Join us in Amsterdam to explore the inner lives of mycorrhizal fungi using robotics, fluorescence microscopy & machine learning.

Work at AMOLF w/ @thomasshimizu.bsky.social + more

📅 Application Deadline: 15 May, 2025
Advert here: amolf.nl/wp-content/u...

Photo (!) @vkokkoris.bsky.social

Fungi are extraordinary at solving complex problems.

Incredible to see their strategies highlighted in @nytimes.com by @alanburdick.bsky.social

The article is a visual journey of what we have been documenting in the lab over last few years with our imaging robot

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/s...

We hope these techniques will allow research into how networks regulate the Earth's nutrient cycles.

Many of these stellar scientists are now on Bluesky:
@rachaelcargill.bsky.social @thecrobe.bsky.social @anilevetu.bsky.social @vkokkoris.bsky.social @thomasshimizu.bsky.social

Our newest research in @nature.com

We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social

Join our lab in Amsterdam. We are looking for a Netherlands-based Technician/Analist (MBO-4 level) to apply advanced microscopy, imaging, and molecular techniques to study fungal-plant interactions. 2-yr position

See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd.
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...

Are plants more likely to be ‘eavesdroppers’ than altruists when tapped into fungal networks?

Read our new theory paper out today in @pnas.org w/ @stuwest.bsky.social @tomwscott.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(photo T. Munita)

The rhizosphere has been called “one of the most complex ecosystems on earth”

But how do host plants control benefits derived from their microbial partners?

Read our paper in Nature Microbiology on how legumes mediate conflict & cooperation with N2-fixing symbionts.

Here: tinyurl.com/4y4tjx6k

Soil isn't just underground. With the help of networks of mycorrhizal fungi, soils are formed even on the most vertical cliffs.

Underground Explorer Felipe Morales Armijo is working w/@spununderground.bsky.social to map vertical fungi across the cliffs of Mexico.

Happy World Soils Day.

Have you ever seen a microbe Museum? I recently gave a talk at MICROPIA in Amsterdam to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Inviting >5.6 trillion microbes, Micropia baked a massive cake - not for humans - but designed for microbes.

MICROPIA is the world's only microbe-museum: oud.micropia.nl/en/

Calling all myconauts. Excited to have joined BlueSky to share our work on the structure, trade & nutrient flows of mycorrhizal networks.

Video time lapse of root (red) & mycorrhizal network (light blue) over 300hrs