Changfeng Zhang
@cfzhang.bsky.social
Postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Microbial ecology
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Super happy to have our work published in one of my favourite journals @newphyt.bsky.social Amazing effort by Jiayu Zhou and colleagues from @utrechtpmi.bsky.social and UvA. You can find it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cornepieterse.bsky.social
Arabidopsis root defense barriers support beneficial interactions with rhizobacterium Pseudomonas simiae WCS417
Plant roots interact with pathogenic and beneficial microbes in the soil. While root defense barriers block pathogens, their roles in facilitating beneficial plant–microbe associations are understud...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Super happy to have our work published in one of my favourite journals @newphyt.bsky.social Amazing effort by Jiayu Zhou and colleagues from @utrechtpmi.bsky.social and UvA. You can find it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cornepieterse.bsky.social
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🌱 How does disease affect the soybean root microbiome? Our new study in #PlantandSoil explores differences in bacteria & fungi in healthy vs. diseased plants. Thanks Sarah Lebeis, Bridget O'Banion and @agates-phd.bsky.social for your hard work in the field! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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August 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🌱 How does disease affect the soybean root microbiome? Our new study in #PlantandSoil explores differences in bacteria & fungi in healthy vs. diseased plants. Thanks Sarah Lebeis, Bridget O'Banion and @agates-phd.bsky.social for your hard work in the field! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Proud to share our latest pre-print manuscript entitled 'Downy mildew disease-suppressive soils transmit a protective core microbiome to the phyllosphere' (lnkd.in/dBk28gnT). Super cool to see the final chapter of my PhD at the Plant-Microbe Interactions group of Universiteit Utrecht now online!
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June 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Proud to share our latest pre-print manuscript entitled 'Downy mildew disease-suppressive soils transmit a protective core microbiome to the phyllosphere' (lnkd.in/dBk28gnT). Super cool to see the final chapter of my PhD at the Plant-Microbe Interactions group of Universiteit Utrecht now online!
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The *Microbes Persist* project I lead is featured in LLNL’s new Science and Tech magazine. We’re trying to understand how genomes of tiny organisms control the creation & breakdown of soil organic matter— a critical ingredient in keeping our soils healthy and productive.
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June 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The *Microbes Persist* project I lead is featured in LLNL’s new Science and Tech magazine. We’re trying to understand how genomes of tiny organisms control the creation & breakdown of soil organic matter— a critical ingredient in keeping our soils healthy and productive.
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The latest publication from our lab!
The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
June 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The latest publication from our lab!
The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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One more week to apply for an open PhD position in my team at Utrecht University. Interested in genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, microorganisms and plant-microbiota interactions, don't hesitate and apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
PhD Position on Decoding Plant Microbiota–Host Specificity Using AI
Join us to generate data and build AI-driven models to decode plant–microbiota host specificity!
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June 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
One more week to apply for an open PhD position in my team at Utrecht University. Interested in genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, microorganisms and plant-microbiota interactions, don't hesitate and apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Only ~370 AM fungal species have been described—shockingly low for a 500-million-year-old lineage. Meanwhile, ‘identical’ strains often show genome-level differences akin to distinct species. Are we underestimating their diversity?
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A call for reform: implementing genome‐based approaches for species classification in Glomeromycotina
In arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, only c. 370 species have been formally described despite these fungal organisms having coevolved with plants for hundreds of millions of years. In contrast to th....
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April 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Only ~370 AM fungal species have been described—shockingly low for a 500-million-year-old lineage. Meanwhile, ‘identical’ strains often show genome-level differences akin to distinct species. Are we underestimating their diversity?
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🌱🔬 Exciting to see Yang Song explain our Nature Microbiology paper in this video! Her work shows how the microbiome of seed potatoes can predict plant growth potential—offering a new way to assess tuber quality before planting. Check it out here: www.microp.org/news/168/new...
New video: research highlights from Yang Song Microp
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February 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🌱🔬 Exciting to see Yang Song explain our Nature Microbiology paper in this video! Her work shows how the microbiome of seed potatoes can predict plant growth potential—offering a new way to assess tuber quality before planting. Check it out here: www.microp.org/news/168/new...
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February 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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New Phytologist next generation scientists: a unique meeting dedicated to early career researchers in the plant sciences
Apply for your chance to join us in Birmingham, UK this July.
Applications close on 27 January!
👉 https://www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevents/2025
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Apply for your chance to join us in Birmingham, UK this July.
Applications close on 27 January!
👉 https://www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevents/2025
#npnextgen #PlantScience
January 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New Phytologist next generation scientists: a unique meeting dedicated to early career researchers in the plant sciences
Apply for your chance to join us in Birmingham, UK this July.
Applications close on 27 January!
👉 https://www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevents/2025
#npnextgen #PlantScience
Apply for your chance to join us in Birmingham, UK this July.
Applications close on 27 January!
👉 https://www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevents/2025
#npnextgen #PlantScience