Jorge Amich

Research Associate (PDRA) in Fungal Infection Biology :Oxford Road

We are recruiting two Research Associates! Funded by the
@wellcometrust.bsky.social , join us to work on Mucorales adaption in collaboration with Becky Hall (University of Kent) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Deadline: 1st October

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Imidazole propionate is a driver and therapeutic target in atherosclerosis - Nature Imidazole propionate produced by gut microbiota is associated with atherosclerosis in mouse models and in humans, and causes the development of atherosclerosis through activation of the imidazoline-1 ...

This paper blew my mind!

It can really have massive implications

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Toward the consensus of definitions for the phenomena of antifungal tolerance and persistence in filamentous fungi. After registering, you will receive a co... Organised by EFISG

Next Tuesday I am giving a @efisg-escmid.bsky.social webinar to explain our proposed definitions for the phenomena of antifungal tolerance and persistence in filamentos fungi, and provide guidelines for their detection and quantification

Sign up here if interested👇

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Congratulations! Great news!

Well deserved @chownbioinf.bsky.social ! Congratulations!

The Microbiology Society, with the British Mycological Society, is delighted to announce Dr Harry Chown of Imperial College London, UK, as the 2025 Tony Trinci Award winner. Read more here: microb.io/4jUSinB @chownbioinf.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

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I think this is a very important topic, reviewer fatigue

How many invitations do your receive per week? For me it's well over ten.

New ideas/approaches are needed

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A polyene macrolide targeting phospholipids in the fungal cell membrane - Nature Mandimycin, a polyene macrolide, exhibits strong antifungal activity and possesses a mode of action that is distinct from other compounds of this class.

Wow, new antifungal with novel mechanism of action

Looks really promising

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Outstanding work!

And so many posibiities to use this going forward...

Illustration depicting the ways in which fungi can exchange genetic material with each other. Starship mediated HGT is confirmed experimentally in this preprint.

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How was it? In the end I went for dinner with the Spanish gang. Maybe next time I can manage!

En route to #asperfest and @ecfg172025.bsky.social
Can you believe it's my first time? I'm excited to see old friends and meet new ones. And of course, for five days of outstanding fungal research!

Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks Imaging study reveals how fungal networks are constructed.

"Fungi made Earth’s land liveable..."

Such important organisms... so underestimated!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you to my co-authors and friends Mike Bromley, Gustavo Goldmann and Clara Valero
(not on bluesky yet!)

Toward the consensus of definitions for the phenomena of antifungal tolerance and persistence in filamentous fungi | mBio Antimicrobial tolerance and persistence are definitions that describe the ability of microorganisms to survive the action of antimicrobial drugs for extended periods. These phenomena are distinct from...

Antifungal tolerance and persistence are gaining relevance in fungal pathogens. However, the terminology is unclear, particularly for filamentous fungi. In this Perspective we propose tailored definitions and discuss methods for detecting and studying these phenomena
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

I thought many will appreciate here. Mini chocolate mushroom cookie 🤤

We are looking for a postdoc in #EvolutionarySystemsBiology.
Exciting science, amazing team, wonderful city!
landrylab.ibis.ulaval.ca/research-opp...
#evolution #synbio #systemsbiology #genomics

This is certainly a very interesting study.

Just the terminology is confusing. I'd say "proliferative or quiescent state" rather than "resistant or tolerant"
All is done at []s around the MIC

But is is interesting to see the cell capacity to adapt the response!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

Hello All, plz share. Last call for applications for a post-doc position in our lab to study immune function in frogs infected with the fungal pathogen Bd. Deadline is Feb 1, reviews will begin soon after. zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

The Institut Pasteur launches an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders in the application of cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to the exploration of host-microbe, tissue-tissue, or host-environment interactions.

research.pasteur.fr/fr/call/call...

The sulfur-related metabolic status of Aspergillus fumigatus during infection reveals cytosolic serine hydroxymethyltransferase as a promising antifungal target Sulfur metabolism is an essential aspect of fungal physiology and pathogenicity. Fungal sulfur metabolism comprises anabolic and catabolic routes that are not well conserved in mammals, therefore i...

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We used Nanostring technology to study the expression of sulfur-related genes during infection. We identified potential virulence-relevant factors and characterised one of them, validating it as a novel antifungal target

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The sulfur-related metabolic status of Aspergillus fumigatus during infection reveals cytosolic serine hydroxymethyltransferase as a promising antifungal target Sulfur metabolism is an essential aspect of fungal physiology and pathogenicity. Fungal sulfur metabolism comprises anabolic and catabolic routes that are not well conserved in mammals, therefore i...

I'm proud to present our latest work

We used Nanostring technology to study the expression of sulfur-related genes during infection. We identified potential virulence-relevant factors and characterised one of them, validating it as a novel antifungal target

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I like your vision!
I am still a new PI then.
For quite some time yet 😊

How long can I consider myself as a #newPI?

A few years have passed by, but I still feel I'm a beginner

I feel you!
The worst for me is when the revisions do not really add anything to the original conclusions

darth vader is standing in front of a wall with the words join me below him ALT: darth vader is standing in front of a wall with the words join me below him

Hoy se ha publicado la convocatoria de recursos humanos de la AESI del ISCIII.

www.isciii.es/l/1125030

¿No habrá por ahí algún/a micólogo/a que tenga interés en solicitar una Sara Borrell para unirse a mi grupo?

¡Contactadme si os interesa!

In a profession that already requires lots of time investment to be succesful... Non-native speakers are at great disadvantage

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I’m hiring a PhD student to start Sep 2025 on an exciting project on fungal pathogens🍄‍🟫, soil health and microbiomes, together with dr. Filipa Cox and @knightjar.bsky.social

If you have any good candidates, please let them contact me directly.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...