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Geddes lab members leading a symposium session at #PlantBio2025
Presentation slide introducing the "Plants Quest for Quality Microbial Partners" symposium session. Slide features overview of nodule formation in legume roots by rhizobia from the paper "Host-imposed control mechanisms in legume–rhizobia symbiosis" by Porter et (DOI:10.1038/s41564-024-01762-2) Pictures of each of the speakers for the session interspersed with the figure sections Speakers are: Feng Feng from OSU Siva Sankari of Stowers Barney Geddes of NDSU Kathryn Jones of FSU Sohini Guha of Penn State Session co-chairs Barney Geddes and Chandan Gautam standing near a podium with the Plant Biology 2025 banner
July 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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A few more of our posters!
#PlantBio2025
Scientific poster titled "Uncovering genomic and symbiotic trait diversity in wild rhizobia strains" Poster presenter Tania Gupta of North Dakota State University is standing in front of the poster. Scientific poster titled "Defining the contribution of accessory genes in Mesorhizobium japonicum Integrative Conjugative Elements (ICE) to effective and competitive symbiosis with Lotus japonicus" Poster presenter Gayathri Senanayake of North Dakota State University is standing in front of the poster.
July 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Science. poster titled "Illuminating Legume - Rhizobia Symbiosis: Optimizing Fluorescent Reporters for Host-Specific Insights" Poster presenter Chandan Gautam of North Dakota State University is standing in front of the poster. Scientific poster titled "Root microbiome can and structural traits vary across historically released soybean cultivars" Poster presenter Mohammad Al Mahmud Un Nabi of North Dakota State University is standing in front of the poster and talking with two other conference attendees. Scientific poster titled "Engineering and evaluation of a Sinorhizibium meliloti nodulation (nod) gene reporter system in rhizobia and non-rhizobia" Poster presenter Chinh Luu of North Dakota State University is standing in front of the poster. Scientific poster titled "Using high-throughput culturing to isolate non-rhizobia members of root nodule microbiomes" Poster presenter Olwen Paterson of North Dakota State University is standing in front of the poster and holding a cute small stuffed animal sheep.
July 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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#PlantBio2025
Some great posters from our lab today!
Poster titled "Unraveling Host-Specific Microbial Recruitment and Preference in the Barley and Sugarbeet" Poster presenter Sareeka Kumari of North Dakota State University is standing in front of the poster. Poster titled "Investing Dynamics and Outcomes of a Synthetic Community of Nitrogen-Fixing Microbes Inoculated on Barley and Corn" Poster presenter Somi Lim of North Dakota State University is standing in front of the poster. Poster titled "Evaluating Soybean Microbiome Restructuring in response to Iron Deficiency Chlorosis" Poster presenter Urmi Das of North Dakota State University is standing in front of the poster. Poster titled "High-Throughput Screening approach to enhance Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Dry Beans" Poster presenter Deevita Srivastava of North Dakota State University is standing in front of the poster.
July 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Join us for the final talk in our Microbiome Webinar Series on April 28 at 3:15 PM CST with Dr. Nicole Hynson,

📍https://ndsu.zoom.us/j/95260612542
NDSU Microbiological Sciences Save the date Monday April 28th 3:15 pm CST NDSU Microbiome Webinar Series Dr. Nicole Hynson of the University of Hawaii at Manoa presenting "Ecology of plant and fungal microbiomes" Picture of Dr. Nicole Hynson doing field work at bottom of flier
April 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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How do soil microbiomes behave in space? Join Dr. Janet Jansson as she shares her NASA-funded research on this cutting-edge topic!

🔗 Watch here ndsu.zoom.us/j/95260612542
NDSU Microbiological Sciences Save the Date Monday, March 17th 3:15 PM NDSU Microbiome Webinar Series "Dynamics of soil microbes in space" presented by Dr. Janet Jansson from Pacific Northwest Nation Laboratory
March 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Join us for the next NDSU Microbiome Webinar Series on Feb. 24 at 3:15 PM CST!
NDSU Microbiological Sciences Save the date Monday February 24 3:15PM NDSU Microbiome Webinar Series Playing with Fire: How do microbiomes colonize and persist within wildfire impacted forest soil ecosystems Dr. Mike Wilkins Colorado State University (Picture of Dr. Mike Wilkins on left, words in green, yellow and white on right)
February 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Our Next Seminar is coming up soon, please come and join us:
Monday February 10, 3:15 PM CST
ndsu.zoom.us/j/95260612542
NDSU Microbiological Sciences Save the Date Monday February 10th 3:15PM CST NDSU Microbiome Webinar Series "Rising from the Ashes: How Fungi Survive and Thrive After Fire" Dr. Monika Fischer University of British Columbia
February 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Please join us for the next seminar:
ndsu.zoom.us/j/95260612542
Save the Date NDSU Microbiome Webinar Series Targeting the Gut Microbiome for Therapy in Liver Disease Drs. Christopher Lehmann & Matt Odenwald University of Chicago Monday, January 27th @ 3:15 CST
January 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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A schedule of our upcoming Zoom talks - I'll post links as they become available
Spreadsheet decorated with microbiome associated pictures Spread sheet reads Spring 2025 NDSU Microbiome Webinar Series Presented by the Department of Microbiological Sciences 1/13/2025 Dr. Hannah D. Holscher from the University of Illinois presenting Nutrition and the human microbiome 1/27/2025 Drs. Christopher Lehmann & Matthew Odenwald from the University of Chicago Medical School presenting on Infectious diseases and themicrobiome 2/10/2025 Dr. Monika Fischer from the University of Brittish Columbia presenting on Ecosystems and Climate Change 2/24/2025 Dr. Mike Wilkins from Colorado State University presenting on Microbiomes and the External Environment 3/17/2025 Dr. Janet Jansson from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory presenting on Complex Microbial Communities in Soil and More 3/24/2025 Dr. Liana Burghardt from Penn State University presenting on Plant-microbe-climate interactions 4/7/2025 Dr. Quinn McFrederick from the University of California Riverside presenting on Symbiosis, bee biology and microbiology 04/28/2025 Dr. Nicole Hynson from the University of Hawaii at Manoa presenting on The Ecology of Plant and Fungal Microbiomes
January 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Our microbiome seminar series for the semester is open to anyone! First seminar is Monday January 13th 2025
Zoom link -
ndsu.zoom.us/j/99553534259
NDSU MICROBIOME Webinar Series Dr. Hannah Holscher Associate Professor of Nutrition Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition University of llinois, Urbana-Champaign "Eating for Trillions: The Complexity of Diet" Monday, January 13 @ 3:15 PM CST Dr. Holscher is an Associate Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Ilinois Urbana-Champaign, where she joined the faculty in 2015. She is also a member of the Division of Nutritional Sciences, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, the National Center for Supercomputing Applica tions, and the Personalized Nutrition Initiative. A Registered Dietitian, she holds a Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences, a B.S. in Food Science and Human Nutrition, and completed post doctoral training focused on the human microbiome at UIUC. Her lab uses clinical inter ventions and computational approaches to study the interplay between nutrition, the gastrointestinal microbiome, and health. Her innovative use of machine learning to iden tify microbial biomarkers of diet and health earned her recognition as a 2017 New Inno vator in Food and Agricultural Research, a 2020 National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader, and the 2021 Mead Johnson Young Investigator Award. With over 80 peer-re viewed publications, her work is funded by USDA, FFAR, Commodity boards, and private industry.
January 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM