Mirjam Meischner

Back at @voltcenter.bsky.social after an exciting week in Freiburg 🌄, where I was honoured to receive the Hansjürg-Steinlin-Award from Danzer AG for my dissertation 📜. It was very nice to celebrate together with @simonhaber.bsky.social and Laura Kinzinger. Congratulations on your awards as well🎉!!

Good news for #VOC enthusiasts! The International Symposium on Volatile Interactions is going into its second round, this time in 📍 Marseille. Save the date 📅 7–10 June 2027 and check out the program and call for abstracts: sites.google.com/view/isvie20...

At this year's #ASI, we visited the #ECOSENSE Forest (@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social). I took these two pictures from the canopy access tower: one in May, when we set up the gas-exchange measurements, and the other last week, after a year of exceptional #heat and #drought.

From doping to root water uptake and paleoclimate - at this year's #ASI I gained insights into many fascinating projects. I'm especially honored to have received the Early Career Scientist Award for my talk on tracing root-root interactions using ¹⁵N & ¹³C. Many 🙏 to the judges and my collaborators.

How do plant-soil feedbacks & defense pathways differ if they are induced by exogenous #phytohormones or #herbivory? These are some of the questions posed by PCP budding Editor, Merissa Huei-Hsuan Tsai @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social 🆓 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

I am looking forward to meeting the #stable_isotope community and presenting our recent work on tree-tree signalling (📅Tue 06. Oct., 9:30 am) at this year's #ASI2026 at @uni-freiburg.de. 🙏to 👥 @simonhaber.bsky.social, @chriswernerlab.bsky.social, @jpschnitzler.net & 📄 @jxbotany.bsky.social

New book on how nature communicates - @voltcenter.bsky.social's @riikkarinnan.bsky.social wrote a chapter about the secret messages from trees in the air (via, of course, VOCs!). You are invited to the launch on 29/9! You can read more about the book/launch below: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Can forest trees sense, via their root systems, whether their neighbours are suffering from herbivore attack, and go into defence mode themselves? This was a question I addressed in my PhD project, and the study has now been published in JXB: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 🐛🌲✉️🌳🚨

Just as my experimental plants 🌲 had a smooth start at @voltcenter.bsky.social this July, so did I ☺️. Now, it's time for both me and the plants to grow roots in our new environment and prepare for the upcoming experiments🥼.