ECS Presentations - One

1pm – 2:30pm GMT, 14 December 2026 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Early Career Scientists

13:00-13:15 Marine Cambon, University of Birmingham - Understanding pathogen-microbiota interactions in oak tree disease using synthetic communities

13:15-13:30 Luke Richardson, University of Sheffield - Mega-to-microscale microbial ecology of the Alps: The extremophile microbes controlling the fate of a mountain range and hints of an unusually tight symbiosis

13:30-13:45 Hallam Mason, Nottingham Trent University - Resistance and resilience of river biofilm taxonomic and functional diversity to drying and rewetting in intermittent chalk streams

13:45-14:00 Ellen Smith, University of Aberdeen - mGWAS identifies plant genes mediating the abundance of key soil nitrifiers

14:00-14:15 Vanessa Prengelova, University of Birmingham - One for all: Impact of phosphorus limitation on membrane remodelling, prey-predator interactions and methane oxidation

14:15-14:30 Zhelun Liu, Durham University - Post-disturbance recovery reveals persistent alteration of the collembolan gut resistome