Plant-soil microbes lecturer @FertiliserHub, @SciMelb. PhD @MonashUni on bacteria living on thin air. Alumni of @UNSWScience. She/herhttps://bsky.app/profile/zahra-f-islam.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/zahra-f-islam.bsky.social/post/3m6fvihoqm22iDay 1 of the #MSCW25 conference supported by @amiposts.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social is underway with an excellent topic intro on #GHG and #microbialmitigation by A/Prof Carlo Carere! It's going to be a great day of #ECR talks in this space!24 Nov 2025 22:41 +0000at://did:plc:tfocqdpfmcoc3moltbidyslp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6fvihoqm22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/zahra-f-islam.bsky.social/post/3m37lkh2abc2jHuge congratulations to my very first PhD student @carlpille.bsky.social for submitting his thesis last Friday!! 🥳 He has done an amazing job over the past 3.5 years, and has definitely been the #dream first student to primary supervise!15 Oct 2025 06:11 +0000at://did:plc:tfocqdpfmcoc3moltbidyslp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m37lkh2abc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/zahra-f-islam.bsky.social/post/3lziguftc7k2uCongratulations to my very first PhD student @carlpille.bsky.social for a fantastic #PhDcompletion seminar this afternoon! Carl has done some excellent work in the #plantsoilmicrobiome field, so #watchthisspace! #proudsupervisor @unimelbsoc.bsky.social23 Sep 2025 07:51 +0000at://did:plc:tfocqdpfmcoc3moltbidyslp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lziguftc7k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/zahra-f-islam.bsky.social/post/3lyyret257c23Today is #InternationalMicroorganismDay! And to celebrate, I thought I'd share some thoughts about why I enjoy researching these tiny bugs in the environment, and some recent outreach activities I've done to get everyone else to see that not all bacteria are bad! 1/17 Sep 2025 02:17 +0000at://did:plc:tfocqdpfmcoc3moltbidyslp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyyret257c23https://bsky.app/profile/zahra-f-islam.bsky.social/post/3lsekbpofzc26And that's a wrap on two weeks in Europe/UK! I was very fortunate to have to opportunity to present my latest research on #hydrogencycling in agroecosystems at both the #esm2025 in Helsinki, and at the ELSA Workshop on Microbiology of Climate Active Gases hosted by the amazing @matehg.bsky.social24 Jun 2025 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:tfocqdpfmcoc3moltbidyslp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsekbpofzc26https://bsky.app/profile/zahra-f-islam.bsky.social/post/3lscn5fglrk2iThrow back to my presentation last week at #esm2025! It was great to finally get a chance to share these results to a broad audience of #microbialecologists! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jun 2025 22:31 +0000at://did:plc:tfocqdpfmcoc3moltbidyslp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lscn5fglrk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/zahra-f-islam.bsky.social/post/3lqbmkdbd422gVery excited to share that I’ve been awarded the @aussocmic.bsky.social 2025 Jim Pittard Award! (alongside the fantastic Rhys Parry and Heema Vyas!) 🦠 🌾 The award recognises the important contributions of Aus researchers to microbiology at the ECR stage, as well as their contributions to ASM.29 May 2025 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:tfocqdpfmcoc3moltbidyslp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqbmkdbd422ghttps://bsky.app/profile/zahra-f-islam.bsky.social/post/3lkmziq27tc2eVery happy to announce after ~2.5 years of scientific undertaking (from planning to actual experiments to writing and publication process), my 1st paper from my Hub for Smart Fertilisers postdoc is now live! Huge collaborative effort from UniMelb researchers: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972500550918 Mar 2025 06:17 +0000at://did:plc:tfocqdpfmcoc3moltbidyslp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkmziq27tc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/zahra-f-islam.bsky.social/post/3lf7divi3422wFirst post on this platform - a bit of a reflection on the year 2024! Lots of great science was done #FertiliserHub and #SciMelb, with some truly memorable (no doubt ongoing!) scientific collaborations initiated with @DagmarWoebken and @DOME_Vienna, courtesy of #ISME_microbes Scholar Fund. 1/08 Jan 2025 04:33 +0000at://did:plc:tfocqdpfmcoc3moltbidyslp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf7divi3422w