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Medical Mycology Welcome to the fascinating world of fungi, agents of major infectious diseases!

🖥️ The MOOC “Medical Mycology” is open for registration!   
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🍄 Welcome to the fascinating world of fungi, agents of major infectious diseases! Discover the taxonomy, ecology, identification of fungi, epidemiology of infectious diseases, drugs, link with HIV…Share this info!

Research Fellow - Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy - 106119 - Grade 7 The successful candidate will make extensive use of a range of in vivo models of fungal infection and will have access to the wide range of transgenic tools and in vivo immunology techniques establish...

Job ads for TWO postdoctoral positions available in our group are now online. Deadline August 25th.
🧪Immunologists, apply in link below.
🍄Microbiologists- please follow link in next post.
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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

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

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Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions

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Indigenizing fungal biotechnology for planetary health: an opinion paper - Fungal Biology and Biotechnology New fungal biotechnologies are advancing applied and conservation mycology to support global regenerative outcomes for natural and human systems. Here, we propose the Applied and Conservation Mycology...

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What sorts of #bioinformatic tasks, tools, or processes do you wish were more user friendly or accessible to non-bioinformaticians? I'm looking to potentially build some tools (especially for the #fungal community) that can help biologists get the most out of their data and speed up their science!

Episode 10 - we've jumped an order of magnitude! Thanks for all the support, @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I totally appreciate it.
If you have artifact-free data, you can skip this one;
for us mere mortals, Erin talks about masks, alignment, and seeing how far from a mask an object is. So useful!

My postdoc position is open again! If you’re interested and did not get your application in last time, please send one by end of this week! Start date asap, latest by end of Fall. ‼️

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“Select and Resequence” methods enable a genome wide association study of the dimorphic human fungal pathogen Coccidioides posadasii Abstract. Next-generation sequencing has unlocked a wealth of genotype information for wild populations, but interpreting it in the context of phenotypes r

Can we use NGS data for pooled strain phenotyping & association mapping as a tool for the genetic dissection of trait variation in BSL3 fungi? Why yes we can.
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📝Call for papers📝

I'm co-editing a @microbiologysociety.org #JMedMicro collection on Fungal Pathogenesis.

Contribute a review, research or short communication article by Nov 2025 (flexible)

If interested, get in touch!

#FungalPathogens #MedicalMycology #InfectiousDiseases

YouTube video by KeystoneSymposia Fungal Pathogens Meeting Promo

The abstract and scholarship deadline is fast approaching for the Keystone Fungal Pathogens meeting #KSFungalPath26 ! Submit your work by 16th Sept to join the fabulous line-up of invited speakers, featured in the video below (also includes submission links!)
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Abby Potton is studying morphological heterogeneity of Cryptococcus neoformans in my lab. This image shows the full range of cell sizes, from large polyploid titan cells, to yeast, to the small but mighty titanide, all important for how this fungus causes disease.

Major funding boost to bring world leading researchers to the John Innes Centre | John Innes Centre The John Innes Centre has been awarded an equal share of the new £54 million Global Talent Fund, to attract and support leading researchers and their teams to relocate to the UK. The new Global Talent...

Exciting times to be at @johninnescentre.bsky.social !

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Postdoc in Structural Biology of RNA processing complexes Postdoctoral positions in structural biology of macromolecular complexes are available in the laboratory of Dr. Eva Kowalinski at the EMBL Grenoble, France. We are looking for highly motivated and amb...

Postdoc positions in structural biology of RNA processing complexes.

An ERC-funded position will dissect pre-mRNA processing pathways in the infective organism Trypanosoma brucei. An ANR-funded position will characterise large complexes in RNA modification.

Details: tinyurl.com/postdoc-RNA-...

A Fungus, Not Its Insect Host, Paints the World Red Lac insects carry a yeast-like symbiont that produces a commercially important bright red pigment, revealing insights about insect-microbe symbiosis.

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Are you a PI in a biology field looking for students to join your lab as a PhD student? I made a Starter Pack to help PIs and potential PhD students connect! If you would like to be added to this pack, please let me know! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi

Job opportunity Postdoctoral Researcher (m/w/div) in “Microbial Infection Strategies” at Leibniz HKI Jobportal Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena

📣 I’m recruiting a #Postdoc to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group @leibniz-hki.de will be a good fit for you! Please share!
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We are proud to be partnering with @ddu-dundee.bsky.social and GSK on this global health mission funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social 🌍

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Rhizopus delemar (blue) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (yellow colour, but pink if inside the fungus.)

This image shows how bacteria interact with fungi - through direct contact and interdependent relationship (endosymbiosis).

Credit: Dr Corzo Leon.

£17.9m research grant to discover new treatments for fungal diseases A team of leading infectious disease scientists from academia and industry have been awarded £17.9 million to identify new drugs to treat fungal infections

Delighted to announce a £17.9 million award from @wellcometrust.bsky.social for the development of new antifungal treatments to a consortium of @ddu-dundee.bsky.social, @labwyllie.bsky.social, @mrccmm.bsky.social and GSK.

#Cryptococcus #Candida #drugdiscovery #antifungal 🧪

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Fungal infections are getting harder to treat The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus tops the World Health Organization's list of worrying fungal diseases. It's growing increasingly resistant to the first-line drug used to treat it.

Fungal infections are getting harder to treat. The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus tops the World Health Organization's list of worrying fungal diseases. It's growing increasingly resistant to the first-line drug used to treat it.
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WashU Medicine fungal specialists fight often misdiagnosed infections | WashU Medicine The WashU Medicine Invasive Fungal Infections Clinic has been recognized internationally for its world-class diagnosis, care and research.

Interested in training with international fungal experts at an ECMM-designated Center of Excellence in Fungal Infections?

Apply to ID Fellowship at Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital Consortium in St. Louis, MO.

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Botany & Plant Pathology) The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure-track or tenured Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor position.Any hiring at the rank o...

Join us in BPP!! We are searching for a new Herbarium Director. This open rank, tenure-track/tenured position will direct/manage the OSC herbarium, lead a robust plant systematics/ecology/evolution research program,
teach UG/grad courses and more! (see PD linked below)

Full consideration: Aug 31

We have an opening for postdoctoral training! Please apply by 15th August 2025 for full consideration. Here is the ad: hittinger.genetics.wisc.edu/People/Join/...

NEMF 2025 Samuel Ristich Foray | Nemf Join us for NEMF 2025, a special gathering in Ithaca, NY, celebrating the theme Women in Mycology.

Oh, #mycology! Attend NEMF, a mycological extravaganza in #Ithaca, #NY this year! September 18-21, come explore the incredible fungal diversity in the Finger Lakes regions while honoring the #WomenInMycology theme.

#fungi #MSA #fungalfriends #science #nature

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Distinct echinocandin responses of Candida albicans and Candida auris cell walls revealed by solid-state NMR - Nature Communications The prevalent fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, and the emerging multidrug-resistant superfungus, Candida auris, share the same initial cell wall architecture but remodel it differently in response t...

Distinct echinocandin responses of Candida albicans and Candida auris cell walls revealed by solid-state NMR www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations, Alessia!