News

A warm welcome to new team members Dr. Ruoyu Hu and Eleftheria Bachtsevani! Dr. Hu is doing a postdoc on mycorrhizal fungi and N-cycling, and Eleftheria is researching the impact of pesticides on soil nitrifiers for her PhD. @CHazard99 @graemewnicol

Before we start driving, digging and drilling on glaciers, it’s important to get a refresher course on glacier safety. @NPIglaciology

The field season has started in Ny-Alesund! We are studying microbial colonization, adaptation, activity and interactions across spatial and temporal gradients with @Rey_Mourot,@bartekluks, @NPIglaciology.

Just published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry, an opinion piece by @CHazard99, Jim Prosser and @graemewnicol on the use of potential assays, and what they can (and can’t tell you) about soil processes in situ. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071721001152

Congratulations to Tim Vogel! Project partner in two internationally funded projects (SARA and CONTACT) on aquatic pollutants (for details see http://genomenviron.org/index.php/research/).

Many congratulations to Pascal Simonet on his retirement from CNRS. We are delighted that he is now an emeritus researcher, and look forward to the party post-lockdown!

Presenting... Dr. Concepcion Sanches-Cid Torres! Fantastic job defending your PhD entitled "Characterization of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Microbiomes from Different Ecosystems"

We are excited about the launch of the EU/China funded project #EiCLaR, coordinated by our own Tim Vogel! http://www.eiclar.org

Congratulations to our own Graeme Nicol @graemewnicol and also to Amy Pruden @ashley17061 and Steve Siciano @SoilEcolog for being recognized as The ISME Journal’s Outstanding Editorial Board Members for 2020!