Ferran Garcia-Pichel
@FerranPichel
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Tempe, Arizona
Joined April 2021
I will be interviewing candidates for a Ph.D. position involving desert microbes, arid soils, plants and restoration. If interested please send me an email: ana.giraldo@unavarra.es
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Our latest study on microbial cell size evolution is published in @CellReports! Congratulations to graduate student @hsecairam and collaborator @FerranPichel (1/n)
An evolutionary optimum amid moderate heritability in prokaryotic cell size
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An evolutionary optimum amid moderate heritability in prokaryotic cell size
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Secaira-Morocho et al. compile a large dataset of prokaryotic cell sizes spanning five orders of magnitude. Analyses with evolutionary models uncovered an optimum size that serves as a magnet during...
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Do you jump at new opportunities, or you ponder before acting? Patrick Kut's new paper shows that soil microbes respond to water pulses differently.. some act quickly and some ponder, which defines who benefits from pulses of different duration. https://t.co/QkSNXhTygh
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Excited to be holding a seminar on "Crustivoltaics for large-scale restoration of biocrust cover in arid soils" at the SER webinars on January 18 noon Eastern US time
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Just submitted before the holidays... Check out our new preprint on the #evolution of #multicellularity in #cyanobacteria
https://t.co/XIIY0TmNKd Great collaboration between Berlin, Bristol and Seville @sanchez_baracal @ColoradoJo19 @mernievesm @Enrique72137463
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Cyanobacteria are among the most morphologically diverse prokaryotic phyla on Earth. Their morphotypes range from unicellular to multicellular filaments, yet mechanisms underlying the evolution of...
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Excellent @ASUBiodesign video on our @AZRegents funded work, with @HerckesLab, Matt Fraser and CBBG to rid arizona of dust pollution. Thanks everyone. It looks awesome. Natural remedies to reduce dust-storm intensity in Arizona https://t.co/jtSNPjeVbV via @YouTube
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Excellent piece on our work by Jenessa Ducombe at EOS. Beautifully and accurately written. Thanks you! Solar Panels Nurse Desert Soil Back to Life
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Cultivating delicate soil crust in the shade of solar panels might boost the recovery of arid land.
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‘Crustivoltaics’ could restore vital ecosystems, benefit solar farms | KJZZ
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A new proof-of-concept study in Nature Sustainability uses local solar farms to restore vital ecosystems called biocrusts. The low-cost approach can benefit solar farms by reducing dust on panels and...
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and what a beautiful, to the point visual on our work from the folks at ASUNews! #crustivoltaics
https://t.co/dazktWcTpf
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Ah, one more thing today... From an awesome team made up of several generations of students (some still here, some just graduated, some post-docs or faculty now) meet CRUSTIVOLTAICS and its promise to scale up soil restoration: https://t.co/0FwiVxhnDE
nature.com
Nature Sustainability - Arid soils are currently under substantial anthropogenic stress and are globally degrading. Co-operating photovoltaic plants with biocrust nurseries has potential to restore...
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Congratulations to our newest graduate, Patrick Kut, who successfully defended his MS thesis: "The Effect of Hydration Pulse Duration on the Diversity and Composition of Soil Microbiomes" finding who is who in the NIR / TOR continuum
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Just found out I was awarded a Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grant. Can't wait to get out in the field and start working with those soil microbes!
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Contributions of hypolithic cyanos to landscape-scale soil carbon are not to be dismissed... Awesome collaboration with @hthroop050510, the DERT group , and NUST in Windhoek. Just out. | Home
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Great reporting from our local newspaper on our efforts to use biocrust to deal with the secular dust pollution problems in AZ... Restoring desert crusts may control dust pollution better than spraying water https://t.co/Qg5fVyBVPd via @azcentral
azcentral.com
As the increase of fallow fields in Pinal County worsen dust storms, ASU researchers are evaluating bio-inspired technologies as solution.
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Just out! Cyanobacteria in biocrust prefer to be with their own kind and the biocrust microbiome shapes itself around this preference. Shout out to great co-authors @finwarsopt @CyanoParcera @FerranPichel for their efforts and teamwork!
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