Summer 2025 highlights

• New publications: Bradley on microbial dormancy; Schmidt et al on Arctic soil pioneer microbial communities; Bradley et al on Svalbard winter warming; Martinez-Rabert et al on modelling the aeromicrobiomeJames is in Svalbard with Marcela Hernández for the SIOS-supported WARMIC project.
• James, Rey, Eloi and Sibylle are in Svalbard for the SIESTA project.
• Rey, Sibylle and Eloi present their SIESTA and aerobiology research at JSM3 2025, in Marseille.
• James is teaching at the Summer School l'Institut Origines 2025 - Frontiers of Life, at the Observatoire de Haute Provence, France.
• Laura and James give an invited seminar on aeromicrobiology as part of the ATTO Seminar Series.
• James is collaborator on the project HYDROGENOMIC, selected for Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) funding, led by Marianne Quemeneur
• James is guest on the podcast ‘The Diary of a Future CEO’.
• Eloi presents his HFSP aerobiology research at ASM Microbe, in Los Angeles.
• James participates in the Carotte de Glace France (CGF) workshop at CEREGE.
• James and Rey’s project DORMANT is selected for funding through POLARIN.
• Sonia presents her research at the BEACON conference in Rekjavik, Iceland.
• James is Co-PI on the project MICRO-CASCADES, jointly selected for funding from the Institut Nordique du Québec (INQ), Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) & French Polar Institute Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV).
• Sonia presents her research at Life & Planet, London.
• James gives an invited seminar at CEREGE. 
• James is featured in Nature: ‘Where I work’
• James and Rey are in the news for new research on glacier algae: France2, 20h; Le Figaro; La Marseillaise.