Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kyle Mason-Jones

Universität Tübingen
Geo- und Umweltforschungszentrum (GUZ)
Schnarrenbergstr. 94/96
72076 Tübingen
Büro: Room 6U07
Telefon: +49-(0)7071-29- 74991
E-Mail: k.mason-jonesspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Main research interests

  • Soil microbial ecology and biogeochemistry
  • Virus ecology
  • Soil organic matter
  • Microbial storage compounds

Academic education & professional experience

From April 2024
Junior Professor of Soil Microbial Interactions

Tübingen University

2021-2024
Junior research group leader

Department of Terrestrial Ecology
Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Wageningen, The Netherlands

2015-2018
Doctoral candidate (Dr rer. nat., summa cum laude)

Department of Agricultural Soil Science
University of Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany

2012-2014
Senior sustainability consultant

The Green House
Cape Town, South Africa

2010-2012
Sustainability consultant

The Green House
Cape Town, South Africa

Selected publications

Carreira, C., Lønborg, C., Acharya, B., Aryal, L., Buivydaite, Z., Corrêa, F.B., Chen, T., Elberg, C.L., Emerson, J.B., Hillary, L., Khadka, R.B., Langlois, L. Mason-Jones, K., Netherway, T., Sutela, S., Trubl, G., wa Kang’eri, A., Wang, R., White, R.A. III, Winding, A., Zhao, T. & Sapkota, R. 2024.
Integrating viruses into soil food web biogeochemistry. Nature Microbiology. doi: 10.1038/s41564-024-01767-x

Mason-Jones, K., Breidenbach, A., Dyckmans, J., Banfield, C.C., Dippold, M.A. 2023.
Intracellular carbon storage by microorganisms is an overlooked pathway of biomass growth. Nature Communications 2240. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37713-4.

Camenzind, T., Mason-Jones, K., Mansour, I., Rillig, M. C., Lehmann, J. 2023.
Formation of necromass-derived soil organic carbon determined by microbial death pathways. Nature Geoscience 16, 115-122. doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-01100-3

Breidenbach, A., Schleuss, P-M., Liu, S., Schneider, S., Dippold, M.A., de la Haye, T., Miehe, G., Heitkamp, F., Seeber, E., Mason-Jones, K.,  Xu, X.  Huanming, Y., Xu, J., Dorji, T. Gube, M., Norf, H., Meier, J., Guggenberger, G., Kuzyakov, Y., Spielvogel, S. 2022.
Microbial functional changes mark irreversible course of Tibetan grassland degradation. Nature Communications, 13:2681. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30047-7.

Mason-Jones, K., Robinson, S.L., Veen, G.F., Manzoni, S., van der Putten, W.H. 2021.
Microbial storage and its implications for soil ecology. The ISME Journal. doi:10.1038/s41396-021-01110-w

Mason-Jones, K., Schmücker, N., Kuzyakov, Y. 2018.
Contrasting effects of organic and mineral nitrogen challenge the N-Mining Hypothesis for soil organic matter priming. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 124, 38-46.

Kuzyakov, Y., Mason-Jones, K. 2018.
Viruses in soil: Nano-scale undead drivers of microbial life, biogeochemical turnover and ecosystem functions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 127, 305-317. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.09.032