Anyone looking for roommates for #Fungal26 in Asilomar?
I will participate and I am looking for someone to share a room for the week!
I'm a female PhD student, looking to share a room with another female. Please DM me if you'd like to team up with me π
Reposts appreciated!
04.12.2025 14:22 β π 6 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0
Six smiling people stand in two rows in a seminar room. Each is holding a large piece of paper with drawing summarising the presentations of another group member.
Six smiling people are standing together outside, dressed in winter coats and hats. In the background is the Wartburg Castle.
Six smiling people sit around a table playing the board game Mycology
Third lab retreat in the books! We once again headed to the city of Eisenach for two days of project presentations, soft skills workshops, and science discussions. We also played the beautiful Mycology board game!
25.11.2025 21:12 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Six smiling people stand in two rows in a seminar room. Each is holding a large piece of paper with drawing summarising the presentations of another group member.
Six smiling people are standing together outside, dressed in winter coats and hats. In the background is the Wartburg Castle.
Six smiling people sit around a table playing the board game Mycology
Third lab retreat in the books! We once again headed to the city of Eisenach for two days of project presentations, soft skills workshops, and science discussions. We also played the beautiful Mycology board game!
25.11.2025 21:12 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Image of yeast spotted on an agar plate. Some grow well, others are dying.
We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
19.11.2025 09:20 β π 20 π 29 π¬ 1 π 0
@tobybarilbio.bsky.social and I are very excited to release MycoMobilome! A very extensive effort to discover, QC and annotate TEs across the fungal kingdom.
π Ready-to-use for your own genome with a simple tutorial!
π Metadata about TEs discovered in your genome!
π Contribute and get recognition!
29.10.2025 16:32 β π 43 π 15 π¬ 0 π 0
1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start?
We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
29.10.2025 09:02 β π 64 π 37 π¬ 1 π 2
A great turnout for our latest Microverse Seminar! ππ¬
@ameliabarberphd.bsky.social, Junior Group Leader #FungalInformatics, shared fascinating insights in her talk βFrom Ecology to Genomes: Unraveling Fungal Pathogenicity Across Scales.β
Lively discussions and great connections followed!
29.10.2025 08:02 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
The heading reads, 'Congrats Phillip!!'. Below that, there is a four image grid from a zoom meeting and depcting a graduation mortarboard and 3 people/groups smiling and celebrating.
Congrats to the group's first PhD student, the newly minted Dr. Brassington!!
Phillip relocated back to Oceania in the period between submitting his dissertation and his oral defense, so we had to make do with a virtual defense, but I am still incredibly proud of him.
17.10.2025 14:34 β π 16 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Very excited to see the final version of our kingdom-scale fungal genome defense manuscript out in @plosbiology.org !
This work has been a major project of @tbadet.bsky.social during his time in our lab.
We hope to stimulate much more exciting work on fungal TEs.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
16.10.2025 08:46 β π 42 π 15 π¬ 0 π 1
Massive congrats Michael!!! Also, Bsky leaves much to be desired - why did I not see this before today??
13.10.2025 14:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Open Positions
ERC-funded project on the mechanism of horizontal transfer of entire fungal chromosomes PhD PostDoc
Want to understand how entire fungal chromosomes can be horizontally transferred?
Join us to unravel the mechanism/consequences of horizontal chromosome transfer in a fungal pathogen as part of an ERC-funded project. Postdoc/PhD positions available.
fungal-evolutionary-genetics.de/open-positio...
13.10.2025 09:42 β π 25 π 21 π¬ 0 π 0
If you saw my talk on the population structure of #Aspergillus flavus at Fungal Genetics in 2024, you might have heard someone ask "how does Aspergillus oryzae fit into the picture?"
If so, you heard my answer was "wait and see--we're working on this exact topic"
Well, the wait is over! Preprint β¬οΈ
07.10.2025 19:50 β π 17 π 8 π¬ 1 π 1
Wow, congrats Megan and great to have you closer to π©πͺ!!
18.09.2025 20:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Open postdoc position in in my lab in Berlin @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de.
Join us to push the frontier in ancient microbial genomics. Please apply until Oct 17th. Reach out in case you have any questions.
www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2193291/job_...
15.09.2025 08:03 β π 22 π 28 π¬ 1 π 0
Fabio doing some excellent scicomm about his postdoc project in the group!
11.09.2025 20:28 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Commensal yeast promotes Salmonella Typhimurium virulence - Nature
Commensal Candida albicans enhances the virulence and dissemination of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium.
Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.
03.09.2025 16:32 β π 115 π 56 π¬ 19 π 3
Just a few more days to apply! β°
27.08.2025 15:51 β π 17 π 15 π¬ 0 π 0
I thought the Aspergillus fumigatus pan-genome was pretty wild when we started this project.
Aspergillus flavus said, "hold my beer..." Not only does it have a strong population structure with differences between environmental and clinical strains, only 58%of genes are conserved across the species!
22.08.2025 06:38 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Really interesting work. Bottom line: re-annotate everything using the same pipeline for pangenome studies!
18.08.2025 17:11 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
A nice walkthrough on the limitations of generic slide titles and how assertive titles really help keep you on track and your audience following your desired narrative.
My group can attest that I agree π―% that slides should have a concrete summary statement as the title, with very few exceptions.
15.08.2025 15:39 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1
Aspergillus fumigatus reference strain Af293 carries a mycovirus that boosts heat+oxidative stress resistance and infection fitness. π²π₯
I encourage you to check out Neta's thread and I'm delighted my group could play a small role in this exciting study!!
14.08.2025 13:40 β π 21 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
It was wonderful having you visit! I enjoyed learning what the lab has been up to since I left and it was extra special that you could meet my group and hear about their projects.
02.08.2025 04:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Doctoral Researcher in the areas of Microbial Pathogens and Climate Change
New PhD position @uni-jena.de and at our #ClusterOfExcellence! Join @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social's group to study #ClimateChange & #FungalPathogens. Interdisciplinary training, vibrant research network & great working conditions. Apply by Aug 31: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/a... @uni-jena.de
30.07.2025 07:14 β π 7 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
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
29.07.2025 15:41 β π 47 π 47 π¬ 1 π 1
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
29.07.2025 15:41 β π 47 π 47 π¬ 1 π 1
Clinical Scientist | UK HSA National Mycology Reference Laboratory | Bristol
We are interested in fungi and their interactions. Biodiversity monitoring, ecology, phylogenetics. PI @dhaelewa.bsky.social. Based at the Biology Centre CAS. π #mycology #parasitology #teamlaboul
πΔeskΓ© BudΔjovice, Czechia
Exploring & visualizing data on nutrition, health, and eating habits: lumipie.com
Interests: 𧬠Biology π Data Viz π’ SciComm π» Coding
Prev: University of Copenhagen, MRC for Medical Mycology, Leibniz:HKI
Curator of the scientific #Nutrition feed
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We are the Terrestrial Ecology Research Group at TU Munich in Freising - headed by Wolfgang Weisser. We investigate patterns and drivers of biodiversity change in agricultural, natural and urban ecosystems.
The Schulenburg lab is headed by Hinrich Schulenburg, Kiel University and Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen. We study the evolution and genetics of C. elegans-microbiome interactions and antibiotic resistance evolution in human pathogens
Assistant Prof. at Stanford & Innovation Investigator at @arcinstitute.orgβ¬ | Studying metabolites and their impact on physiology and disease π¦ π§ͺ
www.arcinstitute.org/labs/levylab
We use computational methods in infection research to decipher pathogen-host interactions and RNA virus evolution, including immune escape.
Find us here -> https://tracir.de
PhD student at Imperial College London, interested in fungal genetics, resistance, and air quality π
Lecturer in Fungal Disease Biology, Manchester Fungal Infection Group, The University of Manchester
Group Leader at Wellcome Sanger Institute. Using omics to understand chronic lung infections and lung microbiomes in disease
Young Members of the International Society of Human and Animal Mycology | https://www.isham.org/young-isham/
Microbial interactions; lichens; symbiosis. Naturalist, conservationist. Non-capitalist markets. Associate Professor/CRC in Symbiosis at University of Alberta
Asst. Prof, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University.
Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology.
https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
Official account of the American Society for Microbiology. With over 38,000 members, ASM's mission is to promote & advance the microbial sciences.
Research Group Leader @mpiib_berlin.
#Genetics of clinical and ancient #microbes to understand the #evolution of #infectious #diseases and the #microbiome
mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2003543/key-lab
PhD candidate in the Heitman lab @dukemedschool studying genetics of antimicrobial resistance in fungal pathogens | @dartmouthartsci alum | runner, skier, outdoor enthusiast
Professor of Marine Ecology at GEOMAR / Kiel University, trained ecoevophysiologist, interested in coastal invertebrates, algae & climate change.
The Meissner Lab is based at the Chair for Experimental Parasitology, LMU Munich
