How can we know genetically engineered microbes work and are safe outside labs? Some buzzwords for the near future:
-Environmental Galenics
-Comparative Biospheromics
-Ecotrons
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
-Environmental Galenics
-Comparative Biospheromics
-Ecotrons
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Environmental Galenics: large-scale fortification of extant microbiomes with engineered bioremediation agents | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Contemporary synthetic biology-based biotechnologies are generating tools and strategies
for reprogramming genomes for specific purposes, including improvement and/or creation
of microbial processes f...
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
How can we know genetically engineered microbes work and are safe outside labs? Some buzzwords for the near future:
-Environmental Galenics
-Comparative Biospheromics
-Ecotrons
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
-Environmental Galenics
-Comparative Biospheromics
-Ecotrons
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
📍UHasselt Ecotrons Infrastructure.
It is a large, high-tech research infrastructure with 12 closed units simulating #climatechange.
Each holds a heathland sample where scientists control CO2, temp, #rain, wind and light, while tracking soil #water, CO2 and nutrients.
📸: Francois Rineau on #imaggeo
It is a large, high-tech research infrastructure with 12 closed units simulating #climatechange.
Each holds a heathland sample where scientists control CO2, temp, #rain, wind and light, while tracking soil #water, CO2 and nutrients.
📸: Francois Rineau on #imaggeo
September 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
📍UHasselt Ecotrons Infrastructure.
It is a large, high-tech research infrastructure with 12 closed units simulating #climatechange.
Each holds a heathland sample where scientists control CO2, temp, #rain, wind and light, while tracking soil #water, CO2 and nutrients.
📸: Francois Rineau on #imaggeo
It is a large, high-tech research infrastructure with 12 closed units simulating #climatechange.
Each holds a heathland sample where scientists control CO2, temp, #rain, wind and light, while tracking soil #water, CO2 and nutrients.
📸: Francois Rineau on #imaggeo
We're super excited about my @unil.bsky.social colleague @pbenettin.bsky.social 's new Ecotrons! Fully climate controlled soil lysimeters! So many possibilities for manipulations and experiments!
The new Ecotron system manufactured by UGT and funded by the UNIL Faculty of Geoscience and the Environment @fgse-unil.bsky.social is operational! It's a rather big machine with a very big potential for ecohydrological experimentation.
July 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're super excited about my @unil.bsky.social colleague @pbenettin.bsky.social 's new Ecotrons! Fully climate controlled soil lysimeters! So many possibilities for manipulations and experiments!
Synthetic biology has so much potential to replace environmentally harmful industries and remediate pollution. Ecotrons - closed ecosystem models - will be essential to garner public support.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Ecotrons: Powerful and versatile ecosystem analysers for ecology, agronomy and environmental science
Ecosystems integrity and services are threatened by anthropogenic global changes. Mitigating and adapting to these changes require knowledge of ecosystem functioning in the expected novel environments...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
May 31, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Synthetic biology has so much potential to replace environmentally harmful industries and remediate pollution. Ecotrons - closed ecosystem models - will be essential to garner public support.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Comment les écosystèmes sont-ils simulés en laboratoire et comment ces "écosystèmes" sont-ils traduits d'une langue et d'un continent à l'autre ? Elie Danziger (@ukulelie.bsky.social) sur la #biosphère2 américaine et les #écotrons français:
blog.castac.org/multilingual...
blog.castac.org/multilingual...
L’Écosystème Multiple: Naviguer le Destin Transatlantique de la Biosphère 1 ½ | Platypus
Les « écosystèmes » expérimentaux émergent de la relation entre les installations. Le cas du DSE montre comment les écosystèmes sont définis de manière relationnelle, non seulement par l'interopérabil...
blog.castac.org
May 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Comment les écosystèmes sont-ils simulés en laboratoire et comment ces "écosystèmes" sont-ils traduits d'une langue et d'un continent à l'autre ? Elie Danziger (@ukulelie.bsky.social) sur la #biosphère2 américaine et les #écotrons français:
blog.castac.org/multilingual...
blog.castac.org/multilingual...
How do ecosystems get simulated in laboratories, and how are these "ecosystems" translated across languages and continents? Check the latest Platypus post, where Elie Danziger (@ukulelie.bsky.social) discusses the U.S.'s #biosphere2 and France's #ecotrons:
blog.castac.org/2025/05/the-...
blog.castac.org/2025/05/the-...
The Ecosystem Multiple: Navigating the Transatlantic Fate of Biosphere 1 ½ | Platypus
Experimental
blog.castac.org
May 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
How do ecosystems get simulated in laboratories, and how are these "ecosystems" translated across languages and continents? Check the latest Platypus post, where Elie Danziger (@ukulelie.bsky.social) discusses the U.S.'s #biosphere2 and France's #ecotrons:
blog.castac.org/2025/05/the-...
blog.castac.org/2025/05/the-...
Spring activities are in full swing, planting seedlings of plants from nearby wetlands in @zalf.bsky.social 's ecotrons at research station #Paulinenaue
March 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Spring activities are in full swing, planting seedlings of plants from nearby wetlands in @zalf.bsky.social 's ecotrons at research station #Paulinenaue
We had the pleasure of hosting @joopvermeer.bsky.social at Utrecht yesterday! It was such a suberinteresting, fruitful visit!
February 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
We had the pleasure of hosting @joopvermeer.bsky.social at Utrecht yesterday! It was such a suberinteresting, fruitful visit!
Really enjoyed this presentation. In line with my poster, showing the limitations of available GHG data from experiments with earthworms. Ecotrons could be one possible solution to increase our knowledge on the matter.
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-...
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-...
Abstract EGU24-9685
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
April 15, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Really enjoyed this presentation. In line with my poster, showing the limitations of available GHG data from experiments with earthworms. Ecotrons could be one possible solution to increase our knowledge on the matter.
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-...
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-...
📢Next CBGP Seminar! (in ENG); Tue Apr 4th, 11AM [FR time]
#Ecotrons, powerful and versatile #ecosystem analysers for #ecology, #agronomy and environmental sciences
by @alex_milcu / @cefemontpellier &
@EcotronCNRS
zoom:
pwd: AM@cbgp!04
tinyurl.com/thkwmwfs
#Ecotrons, powerful and versatile #ecosystem analysers for #ecology, #agronomy and environmental sciences
by @alex_milcu / @cefemontpellier &
@EcotronCNRS
zoom:
pwd: AM@cbgp!04
tinyurl.com/thkwmwfs
November 24, 2024 at 12:14 PM
📢Next CBGP Seminar! (in ENG); Tue Apr 4th, 11AM [FR time]
#Ecotrons, powerful and versatile #ecosystem analysers for #ecology, #agronomy and environmental sciences
by @alex_milcu / @cefemontpellier &
@EcotronCNRS
zoom:
pwd: AM@cbgp!04
tinyurl.com/thkwmwfs
#Ecotrons, powerful and versatile #ecosystem analysers for #ecology, #agronomy and environmental sciences
by @alex_milcu / @cefemontpellier &
@EcotronCNRS
zoom:
pwd: AM@cbgp!04
tinyurl.com/thkwmwfs