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Ph.D. defended and the long read journey ends in frozen lands.
Deep thanks to @sanslan.bsky.social and @tedersoo.bsky.social. Special thanks to @owenwangensteen.bsky.social for a demanding and fair defence as the main opponent.
Thanks to all @myco-microbio.bsky.social members for their support.

16.02.2026 07:45 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

GloSED - Global standardised soil eukaryome dataset Global Standardised Soil Eukaryome Dataset (GloSED) Dataset description The GloSED dataset is a metabarcoding-based dataset encompassing the entire spectrum of soil eukaryotes collected and analysed u...

Global Soil Mycobiome Consortium dataset now extended to soil protists and animals (GloSED), including 4000 samples. Pre-publication data available at: zenodo.org/records/1782...
#fungi #soil #ecology #database

17.02.2026 15:12 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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Our review about plant endophytes an other leaf-inhabiting fungi out - check it out:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mdbN6Do0q...

17.02.2026 15:08 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Download | EUKARYOME

EUKARYOME v2.0 reference database now available. A major release including >300,000 new eDNA reads with metadata, quality-screened ROD (meta)genome DB, and updated fungal higher-level taxonomy (following the Mycokeys paper).
Download at: eukaryome.org/download/

10.11.2025 08:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New fungal phylum-level system, with red font indicating novel taxa and size taxonomic diversity.

Fungal phylum-level classification update now available! Used "innovative taxonomy" to describe >100 taxa, from species to phylum, based on long reads, characteristic nucleotides and env-samples.
mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616...

#fungi #taxonomy #PacBio #classification #eDNA

20.10.2025 17:27 — 👍 24 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1

MarieCurie postdoc co-applications on offer in University of Tartu, Estonia:
Fungi in reforestation
AMF in agriculture
Global biogeography of fungi
Fungal Host/substrate specificity
Human pathogens in soil, sediment, compost
DNA-based taxonomy of fungi
UNITE/FungalTraits further development

15.04.2025 08:44 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1

EUKARYOME new release now available eukaryome.org/download/ This time special on early diverging fungal lineages and nucleariids. Also EUK sequences with all metadata available. Will also be available via UNITE soon.

19.03.2025 08:20 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Postdoc in plant-microbe interactions and microbial ecology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Agroecology - Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Aarhus University

A postdoc position in Aarhus University now officially available for applications:
international.au.dk/about/profil...

27.02.2025 19:07 — 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Custom PhD positions in my team: High-quality motivated candidates are welcome to design their doctorate research topic for a project competition in the University of Tartu, Estonia. Keywords: bioinformatics, biodiversity, fungi, metagenomics, databases, mycorrhiza, DNA-based taxonomy, biogeography

30.01.2025 10:48 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Post-Doc position for 3 years available jointly between University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) on soil microbiome and biogeography. Skills required: bioinformatics, metagenome analysis, microbiology
Contact: leho.tedersoo@ut.ee

23.01.2025 06:54 — 👍 54 🔁 38 💬 0 📌 0

EUKARYOME v1.9.3 now available in eukaryome.org

A special release of long reads of marine microeukaryotes

23.01.2025 06:48 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

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