Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D.

🍄Mark your calendars for March 17-22, 2026 for #Fungal26! Registration will open October 25, 2025. We can’t wait to see you at Asilomar in absolutely beautiful Pacific Grove, California. Start planning today!

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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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Clearly she is a Tennessee Volunteer, Go Big Orange #GBO #VFL

RNAi epimutations conferring antifungal drug resistance are inheritable - Nature Communications Epimutations mediated by RNA interference can confer antifungal drug resistance and affect virulence in fungi. Here, the authors show that these epigenetic modifications can be transmitted across gene...

🚨 New paper in @natcomms.nature.com
After a constructive and rewarding peer-review process (huge thanks to our editors and reviewers) we can finally share it:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Just watched an amazing talk from @linder-surprise.bsky.social at #CFN25 on mechanisms driving high glycolytic rates in yeast. @canfunnet.bsky.social
Linda already announced on here, but it still makes me really happy to know she will be starting as faculty at the University of Guelph next month!

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

Thanks for your reply. I’m a US citizen & a product of US higher ed, so the difference in behaviors of some international students/institutions is very interesting.

An even bigger deal: it appears that all federal grant announcements are frozen until a new review process is developed.

So many stories to tell that are shared in Unfinished Tales (including love stories!) and they want to focus on Gollum??

I am a Ph.D. not an M.D., but 4 articles/abstracts in 8+ years of training (ugrad + med school) doesn't seem high to me. Could this not be due to incoming med students having ugrad research experience? Or more people working in research positions during a gap yr? How does this lead to misconduct?

Also, 30,000 fake papers out of 1 million+ does not indict or threaten science as a whole. This entire "science is in crisis from within" narrative is a right-wing myth.

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A mug that says “4th Annual CanFunNet Fungal Biology Conference” and has the date June 2, 2023. The last line of text on the mug reads “from coast to coast”

Ready for day 2 of #CFN25 with my @canfunnet.bsky.social mug from the 2023 meeting!

The thumbnail of my face HAHAHA

Amazing work from Dr. Anne Hatmaker @annemakerofhats.bsky.social at @canfunnet.bsky.social #CFN25

She takes us on a deep dive into the diversity of Penicillium isolates from diverse habitats

First plenary: @kamounlab.bsky.social discusses the evolution of Magnaporthe oryzae, minichromosomes, and the fieldwork done in the “blastmobile” (love this vehicle name!)
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Excited to tune into the CanFunNet meeting! @canfunnet.bsky.social

Check out our trainee Isha Jain's presentation on Friday in the Fungal Genetics & Genomics VI starting at 3:50pm

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Great introduction to CanFunNet with Dr. Horianopoulos @linder-surprise.bsky.social

Glow-in-the-dark marsupial shows off its luminous fur — July’s best science images The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

July's best science images, as chosen by the Nature photo team, include a glow-in-the-dark marsupial showing off its luminous furr, which earned photographer Ben Alldridge a spot as a finalist in the Beaker Street Science Photography Prize 2025. See more photos at the link. #SciArt 🧪 🔭 🏺

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CanFunNet25 🍄🇨🇦 starts tomorrow!
So excited for all the presentations!

Check out the conference website for more info: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca

Today's the day!! If you are attending #CFN25 then check out my talk this afternoon at 4pm Eastern, 3pm Central! I'll be talking about Penicillium in the Fungal Genetics and Genomics III session 🍄 Looking forward to virtually seeing you soon!

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Sarah’s one of my best friends!! Taught me so much when we worked together in the EPP dept at UTK as undergrads and during her Masters

Is the maker of SWIF-TE a Swifty???

Happy birthday! Sounds like you had a great day 🍄🍄‍🟫

Assistant Professor: Population and Disease Dynamics of Cereal Pathogens The Department of Botany & Plant Pathology invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure track Assistant Professor: Population and Disease Dynamics of Cereal Pathogens position.We a...

Come join me at Oregon State! We’re hiring a new assistant professor in population and disease dynamics of cereal pathogens. Our department is dynamic and fun, our building is newly renovated, and Oregon is wonderful! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/171...

NIH wants to hear from you. No really.

Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
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📣 We are recruiting! Please share!!

Are you a bioinformatician / computational scientist who wants to apply your skills to understanding regulatory biology and improving rare disease diagnosis and treatment? 🧠 💻 🧬 🩺

We have two roles available 👇

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A graphic with photos of Senator Warren saying: Step 1: Congress negotiates a deal that both parties support and it’s signed into law. Step 2: Trump tells Republicans what parts of the deal he wants to cancel. Step 3: Republicans in the Senate bend the knee and follow Trump’s orders to cancel the money. Apparently, Step 4: Republicans turn around and ask Democrats to negotiate more deals for next year’s funding.

Why should Democrats support a “bipartisan bill” just for Republicans to turn around and delete the parts Donald Trump doesn’t like?

Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!