Guest editor - Topical collection
2026
Chandan Gautam and Dr. Chinh X. Luu are guest editing a topical collection on "Methods and Advances in Legume Mutualistic Symbioses".
Submit your abstract by mid-March.
Publication Alert - Research Article!
January 16, 2026
Which reporter systems and tags are most effective for studying legume–rhizobia symbiosis, and how to automate the quantification of nodulation parameters?
Check this interdisciplinary work from Geddes Lab, led by Chandan Gautam, Gayathri Senanayake and Amanda Pease, in collaboration with Dr.Birgit Pruess and Dr.Ahmed Harb Rabia, Ph.D, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, ASM journal
Grant Update
2026
CSP New Investigator Call from Joint Genome Institute (JGI), USA
Project: Multi Omics Insights into Plant Microbe Partnerships for Sustainable Control of Iron Deficiency Chlorosis
Principal Investigator: Chandan Gautam,
Co-PI: Dr. Barney Geddes
Graduate student: Urmi Das
Pre-print Alert - Research Article!
January 08, 2026
Systemic Iron Signaling via OPT3 Influences Reductive Uptake and Coumarin Secretion
Led by Chandan Gautam
Publication Alert - Research Article!
September 02, 2025
The pseudokinase CORYNE modulates Medicago truncatula inflorescence meristem branching and plays a conserved role in the regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.
From Lena Maria Müller lab, led by Johnathan Orosz , Erica Xinlei Lin , Yerisf C Torres Ascurra , Mikayla Kappes , Penelope Lindsay , Sagar Bashyal , Hasani Everett , Chandan Gautam , David Jackson. Published in Journal of Experimental Botany
