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📣 Only a few in-person spots left!Connect with the soil virus research community at #ISVC2026Register now 👉 soilmicrobes.fr/internationa… #Virus #Phage #Virology #SoilMicrobiology
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-12-13T15:06:23.482Z
📢 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
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-09-09T18:38:14.851Z
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
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-08-23T18:26:55.497Z
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. 😁
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-06-27T19:52:44.621Z
We are back from the ACTIONr Summer School! Fantastic week with a great group of early careers researchers studying BNIs!
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-05-21T18:35:35.395Z
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
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T07:59:23.542Z
📣 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 🇫🇷🦠🍄🟫🌱🧫🧬🔬🥼🧪🧑🔬
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-01-10T17:41:11.818Z
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…
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2024-12-31T14:41:57.878Z
🚀 New INRAE Research Position Likely Opening in 2026 at Our Department! 🎯 Excited to work at the interface of microbial and plant biodiversity, and greenhouse gas emissions?📍Microbial Ecology Laboratory, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France 📅 Offer will be posted end of January 2026
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-12-13T19:46:27.412Z
📣 PhD Scholarship Opportunity for International Students! Are you looking to do a PhD in soil microbial and viral ecology? ✍️ Get in touch now!! ✅ Requirements: Masters degree, Distinguished CV, Highly motivated ⏳ Application deadline: November 24www.univ-lyon1.fr/recherche/fo…
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-10-21T17:36:03.530Z
📢 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: http://www.actionr.eu/wp-content/u…
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-07-30T20:14:08.367Z
Great week at #esm2025 in Helsinki! We shared our latest work on soil methanotroph and nitrifier viruses 🦠😁
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-06-19T14:12:53.618Z
📣 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.
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-04-21T10:25:53.032Z
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!
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-03-22T16:01:23.955Z
📣 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! 😁👇
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@soilmicrobes.bsky.social) 2025-03-07T16:06:04.048Z
Congratulations to Dr. @EBachtsevani! 🥳An impressive PhD defense on "In vitro assessment of the toxicity of pesticides on ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms". pic.twitter.com/eVZ3Abc3ql
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) December 17, 2024
Fun day in the Jura Mountains sampling peat for our work on methane cycling and viruses 😀! (@CHazard99 and Arianna Farolfi) pic.twitter.com/HaYSfMlP7u
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) June 13, 2024
New preprint! 📣 A continuation of our work on soil pH impacts on virus communities. @mia_s_lee @graemewnicol @CHazard99 https://t.co/wZCQxbnpO3
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) October 5, 2024
Join us on March 26 at 15:00 CET, for the first webinar of the ACTIONr series by Dr. Chris Sedlacek from UniVie! To register and for more information, please visit our website: https://t.co/GLDOtWkKBG
— ACTIONr (@ACTIONr_) March 21, 2024
A fun way to spend a Monday! Winter holiday lunch followed by attempts to escape Old El Paso and Transylvannia as cowboys vs. vampires. pic.twitter.com/1ovdOlCkEd
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) December 12, 2023
A happy bunch of virions! Showcasing our soil viral ecology work at “Phages in Lyon” @Phages_fr @CHazard99 @graemewnicol @SieraVirus pic.twitter.com/NPVsBRI8Nb
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) November 28, 2023
Congratulations Christina!👏🥳@CHazard99 https://t.co/B8NWZFMdGN
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) September 6, 2023
Great talk by @Serenalbert this week on organic matter influences on benthic N-cycling and kicking off our new project on impact of nitrification inhibitors on soil microbes and function! 😀 https://t.co/0NUgxICXHc
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) May 27, 2023
The first issue of our newsletter is out #ACTIONr_ Newsletter #01 – May 2023!!! Browse through to… know us better and stay tuned for the next!!!https://t.co/kTpzYSuDLe pic.twitter.com/DyoMT6Nf32
— ACTIONr (@ACTIONr_) May 4, 2023
About to leave! It has been such a great and impressive year here in #lyon! Huge thanks to @graemewnicol and @CHazard99 for taking me exploring the adventurous world of soil methanotroph viruses. Hope to see you all again soon @EMG_Lyon ! pic.twitter.com/xXkipJWqBi
— Zhongyi Cheng (@zhongyi_cheng) November 22, 2024
We had a fantastic week at the University of Vienna! Stimulating discussions with this great group of researchers 😁 https://t.co/1UAdM3WOKa
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) September 23, 2024
🌍🔬 Our third ACTIONr mission at École Centrale de Lyon, with PhD students Paraskevi Amanatidou and Valia Moutzoureli, and Dr. Evangelia Papadopoulou, explored microbial ecology & GHG emissions. Huge thanks to ECL & Laboratoire Ampère for the training! 🚀🔍 pic.twitter.com/ozA8sIyPNg
— ACTIONr (@ACTIONr_) July 22, 2024
Opportune visit by ARISTO PhD fellow @mue_laura to discuss her work on soil nitrifier communities after her secondment at Hydreka in Lyon. @ARISTO_ITN_EID pic.twitter.com/GpqbanNtnM
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) April 28, 2024
Get your science on in Greece! @CHazard99 will be there to talk about “Arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi interactions in the nitrogen cycle – A strategy for the mitigation of N pollution in agroecosystems?” https://t.co/AGl6YqyWlu
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) March 12, 2024
In the midst of snow, flight cancellations and delays, the ACTIONr consortium managed to hold an astonishing annual meeting in Lyon.
