Gubry-Rangin Lab

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.