My first time commenting as a fungal expert on BBC for online and TV reporting, explaining why mould in homes can be dangerous. It's absolutely terrible that tenants with serious conditions can be living long-term with these hazards: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I sleep in the living room as the mould in my Aberdeen council flat is so bad

Gary Bennett says conditions in his Aberdeen home have a devastating impact on his life.

bbc.co.uk

New preprint! This work is Gabriela Fior Ribeiro's second first-author manuscript, @logantom.bsky.social's first manuscript, and is the culmination of our long-standing collaboration with @ewjwallace.bsky.social's group at University of Edinburgh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Antifungal exposure can enhance Candida glabrata pathogenesis

Azole antifungal drugs directly inhibit lanosterol 14-α-demethylase and indirectly affect the expression of metabolic, transmembrane transporter, and cell wall organization genes in fungal pathogens. ...

biorxiv.org

Request for my fellow fungal researchers! Do you have a tote bag from Asilomar 2024 hanging around that you don’t use/want? A friend has lost theirs and they’re gutted

**New paper alert! I'm so proud of Gabriela Ribeiro's paper from her PhD work. Big thanks to our amazing KCL colleagues, Emily and Jon. Together we showed how the N. glabratus/C. glabrata cell wall can alter host outcomes in diverse infection models. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mannan is a context-dependent shield that modifies virulence in Nakaseomyces glabratus

Fungal-host interaction outcomes are influenced by how the host recognizes fungal cell wall components. Mannan is a major cell wall carbohydrate and can be a glycoshield that blocks the inner cell ...

tandfonline.com

PhD alert! Know a promising student who wants to do an interdisciplinary, funded PhD guided by experts in microbiology, antifungal drug resistance and chemistry? Please send them our way: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

EASTBIO: Resistance isn’t futile: Uncovering novel antifungals to combat drug resistance at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - EASTBIO: Resistance isn’t futile: Uncovering novel antifungals to combat drug resistance at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

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Paper alert! Great collaboration with Jane Usher about fungal metabolism and disease: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

That feeling that with every step “this is the time it will get better” and then realizing - nope. It’s systemic. It’s exhausting. We need to talk about it. But if you do- you’re the problem.

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."