn’t really started until the UCI cyclocross calendar ends and the UCI road cycling calendar starts ramping up (after it leaves Australia) 🤩
OK, I think I’m done with my first European winter now. Looking forward to any first signs that spring is on its way 🌷
February 1, 2026 at 3:58 PM
OK, I think I’m done with my first European winter now. Looking forward to any first signs that spring is on its way 🌷
I’ve been in Prague this week to attend the @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social Editorial meeting. Great to finally put faces to names of the fantastic staff in the editorial office who keep this journal running smoothly, and meet some of the other editors. It even snowed for us ❄️
January 30, 2026 at 6:53 AM
I’ve been in Prague this week to attend the @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social Editorial meeting. Great to finally put faces to names of the fantastic staff in the editorial office who keep this journal running smoothly, and meet some of the other editors. It even snowed for us ❄️
Submitted my abstract for #ICOM2026! Just a bit keen 🙈
Abstract submission for #ICOM2026 is now open!
🍄Choose from four scientific themes spanning mycorrhiza evolution, diversity, functional ecology, molecular biology, biotic + abiotic interactions, adaptation and management
Submit👉icom2026.org/abstract/
#mycorrhiza @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social
🍄Choose from four scientific themes spanning mycorrhiza evolution, diversity, functional ecology, molecular biology, biotic + abiotic interactions, adaptation and management
Submit👉icom2026.org/abstract/
#mycorrhiza @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Submitted my abstract for #ICOM2026! Just a bit keen 🙈
Does anyone know when Read & Publish agreements (CAUL in Australia) for journal Open Access fees typically kick in for the new year?
I've been hanging out to submit a manuscript to Springer since the OA cap was reached back in October!
I've been hanging out to submit a manuscript to Springer since the OA cap was reached back in October!
December 31, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Does anyone know when Read & Publish agreements (CAUL in Australia) for journal Open Access fees typically kick in for the new year?
I've been hanging out to submit a manuscript to Springer since the OA cap was reached back in October!
I've been hanging out to submit a manuscript to Springer since the OA cap was reached back in October!
Brilliant work, Camille! So well deserved 👏
I am honored to have received the 2025 Tansley Medal @newphyt.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone who pushed, challenged, and supported me along the way to complete the underlying work.
The New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2025 – Camille S. Delavaux
Click on the article title to read more.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Brilliant work, Camille! So well deserved 👏
Run, don't walk! 🏃♀️🏃♂️
206 days until #ICOM2026!
206 days until #ICOM2026!
🚨 ICOM2026 Registration is now OPEN🚨
icom2026.org/register/
💰Use your 2025 budget by registering now!
🍽️ The conference dinner is included with your registration.
Join IMS for reduced registration fee 👉 mycorrhizas.org/become-a-mem...
#ICOM2026 #Mycorrhiza #IMS @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social
icom2026.org/register/
💰Use your 2025 budget by registering now!
🍽️ The conference dinner is included with your registration.
Join IMS for reduced registration fee 👉 mycorrhizas.org/become-a-mem...
#ICOM2026 #Mycorrhiza #IMS @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Run, don't walk! 🏃♀️🏃♂️
206 days until #ICOM2026!
206 days until #ICOM2026!
Abstracts are open for #ICOM2026!
I can’t wait to spend a week immersing myself in all things #mycorrhiza in beautiful Cairns 🌴
There are so many symposia to choose from - go and have a look! icom2026.org/symposia/
I can’t wait to spend a week immersing myself in all things #mycorrhiza in beautiful Cairns 🌴
There are so many symposia to choose from - go and have a look! icom2026.org/symposia/
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Abstracts are open for #ICOM2026!
