Vincent Merckx
@vincentmerckx.bsky.social
Scientific Director and Group Leader at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Explorer of the underground 🌳🍄
Museum duty today @naturalis.bsky.social These colleagues are giving me a skeptical look 👀
September 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Museum duty today @naturalis.bsky.social These colleagues are giving me a skeptical look 👀
The @erc.europa.eu MIXOTROPH sampling in Japan has come to an end. The success of this campaign was due to the support of Prof. Kenji Suetsugu (Kobe University) and his incredible team. I’m looking forward to continue our collaboration! 🌳 🍄
September 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The @erc.europa.eu MIXOTROPH sampling in Japan has come to an end. The success of this campaign was due to the support of Prof. Kenji Suetsugu (Kobe University) and his incredible team. I’m looking forward to continue our collaboration! 🌳 🍄
The last leg of the fieldwork brought me to the beautiful island of Yakushima. The lush ceder forests are incredible examples of the power of nature conservation, as most have been replanted in the 1960s. And if you walk far enough, you can still see trees of more than 1000 year old…
September 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The last leg of the fieldwork brought me to the beautiful island of Yakushima. The lush ceder forests are incredible examples of the power of nature conservation, as most have been replanted in the 1960s. And if you walk far enough, you can still see trees of more than 1000 year old…
The @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team headed to Shiga prefecture to sample a forest site with Burmannia cryptopetala. Sample site nr 3 in Japan ✅
August 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team headed to Shiga prefecture to sample a forest site with Burmannia cryptopetala. Sample site nr 3 in Japan ✅
A beautiful mixed forest near Nagoya with plenty of Petrosavia sakurai became our next sampling site 🌳 🌲
August 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A beautiful mixed forest near Nagoya with plenty of Petrosavia sakurai became our next sampling site 🌳 🌲
The @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team is in Kobe, Japan for some more sampling!
August 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team is in Kobe, Japan for some more sampling!
I have a PhD position available at @naturalis.bsky.social to work on soil biodiversity and drought in urban environments, as part of the NWA Thirsty Cities project 🏡🌳🍄
👉🏻 www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...
👉🏻 www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...
PhD student Thirsty Cities
Pursuing a PhD at Naturalis in Leiden (the Netherlands) means working on research with a truly global impact — contributing directly to biodiversity. And you'll be well supported every step of the way...
www.naturalis.nl
August 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I have a PhD position available at @naturalis.bsky.social to work on soil biodiversity and drought in urban environments, as part of the NWA Thirsty Cities project 🏡🌳🍄
👉🏻 www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...
👉🏻 www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...
Had a super inspiring visit to the lab of @vkokkoris.bsky.social today @vuamsterdam.bsky.social Sometimes the most promising opportunities are just around the corner 🍄🟫🌿
April 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Had a super inspiring visit to the lab of @vkokkoris.bsky.social today @vuamsterdam.bsky.social Sometimes the most promising opportunities are just around the corner 🍄🟫🌿
Reposted by Vincent Merckx
Our newest research in @nature.com
We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Our newest research in @nature.com
We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
Reposted by Vincent Merckx
Nature Today: Amsterdamse straatbomen leven samen met enorme diversiteit aan schimmels
www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...
www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...
Nature Today | Amsterdamse straatbomen leven samen met enorme diversiteit aan schimmels
De diversiteit aan 'goede' schimmels rond de wortels van Amsterdamse stadsbomen is verrassend hoog. Iepen op de meest verstedelijkte locatie bleken zelfs de meest diverse schimmelgemeenschappen te heb...
www.naturetoday.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Nature Today: Amsterdamse straatbomen leven samen met enorme diversiteit aan schimmels
www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...
www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...
Reposted by Vincent Merckx
Join our lab in Amsterdam. We are looking for a Netherlands-based Technician/Analist (MBO-4 level) to apply advanced microscopy, imaging, and molecular techniques to study fungal-plant interactions. 2-yr position
See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd.
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...
See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd.
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...
February 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Join our lab in Amsterdam. We are looking for a Netherlands-based Technician/Analist (MBO-4 level) to apply advanced microscopy, imaging, and molecular techniques to study fungal-plant interactions. 2-yr position
See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd.
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...
See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd.
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...
