SOIL is welcoming four interns this summer: Alice, Clémence, Corentin and Isabelle. Damien is back with the lab as a technician.Alice Giorgetti is returning to the lab as a trainee, this time working on a collaboration between SOIL and the Plant Adaptation Laboratory (PAL) to study soil-plant interactions.Clémence Le Bourgeois joins as a trainee working on our project investigating how organic fertilizers combined with chemical additives affect soil health and greenhouse gas fluxes from agricultural soils, in collaboration with the Nestlé Agricultural Institute. She's already busy in the field alongside Michelangelo Vuono and Damien Roy, where the team successfully completed this year's field campaign with the wheat harvest in Grange-Verney. We are pleased to have Damien back over the summer as a technician!Corentin Sébastien Rouault joins as a trainee working on two fronts: bioenergetic controls on microbial activity, exploring how energy constraints shape microbial processing of soil organic carbon, and tunable clays for enhanced lithium recovery and contaminant sequestration. On the clays project, he's joined by fellow trainee Isabelle Saugy.Welcome (back) to the group, Alice, Clémence, Corentin, Isabelle, and Damien! It's great to have you.