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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · 27d

Museum duty today @naturalis.bsky.social These colleagues are giving me a skeptical look 👀

Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Sep 6

The @erc.europa.eu MIXOTROPH sampling in Japan has come to an end. The success of this campaign was due to the support of Prof. Kenji Suetsugu (Kobe University) and his incredible team. I’m looking forward to continue our collaboration! 🌳 🍄

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Sep 4

And here, mycoheterotrophic plants thrive too

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Sep 4

The last leg of the fieldwork brought me to the beautiful island of Yakushima. The lush ceder forests are incredible examples of the power of nature conservation, as most have been replanted in the 1960s. And if you walk far enough, you can still see trees of more than 1000 year old…

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Aug 29

Amazing news!! Congrats!!

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Aug 29

Take care. All those obligations are nothing compared to your health.

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Aug 29

The @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team headed to Shiga prefecture to sample a forest site with Burmannia cryptopetala. Sample site nr 3 in Japan ✅

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Aug 28

It was my pleasure! Thank you for the opportunity to talk; I’m very curious about the results of your work!

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Aug 24

A beautiful mixed forest near Nagoya with plenty of Petrosavia sakurai became our next sampling site 🌳 🌲

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Aug 21

Ja, en als je in de schaduw groeit moet je als plant vindingrijk zijn om koolstof te komen (althans, dat is de hypothese).

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Aug 21

We gaan planten verzamelen in bossen voor een project waarbij we onderzoeken of sommige bosplanten koolstof kunnen opnemen uit bodemschimmels (koolstof die de schimmels dan weer krijgen van de bomen).

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Aug 21

With some tiny plant wonders: Burmannia championii, Sciaphila japonica, and Gentiana zollingeri 🌱

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Aug 21

Today we tackled our first field site in the hills of Hyogo

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Aug 21

The @naturalis.bsky.social MIXOTROPH team is in Kobe, Japan for some more sampling!

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have a PhD position available at @naturalis.bsky.social to work on soil biodiversity and drought in urban environments, as part of the NWA Thirsty Cities project 🏡🌳🍄

👉🏻 www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...

PhD student Thirsty Cities

Pursuing a PhD at Naturalis in Leiden (the Netherlands) means working on research with a truly global impact — contributing directly to biodiversity. And you'll be well supported every step of the way...

www.naturalis.nl

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Apr 3

Had a super inspiring visit to the lab of @vkokkoris.bsky.social today @vuamsterdam.bsky.social Sometimes the most promising opportunities are just around the corner 🍄‍🟫🌿

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Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · Feb 27

Our newest research in @nature.com

We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social

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Peter Siegel @duurzamedocent.bsky.social · Feb 15

Nature Today: Amsterdamse straatbomen leven samen met enorme diversiteit aan schimmels

www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...

Nature Today | Amsterdamse straatbomen leven samen met enorme diversiteit aan schimmels

De diversiteit aan 'goede' schimmels rond de wortels van Amsterdamse stadsbomen is verrassend hoog. Iepen op de meest verstedelijkte locatie bleken zelfs de meest diverse schimmelgemeenschappen te heb...

www.naturetoday.com

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Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · Feb 10

Join our lab in Amsterdam. We are looking for a Netherlands-based Technician/Analist (MBO-4 level) to apply advanced microscopy, imaging, and molecular techniques to study fungal-plant interactions. 2-yr position

See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd.
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Feb 9

Interesting opinion by @brentcemerson.bsky.social

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Vincent Merckx @vincentmerckx.bsky.social · Feb 9

“It is predicted that the number of novel operational taxonomic units delimited by barcode sequencing is likely to eclipse the number of species described by Linnean taxonomy by as early as 2029”

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Delimiting Species—Prospects and Challenges for DNA Barcoding

Discovering, describing and cataloguing global species diversity remains a fundamental challenge both for biodiversity research and for the management and conservation of biodiversity. Among animals,....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Anton Savchenko @notgaudi.bsky.social · Feb 3

‪When did herbarium in Leiden become this big? Trends in collection of regular specimens vs. types; fungi and lichens; notable collectors and expeditions. (Mind that only ca. 20% of fungarium is digitized.)