I feel that the quality of Plant and Soil has gone down over the past few years.

Thanks for this! I'm expecting anywhere from 350mg-1g soil samples with ~30-70 ng/uL DNA, so maybe the QiaCube would work for us - what was your low biomass?

Really important insights! Thanks for the input!

We use this kit too - It's the best, but I can do max 100 preps per day, and we will have 1600 samples incoming 😱 Don't they also sell a 96-well plate version?

I hope it's a nice meeting! I am stuck in the lab today :,(

Yes, it can be difficult especially if the slides are fast and the numbers are small. But equally, googling “Smith 2029 Nature” can be just as difficult to find the paper 😆 but I’m glad we are trying something new

Making “funky looking cells” using CRISPRi to repress cell division, and increase cytoplasm space for metabolite accumulation:
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great example of “journal-free” presentations by using PMID to cite articles instead of journal name. Thank you @pabnik.bsky.social ! #DMS2025

It was a pleasure! I hope it inspired some new ideas and you could feel a bit connected to the community here

I have to say, BlueSky search is truly terrible, I have missed a few accounts. Here is @adamoss.bsky.social

What is a microbiome workout? A procedure to enrich microbial functions aka artificial selection + progressive overload

Is this also the first time that a bacterial-phage SynCom has been used in plants? Interesting results showing that phages are co-existing with bacteria in planta. Can't wait for the publication!

Last of a very long list publications: improving vitamin content in crops using microbiomes (a way around GMO-laws preventing the use of other fortified crops?)
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....