University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Science
My group investigates signalling molecules and their role in the communication of plants with other organisms, espec. below ground, such as parasitic plants, nematodes and the microbiome. We work on the discovery of new signalling relations using omics data, the importance of structural diversity in signalling molecules for biological specificity, elucidation of biosynthesis and perception mechanisms, and discovery of unknown roles of signalling molecules.
Wageningen University, Plant Science Group
I am intrigued by how plants are an active key player in multitrophic interactions since my PhD on how plants ‘cry for help’. I am a PI of the MiCRop consortium, PI, coordinator of WP3 & WP5, coordinator of Excellence & Training, and supervisor of PhD candidates.
Wageningen University, Plant Physiology
My group investigates abiotic stress in plants. Next to being a PI in the MiCRop consortium, I am also MiCRop coordinator of Research Synergy.
VU University Amsterdam, Department of Ecological Science, Symbiosis Group
As one of the PIs of the consortium, I am mostly involved in WP 1 and 2. Next to that, I am also MiCRop coordinator of Outreach & Acceptance.
Utrecht University, Institute of Environmental Biology
I am one of the PI’s of the MiCROP consortium and coordinator of Ethics, Gender & Diversity. My group is interested in discovering novel concepts in plant-microbiome interactions and elucidating the underlying molecular mechanisms involved. With our discoveries we hope to contribute to sustainable agriculture through plant microbiome-based solutions.
Netherlands Institute for Ecology, Microbial Ecology Department
I have conducted plant microbiome research over the past 15 years, with a focus on how plant domestication impacts the microbiome. My group is searching for the ‘missing plant microbes’ that were lost during domestication. I am a PI and member of the executive board of MiCRop consortium, coordinator of workpackages 2 and 4 and coordinator Utilisation & Knowledge Transfer.
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Viral Ecology and Omics Group
Utrecht University, Metagenomics Group
I am PI of the Metagenomics Group and a member of the MiCRop data team. I have been studying metagenomics since 2004 and currently work on data-driven modelling of the microbiome.
Wageningen University, Mathematical and Statistical Methods – Biometris
As part of the data analysis and statistics team I am involved in all work packages.
Assistant Professor
University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Microbial Metagenmics
I develop bioinformatics methods to analyse large scale meta-omics data and integrate multiple omics levels, to facilitate biological interpretations and predictions of microbial communities.
Associate Professor
Wageningen University
My lab studies how to use genomic, transcriptomic and metabolomic data to identify metabolic pathways for plant specialized metabolites, including those involved in microbiome recruitment and modulation.
University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
Next to my work on MiCRop, I am leading a large systems biology research priority program of the Faculty regarding host-microbiome interactions. I am also involved in a UvA-research priority program around the oral microbiome.
University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
I am a researcher involved in developing statistical methods for high dimensional data integration and modelling host-microbiome interactions.
University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
I am part of the Data Analysis team and I develop statistical methods for integration of high-dimensional data to explore interaction between host plants and microbial communities.
University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
As a bioinformatician, I am involved in developing / impementing data analysis pipelines.
Utrecht University & Wageningen University
I am a researcher driven by microbial ecology and evolution. As a postdoc in MICROP I will use multi-omics and modeling approaches with the aim to understand how host-microbiome interactions are involved in alleviation of plant stresses. I am interested in the governing principles behind microbial community assembly.
University of Utrecht
I am a microbiologist, interested in the interaction between microbes and their host as well as the interactions between microbes. My current focus is on traits that influence the rhizosphere competence of bacteria, such as secretion systems. I make use of metagenomics and metatranscriptomics to study these interactions in different plant species.
Netherlands Institute for Ecology
Bioinformatician
University of Utrecht
José's work focuses on seed endophytes and how they can be used to improve plant health. His current project focuses on microbial determinants that allow bacteria to colonise the rhizosphere, in particular he has expertise on codon usage bias and its use to estimate gene expression and bacterial growth rates.
Professor Data Analysis in the Life Sciences
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences
Research scientist with broad interest in bioinformatics, systems biology and computational biology. Strong expertise in application and development of machine learning approaches to analyze biological datasets, modelling dynamics of gene regulation networks, prediction of protein functions, and computational analysis of protein functional sites.
Utrecht University, Plant-Microbe Interactions
I study the recruitment of benefical micro-organisms by plants in response to diseases. I am involved in WP 1, WP 3 and WP 4.
University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Plant hormone biology
As an assistant professor, I supervise PhD students, research, collaborate with other researchers in the consortium. My personal interest is to decode plant-microbiome languages and communications.
