Matthew Blango

mostly cormorants on a series of rocks and swimming

buzzard on a telephone pole

gull on a fancy rock

Gannet floating in the water

Still on holiday for another couple days. So, you get more Scottish birds. 🪶

siege of herons sitting by the sea shore

A siege of herons by the sea shore. 🪶

Antifungal exposure can enhance Candida glabrata pathogenesis Azole antifungal drugs directly inhibit lanosterol 14-α-demethylase and indirectly affect the expression of metabolic, transmembrane transporter, and cell wall organization genes in fungal pathogens. ...

adapting to drugs -
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A scientist wearing a white lab coat and blue gloves leans over a desk, working on a computer in a bright, modern laboratory. Laboratory equipment and monitors surround him as natural light streams in through large windows.

Spotlight on our Leibniz Competition project “FuRTHER” on #WorldRNADay: Exploring how fungal ncRNAs may reprogram human gene expression. A new concept in infection biology by @mgblango.bsky.social, funded by the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de. #InterkingdomCommunication #LeibnizHKI

➡️ lmy.de/bNyTX

sparrow parent feeding sparrow child, both with wings open

the local food exchange 🪶

AI-generated drawing of a woman looking through a microscope with DNA and fungi drawn in the background. The text contains the same content as the bsky post.

My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share!

More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup

Two rows of people wearing active or outdoors clothing stand in a lush green forest. One person in the front row holds a map of the area.

Last week we enjoyed a lovely day of socialising and networking with the groups of @mgblango.bsky.social and @slavi-jan.bsky.social. We broke into teams for a scavenger hunt and visited a palace outside Weimar. We were even joined by special guest @mulveylab.bsky.social while he was visiting!

📣Register now for the online course “Antibiotic LC-MS/MS Quantification” from @dzif.bsky.social on October 16 & gain insights into how quantitative analyses of small molecules are planned and performed for drug development and clinical applications: antibiotics.fz-borstel.de/de/online-kurs

Wes Sundquist is one of the good guys. He is a scientists scientist and has carefully, passionately, and consistently carried his science out with this goal in mind. A cure for AIDS that is available to all.

This is an amazing recognition for him and for the @utah.edu where he has done his work.

tRNA hydroxylation is an epitranscriptomic modulator of metabolic states affecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenicity Abstract. Post-transcriptional modification of transfer RNAs (tRNAs) represents an essential layer of translational regulation critical for bacterial adapt

tRNA hydroxylation is an epitranscriptomic modulator of metabolic states affecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenicity, with TrhPO, from Haussler lab #microsky #rnasky 💫🦠 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

kingfisher sitting on a rock

heron taking flight

a couple photos from this morning. 🪶

a seven spotted lady beetle at the end of a blade of grass

running out of room

a eurasian skylark sitting at the top of a small bush preening

Preening eurasian skylark through the high grasses 🪶

grasshopper looking over the edge of a planter

grass hopper

RNA Is the Cell’s Emergency Alert System | Quanta Magazine How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals danger.

When sun hits you, what does it *hit*? It rockets into your RNA, and the sound of colliding ribosomes and potholed RNA signals to your body to do something: produce a sunburn. My latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social.

www.quantamagazine.org/rna-is-the-c...

Looking for an excuse to move to Europe? Check out our latest RNA-centric hiring spree below...

Merganser water slide! 🪶

starling in flight

blackbird on a railing

do you fancy a starling or a blackbird? 🪶

This work was supported by the BMFTR (formerly BMBF) and @dfg.de. With support from our local community at the @leibniz-hki.de @jsmc-info.bsky.social @microverse.bsky.social

Comprehensive mapping of the 5′ and 3′ untranslated regions of Aspergillus fumigatus reveals new insights into gene regulation In the twenty years since the first genome sequencing of Aspergillus fumigatus , the field has seen an explosion in both the number of sequenced genomes and our molecular understanding of this ubiquit...

We were frustrated with guessing RNA transcript boundaries, so we mapped the 5ʹ and 3ʹ ends of poly(A)-enriched RNAs in A. fumigatus mycelium. Hopefully our latest effort from Lukas Schrettenbrunner will serve as a tool for the community! 🧪 w/ @ewjwallace.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The scientists in my lab (past and present - faces here blangolab.com/people/) have been working on some really cool, innovative stuff lately, and I absolutely don't hype them enough.

I am looking forward to sharing some of their new stories with you very soon. 🧪

a mother duck leading 8+ ducklings all with their heads up water

I am sure there is something clever to say about this photo of headless ducklings following mom, but I've got nothing. Ideas? 🪶

a baby european robin hopping along

@jlspragu.bsky.social requested (likely sarcastically) more bird pictures. So here is a baby european robin doing its best impression of a golf ball. 🪶

ACS Infectious Diseases Interviews Early Career Researchers | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog ACS Infectious Diseases highlights the contributions of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars researching within the various subfields covered in the journal.

This is a cool initiative. Glad to see current and former @leibniz-hki.de researchers interviewed! @aps-hki.bsky.social 🧪

axial.acs.org/medicinal-ch...

a honey bee sitting on a wall

It is hot, even the honey bees are taking it easy.

a black redstart standing proudly and showing off pops of color in its tail.

Black redstarts only visit our balcony for a few weeks a year. Happy that we are back to that time. 🪶

gray heron flying over a river and amongst a lot of insects, all while backlit by the sun

a gull flying along through a sunbeam and insects

A heron and a gull flying through a very buggy sunbeam. 🪶

The surprising power of your nature photos Scott Loarie has a challenge for you: go outside and take a picture of a living thing. He introduces the global community of people building a living atlas of the natural world by sharing their nature...

Worth the ten minutes to learn a bit about @inaturalist.bsky.social if you don't already know it. 🧪🪶

www.ted.com/talks/scott_...

As long as you keep your email inbox closed, you might have a chance ...

A photo of a kestrel about to have a head on collision with a pigeon. In reality, they were in different planes, and the kestrel just flew off.

Perspective is funny. 🪶

This interaction did not result in catastrophe.