INVAM
@invam.bsky.social
The world's largest collection of arbuscular mycorrhizae fungi. Housed at the University of Kansas. We provide research AMF, education, training, and industry support. https://invam.ku.edu/
🍄🌱 What does it mean to maintain a living fungal collection? Maintaining the world's largest living collection of AM fungi is a daily commitment. Take a look at what it takes to keep this living collection thriving. Learn more & support INVAM: launchku.org/campaigns/su... #Fungi #Mycorrhizae
🍄 INVAM is launching a fundraising campaign! We maintain the world’s largest living collection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi—microscopic partners that support plant health, soils, and ecosystems. Help keep this unique resource alive 🌱 launchku.org/campaigns/su...
Beautiful AMF spore images
Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)@spun.earth · 6mo agoMassive thanks to those that have been rallying to help save @invam.bsky.social. Research on fungal life, climate resilience, agriculture, and ecosystem restoration depends on living collections like INVAM and on the staff who sustain them. 🔗 Donate: invam.ku.edu/donate
Massive thanks to those that have been rallying to help save @invam.bsky.social. Research on fungal life, climate resilience, agriculture, and ecosystem restoration depends on living collections like INVAM and on the staff who sustain them. 🔗 Donate: invam.ku.edu/donate
Research collections like INVAM don’t exist without community support. Thank you to everyone helping amplify why this work matters.
Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)@spun.earth · 7mo agoWe need help keeping the world’s largest living library of mycorrhizal fungi alive. The INVAM mycorrhizal culture collection is at risk due to federal funding cuts. Its loss would be catastrophic. Link to donate: 🔗 invam.ku.edu/donate Read @theguardian.com article: 🔗 buff.ly/hkEGXgu
🍄 Invest in the future of fungal science! The INVAM Endowment at KU has a new Donor Support page. Your gift sustains INVAM's global fungal collection and supports research worldwide. 👉Help spread the word through your fungal network. invam.ku.edu/donate
@invam.bsky.social collection, prairies, and AMF all featured in the awesome article Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing
These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
Thrilled to see the INVAM fungal collection—and our dedicated curators—featured in the Fall issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social Preserving the world’s largest library of mycorrhizal fungi to power ecosystem restoration, science, and sustainable ag. 🦠🌱🌍 🔗 digital.sierramagazine.org/publication/...
Sierra Magazine Fall 2025: The Library of Spores
Behind the effort to grow mycorrhizal fungi for ecosystem restoration Photos by Arin Yoon Share This Article NESTLED AMID KANSAS’S rolling hills and …
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Apply for a research grant to come visit us at INVAM!
Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬@dhaelewa.bsky.social · 11mo agoIf you're looking to visit (a) herbarium collection(s), or improve or maintain small collections of plants/fungi/algae, consider applying for an @iaptglobal.bsky.social Research Grant or Small Collections Grant! Applications for the 2026 round will open soon. www.iaptglobal.org/grants
If you're looking to visit (a) herbarium collection(s), or improve or maintain small collections of plants/fungi/algae, consider applying for an @iaptglobal.bsky.social Research Grant or Small Collections Grant! Applications for the 2026 round will open soon. www.iaptglobal.org/grants
📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
Call for symposia at @ICOM2026 is open until 15 October. The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026! @southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi icom2026.org/symposia/
A landscape architect visited INVAM. We showed that while our compound scope + $$$$ camera setup takes stunning shots of fungi in roots, you can still get surprisingly good ones with a $300 box-store scope and a phone. Check out these roots—AM fungal structures stained dark blue, absolutely loaded!
We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share. Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
The latest publication from our lab! The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This podcast explores INVAM, the world's largest AM fungi collection housed at @universityofkansas.bsky.social, to uncover what makes #mycorrhizae great! 🧪🦠🔬🍄🌏
Celia Llopis-Jepsen@celialj.bsky.social · last yr.New episode of Up From Dust! Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough? Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...
New episode of Up From Dust! Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough? Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...
Teaching the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi lab next week at @universityofkansas.bsky.social! I’ve prepped spores from ten different species to showcase the diversity in color, shape, and size. Fungal diversity is truly beautiful! 🍄🧪🦠🌏 Huge thanks to @invam.bsky.social for donating the materials!
Liz Koziol@lizkoziol.bsky.social · last yr.Teaching the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi lab next week at @universityofkansas.bsky.social! I’ve prepped spores from ten different species to showcase the diversity in color, shape, and size. Fungal diversity is truly beautiful! 🍄🧪🦠🌏 Huge thanks to @invam.bsky.social for donating the materials!
Check out our new paper using our database and pipeline to uncover novel diversity in AMF! As always, made possible by an amazing team effort ✨ dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Uncovering Diversity within the Glomeromycota: Novel Clades, Family Distributions, and Land Use Sensitivity
Using a recently developed pipeline for phylogenetic placement of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) with samples across sites in Alaska, Kansas, and Brazil, we find evidence for three putative novel...
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Hey BlueSky! I made a starter pack for folks working on mycorrhizal symbioses. LMK who else to include! go.bsky.app/285P8Tn
I’ve merged both starter packs - here’s 71 microbial natural products researchers - want to be added? Let me know! go.bsky.app/72NeGsT #microsky #secmet #naturalproducts #specializedmetabolites
How resilient are AMF cultures? Gi. decipiens SCT711C and Paraglomus sp. SCT771G stored for 8 years at 4C still kicking and alive. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for you all folks!! Cheers
Second day of the X Workshop on Taxonomy of Glomeromycota and we already discussed the spore development model, observed 10 spp. in Gigasporaceae, discussed methods to grow these fungi and visited facilities of CICG. We are ready to dive in Acaulosporaceae and Entrophosporaceae tomorrow!!
Hello, I think we need a starter pack on mycorrhizal ecology, don't you think? I started on one, who did I miss... go.bsky.app/bqwe5h
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🌾🌍🌱🍄🌿🌳🌺🧪Articles in latest newsletter #BUC2024 by students who competed in it. What is a Fungarium? Read about RBG Kew's Fungarium and work on taxonomy, identification and distribution of fungi. Download the whole article at botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
Lab is all set and organized to receive students, technicians and researchers from Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina and Peru to attend the X Workshop on Taxonomy of Glomeromycota. Four days learning about AMF spore morphology, spore wall, germinal walls, and how to grow them. Excited!!
