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EcolChange seminar – Jeanalle Eck about microbes that shape plant disease and diversity

Posted on May 13, 2019 by laanisto

Seminars of Department of Botany, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and Ecology and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Jenalle Eck is post-doctoral researcher at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. She studies plant population and community ecology, with special emphasis on … Continue reading →

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EcolChange seminar – Elin Org about mice and men and microbiota

Posted on February 13, 2019 by laanisto

Seminars of Department of Botany, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and Ecology and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Dr. Elin Org is senior researcher in genomics and microbiomics at the Institute of Genomics of University of Tartu. Title of the talk: … Continue reading →

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New paper out – Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome

Posted on September 3, 2018 by laanisto

/Editor´s note: It´s been silence in the blog throughout summer, as we all had a lot of field and lab work. But we´re back now!/ The first global study of soil genomics revealed a battle right under our feet. The … Continue reading →

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New publication – More bang for the buck? Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities be characterized adequately alongside other fungi using general fungal primers?

Posted on February 15, 2018 by laanisto

Text by Maarja Öpik How to measure things? How to measure biodiversity? For organisms which are visible to human eye, detecting them is not an issue, though identifying the species might be. The situation is fully different for organisms we … Continue reading →

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EcolChange seminars – There´s more than one next week!

Posted on November 3, 2017 by laanisto

Next week, on Thursday, there will be two EcolChange seminars with altogether three presentations. At first there is the seminar in the Department of Geography, and then, overlappingly, in the Department of Botany. ——————————————————————————————————————————- Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and … Continue reading →

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