Microbial Ecology & Evolution
Latest News
29 Aug 2024
Prof Yongchao Liang visited us on 2nd/3rd Sept!
Prof Yongchao Liang from Zhejiang University visited us on 2nd/3rd Sept!
29 Aug 2024
Cécile gave an invited talk at ISME “Importance of environmental fluctuations for microbial adaptation and biogeography”.
Cécile gave an invited talk at ISME “Importance of environmental fluctuations for microbial adaptation and biogeography”.
29 Aug 2024
Dylan presented a poster at ISME “Niche specialisation and phylosymbiosis in the sponge microbiome”.
Dylan presented a poster at ISME “Niche specialisation and phylosymbiosis in the sponge microbiome”.
4 Jul 2024
Dr Cecile de Klein visits School of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen
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”
3 Jul 2024
Xiaoping starts her experiments on wheat
Xiaoping starts her large experiments to study BNI activity in Wheat
28 Jun 2024
Metagenome Assembly and Functional Annotation workshop completed successfully
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.”
10 Jun 2024
Jack resumes his work with our group after EastBio PIPS internship
For EastBio PIPS internship, Jack worked with the Scottish Government, in which he assessed current policy needs regarding fertilisers in Scotland.
2 May 2024
Jonathan Solve joins our lab
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.
10 Apr 2024
Beverley Minter joins our 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.
10 Mar 2024
Key Contributor to N2O Emissions in Alkaline Cropland Soils
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.