Manukyan et al., (2022) Assessing the toxicity of pesticides on natural soil and plant assemblages of AMF.

Pedrinho et al., (2022) Assessing the toxicity of biopesticides on soil microbiota using a modification of the OECD 216 test

Several ARISTO members, fellows, and PIs, participated in the  18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME) in Lausanne, Switzerland, 14-19 August. They attended many interesting talks and poster sessions on different topics,  learning new and inspiring facts and opening up new ways of thinking in science.  Also, they met and interacted with members of the scientific community from all over the world, exchanging ideas and knowledge. Τwo fellows, Eleftheria Bachtsevani (ECL) and Cara Meyer (INRAE) had the opportunity to present their first results  in the Soil Microbial Ecology poster session and discuss the ARISTO project and their work with other researchers.

Marta Perez, a fellow of ARISTO, along with Fabrice Martin-Laurent, Kathrin Fenner,
Michael-Thomas Marx and Dimitrios Karpouzas, all members of the ARISTO project network in front of her poster presenting her work on the effects of pesticides across the soil-food web in the ECOTOXICOMIC 2022 conference in Monpellier

The poster corner presentation of Marta Perez in the ECOTOXICOMIC 2022 conference in Monpellier

Dr Sotirios Vasileiadis, Assistant Professor in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Genomics, from the University of Thessaly delivered a 5-day practical course on ‘Primer on microbiome analysis‘. The participants dived deeper into ‘metabarcoding’ methodologies and microbial diversity analysis whilst using computational tools for handling the volume of sequencing data. For this workshop, the ARISTO project collaborated closely with the PRIMA project INTOMED (https://intomed.bio.uth.gr) and young scientists from both consortia participated and interacted on common research interests on soil microbiome analysis towards sustainable agriculture.