“It is predicted that the number of novel operational taxonomic units delimited by barcode sequencing is likely to eclipse the number of species described by Linnean taxonomy by as early as 2029”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Delimiting Species—Prospects and Challenges for DNA Barcoding
Discovering, describing and cataloguing global species diversity remains a fundamental challenge both for biodiversity research and for the management and conservation of biodiversity. Among animals,....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“It is predicted that the number of novel operational taxonomic units delimited by barcode sequencing is likely to eclipse the number of species described by Linnean taxonomy by as early as 2029”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Vincent Merckx
When did herbarium in Leiden become this big? Trends in collection of regular specimens vs. types; fungi and lichens; notable collectors and expeditions. (Mind that only ca. 20% of fungarium is digitized.)
February 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
When did herbarium in Leiden become this big? Trends in collection of regular specimens vs. types; fungi and lichens; notable collectors and expeditions. (Mind that only ca. 20% of fungarium is digitized.)
Reposted by Vincent Merckx
Some ectomycorrhizal root tips I recently had the pleasure of photographing. #mycorrhizal #emfungi #mycorrhizae
January 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Some ectomycorrhizal root tips I recently had the pleasure of photographing. #mycorrhizal #emfungi #mycorrhizae
Reposted by Vincent Merckx
Reposted by Vincent Merckx
Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Stoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Flags in the forest: the @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team is mapping mycorrhizal networks in Khao Yai National Park 🍄🌳 #mycorrhiza #mixotrophy
January 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Flags in the forest: the @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team is mapping mycorrhizal networks in Khao Yai National Park 🍄🌳 #mycorrhiza #mixotrophy
Final stop in Thailand: Khao Yai National Park. Beautiful views and forests with giant members of the Burmanniaceae family: Burmannia disticha #mycoheterotrophy #mixotrophy @naturalis.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Final stop in Thailand: Khao Yai National Park. Beautiful views and forests with giant members of the Burmanniaceae family: Burmannia disticha #mycoheterotrophy #mixotrophy @naturalis.bsky.social
The @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team at work: selecting sampling sites along the Mekong river in Thailand.
January 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team at work: selecting sampling sites along the Mekong river in Thailand.
A new year, new adventures! The ERC Mixotroph team of @naturalis.bsky.social arrived in Thailand for fieldwork in collaboration with Mahidol University 🌳🍄
January 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A new year, new adventures! The ERC Mixotroph team of @naturalis.bsky.social arrived in Thailand for fieldwork in collaboration with Mahidol University 🌳🍄
Reposted by Vincent Merckx
Ons vlaggenschip-project @arisenl.bsky.social bouwt een infrastructuur die alle Nederlandse soorten kan herkennen, en vormt daarmee de basis voor onze nog veel grotere ambities. Daar hebben we wel wat hulp bij nodig. Kennen jullie een Data Engineer met biodiversiteitsambitie?
Data Engineer
Naturalis is looking for a Data Engineer!
www.naturalis.nl
December 17, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Ons vlaggenschip-project @arisenl.bsky.social bouwt een infrastructuur die alle Nederlandse soorten kan herkennen, en vormt daarmee de basis voor onze nog veel grotere ambities. Daar hebben we wel wat hulp bij nodig. Kennen jullie een Data Engineer met biodiversiteitsambitie?
Reposted by Vincent Merckx
We found this ghost redwood tree this weekend while camping this weekend @jrossibarra.bsky.social . It's a rare chlorophyll mutant growing clonally off of the base of huge coastal redwood
December 2, 2024 at 3:25 AM
We found this ghost redwood tree this weekend while camping this weekend @jrossibarra.bsky.social . It's a rare chlorophyll mutant growing clonally off of the base of huge coastal redwood
Reposted by Vincent Merckx
Hot off the press today in @currentbiology.bsky.social, our very latest on Mucoromycotina ‘fine root endophyte’ #mycorrhizas! led by Nathan Howard, we show N source preference and exogenous C metabolism by #MFRE: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... short 🧵
Preferential nitrogen and carbon exchange dynamics in Mucoromycotina “fine root endophyte”-plant symbiosis
Mucoromycotina “fine root endophyte” (MFRE) fungi are an understudied group of plant symbionts that regularly co-occur with arbuscular mycorrhizal fun…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Popping up here!
November 9, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Popping up here!