Paul Daly

Myco-Ed: Mycological curriculum for education and discovery Fungi are important and hyperdiverse organisms, yet chronically understudied. Most fungal clades have no reference genomes, impeding our understanding of their ecosystem functions and use as solutions...

Have you heard about MycoEd yet? A model educational program offering training for students on fungal genome sequencing and analysis. how powerful!! #mycofam #thefutureisfungal

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The History of Enzyme Evolution Embedded in Metabolism Phylogenetic reconstructions are a primary record of protein evolution. But what other records can attest to the deep history of enzymes, and what tools are needed to decode their meaning? Here, we de...

The History of Enzyme Evolution Embedded in Metabolism
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

KIPEs3: Automatic annotation of biosynthesis pathways
doi.org/10.1101/2022...

AlphaFold - A practical guide AlphaFold - A practical guide

Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good!

There are also little quizzes and interactives.
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

Remodelling autoactive NLRs for broad-spectrum immunity in plants - Nature Cleavage by pathogen-derived proteases of an engineered chimeric protein activates its plant immune receptor component, enabling broad-spectrum resistance to pathogens in plants.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Remodelling autoactive NLRs for broad-spectrum immunity in plants

Hey #2025ISMPMI! 🌱
We ofcourse all aim to do great & successful science!
However, it doesn't always work out the way we hope, but we rarely hear about those stories..
So let's change that!
Find me at my poster P-102 on Tuesday and let's discuss "failed" science, and what we can still learn from it!

A Tribute to Dr. Franklin Stahl and His Elegant Experiment The elucidation of DNA's structure led to questions about how it was...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta: A Tribute to Dr. Franklin Stahl and His Elegant Experiment. Have a listen:

I See You Dancing, Father
by Brendan Kennelly

Happy Father’s Day….

"Whatever happens or cannot happen
In the time I have to spare
I see you dancing, father".
poetryarchive.org/poem/i-see-y...

Check out our fungi-tastic special issue, full of marvels of mycology — and many articles accessible for free!
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www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Would you like to write for New Scientist? We always work with freelancers, but occasionally I put out a call like this for new writers. I'm looking for 300-700 word news stories about new discoveries. Don't pitch us press releases or the big journals, we have those covered. Pay starts at 51p/word

Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi Nuclei define eukaryotes, enabling macromolecular compartmentalization and cellular regulation. Each nucleus is believed to contain one or more haploid sets of chromosomes (1N). However, we discovered...

This is wild. Chromosome distributions into different nuclei!

Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The 'Oscar' of food prizes goes to a Brazilian who harnessed the power of bacteria This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to a Brazilian who boosted the country's farming revolution, turning it into a soybean superpower.

The 'Oscar' of food prizes goes to a Brazilian who harnessed the power of bacteria

Mariangela Hungria found microbes that were good at capturing nitrogen from the air and turning it into fertilizer for crops.

www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...

Interesting meeting:

Call for abstracts and sponsors
The Xi'an Carbon Meeting, October 16-18, 2025 (xiancarbonmeeting.com)
The meeting is organized by Xi'an Jiaotong University (en.xjtu.edu.cn) and the European Association of Chemistry and the Environment (europeanace.com)

Yes, it's Thursday! Time for Episode 90 of #MattersMicrobial. Dr. Francisco Dini Andreote of Penn State joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how the plant microbiome can be used in agriculture. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. microbe.tv

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Cosmic Radio Interview with Dr. Joseph Heitman: Professor and Chair of Molecular Genetics and Professor in Medicine at Duke University and CIFAR's Co-Director for the Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportu... Join me on Cosmic Radio as we speak with Dr. Joseph Heitman. Dr. Heitman is a professor and Chair of Molecular Biology and Professor in Medicine at Duke University and CIFAR's Co-Director for the "Fun...

share.transistor.fm/s/ee922716 - nice interview with Joe Heitman on Fungi

BBC Radio 4 - Curious Cases, Series 23, Furnishing with Fungi Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain investigate the surprising materials we can make from fungi.

It was so much fun to chat fungi with @fryrsquared.bsky.social and @daraobriain.bsky.social on the latest episode of Curious Cases - listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄

Please see full text with this share link

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I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.

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Guidelines toward ecologically-informed bioprospecting for microbial plastic degradation Biological degradation of plastics by microbial enzymes offers a sustainable alternative to traditional waste management methods that often pollute th…

Please see our recent review on ecologically-informed guidelines for bioprospecting for plastic-degrading microbes

@rbgkew.bsky.social
@kaicartwright.bsky.social

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A fungal transcription factor converts a beneficial root endophyte into an anthracnose leaf pathogen Endophytic fungi colonize healthy plant tissues without disease. Ujimatsu et al. reveal that the fungal transcription factor CtBOT6 triggers the virulence of a root-associated beneficial endophyte by ...

Thrilled to share my first paper published at Current biology!!
We found that the expression level of one single transcription factor converts beneficial root endophyte into pathogenic guy😈 (1/8) www.cell.com/current-biol...

Sunlight drives the abiotic formation of nitrous oxide in fresh and marine waters Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas and the main stratospheric ozone-depleting agent, yet its sources are not well resolved. In this work, we experimentally show a N2O production pathway no...

Very interesting finding: photochemical formation of N2O in freshwater and marine waters.

The N cycle gets more complex. 🧐

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A Community Resource for Secondary Metabolite Researchers | Joint Genome Institute The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement.

The JGI’s Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory is a public database with more than 13 million BGCs. As of publication in @narjournal.bsky.social earlier this year, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence data. 

#secmet 🖥️🧬🧪
@danudwary.secondarymetabolism.com @nigelmouncey.bsky.social

It's happening! We are coming back with virtual meetings! Save The Date - August 6-8, 2025. 📅🇨🇦🍄🛜. Check your emails or social media for more details. PS. Contact us if you want to receive emails! #CFN25 #SaveTheDate #FungiareBack

Trichoderma reesei is an industrial workhouse but... What about the wild strains?

Tiziano Benocci asks, what are we missing by limiting our work to the industrial strains?

T. reesei lives in the rainforest 💧🌳, temperate forest 🌳, and the marine environment 🪸

#ecfg17

Brilliant story presented by Naoyoshi Kumakura @ecfg172025.bsky.social #ecfg17 on how dihydroxyhexanoic acid mediates pore sizes in appresorium … see more here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us at the 2025 Westerdijk Spring Symposium!

📅 When: April 7–8, 2025
📍 Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands
🎯 Theme: DNA Sequences as Type

For more Information and Registration
👉 ymlp.com/z4iFHn

John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...

Aquatic photosynthesis knowledge would be at a considerably lower level without John Raven. What a life and legacy! 🌊

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This week I have been thinking about protein dynamics and the recent shift in the understanding of protein dynamics. You can read all about it in my newsletter.

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Engineered bacteria could break down unrecyclable nylon in clothes Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the plastic could improve recycling

ᗰᗩKE IT Oᖇ ᗷᖇEᗩK IT

we can train bacteria to make things we desperately need—such as insulin

and we can train them to break things we desperately need to go away—such as nylon waste

Fantastic new research with engineered 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘢 in 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this great general review in Nature on “Fungal impacts on Earth’s Ecosystems - by the CIFAR consortium. @mrccmm.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @funguscrous.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social @microbita.bsky.social @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social