We began a fruitful collaboration with cycad experts that got together in the Madrid Botanical Congress (2024). Soon after we submitted a review on the chemical ecology of cycad symbiosis. We provide a new perspective on different aspects of cycad symbioses and the way forward. In our lab we work on the coralloid root /bacterial symbiosis and the leaf endophytes using metabarcoding, metagenomics and metabolomics approaches. Hope you enjoy the review. Abstracts in both English and Spanish ...

In February, I spent my second field season in the Tierras Collectives Emberá, where we have our permanent plot: Bacurú Drõa. The project started in 2021 by the internationally recognized climate scientist Catherine Potvin, now emeritus professor at McGill university. I joined the scientific leadership of the project in 2023 with the tropical biologist Dr. Daisy Dent (ETH Zurich), the social scientist Joseph Levitan (McGill University) and Javier Mateo-Vega(Assistant Under Secretary for Research...