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George Thomas
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Microbial Plastic Degradation PhD Student 👨‍🎓
James McDonald Lab, University of Birmingham 🥼
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The pre print of my PhD research is out! 📣 Check it out for some cool results on high-throuhput microbial isolation, #SynComs and #Tree #Microbiome 🌳🧫
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#PhDone 💯
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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🧵 1/ New preprint alert! From the FUTURE OAK project, led by the super talented @alejandra1909.bsky.social

Large-scale culturing of the tree microbiome enables targeted disease suppression

Here's what we found... 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Large-scale culturing of the tree microbiome enables targeted disease suppression
The tree microbiome is essential for host health and pathogen suppression. Synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) are emerging as important tools to understand microbiome dynamics and engineer micr...
www.biorxiv.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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🧵 New preprint alert!

From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social

Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Environment and disease have tissue-specific effects on the tree microbiome
Trees are essential for ecosystem function, but due to their long lifespan, are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disease. Tree-associated microbiota are critical for tree health and r...
www.biorxiv.org
August 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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MMEG registration is now live!

Resister now to Join us on the 15-16th December 2025 at the University of Birmingham.

appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...
Molecular Microbial Ecology Group Meeting 2025
appliedmicrobiology.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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December 17, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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It's so nice being back at #MMEG2024 in Southampton finally presenting the results of our study in insect-bacteria interactions @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social @gathomas12.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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On our way to #MMEG2024 in Southampton. Looking forward to two days of exciting science! @marccamb.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 8:24 AM