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UMR IAM
@umr-iam.bsky.social
Unité Mixte de Recherche Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes
Department of Tree-Microbe Interactions 🌳🌲 🍄🦠🧬🧫🔬📊
@inrae-france.bsky.social & @univlorraine.bsky.social
Nancy, France
https://mycor.iam.inrae.fr/IAM/
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¡New #preprint from the Lab!

"Phytophthora root rot induces compositional and functional changes in avocado rhizosphere bacterial communities"
🥑🦠🧬

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Phytophthora root rot induces compositional and functional changes in avocado rhizosphere bacterial communities
Understanding how plant pathogens modulate the rhizosphere microbiota is essential to integrated disease management. Here, we assessed the compositional and functional shifts in the avocado rhizospher...
www.biorxiv.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Another fine outcome of my long-standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan and Long Peng at RISF in Hangzhou:

Endophytes with mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications - New Phytologist

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Honored to be named to the Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list! Grateful to be among such distinguished colleagues and to everyone who has collaborated with me along the way.
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Demain, je serai au Salon du Livre au Château à Saint-Max : conférence à 11h00 et débat autour du film "La forêt comestible" à 18h00 ...
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: Come join us at ForestGEO, based in the Smithsonian, to study tropical forest mortality!
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Forest Mortality
The position will be based at the ForestGEO headquarters at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
forestgeo.si.edu
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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#E-PoPP2025: Fabien Halkett @umr-iam.bsky.social on population genetics of partially clonal organisms

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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#E-PoPP2025: Kadiatou Schiffer-Forsyth @umr-iam.bsky.social about inter- and intraspecific spatio-temporal evolution in the #poplar #rust fungi 🌳🍄
#ForestHealth
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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#E-PoPP2025: Fabien Halkett @umr-iam.bsky.social about a non-conventional #avirulence locus in the #poplar #rust fungus 🌳🍄
#ForestHealth
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Meeting of the E-PoPP network ( #Ecology and #Evolution of #Plant #Pathogenic #Populations 🌱🍄🦠🪱) in #Paris at the #Totem amphitheater
#E-PoPP2025
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
#OurFridaySeminar: Ségolène Bouche on #mineral #weathering capacities of a #Pseudomonas spelaei strain
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Packed room for Emma Corre's PhD defense on transposable elements in rust fungi genomes.
Congratulations Dr @emma--c.bsky.social 👏👏👏

And what a lovely tribute to Barbara McClintock who discovered transposable elements in 🌽!!!
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Fantastic day in the Amance Arboretum, sampling #pine needles with #DothistromaNeedleBlight symptoms with @kathrinblumenstein.bsky.social and Yasin Korkmaz from @uni-freiburg.de on many Asian, European and American pine species.
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Passionné de SF, je suis ravi de participer aux Utopiales, le célèbre festival international de SF à Nantes ! Au programme : 2 rencontres passionnantes – jeudi 30/10 : "Le nom du monde est Forêt" et vendredi 31/10 : "Des individualités symbiotiques". Hâte d'y être !
October 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Just Published: "A Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly of the Flax Rust Fungus Reveals the Two Unusually Large Effector Proteins, AvrM3 and AvrN," by Jana Sperschneider et al. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-04-25-0047-R
October 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Our fabulous alumna Feng Zhang summarizing her amazing work on nitrogen assimilation pathways in ectomycorrhizal symbiosis … hundreds of RNAi lines generated and analyzed
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Honored to be woven into a documentary celebrating the legendary Fly Agaric, captured through the eyes, lens and microphone of Thommy Grübe, René Dame & Hannes Margret for ⁦‪ARTE. The Donon forest cast its spell.
October 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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🚨Join us on Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 16:00 CEST (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social (INRAE Nancy) 'Into the Heart of Darkness - #Genomics🧬 #Saptrotrophy-to-Symbiosis 🌳Forest #Soil #Fungioom' 🍄 ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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PhDone!
Congratulations Dr. @ammarabdalrahem.bsky.social!
👏👏👏👨‍🎓🎓

A big thank you to @tatianagiraud.bsky.social, @sofarndhnd.bsky.social & @wheatpath.bsky.social for being on the PhD jury!

📸 @mireiagoga.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#OurFridaySeminar: Scott Heslop presents his Master's thesis on "Role of effectors in the Kauri Dieback pathosystem", that was supervised by Rosie Bradshaw, @carlmesarich.bsky.social & @rmcdougal.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
#OurTuesdaySeminar: delighted to have our two colleagues Alain Sarniguet and Matthieu Barret from @emersys-irhs.bsky.social @irhs-angers.bsky.social who gave us an overview of #bacteria-bacteria #interactions (T6SS & siderophores) in seed #microbiota.
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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@umr-iam.bsky.social Very beautiful sunny day for our mycology lab inventory
"Champignoux day"
October 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌿 Excited to share our Primer on fungal endophytes, the elusive members of the fungal kingdom that defy easy classification. Neither pathogens nor symbionts in the strict sense, they challenge how we define ecological guilds. @umr-iam.bsky.social
Fungal endophytes
Organisms are commonly grouped into ecological guilds that reflect their shared resource use and similar ecological roles. The guild concept has been …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM