10-year funding by @NWO_Science and @MinOCW with partners at @UvA_Amsterdam, @VUamsterdam , @WUR, @UtrechtUni, @niooknaw to harness the power of the #microbiome to protect #plants against stress and make agriculture more sustainable #planthealth Visit https://t.co/VgQjDJATQO https://t.co/N9e0ru42GM
— MiCRop - Microbial Imprinting for Crop Resilience (@MiCRop_research) September 2, 2020
Quite sure I met some future scientists at Open Science Day at @UvA_Science today, when talking about @MiCRop_research and mycorrhiza specifically. Such a fun experience! https://t.co/GRu4sAvQcn
— Malin Klein (@malin_kln) October 7, 2023
Grote belangstelling voor het @MiCRop_research werk aan het microbioom pic.twitter.com/RKsf2c4Lqv
— Harro Bouwmeester (@HarroBouwmeest1) October 7, 2023
@MiCRop_research outreach at Open Science event at @UvA_Science pic.twitter.com/a2yUgEo3XG
— MiCRop - Microbial Imprinting for Crop Resilience (@MiCRop_research) October 7, 2023
2023-06-12
The Hugo de Vries Prize 2022 was awarded to Eline Ampt for her outstanding thesis on the relationship between biodiversity and plant diseases in natural ecosystems
2023-06-08
New publication on genetic factors involved in rice-microbe interaction and their relevance in drought tolerance
2023-06-07
Toby Kiers and three other researchers have been awarded with the highest awards in Dutch scientific community
2023-03-22
Expedition to the Galápagos Islands to uncover invisible life and its relationship with the local flora
2023-01-06
MiCRop researchers Harro Bouwmeester, Lemeng Dong, Chengsheng Li, Marnix Medema and a team of international collaborators have identifed a maize line that is resistant to Striga
2023-01-02
Giannis starts his new position at the Agricultural University of Athens
2022-12-22
He now holds a personal chair in Bioinformatics at Wageningen University
2022-12-18
Sanne will strengthen the team with her communications and marketing experience
2022-11-14
Perspectives article in Science by Jos Raaijmakers & Toby Kiers
2022-11-10
Webinar on NanoSIMS in Life and Medical Sciences on 14 November
2022-10-27
Anniversary lecture at Spui25 in Amsterdam on 14 November
2022-10-01
The joint initiative of Wageningen University & Research and Utrecht University has officially opened
2022-09-30
Saturday, 1 October 2022, it's Open Day at many places in the Netherlands: Come meet MiCRop at Science Park 904 in Amsterdam!
2022-09-26
We are happy to welcome Jié Hu and Rahul Jain!
2022-07-27
Fantastic article about the importance of fungal networks in the New York Times
2022-07-22
Article in Trouw about sampling fungal networks on bus stops in Utrecht
2022-07-18
A team of MiCRop researchers at the international miCROPe conference
2022-07-13
The Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), a new fungus-focused non-profit with its ambitious effort to map the global distribution of mycorrhizal fungi
2022-07-06
A new publication in Nature Communications, partly funded by MiCRop, by the groups of Jos Raaijmakers and Marnix Medema.
2022-07-01
Marnix Medema awarded Vidi grant for his work to develop integrative-omics-based methods to computationally identify plant biosynthetic pathways and link them to their metabolic products, to provide new insights into pathway evolution.
2022-06-29
Conference on plant-microbe interactions on 13-17 November 2022 in Copenhagen. Call for abstracts is open!
2022-06-24
Two days of exciting science, inspiring talks and lots of discussions in Amsterdam
2022-06-17
Corné Pieterse has been awarded with the highest prize in Dutch academia
2022-05-20
Workshop bringing together computational, cell, and evolutionary biologists
2022-02-24
We are happy to announce our first live MiCRop Annual Meeting
2022-02-08
MICROBE-ASSISTED CROP PRODUCTION-OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES & NEEDS
2022-01-12
Gordon Research Conference: Interfaces with Soil and Microbes
2021-12-07
SPUN is a non-profit, science-based initiative founded to map fungal networks and advocate for their protection.
2021-09-17
The FFU Conversation Series are short lectures where guest lecturers or researchers can present their ideas about a topical food issue or present their recent research to the FFU community.
2021-07-22
Review on multi-omics data integration methods to unravel signalling relationships.
2021-07-12
Review on metabolic interactions and beneficial microbe recruitment, published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology.
2021-06-25
More than 70 participants discussed the progress, challenges and possibilities in two online sessions
2021-06-09
Review on stress responses in plants, published in Metabolites
2021-05-31
The importance of the relationship and trade between plants and fungi
2021-05-12
Articles featuring, among others, MiCRop PIs Corné Pieterse and Toby Kiers in Bionieuws
2021-04-28
Invitation to submit to Metabolites Special Issue “Integration of Metabolomics with Other Omics Technologies to Investigate Metabolism and Signaling in Plants”
2021-04-21
Toby Kiers awarded Vici grant for research on fungal networks
2021-03-08
Review article published as result of collaborative effort between MiCRop and colleague researchers from China Agricultural University.
2021-02-10
In this series, we interview the researchers that are driving MiCRop. Meet Rumyana Karlova, assistant professor at Wageningen University!
2021-02-08
Find and read the latest publications in scientific journals and their abstracts by consortium members.
2021-01-19
PhD positions in the field of soil microbial toxicity of pesticides
2020-12-02
In this series, we interview the researchers that are driving MiCRop. Meet Giannis Stringlis, postdoctoral researcher Utrecht University!
2020-11-20
The internal kick-off meeting took place online on Friday, 20 November 2020.
2020-10-22
Tonight is all about plant science on TV: science programme Zembla features among others Harro Bouwmeester representing MiCRop, and in 'Grote Vragen', you can follow Christa Testerink and her research. Watch it live on NPO 2 or afterwards online.
2020-10-21
In this series, we interview the researchers that are driving MiCRop. Meet Karen Kloth, postdoc at Wageningen University!
2020-10-19
The Amsterdam Microbiome Initiative in the spotlight at BioNieuws. This initiative is looking for the common role(s) of microorganisms in microbial communities, independant of their location.
2020-09-07
Three new PhD students and a postdoc started their work at the Wageningen research team
2019-09-07
De overheid investeert 40 miljoen euro in twee innovatieve biologische onderzoeksprogramma’s naar wortelmicrobiomen van planten en hersenaandoeningen.
2019-08-31
Zes groepen topwetenschappers van verschillende Nederlandse universiteiten krijgen in total 113,8 miljoen euro voor hun onderzoeksprogramma.
2019-08-30
Six consortia of top researchers are being awarded a total of 113.8 million euros to conduct groundbreaking scientific research programmes in the coming years, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced.
