Alejandra Ordoñez
@Alejandra211909
Research associate at @UoBbiosciences and PhD student at @BangorUni 👩🏻🔬 investigating oak microbial communities and #AcuteOakDecline 🧫🌳|🇨🇴 🇬🇧|✈️|🏊🏼
New #openaccess opinion piece, the 1st from our brilliant collaboration with @EvolvedBiofilm, Xinming Xu, Sofia Gomes and Marine Cambon. Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Really enjoyed presenting the latest results from our @FutureOak_ project at the @BIFoRUoB annual meeting today. Lots of exciting new data from @cenococcum & @Alejandra211909 on oak microbiome composition and developing synthetic communities for disease suppression @BactPlantDis
Such an excellent talk by @jamesemcdonald at the @BIFoRUoB conference. Amazing to see the team's work showcased and especially @FutureOak_ results coming together. Keep an eye out for these, it's going to be brilliant! @cenococcum @Alejandra211909
NEW BLOG: Phd student @Alejandra211909 from the @FutureOak_ project reports on her placement at @GBerg_ubt Graz University in Austria via this great infographic 🌳🦠 bacterialplantdiseases.uk/developing-mic…
Wonderful day @BangorUni Huge congratulations to Dr. @Alejandra211909 for passing her viva with minor corrections. Thanks to @DrCarrieBrady and @MojganRabiey for examining and George Turner for chairing. Look out for some cool papers in the near future!
#ISMPMI2025 Happy to present today my poster about a newly discovered type III effector protein in P. syringae! Please come and visit P-155 today to discuss the story! @michhulin @RobWJackson
🎉 My poster is up and ready to go at #2025ISMPMI. Excited to share our work on SynComs for pathogen suppression in oak trees 🌳🧫 Check out poster P-324 during Session 2 - I'll be presenting on Thu, 13.30-15.15 pm
Also delighted that we will be hosting next year’s #MMEG2025 in Birmingham! Look out for details! @mmeg2024 @Chen_group @hall_lab @OzgeEyice
Had a great time at #MMEG2024 in Southampton with the team, and also great to catch up with lab alumnus @lukehillary thanks to @MarcGDumont and @AMIposts for organising
Congrats to @marine_cambon for winning a best presentation prize and @Alejandra211909 for winner a best poster prize at #MMEG2024 - and also to the other prize winners!
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr @PyneEd who passed his PhD viva with minor corrections yesterday 👏💪 look out for some cool papers on fungal combative interactions coming soon. Thanks to examiners @AberMycol and @Ellie__Jameson and chair @PrysorWilliams
Such an excellent talk by @jamesemcdonald at the @BIFoRUoB conference. Amazing to see the team's work showcased and especially @FutureOak_ results coming together. Keep an eye out for these, it's going to be brilliant! @cenococcum @Alejandra211909
Project updates on Acute Oak Decline. Sandra Denman presenting BAC STOP and @jamesemcdonald for @FutureOak_ . Great progress in understanding the conditions that contribute to disease and potential control using microbial communities.
I have finally graduated with an MScRes in Biological Science from Bangor University. Bangor was the best year of my life in terms of improving my academic and personal skills. I'll never underestimate the importance of having a supportive lab group. Thank you to everyone 🏴
The "tree surgery" was finally on today 🤩 We started the last experimet of the @FutureOak_ project, testing the effect of microbial SynComs in oak saplings! Happy to have the best team all along @jamesemcdonald @Usman_Hussain_S @PyneEd @marine_cambon @cenococcum
1/7 New preprint from the group, led by @marine_cambon. We show that chemical elicitors from Agrilus bigutattus beetle larvae trigger proliferation and virulence of a plant pathogen biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
I am very happy that the last paper from my postdoc with @Corinne_Vacher at @INRAE_BIOGECO is out in @molecology
Our article on temperate #forests #biomonitoring is online in Mol Ecol. We used #MachineLearning to identify #biomarkers of water status within the #microbiome. #RScript are online. #OpenScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… with @marine_cambon @SDelzon @BurlettRegis @BCastagneyrol
Excited to join forces with @marine_cambon and work together building synthetic #oak microbial communities 🌳🧫 #WomenInSTEM #phdlife
After a great meeting with @charlie_pvrt & @tcahitch in Aachen, I am officially starting my new postdoc project on oak microbiota SynCom: purification of 452 oak isolates with @Alejandra211909 and the @FutureOak_ project! 💪🌳🧫 @jamesemcdonald
After a rather unexpected 6-week break, I came back to the lab today to find this beautifully overgrown isolate in one of the agar plates that remained on my bench. One isolate out of the thousands of our culture collection at @FutureOak_. Such a pretty growth pattern!! 😍🧫🦠🌳
Science is hard. Good research makes you feel stupid. You're inadequate for the task at hand. How else would it be? You're pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Get used to it. This process is immensely rewarding.
Great talk by my colleague @marine_cambon 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 at #microbio23
Marine Cambon @marine_cambon on extracting bark boring beetle larvae from oak trunks to study the proliferation of Brenneria goodwinii, the main bacterial pathogen in Acute Oak Decline (AOD) #microbio23
Excited to present our work on Acute Oak Decline, #oak microbiome and pathogen suppressive microbes at #microbio23 @cenococcum @jamesemcdonald
