The field trial preparations are in full swing! Last week, the @niooknaw.bsky.social team (with @vivianecordovez.bsky.social & Jos) and our Danish collaborators, prepared 210 plots, including 840 sticks and more than 1.000 meters of ribbon. Tomorrow, we will start the inoculations! 🌾 Stay tuned 🤞🏽

Back at it 🌾!

Our wheat has grown like crazy in the past few weeks, so today it was time to move them outside. Just a couple more days until they start flowering, and we can perform the final trials before our big field experiment in Denmark. Fingers crossed for a successful trial! 🤞🏽

PhD thesis submitted 🫡✅

I officially handed in my thesis titled ‘Catching cereal killers: a multi-omits approach to disentangle yeast-Fusarium interactions in the phyllosphere’ 🥳. Now it’s up to the committee, while @vivianecordovez.bsky.social and I can fully focus on the field trials!

Last week, we had our biannual MATRIX meeting, primarily discussing the field trials🌾. I’m super excited to head out into the field this June and see if we can fight Fusarium head blight in a sustainable way 🤺. Let’s bring the yeast home!

Here we go again! Repotted our cold-treated wheat to induce early flowering 🌾. One last trial before we head to the fields in Denmark this summer! Unfortunately, our previous cultivars wasn’t available anymore - hoping for the same biocontrol with these new ones 🤞🏽!