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Lisa Thönen
@lisathoenen.bsky.social
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Fascinated about the colorful world of microbes. 🧫 Researcher in OneHealth. Now focusing on AMR in the food chain @Agroscope.
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Lisa Thönen @lisathoenen.bsky.social · Sep 11
🧫✨ Excited to share my first publication in microbiological food safety!
We investigated 🔍 ready-to-eat meat products in Switzerland for the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A step toward improving food safety. Thanks to Elisabet Marti and the team! 🔬

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...
Frontiers | Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from Swiss ready-to-eat meat products
Antimicrobial resistance is a global health concern, which is partly driven by rising meat consumption, which has led to the intensive farming of livestock t...
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Lisa Thönen @lisathoenen.bsky.social · Aug 25
Happy that my 3rd PhD paper is finally out 🎉 We show how maize root bacteria team up to degrade plant host toxins 🌱🦠🤝 Many thanks for the good teamwork to unravel this story!
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Klaus Schlaeppi @kschlaeppi.bsky.social · Aug 25
SynCom of maize root bacteria: in team work, they detox differently. Interacting they redirect the metabolisation to an alternative degradation product.

Credits: @lisathoenen.bsky.social, Dr. Christine Pestalozzi & teams @unibas.ch and @unibe.ch.

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Synthetic communities of maize root bacteria interact and redirect benzoxazinoid metabolization | mSphere
We investigated how maize root bacteria—alone or in community—tolerate and metabolize antimicrobial compounds of their host plant. We found that the capacity to metabolize such a compound impacts bact...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Aug 18
A community of microorganisms that can reproduce the flavour attributes of premium chocolate, by fermenting cocoa beans, are reported in Nature Microbiology. go.nature.com/4mH9uOo 🧪
This image is figure 1 which shows how changes in abiotic and biotic characteristics inform the progression of cocoa bean fermentation.
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Lisa Thönen @lisathoenen.bsky.social · Mar 13
Finallly, the last chapter of my PhD thesis made it out as a preprint 🌽🧫🎉 In a community maize bacteria convert benzoxazinoids to different metabolites than when grown alone www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Synthetic communities of maize root bacteria interact and redirect benzoxazinoid metabolization
Plant roots are colonised by diverse microbial communities. These communities are shaped by root exudates including plant specialized metabolites. Benzoxazinoids are such secreted compounds of maize. ...
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Lisa Thönen @lisathoenen.bsky.social · Feb 27
Nice article about our work 🧫🌽🌾
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University of Basel @unibas.ch · Feb 20
Pesticides and excessive fertilizers harm crops and the environment. As an alternative, farmers can already buy “biologicals” - bacteria, fungi or mixes thereof. But recent research by @kschlaeppi.bsky.social and his team reveals why these often fall short and offers insights on improving them.
Plant’s favorite bacteria to promote crop yield.
To optimize their growth, plants shape the bacterial community on and around their roots. Finding out how they do so is key to develop new microbiological products for greater sustainability in agricu...
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