Claire Moulton-Brown

Introducing.... The Soil Ecology Seminar Series 2026!
Join us on Wednesday the 25th of February at 1 pm GMT for the first installment. We will delve into microbial ecology with exciting talks from Dr Ashish Malik and Josh Thurston:
Register your interest here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

New preprint with @luehea.bsky.social 🍄🌾

AMF prime barley immune genes against brown rust
…but immunity ≠ resistance.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#AMF #PlantImmunity #Barley #Preprint #PlantSoilMicrobe

We are now on LinkedIn! Follow us for all things new and exciting in soil ecology including research papers, job postings, and information of upcoming conferences and seminars.
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Meet the soil ecology SIG steering committee for 2026!

@nataliejoram.bsky.social (Co-Chair) - My research focuses on how grassland plant and soil communities withstand extreme weather events (such as drought), how they recover afterwards, and the role management plays in these responses.

EASTBIO: Resilient crops for a sustainable future: Unravelling the interaction between fungal pathogens and mycorrhizal symbionts in barley at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EASTBIO: Resilient crops for a sustainable future: Unravelling the interaction between fungal pathogens and mycorrhizal symbionts in barley at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD...

🌾 PhD opportunity!
Explore how mycorrhizal fungi shape crop resilience to fungal pathogens. A fantastic project for anyone excited about plant-microbe interactions with @luehea.bsky.social

🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#PhD #PlantScience #MicrobialEcology #SustainableAg

Love soil? Great with communications? Join us as a communications representative - apply by 17 Nov!

Soil Ecology Group - British Ecological Society Understanding the vital ecosystem services provided by soil

We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!

Beautiful day for soil sampling in Roamers Wood.
#SoilMicrobialEcology #SoilScience #SoilOrganicCarbon #CarbonStorage #Ecology

Huge thanks to our amazing host partner, Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, and our brilliant panelists,
Prof Clare Taylor @edinburghnapier.bsky.social,
@clairemb.bsky.social, Dr Barbora Skarabela, Angeli Mehta PhD, Rhona Crawford @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
and Dr Louise Scott!

A project led by Dr Claire Moulton-Brown (PhD, MBiol, AFHEA) has been awarded funding by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) to examine how reforestation affects the soil and its ability to tackle… |... A project led by Dr Claire Moulton-Brown (PhD, MBiol, AFHEA) has been awarded funding by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) to examine how reforestation affects the soil and its ability to tackle cl...

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I'm excited to get started on my very first project as a PI!

We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.

CeMESS is hiring!

Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.

🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Spent last week at the microscope 🔬✨, and seeing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi up close for the first time—hyphae, arbuscules, vesicles—was absolutely mind-blowing. Small but mighty partners of plant roots 🌿. Sharing a few of my favourite shots.
#Mycorrhiza #fungi

Find out more about this unique place and what we've been doing here: roamerswood.org.uk

I'm conducting exciting long-term experiments to explore how tree planting impacts carbon cycling through altering the soil microbiome 🦠🍄🌱. Curious about why I'm burying pants to study soil health? 🩲 Check it out!

Screenshot of an article entitled Roamers Wood: digging into soil health. It has a photo of three boys stood in a sunny woodland at the top and a picture of two children planting trees at the bottom.

Just published my first ever article for Reforesting Scotland on Roamers Wood community woodland!! 🌳
roamerswood.org.uk/img/roamers_...

#SoilScience #TreePlanting #ReforestingScotland

A circle of wooden benches covered in thick snow.

A photo of a snowy field with newly planted trees growing in it.

It's lovely seeing #RoamersWood community woodland in the different seasons. I wonder what changes we'll see in the soil microbes 🦠🍄🌳
roamerswood.org.uk

🧬🦠 Exciting new resource for #protists lovers! The eKOI database to expand the power of COI metabarcoding with a focus on #protistsonsky & integrated in @pr2-database.bsky.social Lead by Rubén with @beaplab.bsky.social @fonamental.bsky.social @daniel-vaulot.bsky.social
Link: t.co/3lqzRaFw9V

Spatial separation of AM fungi allows fungal strains to complement one another without conflict.
A 'white album effect'.

A great explainer and article!
Check out the plain language summary below (paper itself at doi.org/10.1111/1365...)

Four people standing in front of a sign with the British Ecological Society logo on it.

Had a wonderful time at #BES2024 with @luehea.bsky.social 🍄🚜🦠🌾 but I now need to catch up on a lot of sleep 😴

Thank you to everyone who attended my talk yesterday at #BES2024 on temporal dynamics of AMF communities.
Please get in touch if you have any ideas or questions! #AMF #SoilMicrobialEcology

A bit cold from Edinburgh, but very pretty views from the train (before the fog came down)

@luehea.bsky.social !

It's predicted to come soon. 🤞 I just wish I'd got some coffee. The platform is chilly.

Another shameless plug for my talk at #BES2024 tomorrow at 16:45. See some cool data vis of AMF temporal dynamics

A sad start to #BES2024 travel plans

It's brilliant to be part of the #RoamersWood project! I'm very excited to understand how soil microbes respond to afforestation #WorldSoilDay2024

Optimising wheat-fungal symbioses for enhanced nutrition and sustainability at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Optimising wheat-fungal symbioses for enhanced nutrition and sustainability at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

I’m also looking for a PhD student to investigate crop-mycorrhizal interactions, more info about the project and application process here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

It’s only 2 weeks until #BES2024 ! Looking forward to Liverpool, launching a new network with @anaspene.bsky.social and Rob Brooker (not here… yet…), helping out at the ECR CV drop in, and @clairemb.bsky.social giving her talk!
It’s not just a meeting, it’s a @britishecolsoc.bsky.social meeting 🎉🌍

Come and hear about the temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their response to regenerative agricultural practices in 2 weeks time at #BES2024 with @luehea.bsky.social 🍄🚜🌾

A researcher on a boardwalk in a DANK hawaiian forest on Molokai.

RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...