James McDonald
@jamesemcdonald
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Prof. of microbial ecology @UoBbiosciences @unibirmingham | 🌳 Decoding the tree microbiome 🧫
Birmingham, England
Joined September 2012
RT @AMIposts: Are you a final-year PhD student? Or have you recently completed your PhD and published your first paper?. Apply to become a….
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Junior editor and reviewer opportunities with @AMIposts 👇🏻.
Are you an active early career researcher interested in developing your editorial skills? Letters in Applied Microbiology (LAM) is now recruiting for the second cohort of Junior Editors and Junior Reviewers to begin training in January 2026!. 🧠 2-year programme | 🌍 Open to
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RT @RobWJackson: New paper out in Plant and Soil journal from PuRpOsE project working on Acute Oak Decline:
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Plant and Soil - Acute oak decline (AOD), a decline syndrome affecting mature oaks, involves bacterial pathogens which likely act as opportunists under host stress. Trees displaying symptoms...
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RT @Chen_group: grateful to @HomeworldBio for funding our proposal led by H Schafer @WarwickLifeSci inc @GauciGauci @jamesemcdonald @geol….
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Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech
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Wonderful day @BangorUni Huge congratulations to Dr. @Alejandra211909 for passing her viva with minor corrections. Thanks to @DrCarrieBrady and @MojganRabiey for examining and George Turner for chairing. Look out for some cool papers in the near future!
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New #openaccess opinion piece, the 1st from our brilliant collaboration with @EvolvedBiofilm, Xinming Xu, Sofia Gomes and Marine Cambon. Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities
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Always a great day at @UoBbiosciences @unibirmingham graduation. Congratulations to all of the 2025 graduates - and great to see Becca get her degree after being an excellent project student in our lab this year 👏
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If you’re at #2025ISMPMI, drop by @Alejandra211909 ‘s poster. Some really cool results on pathogen suppression using syncoms in trees.
🎉 My poster is up and ready to go at #2025ISMPMI. Excited to share our work on SynComs for pathogen suppression in oak trees 🌳🧫 Check out poster P-324 during Session 2 - I'll be presenting on Thu, 13.30-15.15 pm
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Permanent post with a great PI 👇🏻.
Hiring a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @UniBonn. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, sp. range dynamics, eco-evo feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt!
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RT @EvolvedBiofilm: July issue of @TrendsMicrobiol is now online, with our review by Xinming Xu @neftalyl @CajaDinesen @AdelePioppi on Comp….
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RT @EvolvedBiofilm: Bartje in Birmingham discussing on microbiomes and potential collaborations - a visit supported by a Birmingham-Leiden….
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Proud to work @unibirmingham.
The results are in: we've risen to 76th in the @worlduniranking 🎉 .Thanks to all the students, staff, academics, alumni & partners around the world who have helped us rise once again - this sustained improvement is great news in our 125th anniversary year.
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Nice hilltop walk to end the day after finalising a grant submission and a paper acceptance #treehealth
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RT @StaphLab: Really delighted to see Lindsay Hall, our Chair of Microbiome Research, recognised as a trailblazer as she joins the Goalkeep….
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As sustainable development faces mounting threats, a new generation of “goalkeepers” are pioneering new approaches to keep progress alive
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RT @EvolvedBiofilm: We have two new positions, a PhD and a Post doc at @LeidenBiology within our @MicroClockERC #ERCSyG project to discove….
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RT @cabral_sarmento: Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @UniBonn. We focus on modelling terrestrial….
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100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49
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RT @RdRp_Summit: Stoked to have Luke Hillary joining us to talk about adapting MIUViG for RNA viruses—huge step for making sense of unculti….
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RT @Forest_Research: 🌳 Woodland owners and managers – our oaks need you. This summer, assess 5+ trees and share the data via Forest Lab to….
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Having a great week in the USA visiting forests across different states to discuss forest health and forest product production. Next stop Louisiana … @BIFoRUoB @UoBbiosciences @NASDAnews
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RT @DJ_Gibbs: Huge congratulations to @ROsborne_93 for being awarded this prestigious 3-year BBSRC fellowship to investigate novel molecula….
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