Join us in UGA Fungal Group! Dept of Microbiology is hiring tenure track Associate or Full prof in Medical Mycology pursuing translational and/or fundamental understanding of human fungal pathogens using any experimental or computational system. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/508...

It's 2026 and diversity is still an issue in mycology, and probably beyond. 17 invited plenary & keynote speakers for IMC13, only 2 are women (<12%). There are 0 Latin-American speakers, & 2 from Africa (I'm including @kamounlab.bsky.social in this count). www.imc13.kr/html/?pmode=...

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Our global analysis of ecosystem functions and services is online now! This is probably the paper I'm most proud of - a quantitative, global map of every one of the IPBES ecosystem service categories, all tracked back to the original data! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biodiversity safeguards ecosystem services and functions worldwide - Nature Ecology & Evolution

An analysis of a global database of 423 studies and &gt;200,000 data points outlines the strength and generality of biodiversity relationships with ecosystem functioning and services.

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Another step in the #Starship story - they move via a circular intermediate. Helps explain how these elements horizontally transfer and means that we can modify them into transformation vectors (starmids). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Who funds UK health research? Where? And how is investment changing? MRC and Europe PMC are building a dashboard to make UK health research funding data easier to find, compare and reuse. Read more: blog.europepmc.org/2026/09/buil...

When I started my postdoc, only 10 genomes were available for an estimated 100,000 species of diatoms. To fill this gap, we present the 100 Diatom Genomes Project, out now in PLOS Biology. Analyzing the first assemblies suggests that we will double the diatom gene space by the end of the project! 📈

Thomas Mock@thomasmock.bsky.social · last mo.

On behalf of 108 colleagues and friends from 11 countries, thrilled to share the first paper from our 100 #Diatom Genomes Project (100DGP). Just out @plosbiology.org | @norwichmicro.bsky.social | @ueaenv.bsky.social | @jgi.doe.gov doi.org/10.1371/jour...

A bacterial metabolite rewires fungal metabolism, triggering the hyphae-to-yeast transition www.cell.com/current-biol...

A bacterial metabolite rewires fungal metabolism, triggering the hyphae-to-yeast transition

The hyphae-to-yeast morphological transition promotes dissemination of the pathogen Candida albicans, but the mechanisms underlying this process are poorly defined. By identifying a bacterial metaboli...

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How do fungi distinguish conspecific self from non-self? The genetics of this fascinating topic are plagued with misunderstandings even amongst mycologists. We wrote a review/rant to address this confusion, out now! 🍄 #fungi #allorecognition #HETgenes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Drawing the line: Clarifying fungal allorecognition from HET domains to het genes to heterokaryon incompatibility

The iconic networks of filamentous fungi are connected through hyphal fusions. While fusion is beneficial among hyphae from the same fungal individual…

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The last chapter of my PhD work is now live on MBE. This has been an incredible project, combining genomics, proteomics, as well as transcriptomics that resolves total mRNA from ribosome-associated mRNA (which we infer to be in the process of translation).

Molecular Biology and Evolution@molbioevol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@ironark.bsky.social et al. measured transcript abundance, ribosome-associated RNA, and protein abundance in bacterial endosymbionts, suggesting a mechanism for aberrant pseudogene-derived protein removal. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag153 #societyjournal #evobio #molbio

📣 New preprint! 🧵 Fantastic work led by @antonkraege.bsky.social Fact: Cerato-platanins are everywhere in fungi. Found across the fungal kingdom, implicated in everything from development to virulence to immune activation. But what do they *actually* do? We finally found the answer 👇

Tomorrow, @rachelapayne.bsky.social & @istanton.bsky.social are travelling to Brisbane for #EDAR8 next week, hosted by SAAFE CRC They will both be presenting in the antifungal session on Thursday (11am-1pm) 🧫🍄 @ukceh.bsky.social

1/ Excited to share the newest tool in the pangenome MUMiverse: Shredtools! Shredtools enables a user to navigate the pangenome coordinate system with multi-MUMs. More in the thread🧵 Code: github.com/vikshiv/shredtools Interactive tool for querying HPRC assemblies: vikshiv.github.io/shredtools

Navigating the pangenome coordinate system with Shredtools

Existing notions of pangenome coordinates rely on hard-to-compute multiple sequence alignments. On the other hand, pangenome-wide exact unique matches (multi-MUMs) can be computed efficiently, and rep...

