Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences

Subsidy for research using microorganisms to recycle critical metals | Radboud University Microbiologist Martyna Glodowska is working on a way to recover critical metals from waste materials such as e-waste, by using the power of microorganisms and biogeochemical processes.

An international team of researchers led by microbiologist Martyna Glodowska will use microorganisms to recover scarce metals from electronic waste. 🦠 The research team is receiving a grant of up to €1.5 million from the SPRIND Tech Metal Transformation Challenge. Read more www.ru.nl/en/research/...

🚨 Paper alert!
A new study published in Ecology Letters by Wilco Verberk and colleagues synthesized data on heat tolerance and heat tolerance plasticity across more than 500 fish species in freshwater, brackish, and marine environments.

Sunday at the Inscience Film Festival in Nijmegen: the film Holy Destructors, about fungi and their destructive role. Afterwards, ecologist Bjorn Robroek @unpeatable.bsky.social sheds light on the other side of fungi. What are fungi good for? Get tickets: www.insciencefestival.nl/en/vertoning...

"We are ALL swimming in chemicals – whether we realise it or not."

Fin-formative blog post by @ribesresearch.bsky.social scientists 👇

Elephants avoid humans far more than baboons, waterbucks, or antelopes | Radboud University Wild animal species respond very differently to human development, and they use ecological corridors in agricultural and urban areas in distinct ways. This emerges from research in Botswana by ecologi...

Research into how animals use ecological corridors reveals that these corridors are not used uniformly across different species 🐘🐒 @marleetucker.bsky.social #wildlifecorridors #botswana #elephantswithoutborders
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What zebrafish can teach us about our health Zebrafish larvae offer a unique window into the consequences of endocrine disruption, since they share major endocrine pathways with humans.

Researchers Jolie Smeets and Marnix Gorissen, within the European #HYPIEND project, investigate how endocrine-disrupting chemicals ( #EDCs) affect #hormone regulation and behaviour of individual #zebrafish larvae. They wrote this interesting blog about their work! hypiend.eu/swimming-in-...

The molecular mechanism and activity of Kuenenia stuttgartiensis #hydrazine synthase #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social @robertsjansen.bsky.social et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....

SUMMER SCHOOL CLIMATE ACTION BEYOND GOVERNMENTS (22-26 Jun'26)
Business,cities,& civ.society are stepping up, but greenwashing concerns are rising. Work on integrity challenges, and codevelop roadmaps (e.g.,for cities,businesses)
Register by: 15May; Radboud Univ.(NL),more: www.ru.nl/en/education...

🧵 Paper Alert! 🚨

We are happy to share a new study published in Aquatic Botany, "Macrophyte-associated methane oxidation as a key process diminishing methane emissions from agricultural drainage ditches." 🫧🌿

Macrophyte-associated methane oxidation as a key process diminishing methane emissions from agricultural drainage ditches Methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas, plays an important role in climate change, with natural and human-made aquatic ecosystems contributing about h…

Macrophyte-associated methane oxidation as a key process diminishing #methane emissions from agricultural drainage ditches @ribesresearch.bsky.social @anneliesv.bsky.social et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Biogeochemical processes in #Baltic Sea sediments as a recorder of environmental change over the Holocene #deoxygenation #vivianite #methane @ribesresearch.bsky.social @carolineslomp.bsky.social et alhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322726000150

🧵 Today is World Wetlands Day, celebrating the importance of wetlands and their impact on people and the planet! 🌍

Two weeks ago, RTV Drenthe interviewed one of our PhD candidates, Quint van Giersbergen, in a drained peatland in Gasteren, Drenthe.

🧵 Yesterday Ana Paula Dalbem Barbosa successfully defended her doctoral thesis, a cotutelle between Radboud University and UNEMAT (Brazil), titled "Nutrient fluxes in aquaculture systems." 🎓🐟🌿

Wetenschapsprogramma Focus volgt het spoor van methaan, van koe tot watergang CO₂ domineert het klimaatdebat, maar een ander broeikasgas is per molecuul veel krachtiger: methaan. De concentratie ervan in de atmosfeer blijft stijgen. Methaan komt vrij bij olie- en gaswinning, ui...

Via H2Owaternetwerk kun je alvast wat lezen over dit onderwerp: www.h2owaternetwerk.nl/h2o-media/we...
En, als je niet live kunt kijken dan is de aflevering later ook terug te kijken via @npostart.bsky.social ! 2/2

Focus | NPO Start Bij elke nieuwe crisis kijken we hoopvol naar wetenschappers. Petra Grijzen gaat mee met hun zoektocht naar oplossingen voor de problemen van deze tijd. Ze ziet onderzoekers streven, worstelen, falen ...

Kijktip! Deze week in Focus (NTR) leer je alles over methaanuitstoot. Het krachtige broeikasgas methaan komt vrij bij olie- en gaswinning, uit veeteelt en vuilnisbelten, maar ook uit moerassen, rivieren en meren. Sarian Kosten (Radboud Universiteit) legt uit hoe dat zit. 1/2 npo.nl/start/serie/...

