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 Science Group
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
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.
Netherlands Institute for Ecology
Bioinformatician
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Utrecht University, Plant - Microbe Interactions
I am a plant enthousiast and have been working with plants for more than eight years. Most of my research questions are focusing on how plants accommodate different microbes, what are the conditions affecting when and where metabolites are produced in the roots and what effect the plant can have on its microbiome via exudation of metabolites.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
