Dr Zahra Islam
@zahra-f-islam.bsky.social
Plant-soil microbes lecturer @FertiliserHub, @SciMelb. PhD @MonashUni on bacteria living on thin air. Alumni of @UNSWScience. She/her
Day 1 of the #MSCW25 conference supported by @amiposts.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social is underway with an excellent topic intro on #GHG and #microbialmitigation by A/Prof Carlo Carere! It's going to be a great day of #ECR talks in this space!
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Day 1 of the #MSCW25 conference supported by @amiposts.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social is underway with an excellent topic intro on #GHG and #microbialmitigation by A/Prof Carlo Carere! It's going to be a great day of #ECR talks in this space!
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The organising committee are delighted to invite you to submit an abstract for the ASM VIC Meeting, taking place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 15–18 June 2026. www.theasmmeeting.org.au/abstract-sub...
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The organising committee are delighted to invite you to submit an abstract for the ASM VIC Meeting, taking place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 15–18 June 2026. www.theasmmeeting.org.au/abstract-sub...
Huge congratulations to my very first PhD student @carlpille.bsky.social for submitting his thesis last Friday!! 🥳 He has done an amazing job over the past 3.5 years, and has definitely been the #dream first student to primary supervise!
October 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Huge congratulations to my very first PhD student @carlpille.bsky.social for submitting his thesis last Friday!! 🥳 He has done an amazing job over the past 3.5 years, and has definitely been the #dream first student to primary supervise!
Congratulations to my very first PhD student @carlpille.bsky.social for a fantastic #PhDcompletion seminar this afternoon! Carl has done some excellent work in the #plantsoilmicrobiome field, so #watchthisspace! #proudsupervisor @unimelbsoc.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Congratulations to my very first PhD student @carlpille.bsky.social for a fantastic #PhDcompletion seminar this afternoon! Carl has done some excellent work in the #plantsoilmicrobiome field, so #watchthisspace! #proudsupervisor @unimelbsoc.bsky.social
Today is #InternationalMicroorganismDay! And to celebrate, I thought I'd share some thoughts about why I enjoy researching these tiny bugs in the environment, and some recent outreach activities I've done to get everyone else to see that not all bacteria are bad!
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September 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Today is #InternationalMicroorganismDay! And to celebrate, I thought I'd share some thoughts about why I enjoy researching these tiny bugs in the environment, and some recent outreach activities I've done to get everyone else to see that not all bacteria are bad!
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And that's a wrap on two weeks in Europe/UK! I was very fortunate to have to opportunity to present my latest research on #hydrogencycling in agroecosystems at both the #esm2025 in Helsinki, and at the ELSA Workshop on Microbiology of Climate Active Gases hosted by the amazing @matehg.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
And that's a wrap on two weeks in Europe/UK! I was very fortunate to have to opportunity to present my latest research on #hydrogencycling in agroecosystems at both the #esm2025 in Helsinki, and at the ELSA Workshop on Microbiology of Climate Active Gases hosted by the amazing @matehg.bsky.social
Throw back to my presentation last week at #esm2025! It was great to finally get a chance to share these results to a broad audience of #microbialecologists!
Zahra Islam took us into the world of hydrogen cycling microbes. #esm2025
June 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Throw back to my presentation last week at #esm2025! It was great to finally get a chance to share these results to a broad audience of #microbialecologists!
Very excited to share that I’ve been awarded the @aussocmic.bsky.social 2025 Jim Pittard Award! (alongside the fantastic Rhys Parry and Heema Vyas!) 🦠 🌾
The award recognises the important contributions of Aus researchers to microbiology at the ECR stage, as well as their contributions to ASM.
The award recognises the important contributions of Aus researchers to microbiology at the ECR stage, as well as their contributions to ASM.
May 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Very excited to share that I’ve been awarded the @aussocmic.bsky.social 2025 Jim Pittard Award! (alongside the fantastic Rhys Parry and Heema Vyas!) 🦠 🌾
The award recognises the important contributions of Aus researchers to microbiology at the ECR stage, as well as their contributions to ASM.
The award recognises the important contributions of Aus researchers to microbiology at the ECR stage, as well as their contributions to ASM.
Very happy to announce after ~2.5 years of scientific undertaking (from planning to actual experiments to writing and publication process), my 1st paper from my Hub for Smart Fertilisers postdoc is now live! Huge collaborative effort from UniMelb researchers: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 18, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Very happy to announce after ~2.5 years of scientific undertaking (from planning to actual experiments to writing and publication process), my 1st paper from my Hub for Smart Fertilisers postdoc is now live! Huge collaborative effort from UniMelb researchers: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I apologise for HydDB being down. Aarhus University decided to stop hosting it at quite short notice. However, we plan to relaunch first thing next year and are in the midst of creating a much-needed HydDB 2.0. HydDB 1.0 is good for hydrogenase information, but our HMMs best for classification. 1/2
December 19, 2024 at 6:15 AM
I apologise for HydDB being down. Aarhus University decided to stop hosting it at quite short notice. However, we plan to relaunch first thing next year and are in the midst of creating a much-needed HydDB 2.0. HydDB 1.0 is good for hydrogenase information, but our HMMs best for classification. 1/2
First post on this platform - a bit of a reflection on the year 2024! Lots of great science was done #FertiliserHub and #SciMelb, with some truly memorable (no doubt ongoing!) scientific collaborations initiated with @DagmarWoebken and @DOME_Vienna, courtesy of #ISME_microbes Scholar Fund. 1/
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
First post on this platform - a bit of a reflection on the year 2024! Lots of great science was done #FertiliserHub and #SciMelb, with some truly memorable (no doubt ongoing!) scientific collaborations initiated with @DagmarWoebken and @DOME_Vienna, courtesy of #ISME_microbes Scholar Fund. 1/