Dear Prof.

I think we can try together to make an proposal for EU 2020. So, please let me know about outlines of project that you have in your mind, so that I can do my own homework for preparing the proposal for EU 2020. We can continue our conversation in massage box of you can send me the email in my personal email id: [email protected].

Thanks and regards,

Sandeep

Dear Sndeep,  

|n order to do so we need few more fellows - at this moment I am trying to find people who could be interested and as well have the necessary facility.  Will keep you posted. 

Nice idea. Please let me know your plan

To my oppinion we can - the question is how many people are interested ? we need

Valentyna Krashevska, - I think that she is from Gottingen Germany ,

Stefan Geisen - from Netherlands

Edward A. D. Mitchell - from Switzerland

and many others that could be interested.

I think that Stefan Geisen - should lead such initiative.

Dear Yossi, dear all,

thanks a gain for this initiative and bringing my name into play.

After discussion with many people I think a COST action only on soil protists stands no chance as the focus would be too specific. But I will think of alternatives. In any case it is more than useful to push work on soil protists as well as to integrate it with the lack of knowledge on other groups of soil life!

if there are ideas for funding such an international effort to meet and push this forward, let me know!

Best,

Stefan

Dear Stefan and dear all,

I agree with you and with all the other fellows - we should find the right 'umbrella" that will be able to allow us to reach our goal.

For example - Standardizing output-based soil biota community in order to maximize surveillance in order to understand soil biota function and improve it in a global climate change era - is a general idea !

Had just tried to give some idea.

Best

Yossi

Yes,It is important, would like to know more about it.

Dear all,

I think it is a very good idea. I have no experience with COST action, but what Stefan mention makes sense. We need a broader 'umbrella' (agreed with Yossi). I just saw the discussion, I need time to think a bit about it. So the idea would be to write a COST action, right? I need to dig a bit deeper since I don't really know what COST action does really do. Thanks for launching the discussion !

Cheers

Flrorine

I would be also very happy to take part in such COST action. Of course, as it has been mentioned before, only mentioning soil protists has no chances to be funded. However, linking them with disease suppressive soils would give more chances

The issue is that we need some more scientific support for the importance of protists in application e.g disease suppression... Stronger and easier in my opinion would be a wider consortium to include more soil biodiversity or even above-belowground interactions... But we can discuss this further, maybe even organise a workshop to outline some plans...?

By mail or researchgate will be tough;)

I am also interested to be part of this type COST action especially looking at the role of protists in disease suppression

If you would like to add some socio-economic perspective into this plan, I will be very interested.

I came across a review paper (S. Geisen et al. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 42, 2018, 293–323) which points out soil protists are surprisingly little included in ecotoxicological investigations. Protists are potential bioindicators of soil pollution and rehabilitation as some species respond quickly to fluctuations in the abiotic environment. It would be interesting to connect the research on soil protist communities and the studies on soil pollution and remediation. Furthermore, the applicability of waste materials and by-products as unconventional soil additives has gained increasing attention lately. The effects of such treatments are most commonly assessed by monitoring the changes in soil physico-chemical properties and soil-plant interactions, however, it is important to examine and effects onto soil organisms. ...Just an idea interesting to our group - to link the soil protists with current research in soil pollution/remediation. Best regards.

Dear Friends - I had just received from our Univ. the COST call for a COST Action -

Due date at RA:Thursday, November 22, 2018 - 09:00

Due date at fund:Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 12:00

Type of Award:Directed grants to institutions, research groups etc, Networking/collaboration

Grant Amount:520,000 €

For:4 Years

Type of Submission:Proposal

Method of Submission:Online

General Description:

The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) provides international research funding for researchers to set up their interdisciplinary research networks in Europe and beyond.

Projects can be in any field of research and run for 4 years.

The rules are very clear and would like to receive from each one interested in such action their email in a 48 hours - please try to get in touch with fellows from different European countries - that to your opinion could be interested.

send to my email [email protected]

To my opinion Prof. Stefan Geisen should be in charge. - I will get in contact with him and convince him.

Looking forward - hearing from you - we need a minimum of 10 EU Countries

Dear Yossi, dear all,

it would be a great honour to get this kind of project going. however, its a bit too short term at least for me and realizing that the chance of getting this funded is 6 % is tough... I would prefer to first get a few more bigger papers out to show the importance and then do such an effort for a bigger group of soil biodiversity- only one (protists) is in my opinion nearly impossible to get funded...

But happy to keep discussing and then get going in the next call!

Cheers,

Stefan

Yes, I share Stefan's opinion (@Stefan Geisen), I think that we are really short of time here. But we should think about it for the next call and be prepared. If we go for this I would be very happy to join.

Cheers

Enrique

Stefan Geisen

Is it a good idea for us to write a review paper to review the latest development in the field and also identify the gaps? If so, we can take it in action. What do you think?

I think there is no need for another review as we published a cumulative one this year https://academic.oup.com/femsre/article-abstract/42/3/293/4855940

And a big opinion paper last year

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071717301219

Otherwise the messages we published will get diluted.

First some real work to be done before in 6 years at earliest it's worth the effort to provide an update I think

I would be also very happy to take part in such COST action.

It would be great to cooperate on this COST action.