BPP is hiring! come join us in @osubpp.bsky.social The Department of Botany & Plant Pathology invites applications for a 12-month (0.75 FTE), tenure-track Assistant Professor position in extension plant pathology. more at link below: oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...
Jessie Uehling
@fungaljess.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Oregon State University using evolutionary/population genomics to understand fungal symbioses jessieuehling.com
Its happening! Mycology Fall 2026 starts this Wednesday for the new cohort of OSU mycologists. shout out to Kyle Mondron for being an out of this world supportive TA!!
Our May speaker is Professor @fungaljess.bsky.social! In this talk, she will detail best practices and provide resources for collecting, documenting and preserving macro-fungi, as well as accessioning them in the OSU herbarium. cascademyco.org/2026/05/cms-...
Karl Maasdam joined us on one of my Mycology class trips last fall to document the process. The OSU #mycofam is goin strong
We had so much last weekend hosting Mycology Field Day at the Peavy Arboretum. This collab w @osubpp.bsky.social @coforegonstate.bsky.social & Noah Siegel hosted >70 fun guys/gals for a day of mushroom collections & ID workshops
Absolutely no one: Me: but look what else we found on our foray!!!!!
For those who share my media and politics fatigue- Bagpipers in Melbourne claimed world record with AC/DC's 'It's a Long Way to the Top'
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I need your help to promote the careers of our next generation of scientists and leaders. Im generating a list of awards for as part of my new role chairing BPPs award committee.
How do you discover a new species? Sometimes it starts in an herbarium cabinet. In this case, the OSC truffle collection (the largest in the world!!) helped rewrite the story of one of the PNWs most prized fungi, the Oregon Black Truffle. #OregonMycology #Truffles #OSCHerbarium #Cascadia 🐶🍄 🧬
Exsudoporus frostii showing some wicked reticulation and absolutely abundant guttation #fungifriends #mycology #nature
My team at ATCC is growing! New #bioinformatics position open now! More to come too! If you’re an early career bioinformatics professional, have a passion for #genomics standards, quality and scientific reproducibility - then take a look!🧬🖥️ 🧫🦠🔬🚀 Let’s go! careers-atcc.icims.com/jobs/3992/bi...
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Have you heard about MycoEd yet? A model educational program offering training for students on fungal genome sequencing and analysis. how powerful!! #mycofam #thefutureisfungal journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Myco-Ed: Mycological curriculum for education and discovery
Fungi are important and hyperdiverse organisms, yet chronically understudied. Most fungal clades have no reference genomes, impeding our understanding of their ecosystem functions and use as solutions...
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✨ Paper spotlight ✨ Microbial drivers of root plasticity doi.org/10.1111/nph.... (🧵 1/6) Plant roots have evolved mechanisms to adjust their development within the highly heterogeneous soil matrix, integrating local environmental conditions into their endogenous developmental programs.
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. academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
“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
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27 million herbarium specimens digitized—and still going strong! #Botany2025 sponsor Picturae makes natural history collections globally accessible with precision digitization. Learn more: www.picturae.com
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
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...
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Congratulations to these faculty members receiving promotions in the BPP department! Jessie Uehling - Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure James Mickley - Sr. Instructor I Jenny Lorang - Sr. Instructor I Jessica Lodwick - Sr. Instructor I Bill Thomas - Sr. Research Associate I
AutoMLST2: a web server for phylogeny and microbial taxonomy academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs
AutoMLST2: a web server for phylogeny and microbial taxonomy
Abstract. Accurate and accessible phylogenetic analysis is essential for understanding microbial taxonomy and evolution, which are integral to microbiology
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A microfluidic wearable device for wound exudate management and analysis in human chronic wounds | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...?
A microfluidic wearable device for wound exudate management and analysis in human chronic wounds
A smart bandage enables efficient wound fluid capture and multiplexed biosensing of wound biomarkers that may inform treatment and time to heal.
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Conventional and organic farms with more intensive management have lower soil functionality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Conventional and organic farms with more intensive management have lower soil functionality
Organic farming is often considered to be more sustainable than conventional farming. However, both farming systems comprise highly variable management practices. In this study, we show that in organi...
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I had an amazing visit to Oregon State University complete with a fungi walk in the rainy forests. Grateful to the Uehling lab for hosting me! #NewPI 🍄🌲
FYI, the theme of the #MSAfungi25 meeting will be "Fungal Features: Cultivating Mycology and Mycologists"
Attention MSA Student Members, we need you🫵! Get creative and submit a logo design for the 2025 MSA Meeting to be held in Madison, Wisconsin. #MSAfungi25 More information + deadline for submission: myemail.constantcontact.com/Call-for-MSA... (Please make it prettier than this sad specimen⬇️)
Two cool post-doc positions available at Umeå Uni to work on David Wardle's unique long-term experiments on lake islands in N-Sweden! One position focuses on microbial communities, the other on above-belowground linkages. Please, share! 🧬🦠🌲🍂 www.umu.se/en/work-with... www.umu.se/en/work-with...
Are you a post- doc interested in soil health and other dimensions of regenerative agriculture? We are looking to appoint a post-doc for a 4.5 yr position leading a monitoring programme in a large project on regenerative agriculture (ReGeNL). Read more here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Post-doctoral Researcher (ReGeNL line 3): Monitoring outcomes of regenerative agriculture
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Take the students outside and compassionately help them learn from failures. I thoroughly enjoyed this article and hope to incorporate some of these concepts in my classes and lab.
The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2024
It’s that time again—our yearly review of the research you should read, from the sneaky ways that inattention can spread in your classroom to the promises and perils of AI.
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Psilocybin decreases (MADRS score) depression symptoms in COVID frontline healthcare workers, new small double-blind randomized clinical trial finds jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Psilocybin Therapy for Clinicians With Symptoms of Depression After the Pandemic
This randomized clinical trial examines the effect of psylocibin on the level of depression, burnout, and posttraumatic stress disorder among US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, ...
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