First short introduction to @niooknaw.bsky.social before I officially start Monday! Even more excited to become part of the community 🌱

Top find of the day in Wageningen 🤩

Last Swiss mountain trip a success! @dancoviello.bsky.social

What a beautiful exhibit by the Lausanne botanical garden on peat bogs, with some ericaceous plants and even mention of their mycorrhizal fungi! 🍄‍🟫

Bever/Schultz lab micro-reunion at ESA! 🤓 @invam.bsky.social

Thanks Europe, for making two week vacations the norm. 🇫🇷

What a great speed visit at @ibotcz.bsky.social!!

Slides on slides on slides. Let’s see how much mycorrhizal colonization these non-native plants have (in native and invaded soils)! Massive effort by masters student Linda for her thesis ✨

Botany excursion this morning 🌱 I saw a chalk phylogeny and knew it was going to be good.

What a beautiful place to live 😇✨

Ollie sends you his cuddles💕

It's harvest time again!! 🌱 Linda, a master's student in my group, is testing mycorrhizal inoculum potential across corn, but also 3 non-native plants using soil from remnant and invaded sites in southern Switzerland. Huge thanks to the Plant Nutrition Group for their support!

So proud of my amazing group. Here they are at our end of the year celebration!

Staining those roots to look at mycorrhizal colonization!

In the final steps of harvest of our large ericoid “mesocosm” experiment! 5000 shoots measured and weighed, ~2500 roots cleaned, 100 sterile root architectures, ~300 roots for colonization. Most importantly, an amazing team of students 🤓 🌱🍄 I can’t wait to see what we find!