Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
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Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
@mycoresearch.bsky.social
Researching mycorrhizal fungi for food and nutrition security at Wageningen Uni 🌾 living the cycling dream 🚴🏻‍♀️ en ik leer Nederlands 📖
Reposted by Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
Last of a very long list publications: improving vitamin content in crops using microbiomes (a way around GMO-laws preventing the use of other fortified crops?)
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Lettuce fortification through vitamin B12‐producing bacteria – proof of concept study
BACKGROUND Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) can be produced de novo only by certain bacteria and archaea. It plays a crucial role in the health of animals and humans, which obtain it only through diet, mainl...
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I’m so excited that I get to catch up with @lmueller.bsky.social at #ASPS2025!! All the way from Netherlands and California, meeting in Adelaide for #mycorrhiza catch-ups!
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
And from next year the eligibility extends to ten years post-PhD, so even more competition (but also I become eligible next year, even though I’m not this year, so that’s nice for me) 🙃
October 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Oh noooooo 😩
October 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Today it's 120 days since we last saw our "stuff". Supposedly today was the latest date for it arrive to us in the Netherlands.

Our stuff is in... *checks tracker*... China. Awesome.

And it's going ALL the way around Africa to get to NL??

Taking donations for warm clothing now 🙃
October 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The best time of day!
September 23, 2025 at 5:29 AM