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The genomics team at Basecamp Research is hiring a Bioinformatics Scientist specialising in sequence informatics to join the team in London! Please share with anyone that may be interested and feel free to reach out if you have any questions. jobs.ashbyhq.com/basecamp-res...

Bioinformatics Scientist

We are looking for a Bioinformatics Scientist to join our Genomics team in London.

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Finally, I am recruiting a bioinformatic engineer/technician, a lab technician, and a postdoc to help establish the group at @fzborstel.bsky.social (~20km outside Hamburg). More info at: fz-borstel.de/en/education....

Formal written question for Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs Fungal Diseases: Import Controls Asked on 5 June 2026 Answered 17 June 2026

Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Such a good day playing Resistance Reservoirs at the Great Exhibition Road Festival yesterday! Come down to the Underground Adventure Zone 12-6 today to learn about fungal disease and antifungal resistance #GERF2026 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Incredibly happy to share that our work investigating fungal bioaerosol exposure in 118 homes across London has been published in The Lancet Microbe today! A huge thank you to all the co-authors, collaborators, and community scientists who made this work possible. You can find the paper below!

The Lancet Microbe@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New research article Diversity analysis of indoor and outdoor fungal bioaerosols in UK households: a prospective, observational, longitudinal study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #MycoSky #OpenAccess #OA

@hollytipper.bsky.social & @rachelapayne.bsky.social led work investigating global trends in the literature on #AMR 🧫🦠in wild animals 🦆🦌🦊 and plants 🌿 @istanton.bsky.social @jenmgshe.bsky.social @oxonandrew.bsky.social @danread.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Really enjoyed presenting at the Royal Institution as part of the Fleming Initiative. I discussed fungal pathogen surveillance and statistical models to identify ecological, environmental, and evolutionary drivers of fAMR hotspots. Great to chat with everyone and see the breadth of fungal science.

The video recordings of the legend 2025 conference held last December on machine learning for evolutionary genomics are now online ! Feel free to have a look if you missed the conference. www.canal-u.tv/chaines/lisn...

One question that stuck with me early in my PhD was whether the experimental data underpinning wheat stem rust epidemiological models were still fit for purpose. Our new review digs into the evidence, how it’s used in models, and where the biggest gaps remain.

Césarée Morier-Gxoyiya@cesaree-mg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Strengthening Predictive Models for Wheat Stem Rust Infection Risk in a Changing Climate: Gaps and Opportunities - Morier‐Gxoyiya - 2026 - Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Finally a preprint for our tool DAMPA (Australiana included) that generates efficient probe panels for targeted metagenomics from pangenome graphs. Presented at ABPHM and ABACBS last year. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

DAMPA - accelerated and simplified design of probe panels for targeted metagenomics using pangenome graphs

Targeted metagenomics, where samples are enriched for multiple organisms of interest using oligonucleotide probes, is a highly efficient sequencing methodology that is becoming standard practice for g...

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A reminder that this position closes in a few days time!

Fiona J Whelan@whelanfj.bsky.social · 5mo ago

After a few technical glitches... 📣 Whelan lab is hiring 📣 We are looking for an entry level technician to help us with our culturing and DNA sequencing prep of cystic fibrosis lung microbiome samples. Applications close 28 May 2026 Any queries, please reach out!

New preprint alert! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... from my lab and Evan Snitkin's lab Defining the Candidozyma auris pan-genome and essentiality

BBSRC Early Independence Fellowships had an Outline stage this year to try help with amount of peer review. Turns out they received 586 applications, a 110% increase on 2025, and only typically fund 15 a year. They are cancelling this stage and going straight to full app with an institutional sift.

📣 New preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: Bacteria rewire fungal antimicrobial gene expression in microbial arms races www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... This work, led by outstanding @jinyi-zhu.bsky.social, shows that bacteria suppress fungal antimicrobial protein expression to evade antagonism

Happy to share that our latest research on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of MDR plasmids and PDPs is now out (open access vAuthor) in The ISME Journal doi.org/10.1093/isme... Here, we explored how plasmid-dependent phages (PDPs) act as a selective pressure against the spread of multidrug resistance

Eco-evolutionary responses to plasmid-dependent phage constrain the spread of multidrug resistance plasmids

Abstract. Phage therapy offers a promising alternative to antibiotics for treating multidrug-resistant infections. Plasmid-dependent phages (PDPs) are part

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IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih

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Global emergence and rapid spread of Candidozyma auris (syn. Candida auris): epidemiology, biology, and antifungal resistance journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...