— ACTIONr (@ACTIONr_) December 7, 2023
Many thanks to our incredible hosts Christina Hazard and Graeme Nicol!!!
Special thanks to our guest Prof. Dr. Lisa Stein for her valuable advice! pic.twitter.com/7TAFYSycpt
Almost 4 exciting weeks @Archaea_Vienna for Eleftheria (@EMG_Lyon) and Dimitris (@plant_env), diving deeper in the world of Archaea, omic techniques and bioinformatics. Top highlight was their visit to Vienna's iconic National History Museum. Feeling grateful for the opportunity! pic.twitter.com/TwSLpGDKdA
— ACTIONr (@ACTIONr_) November 22, 2023
Novel ecotoxicity tools relying on single soil nitrifying species and synthetic communities!!!Two wonderful talks by Eleftheria Bachtsevani and Maria Kolovou that just left us looking forward to the very next results!!! pic.twitter.com/0ZWkTeY1EG
— ACTIONr (@ACTIONr_) July 4, 2023
Congratulations to @EBachtsevani for winning a prize for her presentation on using nitrifiers to characterize toxicity of pesticides 🥳🏆👏 pic.twitter.com/ha8aSNQxbX
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) November 14, 2024
Great seminar from @junzhaoME today! It has been a pleasure hosting you for a month of intensive 🧬 SIPing. @WMHMicEcolLab pic.twitter.com/baVet58wfP
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) April 8, 2024
Bonjour from Lyon! Valia Moutzoureli from UTh is diving into cutting-edge 🧬SIP approaches alongside leading experts such as Graeme Nicol & Christina Hazard. Wishing her success in advancing our research goals & unforgettable experiences in charming Lyon! 📷@EMG_Lyon @plant_env pic.twitter.com/HwPPn746Ji
— ACTIONr (@ACTIONr_) March 1, 2024
Excited to share our new preprint that describes in situ enrichment to capture high quality and complete virus genomes of soil nitrifiers! @mia_s_lee @CHazard99 @graemewnicol https://t.co/E3tY1L7dKx
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) December 3, 2023
Don’t miss out the second issue of our newsletter #ACTIONr_ Newsletter #02 – October 2023!!! Browse through to discover the latest news of ACTIONr network and enjoy a brilliant editorial by Dr. Logan Hodgskiss (University of Vienna).https://t.co/bZBmVXzR4R pic.twitter.com/i6yU8B6d02
— ACTIONr (@ACTIONr_) October 16, 2023
Be sure to read our latest press release! ACTIONr reputation in Greece is spreading!!!https://t.co/5S0bMWZoKt pic.twitter.com/QmcMZr1ErG
— ACTIONr (@ACTIONr_) June 21, 2023
Maria @mar_kolovou and Dimitris @dimidalk13 are presenting their research work to the @EMG_Lyon group! ACTIONr networking in action!!! @Archaea_Vienna @plant_env pic.twitter.com/HWlirrTqev
— ACTIONr (@ACTIONr_) May 3, 2023
Great kick-off meeting at @plant_env with @Archaea_Vienna for the EU Horizon Widera project #ACTIONr – Research action network for reducing reactive nitrogen losses from agricultural ecosystems. pic.twitter.com/paCJg3Ux6K
— Soil Microbial Ecology Group (@EMG_Lyon) November 11, 2022
End of first, fruitful, training week on innovative cultivation strategies of soil nitrifiers for Maria and Dimitris at ECL. Looking forward to the next one! @CHazard99 and @graemewnicol thank you for your hospitality! @EMG_Lyon @Archaea_Vienna @plant_env pic.twitter.com/4W6RyMUD8X
— ACTIONr (@ACTIONr_) April 29, 2023
Hazard Lab & Nicol Lab 