I can’t wait to spend a week immersing myself in all things #mycorrhiza in beautiful Cairns 🌴
There are so many symposia to choose from - go and have a look! icom2026.org/symposia/
I can’t wait to spend a week immersing myself in all things #mycorrhiza in beautiful Cairns 🌴
There are so many symposia to choose from - go and have a look! icom2026.org/symposia/
Reposted by Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
🍄 🛠️ TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🛠️ 🍄
In this technical advance, Decouard et al. show how to identify plant metabolites in root exudates specifically produced in the presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in an aeroponic-based system.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
In this technical advance, Decouard et al. show how to identify plant metabolites in root exudates specifically produced in the presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in an aeroponic-based system.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
![Fig. 1.Description of the aeroponics cultivation system and downstream collection and analysis of root exudates. (A) Scheme of the experimental setup [the germinated spores of the AMF Rhizophagus irregularis were created in BioRender [Bouhedi, B. (2025) https://BioRender.com/qtva7lu]. (B) Pictures of aerial (upper panel) and root parts (lower panel) of maize plants cultivated in aeroponics at the V4 stage. (C) Workflow of the molecular and cellular analyses performed on aeroponics-grown maize plants and their root exudates. (D) Biological significance and composition of the different samples analyzed by untargeted metabolomics. IRM, intraradical mycelium; ERM, extraradical mycelium; GR24, synthetic analog of strigolactone.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ggz22gcwkakll7efac23g33s/bafkreig3lyjohudeapfmfqacxpc5uwghvpdzym5hqh2emwqi7fotn2pi2a@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🍄 🛠️ TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🛠️ 🍄
In this technical advance, Decouard et al. show how to identify plant metabolites in root exudates specifically produced in the presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in an aeroponic-based system.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
In this technical advance, Decouard et al. show how to identify plant metabolites in root exudates specifically produced in the presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in an aeroponic-based system.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
This morning in Leiden, @frantecol.bsky.social opens the National 🇳🇱 Centre for Soil Ecology symposium, telling us about climate-friendly grassland soils.
December 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This morning in Leiden, @frantecol.bsky.social opens the National 🇳🇱 Centre for Soil Ecology symposium, telling us about climate-friendly grassland soils.
Thank you so much to the @asps-oz.bsky.social for the 2025 Peter Goldacre medal 🌱
It was a privilege to speak at the annual conference last week on my last 10 years of research into plant-mycorrhiza associations and zinc nutrition.
It was a privilege to speak at the annual conference last week on my last 10 years of research into plant-mycorrhiza associations and zinc nutrition.
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Thank you so much to the @asps-oz.bsky.social for the 2025 Peter Goldacre medal 🌱
It was a privilege to speak at the annual conference last week on my last 10 years of research into plant-mycorrhiza associations and zinc nutrition.
It was a privilege to speak at the annual conference last week on my last 10 years of research into plant-mycorrhiza associations and zinc nutrition.
Reposted by Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
What are the major questions unanswered relating to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi?
It is just me, or are too many fundamentals still not resolved around some basic biology and ecology?
Their genetics, their growth patterns, host-preferences, sporulation, and so on.
It is just me, or are too many fundamentals still not resolved around some basic biology and ecology?
Their genetics, their growth patterns, host-preferences, sporulation, and so on.
November 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
What are the major questions unanswered relating to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi?
It is just me, or are too many fundamentals still not resolved around some basic biology and ecology?
Their genetics, their growth patterns, host-preferences, sporulation, and so on.
It is just me, or are too many fundamentals still not resolved around some basic biology and ecology?
Their genetics, their growth patterns, host-preferences, sporulation, and so on.
Reposted by Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
There have been days in the Netherlands where I just daydreamed about the next time I’d taste a Melbourne coffee. The time is finally here 😍
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
There have been days in the Netherlands where I just daydreamed about the next time I’d taste a Melbourne coffee. The time is finally here 😍
Reposted by Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
Reposted by Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
Last of a very long list publications: improving vitamin content in crops using microbiomes (a way around GMO-laws preventing the use of other fortified crops?)
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Lettuce fortification through vitamin B12‐producing bacteria – proof of concept study
BACKGROUND Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) can be produced de novo only by certain bacteria and archaea. It plays a crucial role in the health of animals and humans, which obtain it only through diet, mainl...
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Last of a very long list publications: improving vitamin content in crops using microbiomes (a way around GMO-laws preventing the use of other fortified crops?)
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
New study from @mvanderheijden.bsky.social lab, showing that many commercial mycorrhizal inoculants are snake oil. So important for this data to be published!
