Ashley Shade, Ph.D.

mSystems Board of Editors Members of the mSystems Editorial Board

Excited to be back at #mSystems (@asm.org), now as a Senior Editor, working to support our new Editor-in-Chef @ashley17061.bsky.social 🤩

Support society journals! If you have work at the boundary between microbiology & systems biology, send us your manuscript!

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Humanity’s urgent challenges need solutions from systems microbiology | mSystems It is with great excitement and sincere dedication that I assume the role of editor in chief of mSystems. Building on the momentum and reputation that mSystems has achieved in its first decade, we wil...

Yesterday, I started my term as Editor in Chief of @asm.org journal #mSystems

Looking forward to working with this amazing community to advance publication of our highest quality and most rigorous science!

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Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies - Nature Microbiology In this Consensus Statement, the authors outline strategies for processing, analysing and interpreting low-biomass microbiome samples, and provide recommendations to minimize contaminants.

Check out this new piece about critical precautions and controls needed to conduct microbiome analyses on low biomass samples (like seed endophytes!)

Thanks to
@noahfierer.bsky.social & @greening.bsky.social for leading the charge!

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Thanks for the shout out!

Based on the feedback, this one is probably the most provocative piece we've published!

Tomorrow #TeamRhizo and project #MicroRescue are attending the Indo-French workshop on the "Plant microbiome as a driver for the next green agricultural revolution" - so looking forward to meeting new colleagues from India, sharing research, and thinking about harnessing microbes for plant health

#TeamRhizo & @erc.europa.eu #ERC project #MicroRescue were in the field collecting soil for our big upcoming host-mediated-microbiome-engineering experiment!

Can't wait to find out which microbes respond to the plant's stress signals!

@ecomicrolyon.bsky.social
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social

thanks to @ou.edu Biological Sciences and especially Kara De León for hosting me for a seminar today - It was great to meet with students and share some new #MicroRescue @erc.europa.eu data!

Critical Concepts in Dormancy Part II: Discriminating States of Microbial Activity YouTube video by American Society for Microbiology

The recording of Part 2 of the ASM #mSystems Critical Concepts in Dormancy Webinar is now available

An inspiring panel of researchers share their thoughts about how to measure and discriminate different levels of microbial activity

Enjoy!

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Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers | mSystems Microbial ecology and evolution are broad disciplines that seek to understand the underlying processes that drive the diversification, distributions, and dynamics of microbial cells, populations, comm...

Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers

#mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief
@leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social

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Soil viral community dynamics over seven years of heat disturbance: spatial variation exceeds temporal in annually sampled soils Viruses are important components of the soil microbiome, influencing microbial population dynamics and the functions of their hosts. However, the rela…

Congrats to @sambarnett15.bsky.social on our team's paper accepted at the special issue of Soil Biology & Biochemistry
We use a 7 year spatio-temporal study of heat disturbance in soil to investigate the coupling of viral community dynamics with bacterial.
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Join us for the upcoming American Society for Microbiology #mSystems webinar on microbial dormancy and activity!

Free registration here: asm.org/Webinars/mSy...

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Post-docs and students working with me use this AAAS individual development plan tool for our annual meetings (long term planning, co-evaluation/feedback, and career development)

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Free registration is open for our next Critical Concepts in Dormancy webinar 20 Feb, hosted by American Society for Microbiology journal mSystems!
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Discuss how to evaluate microbial activity, including in challenging environments!

A stellar speaker line up 🤩

Check out this article about defining microbial activity and dormancy, and why it's important for thinking about climate change

There will be an in-depth symposium moderated by me at the ASM #Microbe2025 in LA! and, good news you can still submit your abstract!

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Pollution gradients shape microbial communities associated with Ae. albopictus larval habitats in urban community gardens Microbial composition of larval habitats covaried differentially along the pollution gradients according to the presence/absence of larvae. Noncolonized wa

Congrats to my EcoMicroLyon colleagues on their new publication about pollution gradients, microbial communities, and mosquito larvae! Nice assessment of host-environment-microbiome systems in urban environments
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mSystems Table of Contents Volume 9, Issue 11 mSystems: Table of Contents Volume 9, Issue 11

Look at the new cover of mSystems! Beautiful seeds and their microbiomes

In this study we found stable transmission of particular bacterial taxa across plant generations via the seed, despite parent plant exposure to stress

@microbialmarie.bsky.social

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Still time to submit your early abstract to the #Microbe2025 American Society for Microbiology meeting! Join our symposium on Microbial Dormancy in Health and the Environment!

Submit your abstract for the American Society for Microbiology
#Microbe2025 annual meeting in Los Angeles!

I'm organizing a symposium on Microbial Dormancy! Hope to receive your abstract and discuss with you there.

Early abstracts close Dec 3, don't delay!
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Critical Concepts in Dormancy Part I: Dormancy in Human Health and the Environment YouTube video by American Society for Microbiology

Did you catch our Thinking Series Webinar on Microbial Dormancy? If not, no fret: it's available on youtube!
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Hi Paul! happy to see you too!

Colloque Fondation Pierre Vérots 2024 - Session 2 / Présentation 2 YouTube video by Fondation Pierre Vérots

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I am proud to have represented our research #MicroRescue and THE MICROBES at the recent colloquium by the Fondation Pierre Verots

My talk (in English!) is an accessible overview as to why microbes are important for climate change