Gubry-Rangin Lab

Prof Yongchao Liang from Zhejiang University visited us on 2nd/3rd Sept!

​Cécile gave an invited talk at ISME “Importance of environmental fluctuations for microbial adaptation and biogeography”.

Dylan presented a poster at ISME “Niche specialisation and phylosymbiosis in the sponge microbiome”.

Dr Cecile de Klein (https://www.agresearch.co.nz/about-us/our-people/cecile-de-klein/ ) is visiting us and will give a talk on “Biological nitrification inhibition in temperate pasture species for reducing N2O emissions: opportunities and challenges”

Xiaoping starts her large experiments to study BNI activity in Wheat

On Friday 28th June, Alaster, Paul, and Cecile ran a full-day workshop on ‘Metagenome Assembly and Functional Annotation’ in association with the Aberdeen Computational Biology Forum. Attendees came from multiple schools across the University, including Chemistry, Medical Science, and Biological Sciences, to learn how to assemble and functionally annotate metagenome-assembled-genomes (MAGs) from metagenomics data.”

For EastBio PIPS internship, Jack worked with the Scottish Government,  in which he assessed current policy needs regarding fertilisers in Scotland.

Jonathan Joined our lab on 2nd of May and will be working in the group to October. He will do assay development and ecological studies on BNI candidate compounds in soil while he is in CGR lab.

Bev is a research technician supporting a BBSRC funded interdisciplinary project. She will support the research on natural variation in biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) in rice.

In collaboration with researchers in China, we rencently publised a paper on the Journal of Environmental Management, "AOB Nitrosospira cluster 3a.2 (D11) dominates N2O emissions in fertilised agricultural soils", advances our understanding of key nitrifiers responsible for high N2O emissions in agricultural soils and their controlling factors, and provides vital knowledge for N2O emission mitigation in agricultural ecosystems.