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Amanda Rawstern
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Post-Doctoral Researcher at University of Pittsburgh in Ashman lab. I study plant-microbe interactions and microbial ecology.

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The Lariviere lab at UMiami is recruiting PhD students! Incoming students will join us in studying host-microbe interactions in the honey bee gut, using molecular and genetic approaches. Please see the attached flyer for more details.

#Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky #PhDOpportunity #AcademicJobs
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases | Science
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases | Science
Although metagenomic sequencing has revealed a rich microbial biodiversity in the mammalian gut, methods to genetically alter specific species in the microbiome are highly limited. Here, we introduce Metagenomic Editing (MetaEdit) as a platform ...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Logo of Bin Chicken (Australian white ibis) on a rubbish bin, pulling out a strand of DNA
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Newly published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, we look within seeds of historic herbarium specimens for changes in the prevalence of beneficial fungal symbionts in response to climate change drivers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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#PhD Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication?

Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social
and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids

Details: shorturl.at/nQ8UW
October 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Check out our new Tansley review on climate, plants, and microbes! I enjoyed working with a team of friendly and knowledgeable scientists.
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Unraveling complexity in climate change effects on beneficial plant–microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions
Plant microbiomes have the potential to mitigate the impacts of climate change, yet both the complexity of climate change and the complexity of plant–microbe interactions make applications and future....
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October 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper.
#plantscience
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October 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Oct 2
Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Come check out my talk at #ESA2025 today! I'll be chatting about some of my Postdoc research on mutualisms and how they impact niche breadth and diversification in the Eco-Evolutionary processes session in BCC344 at 1:45pm!
Powerpoint presentation slide for a talk titled "Hidden players in evolution: the impact of fungal endophytes on niche breadth and diversification across Poa (bluegrass)". Contains an image of a grass with a microscope image of an endophyte present in a grass seed.
August 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Come check out my presentation on what community properties can predict microbiome resistance to drought today! #ESA2025 COS 015 BCC 336 3:30-5:00
Picture of presentation title slide showing a soil landscape.
August 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Check out this video of our research on soil microbiomes at Archbold Biological Station!

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August 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation

#ISMEJournal by @duhitasant.bsky.social et al from @timbarra.bsky.social
with Tom Bell, @kayla-king.bsky.social

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Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation
Abstract. Most knowledge about bacterial evolution and ecological interactions comes from laboratory studies. One difference between the wild and most labo
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July 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Our guide to bees of Pennsylvania is available for free now, you can order print copy (just have to pay shipping) and/or download PDF from Penn State Extension page: extension.psu.edu/bees-of-penn...

For every one of the 47 bee genera we have beautiful photo(s) and natural history facts
two pages from our been book, lots of of images and a bit of text for each bee genera cover of our Bees of Pennsylvania book with photo of green sweat bee
July 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Fungal spores reveal a global climate footprint on microbes' traits!
Incorporating microbial traits improves predictions of biogeographic shifts.
Fun project w @balachaudhary.bsky.social @smriti-pehim-limbu.bsky.social @sturmer.bsky.social @aguilart.bsky.social
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Climate-linked biogeography of mycorrhizal fungal spore traits | PNAS
Climate-driven variation in traits is crucial for predicting ecological responses to environmental change, yet global patterns and drivers of micro...
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July 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I'm jealous of whoever that got to watch hundreds of cat videos to collect data for this study!
July 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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And that is a 🌯 for the plant-microbe symposium!

Thank you to Morgane & @mycocentriq.bsky.social for organizing!

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#CSEE2025
July 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Check out our latest review on peptide signaling in beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. Signaling peptides are so fascinating! doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Signaling peptides control beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions
This review provides a comprehensive overview of signaling peptides regulating beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. It highlights recent a
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July 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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My 2nd dissertation chapter is out in Plant, Cell, & Environment!

We use a model legume to assess how plant host genotype and microbes non-additively interact to shape plant growth and disease ecology.

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/pce....
June 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Paper just out in @natcomms.nature.com by @alvarordr.bsky.social

Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics - Nature Communications
Soils are usually exposed to multiple global change factors (like warming or contamination by pollutants), but the response of soil communities to combined global change factors is poorly understood. ...
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June 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Hot off the digital presses of the Highlands News-Sun: www.midfloridanewspapers.com/highlands_ne...
Florida citrus lands offer hope for habitat recovery
Florida citrus production has been in decline due to widespread citrus greening disease introduced as early as 2004, also known as Huanglongbing (HLB). But is there some lemonade to be
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April 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org.

We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!
April 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Here’s the link: doi.org/10.1128/mmbr...
April 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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anthomycota.bsky.social
Most surprising discover of my career to date 😲. Most assume mustard plants do not associate w/ AMF. Our research shows that AMF promote invasive mustard growth without forming arbuscules 🤯. This may be a new pathway in which AMF can enhance plant growth 🍄🌱

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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Boost Development of an Invasive Brassicaceae
We show that an invasive, “nonmycorrhizal” Brassicaceae (Alliaria petiolata) can be colonised by AMF, and that this boosts its growth and nutrition even in the absence of classic nutrient exchange ...
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March 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Differential roles of deterministic and stochastic processes in structuring soil bacterial ecotypes across terrestrial ecosystems www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Differential roles of deterministic and stochastic processes in structuring soil bacterial ecotypes across terrestrial ecosystems - Nature Communications
Determinants of soil microbial community structure are less well studied. Here, Riddley et al. profile nationwide bacterial biogeographic patterns, and identify key environmental factors and distinct ...
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March 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM