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So we found this Arabidopsis population in Christchurch - easily several thousand plants. We went out sampling it and got back with some of the "beauties" to collect some seeds in the future. I'll post more pictures about what we ended up with later. 
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Mo has submitted his first preprint (https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.28.922625) and in collaboration with Cosima Pelludat from Agroscope, CH, we had a paper in AEM accepted: Pseudomonas orientalis F9 pyoverdine, safracin and phenazine mutants remain effective antagonists against Erwinia amylovora in apple flowers (accepted) Amanda Santos Kron, Veronika Zengerer, Marco Bieri, Vera Dreyfuss, Tanja Sostizzo, Michael Schmid, Matthias Lutz, Mitja Remus-Emsermann, and Cosima Pelludat
Should be online within the next few weeks :-) The bioprotection research core (BPRC - http://bioprotection.org.nz/about-us/) has awarded our group with two grants:
1) One summer student scholarship plus consumables (Christian Stocks will keep supporting our lab :) Yeah!) 2) a kickstarter to collaborate with Mark Hurst from AgResearch to do some awesome single-cell studies on Yersinia as a pathogen for insect pests. Rudolf and Michal both received travel awards from the New Zealand society for microbiology to attend the annual meeting 2019 in Palmerston North.
The RE-lab will be represented by them, Simisola Oso and Moritz Miebach. Well that was a lot of fun! Paula started her career as Prof. Emerita with a bang that is shaking the establishment of the Rhodococcus fascians community. In her most recent study, she argues that "the trick with the cytokinin mix" does not hold. Instead, methylated cytokinins are more likely to be the sole causal agents for fasciation.
In other news - Williamsia spp. may also be able to cause fasciation in plants - here we show first evidence for this. Congrats to Paula for this wonderful piece! Article can be found here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2019.00674/abstract Emmanuel's and Sophie van Hamelsveld's (Postgrad of Prof. Jack Heinemann) first lead author paper was published:
Prevalence of antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli isolated from urban and agricultural streams in Canterbury, New Zealand Sophie van Hamelsveld, Muyiwa E Adewale, Brigitta Kurenbach, William Godsoe, Jon S Harding, Mitja N P Remus-Emsermann, and Jack A Heinemann It is a very concerning find that we could detect ciprofloxacin resistant bacteria in our urban rivers. Congrats to all co-authors For some reason I missed that the final version of Simi's paper is now available https://academic.oup.com/femsle/article/366/6/fnz061/5420820 looks really nice in its final version - again congrats Simi!  "Micropatterning of hybrid polydimethylsiloxane for replica leaves"
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