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  1. Celebrating World Microbiome Day!

    Jun 27, 2026

  2. Unveiling Earth’s hidden infrastructure: the first global map of mycorrhizal fungi

    Jun 12, 2026

  3. Marcela Aragón succesfully defends her PhD

    Jun 10, 2026

  4. MiCRop consortium day at Allard Pierson Museum

    Jun 5, 2026

  5. Launch of Holomicrobiome Institute

    Jun 4, 2026

  6. Roland Berdaguer succesfully defends his PhD

    Apr 15, 2026

  7. 4th International Congress on Strigolactones

    Apr 1, 2026

  8. Born to Rewild: Dario Ramirez-Villacis succesfully defends his PhD

    Mar 19, 2026

  9. Today we received 100 high school students from all over the Netherlands!

    Mar 12, 2026

  10. Roeland Berendsen receives prestigious Vici grant

    Feb 26, 2026

  11. Justin Stewart succesfully defends his PhD

    Feb 26, 2026

  12. New article!

    Jan 31, 2026

  13. Muhammad Rizaludin succesfully defends his PhD

    Jan 29, 2026

  14. A new expedition through Ecuador!

    Jan 22, 2026

  15. A second succesful PhD defense

    Jan 9, 2026

  16. Symposium on Chemical Ecology 2026

    Dec 29, 2025

  17. First ever MiCRop PhD defense!

    Dec 29, 2025

  18. New article in Dutch magazine on the influence of the microbiome on potato cyst nematode egg hatching

    Dec 29, 2025

  19. New video: our research, our goals, our future

    Dec 17, 2025

  20. New Postdoc position in Integrating Plant Microbiome Omics Data for Causal Inference

    Dec 1, 2025

  21. New PhD position in Chemical Communication between Plants and the Microbiome

    Nov 27, 2025

  22. Interview with Harro Bouwmeester in horticulture magazine

    Nov 13, 2025

  23. Roeland Berendsen and Vasilis Kokkoris on Dutch television!

    Nov 6, 2025

  24. Come to the premiere of the Food Film Fest 2025 in Amsterdam!

    Nov 6, 2025

  25. Video: look back on the MiCRop annual meeting of 2025

    Oct 23, 2025

  26. Booklet and recording from Marcel Dicke's farewell address 'Bugged Ideas' now available for download

    Sep 4, 2025

  27. Born to rewild: Reconnecting beneficial plant-microbiome alliances for resilient future crops

    Aug 21, 2025

  28. Article: Global divergence in plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity hotspots

    Aug 7, 2025

  29. Exhibition on microbial life in the Singer-Laren museum

    Jul 29, 2025

  30. New article: a review on similarities between rhizosphere and gut microbiomes

    Jul 28, 2025

  31. Big media attention for newest VU group publication

    Jul 25, 2025

  32. New publication in Nature by MiCRop's VU group

    Jul 24, 2025

  33. NEW VIDEO: Improving drought and aphid resistance in Brassica oleracea

    Jul 24, 2025

  34. New review on the role of root exudates in microbiome recruitment

    Jul 3, 2025

  35. New article: The role of isoprenoids in the chemical interaction between plants and other organisms in their rhizosphere