Gisteren presenteerden we in het Trippenhuis van de @knaw-nl.bsky.social de vernieuwde Bionieuws: een maandmagazine én een nieuwe website.

Na meer dan een halve eeuw als tweewekelijkse krant zetten we een volgende stap – met oog voor journalistiek, samenhang en verdieping.

A nice news feature follow up on Niels van Helmond's paper
at omroep Zeeland in Dutch: Onder water gaat het mis: waarom het Veerse Meer zuurstof blijft verliezen
www.omroepzeeland.nl/nieuws/18137...
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@ribesresearch.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu synergy #MARIX

Raad eens wat ik doe | NPO Start In de mysterybox zit weer een beroep verstopt. Maar welk beroep is het dit keer? Is het een huisarts, een bouwvakker, een zangeres... of misschien wel iets heel anders? Door vier hints komen we stap v...

Nooit te jong om te leren: wat doet een ecoloog. Met in de hoofdrol onze collega Robin Lexmond 🦋

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This position is still open. The Weisberg lab is recruiting a postdoc or Ph.D. student to study horizontal gene transfer in plant-associated microbial communities. Please see the job ad for more information and feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

NWO funding for research project on the effects of climate change on microbial growth in cooling towers | Radboud University An international research team has received an NWO grant of €700,000 for the research project MicroSafe, which focuses on the impact of climate change on microbial growth in wet cooling towers.

Our new research project MicroSafe focuses on the impact of climate change on microbial growth (such as Legionella) in wet cooling towers. Due to climate change and higher temperatures, the risk of pathogen spread may increase. Read more: www.ru.nl/en/research/... #microbiology #legionella 🧪🦠

An early Christmas present from our team for all of the tomato 🍅 & recombination fans:

Chromosome-scale Solanum pennellii and Solanum cheesmaniae genome assemblies reveal structural variants, repeat content and recombination barriers of the tomato clade

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‘Stress can have a positive effect on the immune system' | Radboud University A recent study showed how stress changes behavior by using two different receptors.

Stress affects many systems in our body and biologists Marcel Schaaf and Erin Faught at @ribesresearch.bsky.social are figuring out how that works. A recent study by them showed how stress changes behavior by using two different receptors.
www.ru.nl/en/research/...
#biology #imunesystem #zebrafish

Kustgebieden kunnen methaanuitstoot niet meer bijbenen - Beste-ID Onderzoek naar methaanuitstoot in kustgebieden

Kustgebieden kunnen methaanuitstoot niet meer bijbenen:
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Coastal areas can no longer keep up with methane emissions | Radboud University Heavily polluted waters, such as Lake Grevelingen, emit large amounts of methane. Microbiologist Anna Wallenius will defend her PhD thesis on this topic at Radboud University on 15 December.

On Monday 15 dec 1630h @Anna J. Wallenius will defend her PhD thesis "Muddy Affairs, Microbial #methane cycling in coastal ecosystems" please find the @ribesresearch.bsky.social coverage at www.ru.nl/en/research/...

ERC Consolidator Grants for research on methane eaters, air showers and language in our brain | Radboud University Five Radboud University researchers are set to receive a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Their research covers topics such as methane-eating micro-organisms, air showers f...

We congratulate Cornelia Welte with her @erc.europa.eu #Consolidator grant 🥳 for "electroANME": a project which will uncover how anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) archaea oxidize methane, interact with bacteria, and use diverse metabolic pathways. Read more: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Postdoc Position: Modelling Impacts of Agricultural Land Management Systems on Biodiversity | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Postdoc: Modelling Impacts of Agricultural Land Management Systems on Biodiversity at Radboud University? Check our vacancy!

Apply this week! #vacancy #Postdoc position: Modelling Impacts of Agricultural Land Management Systems on Biodiversity. 🧑‍🌾🦗 You will contribute to new knowledge and tools to refine how impacts on biodiversity are captured in life cycle assessment for agricultural products. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

KNMI-klimaatgedicht Bijna 5 december, tijd voor een nieuw gedicht, vol feiten waar we over hebben bericht.

Bijna 5 december, tijd voor een nieuw gedicht, vol feiten waar we over hebben bericht.

Degraded peatlands emit nearly twice as much greenhouse gas as previously thought | Radboud University For the first time, researchers from Radboud University have produced a detailed, high-resolution map of peatlands in the EU, showing that these areas emit twice as much greenhouse gases than previous...

Researchers have produced a detailed, high-resolution map of #peatlands in the EU, showing that these areas emit twice as much #greenhousegases than previously thought. With @quintvg.bsky.social Christian Fritz @ecology-radboud.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/research/...

🚨 Paper Alert!

📢We are excited to announce the publication of a new study in Nature Communications, “Identifying hotspot of peatland emissions in the EU+”, in which researchers from our department in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Greifswald, the Greifswald Moor (1/11)