🌟Applications are open for the upcoming GRS/GRC on the Immunology of Fungal Infections in Ventura, California! Make sure to submit your abstract by September 1 to be considered for an oral presentation: www.grc.org/immunology-o...

Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

📢 Super excited to promote that our #Immunology department is recruiting a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Immunobiology of Chronic Disease!🎉🥳 Please note this is a targeted recruitment with more details via QR code. I am lucky to work here in such a collaborative environment Please share widely

The WHO today published a new blueprint to help countries respond to the increasing burden of fungal disease and antifungal resistance – one of global health’s most underestimated and neglected threats. www.who.int/news/item/30... @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social

New WHO report outlines critical steps to confront fungal disease and antifungal resistance

The World Health Organization (WHO) today published a new blueprint to help countries respond to the increasing burden of fungal disease and antifungal resistance – one of global health’s most underes...

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Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

Organoids are tiny 3D “organs” grown in the lab. They help researchers study disease, test drugs, and advance personalised medicine without human or animal testing. Image shows organoids infected with Candida albicans. 🔬 📷 O. Ross & E. Hickey #ImageOfTheWeek #Fungus #FungalInfection #Microscopy

📽️ New video summary of a study, Alternatively activated monocyte-derived myeloid cells promote extracellular pathogen persistence in pulmonary fungal granulomas, from @ivanzheng.bsky.social and colleagues in the Dang lab (rupress.org/jem/article/...) youtu.be/zuFiOzNMSg4

Type 2 immunity drives persistent fungal infection

YouTube video by Journal of Experimental Medicine

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We are hiring @umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social ! Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Microbiology and Immunology department. We are especially looking for someone working in bacterial pathogenesis

🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic

Join us! @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position using experimental evolution to understand real-world resistance dynamics. See preprint for the 🤯 strain collection we will be working with www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Closing 15 May. Apply: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #mevosky

Our new paper in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social includes 1. Global atlas of human pathogens in soils 2. Soil biodiversity negatively linked with human pathogens 3. Many pathogens to increase in future climates 4. Positive link between pathogens & mortality authors.elsevier.com/a/1msNK6t8JE...

I’m excited to share our latest publication in @natureportfolio.nature.com for researchers to set up their own in vitro gut microbiome model with strain-level resolution. Free access to the article here: rdcu.be/e81bY

Establishing and analyzing the Simplified Human Intestinal Microbiota (SIHUMI) as a versatile in vitro gut microbiome model with qPCR-based strain-level tracking

Nature Protocols - This protocol enables users to establish a defined, in vitro consortium composed of seven fully sequenced and anaerobically culturable human gut bacteria and follow the growth of...

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APC Microbiome Ireland@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New in Nature Protocols buff.ly/DUCGVAf A standardised method for reproducible tracking of gut bacteria via the SIHUMI microbial community. Congrats to APC researchers Natalia Ríos Colombo, Mariana Perez-Ibarreche, P.Ross & C.Hill, in collab with Pranav Lanka at @tyndallinstitute.bsky.social

What a way to end #fungal26 We laughed and we cried and we learned so much A great reminder to look back and reflect on the past It can light the way to the future Thank you Nancy Keller for being a light 🕯️ in the field

Laila P. Partida-Martinez tells is about endofungal bacteria 🦠 Mycetohabitans 🦠 provides Rhizopus 🍄 with a toxin ☠️ and promotes reproduction Oh and there's a virus in the fungus! #fungal26

GetGenome is present at the Asilomar Fungal Genetics Conference #fungal26 Come and visit and spread the word about #ggfungi2026

Check out all the great work of the Lab LaBella at #fungal26 @audreykward.bsky.social @taytaypowpow.bsky.social

Hey #fungal26 our lab is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for an NSF funded project in ectomycorrhizal competition. Come find me for more info! www.lotuslofgren.com/pd2026

Need to annotate transposons in fungal genomes? 🧬 Good news #MycoMobilome is now live! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/narg... Access the sequences through our Zenodo community (you can also contribute seqs with credit), and synchronisation with @dfam.bsky.social! w/ @danielcroll.bsky.social

MycoMobilome: a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom

Abstract. Transposable elements (TEs) are found in nearly all eukaryotic genomes. Despite significant advances in the sequencing of genomes, TE resources r

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For Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, Nature spoke to scientists from around the world about how their work has been shaped by playing Pokémon games, watching animated TV series and films and trading cards in school playgrounds. 🧪

Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science

The Japanese media sensation has inspired generations of researchers in fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity.

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Congrats to our 2026 GSA Award recipients! They have made significant contributions to science, including scientific discoveries, mentoring, creation of community resources, and education. Learn more about them: buff.ly/6zAwQQ1 Join us in celebrating their accomplishments.👏 1/3🧵⬇️

🔬✨ There's still time to register for #MycoTalks with Iuliana Ene and Bernhard Hube. 📅 29 January 2026 ⏰ 4:00 PM (UK time) 📍 Online 👉 Register here: buff.ly/M4wg4KJ

Candida albicans is usually hanging out with bacterial neighbors, so what happens to the fungus during co-culture? The bacteria secrete metabolites that induce massive cell wall remodeling that change immune recognition and drug resistance. Read more in our new paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...

⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

#NewResearch IL-17 signaling restricts C. albicans pathogenicity in the colonized oral cavity. #MicroSky 🦠🍄 @lableibundgut.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ @frois-martins.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

IL-17-mediated antifungal immunity restricts Candida albicans pathogenicity in the oral cavity - Nature Microbiology

IL-17 signalling restricts C. albicans pathogenicity in the colonized oral cavity. Lack of IL-17 is associated with overt filamentation due to impaired zinc nutritional immunity and over time leads to...

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Come to Birmingham and do a PhD with myself and @wvschaik.bsky.social!

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PhD position (Birmingham, UK) Environmental modelling of microbial dynamics in river and flood-impacted environments with Johanna Rhodes, Willem van Schaik, Marie Chattaway, Claire Jenkins at University of Birmingham More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2433

Thrilled to share that I recently got a position of an Assistant Professor/SciLifeLab Fellow at Stockholm University, where I will continue my work on #lichen symbiosis. The lab opens in April 2026, and if you are interested in joining please get in touch! #newPI

The @ragoninstitute.bsky.social is launching a new faculty search for a computational immunologist! Applications are open now and reviewed on a rolling basis. Please share broadly with your networks! #immunosky www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Computational Immunologist - Boston, Massachusetts (US) job with Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, & Harvard | 12849577

The Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard in Cambridge MA, together with the Departmen

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Join us this week for #MycoTalks with Bernd Schnabl and Michal Olszewski @olszewskilab.bsky.social 🗓️ Thursday 23 October 🕓 16:00 (UK time) 📍 Online – open to all! 🔗 Register now to secure your spot: universityofexeter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#Candida albicans is a leading opportunistic fungal #pathogen of humans. Ci Fu, Leah Cowen &co expand the GRACE #Calbicans #FunctionalGenomics resource, identifying genes important for temperature-dependent fitness & highlighting its power to reveal vulnerabilities @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Wft0Xg