    Jun 27, 2025

  36. 6th Plant microBIOME Symposium

    Jun 26, 2025

  37. Marcel Dicke gives his farewell address at WUR

    Jun 12, 2025

  38. Eight PhD and postdoc positions in plant-microbiome interactions for Gravitation programme MiCRop

    May 16, 2025

  39. MiCRop researchers from VU publish new article in Nature

    Feb 27, 2025

  40. NWO Faculty of Impact grant for MiCRop PhD candidate Roland Berdaguer

    Feb 26, 2025

  41. AMEC 2025: Advancing Microbiome Science from Ecology to Health

    Feb 20, 2025

  42. Day of Amsterdam Microbiome Expertise Center (AMEC)

    Feb 11, 2025

  43. Vacancy: PhD position “ PhD Candidate Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience”

    Jan 28, 2025

  44. New video: research highlights from Justin Stewart

    Jan 27, 2025

  45. New video: research highlights from Yang Song

    Jan 27, 2025

  46. New video: research highlights from Kris de Kreek

    Jan 21, 2025

  47. New video: research highlights from Rahul Jain

    Jan 15, 2025

  48. Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome

    Jan 7, 2025

  49. Dario Ramirez on second round of potato soil sampling

    Dec 19, 2024

  50. First Syncom expirment underway at WUR Entomology

    Dec 18, 2024

  51. Toby Kiers publishes new paper in Nature Microbiology

    Dec 17, 2024

  52. VACANCY: PhD Position Beneficial Seeds Microbes - NIOO-KNAW - Wageningen

    Dec 12, 2024

  53. VACANCY: Bioinformatics Postdoc at UU/WUR: Map Metabolic Interactions in the Rhizosphere

    Dec 6, 2024

  54. VACANCY: PhD Position on Microbiome-Driven Crop Nutrition

    Dec 5, 2024

  55. Toby Kiers at CIAT (Colombia) during COP16

    Nov 26, 2024

  56. Save the date: Bioinformatics in Food Science Symposium

    Nov 25, 2024

  57. 6 MiCRop researchers in Top Highly Cited Researchers 2024

    Nov 21, 2024

  58. New breakthrough from WUR on plant tissue profiling methodology

    Nov 19, 2024

  59. MiCRop celebrates fifth anniversary (and another five years!)

    Nov 14, 2024

  60. EPS Symposium at UvA Science Park chaired by Karen Kloth

    Oct 9, 2024

  61. UvA Open Science Day: a big success!

    Oct 5, 2024

  62. New Postdoc position (mycology) open NIOO-KNAW!

    Oct 3, 2024

  63. Come to the Open Science Day on Sat 5 Oct!

    Sep 28, 2024

  64. Come to Feeding the Future on Sat 28 Sep in Wageningen!

    Sep 27, 2024

  65. MiCRop VR exhibited at UvA Communication Platform

    Sep 26, 2024

  66. Scientists’ call to action: Microbes, planetary health, and the Sustainable Development Goals

    Sep 25, 2024

  67. Justin Stewart presents work at MU Hybrid Art House

    Sep 18, 2024

  68. New enzyme identified in synthesis of strigolactones in rice

    Aug 29, 2024

  69. Microbiome featured in Bionieuws Magazine

    Jul 10, 2024

  70. Toby Kiers at lunch of Excellence with Dutch royal family

    Jun 26, 2024

  71. 5th Plant Microbiome Symposium proceeded with great excellence

    Jun 25, 2024

  72. MiCRop Phase II Approved by Dutch Ministry!

    May 15, 2024

  73. MiCRop VR incredibly popular among kids at Expeditie Next

    May 1, 2024

  74. Toby Kiers talks fungi in interview with We Are the ReGeneration

    Apr 17, 2024

  75. Hilde Herrema to present Holomicrobiome Initiative at NCOH 30th May!

    Apr 16, 2024

  76. Early Bird Registration Extended to 14 April!

    Apr 9, 2024

  77. Save the date! 18 April, 2024: Vintage Innovation - Bacteriophage webinar

    Apr 9, 2024

  78. bacLIFE: How AI distinguishes the good from the bad and the ugly

    Apr 2, 2024

  79. High school students in North-Holland first explorers of virtual microbiome

    Mar 22, 2024

  80. Dutch cabinet allocates €200 million to Holomicrobiome

    Mar 15, 2024

  81. Register for 5th Plant Microbiome Symposium Now!

    Mar 11, 2024

  82. MiCRop welcomes New Support and Outreach Colleague with Ecological Expertise

    Mar 5, 2024

  83. Save the date for the 5th Plant Microbiome Symposium

    Jan 9, 2024

  84. DMG Symposium: Standardization of metagenomics is (not) required!

    Jan 7, 2024

  85. Save the date for the XX International Plant Protection Congress in Athens

    Dec 11, 2023

  86. Update in research from UU: Plant protects next generation via soil

    Dec 5, 2023

  87. Consortiumday

    Dec 3, 2023

  88. Three MiCRop PI's on the Highly Cited Researchers list by Clarivate

    Nov 15, 2023

  89. MiCRop visits Koppert Global's Experience Centre

    Oct 26, 2023

  90. Science Weekend at UvA Sciencepark

    Oct 9, 2023

  91. Dutch government reserves €200 million for Holomicrobiome Institute

    Jul 2, 2023

  92. Vidi grants from NWO for MiCRop tenure trackers Dr Lemeng Dong and Dr Karen Kloth

    Jun 29, 2023

  93. Symposium in honor of the 175th birthday of Hugo de Vries

    Jun 12, 2023

  94. Genetic Mapping of the Root Mycobiota in Rice and its Role in Drought Tolerance

    Jun 8, 2023

  95. Spinoza prize for Toby Kiers

    Jun 7, 2023

  96. EPS flying seminar by Colleen Drapek on Tuesday 30 May 2023

    May 24, 2023

  97. Documentary on evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers’ groundbreaking research

    May 22, 2023

  98. Symposium 175 years Hugo de Vries, June 8th 2023