Between this, @lizkoziol.bsky.social and Matt Salomon’s work… well I think we make a strong point.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Between this, @lizkoziol.bsky.social and Matt Salomon’s work… well I think we make a strong point.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Poor Quality of Commercial Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Inoculants Used for Agriculture and Home Gardening
There is an urgent need to develop microbial inoculants that can consistently improve crop performance as part of efforts to implement sustainable agricultural practices and reduce the environmental ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New study from @mvanderheijden.bsky.social lab, showing that many commercial mycorrhizal inoculants are snake oil. So important for this data to be published!
Between this, @lizkoziol.bsky.social and Matt Salomon’s work… well I think we make a strong point.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Between this, @lizkoziol.bsky.social and Matt Salomon’s work… well I think we make a strong point.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Photo taken to mark my first lecture at @w-u-r.bsky.social.
It was an 8:20am lecture and I was 40 minutes early to it 🙈 the lecture room wasn’t even unlocked until 8:00.
It was an 8:20am lecture and I was 40 minutes early to it 🙈 the lecture room wasn’t even unlocked until 8:00.
November 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Photo taken to mark my first lecture at @w-u-r.bsky.social.
It was an 8:20am lecture and I was 40 minutes early to it 🙈 the lecture room wasn’t even unlocked until 8:00.
It was an 8:20am lecture and I was 40 minutes early to it 🙈 the lecture room wasn’t even unlocked until 8:00.
🎉
🏆 2025 ASPS Award Winners announced!
Peter Goldacre: Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes (Wageningen).
RN Robertson Lecture: Prof. Michelle Watt (Melbourne).
FPB Best Paper: Dr. Yin Liu.
Annals of Botany: Dr. Lena Mueller.
Congrats all! #ASPS2025
Peter Goldacre: Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes (Wageningen).
RN Robertson Lecture: Prof. Michelle Watt (Melbourne).
FPB Best Paper: Dr. Yin Liu.
Annals of Botany: Dr. Lena Mueller.
Congrats all! #ASPS2025
October 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🎉
Wow, they have blue skies in the Randstad! ☀️
October 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Wow, they have blue skies in the Randstad! ☀️
The last 100 metres home 🍂
October 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The last 100 metres home 🍂
I seem to have acquired an intolerance to dairy in the last two weeks, and I’m scheduled to go to my Dutch friend’s house for lunch on the weekend… where lunch for us traditionally consists of copious amounts of varied types of cheese. This is really een jammer 😭 Getting older kinda sucks.
October 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I seem to have acquired an intolerance to dairy in the last two weeks, and I’m scheduled to go to my Dutch friend’s house for lunch on the weekend… where lunch for us traditionally consists of copious amounts of varied types of cheese. This is really een jammer 😭 Getting older kinda sucks.
Ik leer Nederlands so I need to read more Dutch science bits on Bluesky!
Een symbiose met arbuscular mycorrhizal schimmels helpt planten bij een tekort aan voedingstoffen. Een nieuwe studie laat zien dat na aangaan van de symbiose de plant actief meer behulpzame microben rekruteert.
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/10/14/h...
🧪 #PlantScience
Lees meer over dit onderzoek op m’n blog plantenzo.net/2025/10/14/h...
🧪 #PlantScience
Hoe sojabonen het meest uit geboden hulp halen
Een symbiose met arbuscular mycorrhizal schimmels helpt planten bij een tekort aan voedingstoffen. Maar in vlinderbloemige de regulatie is net even anders. Dit bestuderend vond een nieuwe studie da…
plantenzo.net
October 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Ik leer Nederlands so I need to read more Dutch science bits on Bluesky!
Reposted by Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
A symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi helps plants during nutrient shortages. A new study shows that once the symbioses is initiated the plant actively recruits more microbes to help.
Read more about this study on my blog
plantenzo.net/2025/10/14/h...
🧪 #PlantScience
Read more about this study on my blog
plantenzo.net/2025/10/14/h...
🧪 #PlantScience
How soybeans get the most out of offered help
A symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi helps plants during nutrient shortages. But in legumes this is slightly different regulated. A new study analysing this finds that once the symbioses i…
plantenzo.net
October 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
A symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi helps plants during nutrient shortages. A new study shows that once the symbioses is initiated the plant actively recruits more microbes to help.
Read more about this study on my blog
plantenzo.net/2025/10/14/h...
🧪 #PlantScience
Read more about this study on my blog
plantenzo.net/2025/10/14/h...
🧪 #PlantScience