Netherlands Institute for Ecology
I am a researcher involved in PhD supervision (WP 4). I am fascinated by the power of how microbes interact with each other at their own microscopic scale.
Wageningen University, Laboratory of Plant Physiology
I'm an assistant professor at Wageningen University. We focus on Solanaceae and drought stress. For MiCRop, I am involved in WP 1 and mainly WP 3.
Wageningen University, Lab. of Entomology
I am involved in coordinating MiCRop at the Lab. of Entomology, WUR. I am mostly involved in WP1 and WP3, but also everywhere else WUR-Ent. plays a role.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Ecological Science
I am an Assistant professor interested in the widespread mycorrhizal symbiosis. Specifically, I examine how the genetic organization of mycorrhizal fungi affects plant response and whether plants preferentially recruit specific genetic types of mycorrhizal fungi. I am mainly involved in WP1 and WP2.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
I am assistant professor focussing on legumes. I have been studying soil microbes since 2008, and I am mostly interested in how bacterial and fungal community composition changes along environmental gradients, and the extent to which we can predict biogeochemical functions from compositional data.
Netherlands Institute for Ecology
My research group mainly studies the ecology and evolution of plant viruses. We are particularly interested in understanding why multipartite viruses exist and what the advantages of this strange genome organization are.
University of Amsterdam
My research aims to decipher mechanisms underlying the assembly and function of root-associated microbiota across different plant species, using reductionist approaches with microbial culture collections.
NIOO-KNAW
My research focuses on the impact of plant-associated microorganisms on plant growth and health by coupling culturomic, metabolomic and genomic approaches. I am involved in WP4 and WP5, investigating the functional potential of wheat phyllosphere and rhizosphere microbiomes for biotic stress resilience.
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
In my research I aim to contribute to a sustainable agriculture via unleashing the power of plant-associated beneficial microorganisms. I am a postdoctoral researcher at NIOO, my role in MiCRop is to determine the impact of plant domestication on the taxonomic and functional diversification of the root microbiome, especially identifying ‘missing’ plant microbes, their genomes and biosynthetic genes.
Wageningen University, Lab. of Plant Physiology
I am involved in WP 3 and I am interested in understanding differences in above-ground tissue characteristics of wild and domesticated tomatoes in relation to the recruitment of beneficial micro-organisms under drought stress.
Plant-Hormone Biology group, Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Through my research I aim to contribute to understand how microbiome in plant rhizosphere communicate with the roots and respond under environmental stress to benefit plant partners. In MiCRop project, I will be looking for stress responsive chemical signals/metabolites secreted in the root exudates leading to recruitment of specific group of bacteria in the rhizosphere.
Plant-Hormone Biology group, Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam
In my research I use statistical models and quantitative approaches to understand how plant-microbiome interactions respond to changes in both managed and natural systems. In MiCRop project, I will take advantage of these models to gain insights on how different strigolactones affects the recruitment of the plant root-associated microbiome in Maize.
The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
As a microbiologist, I am involved in building and maintaining the microbial culture collection of the MiCRop project.
Wageningen University, Plant Science Group
I did my PhD on tritrophic insect interactions in wild and cultivated brassicaceous plant species. Based on my interest and expertise on this this topic, Marcel Dicke invited me to participate in MiCRop.
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
I am involved in maintaining the mycorrhizal fungi collection of the MiCRop project and in assisting with molecular biology procedures like DNA extractions and ddPCR.
Wageningen University
My interests lie in studying the interplay between stress resilience in crops and their microbiome. I aim to explore and understand these plant-microbiome interactions and ultimately translate this into advancements in agricultural practices.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
I support diverse projects exploring the ecology and network biology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. My interests include microbial diversity, symbioses and holobiont perspectives.
Utrecht University, Environmental Biology
I am a PhD student working with various species and varieties of potato in their center of origin (Ecuador), and studying the response of the root microbiome to Phytophthora infestans disease.
University of Amsterdam, Plant Hormone Biology
My project aims to unravel potato-microbes-PCNs chemical communications. I investigate the microbial recruitment by tomato/potato root under nitrogen deficiency.
VU University Amsterdam, Department of Ecological Science, Symbiosis Group
I am studying the evolutionary biogeography of underground networks and how microbial communities assemble. Specifically, I bring a background in geospatial analysis, statistics-machine learning, and microbial ecology.
Wageningen University, Lab. of Entomology
I investigate herbivore-induced recruitment of soil microorganisms and their effect on plant defence against herbivores. In contrast to most other projects in the MiCRop consortium, my project focuses on the intraspecific variation in microbiome recruitment in Brassica oleracea (cabbage).