    May 19, 2023

  99. Jos Raaijmakers elected member of the KNAW

    May 18, 2023

  100. ERC Starting Grant for ecologist Vasilis Kokkoris

    May 17, 2023

  101. AMI Grant for postdoc Rahul Jain

    May 16, 2023

  102. Expedition Next

    May 8, 2023

  103. Searching for the invisible life on Galápagos Islands

    Mar 22, 2023

  104. New Science publication: Maize resistance to witchweed through changes in strigolactone biosynthesis

    Jan 6, 2023

  105. Giannis Stringlis appointed Assistant Professor

    Jan 2, 2023

  106. Marnix Medema appointed professor

    Dec 22, 2022

  107. New outreach colleague has started her work at MiCRop

    Dec 18, 2022

  108. Science: Rewilding plant microbiomes

    Nov 14, 2022

  109. Webinar Imaging life on a nano-scale

    Nov 10, 2022

  110. MiCRop Day in Amsterdam

    Nov 9, 2022

  111. Lecture about entangled life and the hidden world of fungi

    Oct 27, 2022

  112. Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre officially opened

    Oct 1, 2022

  113. Dutch Science Weekend - Meet MiCRop in Amsterdam

    Sep 30, 2022

  114. Two new MiCRop postdocs are starting their work

    Sep 26, 2022

  115. Metabolomics & the Microbiome First Edition

    Sep 16, 2022

  116. Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of Fungus

    Jul 27, 2022

  117. Sampling fungal networks in green roofs

    Jul 22, 2022

  118. MiCRop delegation at miCROPe conference in Vienna

    Jul 18, 2022

  119. SPUN on Science cover

    Jul 13, 2022

  120. New publication: Disentangling the genetic basis of rhizosphere microbiome assembly in tomato

    Jul 6, 2022

  121. Marnix Medema awarded with Vidi grant

    Jul 1, 2022

  122. Copenhagen Bioscience Conference: Plant-microbe Interactions

    Jun 29, 2022

  123. MiCRop Annual Meeting 2022

    Jun 24, 2022

  124. Spinoza prize for Corné Pieterse

    Jun 17, 2022

  125. MiCRop delegation at 3rd Plant Microbiome Symposium

    May 27, 2022

  126. Genotype to Phenotype: Bridging Comparative Genomics and Cell Biology

    May 20, 2022

  127. 3rd Plant Microbiome Symposium 24-26 May, 2022

    Mar 17, 2022

  128. MiCRop Annual Meeting on 23-24 June 2022 in Amsterdam!

    Feb 24, 2022

  129. International Symposium miCROPe, July 11-14, 2022, Vienna, Austria

    Feb 8, 2022

  130. GRC Salt and Water Stress in Plants May 22 - 27, 2022

    Jan 12, 2022

  131. MiCRop PI Toby Kiers in the media with her new SPUN initiative

    Dec 7, 2021

  132. Mathematical Biology in Microbiota Research- Future Food Utrecht Conversation Series lecture

    Sep 17, 2021

  133. Virtual Conference: Harnessing the Plant Microbiome

    Aug 11, 2021

  134. Integration of omics data to unravel root microbiome recruitment

    Jul 22, 2021

  135. Metabolic interactions in beneficial microbe recruitment by plants

    Jul 12, 2021

  136. First MiCRop Annual Meeting

    Jun 25, 2021

  137. The Chemistry of Stress: Understanding the ‘Cry for Help’ of Plant Roots

    Jun 9, 2021

  138. How fungi helped plants to get on land

    May 31, 2021

  139. What is going on in the MiCRop greenhouses and labs?

    May 20, 2021

  140. Articles about plant health and about the symbiosis of fungi and plants

    May 12, 2021

  141. Metabolites Special Issue

    Apr 28, 2021

  142. Toby Kiers awarded Vici grant

    Apr 21, 2021

  143. Designing a home for beneficial plant microbiomes

    Mar 8, 2021

  144. People behind MiCRop: interview with Rumyana Karlova

    Feb 10, 2021

  145. Latest reads: publications Jan/Feb 2021

    Feb 8, 2021

  146. Bugs, food, art, and sustainability

    Feb 4, 2021

  147. 9 open PhD fellowships within ARISTO

    Jan 19, 2021

  148. Happy holidays & a joyous 2021!

    Dec 23, 2020

  149. People behind MiCRop: interview with Giannis Stringlis

    Dec 2, 2020

  150. Internal (online) kick-off

    Nov 20, 2020

  151. Academy Ecology Fund for ecological fieldwork and research

    Nov 18, 2020

  152. Potato greenhouse experiments in Ecuador

    Oct 30, 2020

  153. All about plant science on Dutch TV tonight!

    Oct 22, 2020

  154. People behind MiCRop: interview with Karen Kloth

    Oct 21, 2020

  155. Amsterdam Microbiome Initiative

    Oct 19, 2020

  156. Kickoff meeting of Wageningen MiCRop team

    Sep 7, 2020

  157. Field sampling in the Andes (Ecuador)

    Aug 31, 2020

  158. Amsterdam Science Magazine: A new future for our crops?

    May 12, 2020

  159. Vici Award for Christa Testerink

    Feb 20, 2020

  160. Bionieuws: €40 million for plants and brains

    Sep 7, 2019

  161. Trouw: Financiële injectie voor toponderzoekers

    Aug 31, 2019

  162. Wageningen in research on microbial imprinting for crop resilience

    Aug 30, 2019

  163. University of Amsterdam: €20 million for plant stress research

    Aug 30, 2019

  164. Het Parool: Hoe weet een plant wat goed voor haar is?

    Aug 30, 2019

  165. Twenty million euros for the next generation of sustainable crops

    Aug 30, 2019

  166. Utrecht University: NWO Gravitation grant awarded to consortium - 20 million for research on plant probiotics

    Aug 30, 2019

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