Benjamin Evert

molecular biologist turned soil microbiome scientist. Lab manager at Metagen Australia.

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In the middle is alternaria being inhibited by baccilus lipopeptides. Around the outside is trichoderma growing having a party because lipopeptides don't bother it. #science #fungi #microbiology #microbes #art

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Been a while since I've done a #fungifriday but I think this critter deserves a bit of the spotlight.

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Aureobasidium pullulans. A yeast that's currently being used to control plant diseases in agriculture. #FungiFriday #microbiology #Science #Agriculture

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"Increasing the time needed to obtain a PhD degree from three years to four or five, he says, could also help to reduce the number of students in PhD programmes while boosting their level of training." What a terrible idea 🤦 https://t.co/8hU9HXMJmr

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@GlycoGriffith That's huge news @kate_seib. Congrats 🎉!

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Was so good having a stall at @WSFBrisbane. We always love teaching people about the importance of microbes for growing sustainable food.

#science #STEMeducation #STEM #fungi #microbiology #agriculture

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Can't beat a good old fashioned play with the microscope. You're looking at the germinated spore of a Cladosporium sp. of #fungi #FungiFriday #science #microbiology

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Here's some visually appealing fungi I isolated this week for no reason other than it's #FungiFriday #science #fungi #mycology #microbiology

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Spot on. https://t.co/jpRR4tVL6I

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@FrankBioNano Who is responsible for this 😂😂😂 just award them a PhD now.

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@soil_institute Great work bringing soil health into focus and providing a framework for better soil measurements! Really surprised though that none of the biological measurements listed as tier one indicators. Soil microbiology is arguably the most important driver of soil health.

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Happy #FungiFriday There is huge potential for molecular biology based diagnostics to be applied in agriculture. I predict these kinds of tests will become commonplace in agriculture in the next few years across all kinds of crops.
https://t.co/vkZauA5Lxx

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What a great start to the annual soil borne diseases symposium. Already learnt so much! #ASDS2022

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Fungi or snowflake? #fungifriday #mycology #fungi #science #microbiology #ScienceTwitter

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Another #FungiFriday another interesting #fungi isolated. This one is a Epicoccum sp. I like it because it secretes a pretty fluorescent red into the agar. The chemical actually has been commercialised for it's unique properties that make it useful as a protein dye.

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Now that is a #FungiFriday

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It's amazing what you can find hidden among the leaves.. 🍂

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For this #Fungifriday I am reminding everyone to ethanol there gloves. I created this Frankenstein #fungi because I didn't 😅 @ContamClub. It looks pretty cool though so I'm not mad. In fact it almost looks like an actual mushroom 🍄 growing out of a log. #science #microbiology

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We had a lot of lab tours this week so I pulled our most visually appealing fungi from our collection and was pleasantly reminded how beautiful they can be. #fungi #fungifriday #science #microbiology

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@Rossdavidsonnz Possibly! I'm going to google bacterial reflecting proteins now to see if I can find anything.

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✨✨This bacteria sparkles✨✨!? If anyone wants to retweet to help me figure out what or why!? That would be amazing or offer your own suggestions below. Isolated from the base of a macadamia tree that had bacterial canker disease.

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@sa_poulsen Great idea! The cells could be growing on top of each other in some sort of ordered structure that makes this happen.