VU University/University of Amsterdam
I study the stress-induced recruitment of microbes in the rhizosphere (legumes specifically). I bring a background in plant genetics and experience with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Utrecht University, Institute of Environmental Biology
My research project focusses on evaluating how individual chemical and structural plant defense compounds can change rhizosphere and endosphere fungal and bacterial communities in Arabidopsis.
The Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Microbial Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
My PhD project investigates the mechanism underlying biotic-stress induced plant-microbe communication belowground via root-emitted VOCs (volatile organic compounds).
Wageningen University, Laboratory of Plant Physiology
My project aims at elucidating the mechanisms by which plants of the Solanaceae family, and more specifically tomato, recruit soil microbes that promote the plants’ resilience to drought stress. I bring a background in plant molecular biology and experience with root nodule symbiosis.
Wageningen University, Lab. of Plant Physiology
My PhD project aim to study the influence of maternal environment including different soil types and habitats on microbial communities of Arabidopsis thaliana seeds across different generations, and how these seed microbiome improve abiotic stress (drought and salt) tolerance during seed germination and seedling establishment.
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University of Amsterdam, Plant Hormone Biology
I am a PhD student responsible for cucurbits work, and involved in WP 1 and WP 3. I’ve grown in a family of crop farmers and done a master in plant biology (plus I love eating them).
The Netherlands Institute of Ecology
I thrive to obtain the microbial information on wild tomatoes in their native habitat, and validate the microbe-plant liniking in modern tomatoes.
Wageningen University, Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Laboratory of Entomology
I am involved in WP1, WP3 and slightly in WP3. I work on identifying plant pathways of stress alleviating microorganism recruitment that could be targeted in plant breeding programs.
University of Amsterdam
My work is focused on the signaling that occurs between lettuce and the root-colonizing fungi Trichoderma and Fusarium in the soil. I am trying to identify which molecules are present in lettuce root exudate, how the composition of this exudate changes during stress, and which molecules can elicit biological responses from the fungi. Simultaneously, I am trying to identify and characterize the receptors that fungi use to perceive these signals.
University of Amsterdam
My PhD project aims to study how plant host genes (mainly transcription factors) affect the assembly of plant-species specific root-associated bacterial community. I am working with Arabidopsis and Lotus japonicus. I combine genetic experiments, biochemical assays and bioinformatic methods to identify TFs that are involved in host-specificity of microbiota assembly and characterize their functional conservation between At and Lj.
University of Amsterdam
I aim to understand the mechanisms of how rhizosphere microbes can modify compounds exudated by roots. I use culture-dependent as well as independent approaches, coupled with metabolomics, to understand mechanisms of microbial modulation of rhizospheric signals.
Utrecht University, Plant-Microbe Interactions
My research focuses on the plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes in response to pathogen attack. I am fascinated by how the microbiome mediates the outcome disease, and how modulation of microbiome composition serves as an adaptive strategy in the evolutionairy arms race between between plants and pathogens. I combine both the above- and belowground plant and microbial perspectives to unravel how the selective regime dictated by the infected plant shapes microbiome composition, functioning and evolution.
University of Amsterdam
I am a visiting researcher in the Plant hormone biology group, University of Amsterdam to investigate the mechanism underlying the regulation of strigolactone biosynthesis in crops, which could help to speed up Striga resistance breeding. In MiCRop project, I will explore the effect of strigolactones on recruitment of the plant root-associated microbiome.
Netherlands Institute for Ecology
I'm an assistant professor at Nankai University. I focus on how to use wild plant species to increase the disease resistance of crops. Not only identifying the beneficial microbes but also, from the community perspective, identifying the beneficial interactions.
University of Kurdistan
I am a Plant Biotechnologist at the University of Kurdistan in Iran. I am working as an advisor on projects focused on the impact of endophytic bacteria isolated from wild chickpeas and their influence on plant growth under drought conditions and work on the molecular analysis of alkaloid production in bacterial endophytes of endemic Papaver species in Iran. In MiCRop project, I investigate the endophytes effect on the root exudates metabolites under nitrogen deficiency.
Role: Assistant professor at University of Amsterdam
Role: Postdoc at University of Utrecht
Wageningen University, Lab. of Entomology
I’m a soil microbiologist working as a postdoc on the Entomology department. I will help establish and evaluate all of MiCRop’s microbiome related processes and pipelines within our group. I will also help coordinate collaborations between the consortium members, as I have done previously in other groups.
