Neil Gow

Do consider coming to this premium fungal AMR conference in Bangkok in November. @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

Our new paper is out on the cell wall UDP-sugar nucleotide pathways in Candida & their potential as antifungal drug targets. doi.org/10.1016/j.tc...
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Catch our new review on amphotericin B resistance in fugal pathogens. doi.org/10.1016/j.tc.... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

Great evening out with the lab celebrating the end of the year and the forthcoming festivities @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

PhD position available to study the immune response to the terbinafine resistant dermatophyte T. Indotinea. www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
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Get ready for a feast of fungal biology at the GRC CMFB conference in Holderness, NH next year. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk @elainebignell.bsky.social

🍄🖋 #imageoftheweek ¦ A sketch of Shaggy Ink Cap mushrooms, drawn using ink from the mushrooms themselves!

Art meets nature, thanks to Professor @neil-gow.bsky.social 🌳

Kieran Marr opens our MRC-CMM Partners day with an inspirational keynote talk about the journey from discovery research to translational applications in Antifungal therapeutics and diagnostics. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

Bunch of autumn flowers.

SWBio DTP PhD (Univ Exeter): Will global warming speed up antifungal resistance? Work with Prof Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Prof Neil Gow & team. Experimental evolution, multi-omics & modelling on medical/crop pathogens. Apply: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo... #PhD #AMR #ClimateChange #Mycology

Tell 'em Tom

"November has tied me
To an old dead tree
Get word to April
To rescue me

November's cold chain
Made of wet boots and rain
And shiny black ravens
On chimney smoke lanes
November seems odd
You're my firing squad
November"

Great day in FAILSAFE co-sponsored symposium on fungal AMR in Bangkok. @mrccmm.bsky.social @efisg @escmid.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social @gw4amr.bsky.social

New review on the major new insights offered by solid state NMR on fungal cell wall organisation led by Tuo Wang. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social
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FAILSAFE funding tackling fungal AMR globally in action at our symposium in Bangkok. Great to meet the team non virtually at last. @mrccmm.bsky.social @gw4amr.bsky.social @antimicrobial.bsky.social

Ready for an exciting few days in Bangkok talking about fungal AMR at a FAILSAFE special symposium of the Thailand Biotechnology Society. @gw4amr.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social

Encouraging to find a packed audience at the Sidmouth Science Festival to hear about how good and bad fungi shape the world. @mrccmm.bsky.social. Also thanks to Ian Leaves for mycohelp. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

The ink look very black on the cap, but it is melanin which is brown, so perhaps to be expected. But some spores are green or other colours.

Happy U.K. Fungus Day. This was drawn using the ink from a shaggy ink cap growing in my own garden.

Many congratulations to Connie Lass-Florl as the very worthy 2025 recipient of the TIMM E. Drouhet lecture. Fantastic overview of the puzzles brought byAspergillus terreus infections. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social

A true hero in our field - Hatim Sati - giving an overview of the impact and advocacy of WHO on awareness of fungal infections. Watch out for the new Blueprint document on actionable interventions in November. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @who.int

Great to be up and running at TIMM12 in Bilbao. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social - a feast of medical mycology being basic and clinical mycology. @mrccmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

What better place for our lab lunch that the fabulous Forest Fungi restaurant in Dawlish Warren, Devon England.

🌡️ Fungi in a warming world: join our PhD on Candida auris evolution – thermal tolerance, immunity & antifungal resistance. Based at Exeter & Bristol, GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP : www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #InfectiousDiseases #PhD #GW4 #Exeter #Bristol #MedicalMycology #AMR #ClimateChange

New work from the Prasad lab showing that Candida auris can become amphotericin resistant either by multiple, sterol dependent and sterol independent mechanisms. dx.doi.org/10.1111/mmi..... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

Wang lab shows that in response to echinocandins C. albicans thickens its wall while C.auris stiffens the wall via regulating B1,6 glucan and strengthening B1,6 - Mannan interactions. ; www.nature.com/articles/s41... @youngecmm.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an MRC Programme Grant to study the role of fungi in eczema together with @neil-gow.bsky.social, Helen Alexander and Carsten Flohr (both King's College London). 2 postdoc positions availble at jobs.exeter.ac.uk (Job References Q05626 and Q05627)

We're thrilled to have been awarded a £3.3M grant by the Medical Research Council to study the treatment and potential cure for eczema. This 5-year res. programme brings together experts from the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology in Exeter and St John’s Institute of Dermatology at KCL. @exeter.ac.uk

A must-read synthesis by Joe Heitman about how we see the world through the fungal lens. Fungal Kingdom: A Rosetta Stone for Biological Discovery. Highly recommended. @mrccmm.bsky.social
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Check this latest analysis showing how Beta-glucan shaving of the wall can disguise Candida from immune detection. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2423864122).