Latest publication! 📢
Using nitrifying microbes as a tool for testing the toxicity of agriculture pesticides ☠️!

Congrats Eleftheria Bachtsevani -first paper of your PhD! Great collaboration with co-first author Maria Kolovou, and Dimitrios Karpoyzas & Evangelia Papadopoulou (Univ. of Thessaly)

📢 We are thrilled to announce the International Soil Virus Conference 2026 in conjunction with the Saint Loup Research Institute.
🗓️ June 16 – 18, 2026
📍 Château de Saint Loup sur Thouet, France
👇 RSVP by October 31st, 2025
#virus #phage #ISVC2026

Hot off the press! 📣
We demonstrate that soil physicochemical gradients alter virus community structure but not the presence of those infecting individual (cultivated) bacteria hosts 🦠🧫
@Sungeun Lee @graemenicol.bsky.social @christinahazard.bsky.social

📢 ACTIONr Newsletter #05 is out! Get updates from the network & new research on Nitrification Inhibitors, events, and more.
📝 Editorial by Dr. Chiara Perruchon (UTH) 🔗 Read the full newsletter here: www.actionr.eu/wp-content/u...

The next ACTIONr webinar is today! Don’t miss out!!

A full fun week of nitrification at #ICoN9 in Bremen! We got to share our latest work on nitrifier viruses, NOB-AOA interactions, and discuss BNIs. 😁

Great week at #esm2025 in Helsinki! We shared our latest work on soil methanotroph and nitrifier viruses 🦠😁

We are back from the ACTIONr Summer School! Fantastic week with a great group of early careers researchers studying BNIs!

A few weeks ago we met in the Scottish Highlands to launch our HFSP @hfspo.bsky.social funded project on virus-prokaryotic interactions in wetlands and impact on the methane cycle. What a fantastic team to be part of. @karthik-a.bsky.social @soilmicrobes.bsky.social & Joanne Emerson

📣 PhD Scholarship Funding Opportunity!

Interested in pursuing a PhD in soil virus ecology and biogeochemical cycling? 🦠

Have a Masters degree from abroad and ranked in the top 20% of your class? 🎓

Get in touch now! See our website for further details. Submission deadline in August.

Our paper is out and is open access!

Phosphate amendment drives bloom of RNA viruses after soil wet-up.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@sieravirus.bsky.social @jeffinerca.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social @christinahazard.bsky.social

Great week teaching DNA-SIP and participating in a workshop on microbial ecology and biogeochemistry at ESALQ, Uni São Paulo. Great research and hospitality! Thank you @lucascanisares.bsky.social, Tsai Siu Mui, Maurício Roberto Cherubin, @agenciafapesp.bsky.social and CCARBON/USP for hosting us!

Our perspective on soil virus ecology research is out!

Fantastic collab with
@christinahazard.bsky.social @karthik-a.bsky.social @lukehillary.bsky.social @urineri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @gtrubl.bsky.social @KurtWilliams @jeffinerca.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social @JoanneEmerson

📣 Come join us at the ACTIONr PhD summer school in Greece!

“Biological Nitrification Inhibition: Integrating Microbial Functions, Plant Traits, and Technological Innovations for Sustainable Nitrogen Cycling”

Free registration & lodging! 😁👇

Come join us!!!
🚨 ACTIONr's NI Workshop at ICoN9!
📅 June 27, 2025
📍 Max Planck Institute, Bremen, Germany
Explore nitrification inhibitors in agroecosystems. Limited to 50 participants — register for ICoN9 first!
More info: www.mpi-bremen.de/en/ICoN9-Con...

📣 Exiting news! We have moved to a different university in Lyon. You can now find us at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 at the Microbial Ecology Laboratory @ecomicrolyon 🇫🇷🦠🍄‍🟫🌱🧫🧬🔬🥼🧪🧑‍🔬

Check out our recent publication on our continued research on soil viruses of nitrifers! @MiaSungeunLEE @christinahazard.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...