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Dennis Metze

@MetzeDennis

Microbial ecologist at @TER_Vienna looking at active microbes in soil environments and how they respond to climate change.

Joined January 2021
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Curious about drought-tolerant soil bacteria and how future climate conditions may prepare them for coming droughts? I’m excited to share the first paper of my PhD introducing vapor-qSIP. @univienna @FutureArcticITN @TER_Vienna nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Out Now! STREAM-lining guidelines for microbiome research bit.ly/4rmQBDw #MicrobiomeResearch #NatureMicrobiology #ResearchGuidelines

STREAM-lining guidelines for microbiome research

Nature Microbiology - A new community-led checklist provides reporting guidelines for microbiome research across environments.

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New paper published in @JournalSpectrum😍 doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.018… co-authors: @pelleohlsson , Saleh Moradi, and @EdithCHammer We observed that the sole connectivity of a microhabitat can determine the function (substrate degradation) of a soil community. How? (1/5)👇
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Have you ever wondered how fungi respond to drought? It seems they’re pretty resistant, continuing to grow while investing more in storage. Check out this great study led by @Lou_tsia and @AlbertoCanarini!
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Out in @NatureComms with @Lou_tsia @andreasarichter and many others. rdcu.be/d1Tyg This is really amazing if you are into drought, soil microbes and fungi. The methods used will be part of my ERC_project, #postdoc position deadline December 5th. More details below ⏬️
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I am looking for a post-doc researcher to work on my #ERC project EcoMEMO @Unibo. The position is for 2 years full time starting latest in March 2025, with lots of field and labwork. To apply visit the link bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/asseg… (in italian and english). More info ⬇️
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I'm super excited to share our Tansley Insight in @NewPhyt We review synthetic ecology (SynEco) approaches in the plant-microbiota field and put forward the idea of "reconstitution ecology", a SynCom inspired way of constructing artificial ecosystems nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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Check our our new paper: Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems in @SoilBiolBiochem @JethWalkup authors.elsevier.com/a/1jzfd…
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Megan Foley@MegMFoley18 Sep 2024
Our paper is out in @NatEcoEvo: "Growth rate as a link between microbial diversity and soil biogeochemistry” (1/6)
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Ksenia Guseva@kseguseva7 Sep 2024
Excited to share our latest paper in @PLOSCompBiol! journals.plos.org/ploscompbi… Our study dives into the comparison of possible extracellular polysaccharide degradation strategies and their impact on microbial growth and community dynamics. 1/6 #Microbialecology
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Megan Foley@MegMFoley30 May 2024
Soil microorganisms exist in a range of physiological states, from dormancy to exponential growth, with profoundly different consequences for soil carbon and nutrient cycling. Join me next week to explore how microbial growth rates affect soil ecology. #PhDDefense #Soils #Ecology
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New Phytologist@NewPhyt15 May 2024
Shifts in mycorrhizal types of fungi and plants in response to fertilisation, warming and herbivory in a tundra grassland 📖 ow.ly/febP50RGJF3 by Le Noir de Carlan et al. @E_Verbruggen
Figure showing the shift undergone by the tundra grassland when exposed to combinations of warming, increased soil nutrient availability and exclusion of mammalian grazing, comparing the main responses of fungi , and plant mycorrhizal types towards two potential scenarios, with size of arrows indicating the strength of the response.

ALT Figure showing the shift undergone by the tundra grassland when exposed to combinations of warming, increased soil nutrient availability and exclusion of mammalian grazing, comparing the main responses of fungi , and plant mycorrhizal types towards two potential scenarios, with size of arrows indicating the strength of the response.

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Time flies in 2024: So much has happened - I completed my PhD in February, took a break to explore Colombia, got my second PhD paper published, and began a postdoc at the University of Vienna. So grateful for the support and celebrations along the journey.
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Desertification spreads worldwide – but how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive prolonged droughts followed by sudden burst of rainfall? Excited to share our new study @NatureComms Special thanks goes to @DimitriMeier and @DagmarWoebken nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Survival and rapid resuscitation permit limited productivity in desert microbial communities

Survival and rapid resuscitation permit limited productivity in desert microbial communities

Nature Communications - Prompt physiological reactivation after rainfall pulses may be key for microbial survival in arid ecosystems. Here, the authors use stable isotope tracers, single-cell...

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Many congratulations to Lucia Fuchslueger @Lou_tsia for receiving the Environment and Climate Award 2024. Very much deserved, Lucia! @TER_Vienna, @cemess_vienna, @stem_univie #Environment_and_Climate_Hub.
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Check out how subarctic grasslands communities adapt to soil warming -biomass of roots and rhizomes is main driver in medium term, while NSC concentration in long term, though species-specific response is a different story😊 @FutureArcticITN @biplabi26 @unitartu link below
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Excited to share our new study showing that soil warming does not increase bacterial growth rates, as previously thought, but instead causes twice as many taxa to become active. Great work by @MetzeDennis! @TER_Vienna (1/2) science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Soil warming increases the number of growing bacterial taxa but not their growth rates

Soil warming increases the number of growing bacterial taxa but not their growth rates

More active taxa, not faster growth rates, drive warming-induced increases in bacterial community growth.

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Exciting news! 📢 Just published: This study delves into the connection between tuber formation and senescence in potatoes, shedding light on the molecular network triggering leaf senescence. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
Aging later but faster: how StCDF1 regulates senescence in Solanum tuberosum

Aging later but faster: how StCDF1 regulates senescence in Solanum tuberosum

See also the Commentary on this article by Tai, 242: 2385–2387.

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New paper published! We describe the process of making microfluidic chips for quantifying the effect of physical characteristics of microenvironments on bacterial and fungal biomass and nutrient consumption @EdithCHammer @pelleohlsson @Biology_LU doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2023.…
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Soil bacteria prevail despite drought conditions Real-world #climatechange experiment reveals surprising soil response @MetzeDennis @andreasarichter @univienna @TER_Vienna #MicrobialEcology medienportal.univie.ac.at/en…
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Out now in Geoderma: Seasonal dynamics of soil microbial respiration, growth and #CUE. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Hot off the online press! Rapid growth rate responses of terrestrial bacteria to field warming on the Antarctic Peninsula. @EcossNau @BruceHungate @ISMEJournal rdcu.be/dpih1
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