Gubry-Rangin Lab

Prof Cecile Gubry-Rangin attended the 6th PLANT microBIOMEsymposium 2025

Rice harvest for Annie's rice BNI project completed with help from lab members

Jack participated in a podcast addressing the issue of ​improving barley and whisky production sustainability. Here is the link to the podcast:​​https://www.youtube.com/live/_EqgHlEgyHk?si=P0wl1GrYWhrtLj7I

Dr. Jasmeet Kaur-Bhambra works on biological nitrification inhibition in wheat with key focus in understanding the biotic and abiotic factors influencing BNI efficiency. The project (CropSustain) is funded by NovoNordisk Founden.

Jack Henderson presented his work on biological nitrification in barley in FEMS microbiology conference, Milan.

Dr. Luke Harrold works on biological nitrification inhibition in wheat with a focus on the behaviour of biological nitrification compounds in soil. The project (CropSustain) is funded by NovoNordisk Founden.

Claire Mcnamee presented her work on biogeochemical impact of peatland drain blocking in 12th INTECOL Wetland Conference, Tartu Estonia.

Our Lab members presented their work at ICON conference in Bremen, Germany​

Lab members presented their work in Rhizosphere 6 conference

Congratulations to our lab member Jack Henderson on his marriage

Professor Cécile Gubry-Rangin hosts BNI Day.

Lab members participated in the Plant fascination day and interacted with plant enthusiasts of all ages in the Duthie park winter garden.

Dr. Lea Nosáľová from the Sorbonne Université, Paris, visited our lab and presented her work, "Global assessment of Biological Nitrification Inhibition across savanna tropical grasses," in an informal seminar in School of biological sciences

PhD students from our lab presented their ​​work through fascinating posters

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Miss Gaoyang Ren research focuses on the ecology and evolution of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea. She is currently investigating the genomic diversity and metabolic characteristics of different Thaumarchaeota lineages.Her aim is to better understand their roles in the marine nitrogen cycle and how they adapt to diverse environmental conditions. She is fascinated by how microorganisms drive key biogeochemical processes and interact with their surroundings.

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/plant-science-cdt-contribution-of-biological-nitrification-inhibition-to-soil-restoration/?p180271

Dr Simon Griffiths from the John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK) will visit us this Wednesday (19th March) and give a seminar in Cruickshank G27 at 1pm.

PhD opportunity: Microbial thermal tolerance in the context of climate change. Please check: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/quartiles-dla-microbial-thermal-tolerance-in-the-context-of-climate-change/?p181545

PhD oppurtunity: Mechanisms of spatial variation in natural tree regeneration in grazed UK uplands. Please check: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/quartiles-dla-mechanisms-of-spatial-variation-in-natural-tree-regeneration-in-grazed-uk-uplands/?p181571

Dr Ashley Shade is visiting our lab and will be presenting in the SBS seminar series on Thursday 29th Jan at 1 pm

Prof Cecile Gubry-Rangin attended the 5th BNI-international consortium biennial meeeting. She presented her work titled “Improvements in BNI-detection assay methodologies…and applications to multiple crop systems”

Dr. Alaster Moffat presented his work titled 'Generalism without the costs? Challenging conventional ecological theory of trade-offs' in MMEG conference

Dr Alaster Moffat presented his post-doctoral research on "Generalism without the costs? Challenging conventional ecological theory of trade-offs"

Maeva Mounier joins our lab as a phD student 

New publication: Land use effects on soil microbiome composition and traits with consequences for soil carbon cycling

New Publication: Niche breadth specialisation impacts ecological and evolutionary adaptation following environmental change

Prof A. Stuart Grandy
Liang from University of New Hampshire visited us on 25th/26 th Sept!

Metabolome fingerprinting reveals the presence of multiple nitrification inhibitors in biomass and root exudates of Thinopyrum intermedium
Journal Title: Plant-Environment Interactions

Dylan presented a poster at ISME “Niche specialisation and phylosymbiosis in the sponge microbiome”.

Prof Yongchao Liang from Zhejiang University visited us on 2nd/3rd Sept!

​Cécile gave an invited talk at ISME “Importance of environmental fluctuations for microbial adaptation and biogeography”.

Dr Cecile de Klein (https://www.agresearch.co.nz/about-us/our-people/cecile-de-klein/ ) is visiting us and will give a talk on “Biological nitrification inhibition in temperate pasture species for reducing N2O emissions: opportunities and challenges”

Xiaoping starts her large experiments to study BNI activity in Wheat

On Friday 28th June, Alaster, Paul, and Cecile ran a full-day workshop on ‘Metagenome Assembly and Functional Annotation’ in association with the Aberdeen Computational Biology Forum. Attendees came from multiple schools across the University, including Chemistry, Medical Science, and Biological Sciences, to learn how to assemble and functionally annotate metagenome-assembled-genomes (MAGs) from metagenomics data.”

For EastBio PIPS internship, Jack worked with the Scottish Government,  in which he assessed current policy needs regarding fertilisers in Scotland.

Jonathan Joined our lab on 2nd of May and will be working in the group to October. He will do assay development and ecological studies on BNI candidate compounds in soil while he is in CGR lab.

Bev is a research technician supporting a BBSRC funded interdisciplinary project. She will support the research on natural variation in biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) in rice.

In collaboration with researchers in China, we rencently publised a paper on the Journal of Environmental Management, "AOB Nitrosospira cluster 3a.2 (D11) dominates N2O emissions in fertilised agricultural soils", advances our understanding of key nitrifiers responsible for high N2O emissions in agricultural soils and their controlling factors, and provides vital knowledge for N2O emission mitigation in agricultural ecosystems.