A 🧵. As a young girl growing up in Québec, Canada, I found my joy in smell of 🍁🍃🌿, the rhythm of rivers, & the quiet strength of the forest. I was a Girl Scout who loved canoeing & exploring nature, but I had no idea what I wanted to study. @USherbrooke @ISME_microbes . 1/.

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@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE Final speaker of the Microbial Ecology & Evolution Symposium. A change of plan:. Akhil Kholdwadala from the lab of the lab of Jesse Shapiro at @mcgillu. Nutrient Enrichment & Connectivity Shape Bacterioplankton Diversity. #CSEE.#MicrobialEcology.@CSEE_SCEEmtgs.@CSEE_SCEE.

@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE Prof. Srijak Bhatnagar is next:. Plastisphere Microbiome - An ecological niche shaped by the city. Microplastics are organic molecules that can act as sponges for microbial inhabitants and pollutants. #MicrobialEcology.#CSEE2025.@CSEE_SCEEmtgs .@CSEE_SCEE

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@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE Now Jean-Baptiste Leducq from ULaval talks about:. The Hyphomicrobiales dark matter in the phyllosphere. #Phyllosphere.#MicrobialEcology.#CSEE2025.@CSEE_SCEE .@CSEE_SCEEmtgs.

Next is Abdul-Rahman Adamu Bukari from Aleeza Gerstein’s lab. Global phylogenomic diversity of Candida albicans from diverse ecological niches. #MicrobialEcology.#CSEE2025.@CSEE_SCEEmtgs .@CSEE_SCEE

Last Day of #CSEE2025. We are launching our Microbial Ecology & Evolution Symposium with a talk by @monaparizadeh from @ArrietaLab. Early-Life Gut Microbiome Dynamics in Rural Infants: Microbial Succession and Environmental Impacts. #MicrobialEcology.@CSEE_SCEEmtgs .@CSEE_SCEE

@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE And that is a 🌯 for the plant-microbe symposium!. Thank you to Morgane & @Mycocentriq for organizing!. @CSEE_SCEE .@CSEE_SCEEmtgs .#CSEE2025.

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@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE Missing pictures and adding a reference to read.

@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE Finishing the Symposium with Damian Hernandez from Michelle Afkhami lab:. Gene family expansions drive context-dependency in an ancient plant-fungal symbiosis. #CSEE2025.

@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE Part II of the Plant-Microbe Interactions Symposium is on:. Étienne Yergeau sprints across a captivating 12 min talk 😬🤣 Tipping the plant-microbe competition for nitrogen in agricultural soils. Jon Bennett: 🦠drivers of plant invasion across the Canadian Great Plains. #CSEE2025.

Don’t forget to drop off your poster!. #CSEE2025.@CSEE_SCEE .@CSEE_SCEEmtgs

@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE Final talk of the morning Mélanie Jean takes us on a field trip to the microscale forests of bryophytes. #CSEE2025

@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE Next is Simon Petley giving us a lesson of resilience, when his experiment in the greenhouse was infected by thrips he retaliated and learned from his experiment to launch and improve the next one!. Kudos!.#CSEE2025.

@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE @GilbertKadeem @PaqLabUQAM @carlyziter @evoecolab @WidowWeb @MichelleAfkhami Next is Abdel Halloway on:. A Model to Explain Mutualism Variation with Minimal Functional Trait Difference. Demographic isolation is a necessary component of coexistence. Evidence is against the simplest models. #microbialecology.#CSEE2025

@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE @GilbertKadeem @PaqLabUQAM @carlyziter @evoecolab @WidowWeb @MichelleAfkhami Adding in my to read list 🤩.

@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE @GilbertKadeem @PaqLabUQAM @carlyziter @evoecolab @WidowWeb @MichelleAfkhami Correction: Amanda Rawstern is presenting!.

@CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CSEE_SCEE @GilbertKadeem @PaqLabUQAM @carlyziter @evoecolab @WidowWeb Next is @MichelleAfkhami 🎉🦠. The Impact of Environmental Stress and Keystone Microbes on Microbiome Communities. #soilmicrobiome.#microbialecology.#CSEE2025.@CSEE_SCEEmtgs .@CSEE_SCEE