Xinming Xu

13th Utrecht PhD Summer School​ Environmental Signaling in Plants Aug 24-26 2026 Speakers: Laura Ragni, Roeland Berendsen, Mariana Silva Artur, Matthew Paul, Ari Sadanandom, Beatrice Giuntoli, Bruno Guillotin, Priya Ramakrishna, Caroline Gutjahr, Niko Geldner, Laura Bacete and Marcel Beukeboom.

We are beyond excited to reveal the full line-up for our Environmental Signaling in Plants summer school 2026!

Registration is now open here eps.sites.uu.nl - we look forward to seeing you in Utrecht on 24th-26th August!

what a nice reunion in 🇪🇸🥰

The first talk of #PMS2025 by Julia Vorholt concentrates on SynCom for plant microbiomes research, a phyllosphere perspective 🌱

See our review on SynComs for tree microbiome engineering by @marccamb.bsky.social @xinmingxu.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social

seed grant between @imibirmingham.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social

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Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities Trees are essential to ecosystems in both natural and urban environments, yet they are increasingly threatened by abiotic and biotic stresses linked t…

New #openaccess opinion piece, the first of our brilliant collaboration with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social @xinmingxu.bsky.social & @marccamb.bsky.social - thanks to @unibirmingham.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social for funding!

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I needed google translate to read into this blog, but appreciated the honesty of @xinmingxu.bsky.social on her academic path, the @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social cover, and the test of co-authors' friendships while preparing the connected SynCom review
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Closing keynote by Eran Elinava🌙🦠 at #FEMS2025

Eran explained why circadian rhythms matters——Industrial evolution allow us disrupt day-night cycles which highly boost human productivity; we can work night shifts and fly over time zones

It’s time to unlock the power of microbe clock 🌱🕒 #FEMS2025

FEMS wouldn’t be complete without plant microbes! 🌿🦠
Ines Mandic Mulec hosts today’s plant-microbe interactions session, opening with Tessa Reid from Rothamsted Research.
Did you know the wheat genome is five times bigger than the human genome?!

Now at #FEMS2025:
Soil Biotechnology & Agriculture session chaired by Ivica Dimkić.

Kicking off with Maria Elena Antinori’s talk on regenerative agriculture and microbial solutions.

Tuesday morning started from space 🚀🌕!
As a microbiologist, there’s hardly anything cooler than sending soil samples into space for experiments!

Prof. Janet Knutson Jansson opened today’s session on how space environmental factors affects soil microbial communities
#FEMS2025

Kicking off by Roderik van grieken from Leiden😆 #FEMS

Here I come! Milano 🇮🇹
Excited to be here for #FEMS2025 🎉
Come find me and let’s chat about FalconSyn👀(if you wonder what it is! 🌱)

📅 Date: 17 July Thursday
📍 Poster Number: 297.17P

they are enjoying while playing🥹 so cute

Just like last year, this was definitely the highlight of my year.
Thanks to all the hard work and fun with my girls 🥰

I absolutely love this illustration for our review!!
My favorite little microbe 🦠 is definitely this one!
What about you?😆
Many many thanks to the great artist 🥰@lizahaart.bsky.social

Very much appreciated the hosting by @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social & @marccamb.bsky.social!
I loved all the discussions we had—both scientific and non-scientific 🥰 Looking forward to seeing this collaboration—and even more so, the friendship—continue. Also, amazing work about 🌲🦠

There were so many passionate discussions during the writing process! That's why our group chat name is actually 'Rhythm-breaking synco(m)pe'🤣

Many thanks to the coordinator😆 @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social

And our fundings: #INTERACT, @cemist.bsky.social, startup IBL, Leiden University

Together with @neftalyl.bsky.social, Caja Dinesen, Adele Pioppi, we summarize 86 publications published between 2002 and 2024 on plant SynComs. We synthesize and discuss the design, assembly, and application of SynComs.

Have you ever written a review with your best friends? Let me tell you, it's the ultimate testimony to true friendship! 😱Like a SynCom: if you want to play a symphony and help the plant thrive, you have to collaborate!

Check out our new publication:
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Join the MicroClock team and work on the discovery of the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock components: #PostDocPosition in Leiden 🇳🇱 via the @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project

Deadline: 17 January

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please share with your network🙏

https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2315735121

How to write a grant?
1. The application is for the reviewer, not you, the applicant.
2. Communicate in stories.
3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps.
4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading.
5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review.
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I know! I am proud of him!😆

bartje with a lab coat! Sounds cute😊

Our new paper is published in Scientific Data describing the genome sequences of 121 Bacillales isolates from all around the world
-together with @tilmweber.bsky.social

Joint DTU-BGI PhD project and nice collaborative effort providing the isolates

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Bacillus

Me supervising my supervisor， who is only in the lab once per year @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social