The Climate and Fungi (CLIF) Symposium at Duke kicks off with Dr. Michelle Momany @mcmomany.bsky.social Where is antifungal resistance coming from? Is it agricultural environments? 🍄🌾🌽🍎 Wish I could have made it in person, but the virtual conference is fantastic!!

We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

I will need this unfortunately

Steven R. Shaw, PhD@shawpsych.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This mug should be awarded to every academic who served as department chair.

🐗 Meet Archaeotherium. #HellPigs. These extinct Eocene & Oligocene mammals had enormous heads, relatively small brains & were actually more closely related to whales than pigs. Vandy PhD student Brynn Wooten is using their fossilized teeth to learn what they ate #Evolution

How do fungi grow directionally? We think part of the mechanism involves local translation of mRNA near the tip, especially of cell wall components. Delighted to share our preprint showing that an RNA-binding protein, SsdA/Ssd1, is trafficked to the tip of growing fungal filaments.

Domenico Modaffari@dmodaffari.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy to share that the bulk of my PhD work is now on bioRxiv! We followed SsdA, the A. nidulans ortholog of yeast RNA-binding protein Ssd1, and found it forms motile mRNP puncta in hyphae. [1/7] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The LaBella lab is out in full force masquerading as mycologists for the day at MASMC Yeast 🧽 are fungi 🍄 too!

Kicking off the Mid-Atlantic States Mycology Conference 🍄 with a talk about the tastiest of the bunch #MASMC26

The VEO Group has a position open for a PhD student to investigate Fungi-bacteria interactions in complex communities! Check out this position and many more at the JSMC website 👇👇 www.jsmc-phd.de/admission/va...

There is a new volume in The Fungi Sessions!! I loved the first album by Hannah Read that she performed at Fungal Genetics two years ago. So excited for a part 2 and there are microscope videos of hyphae accompanying the songs in spotify 😍. 🍄🎶 open.spotify.com/album/5uGh16...

The Fungi Sessions, Vol. 2

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1/8 I am excited to share a new paper from the education side of the lab. There is a lot of anxiety that genAI tools will jeopardize learning gains from homework assignments. Using Bloom's Taxonomy, we analyzed where genAI succeeds and where it struggles. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Designing life science assessments in the era of generative artificial intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) algorithms have the potential to reshape education. Though GAI may help democratize access to education, it also presents many challenges for educators. Alread...

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I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost

Now out! We show that TEs can be horizontally transferred between fungal species via Starships. Once transferred, these TEs can become active, changing the genome organization and affecting the lifestyle of the recipient fungus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @oggenfussursula.bsky.social #TEsky

Transposable elements hitchhike on Starships across fungal genomes - Nature Communications

Large mobile genetic elements known as Starships act as vehicles for transferring transposable elements (TEs) between fungi. Here, Griem-Krey et al. show that these ‘hitchhiking’ TEs can drive rapid e...

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Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Postdoc (2 years) in mycorrhizal fungal biogeography & species distribution modelling @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Work with large-scale metabarcoding data and modelling. Deadline is 30th April www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) in mycorrhizal biogeography and species distribution modelling

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A new paper suggests that grant terminations from the NIH over the past year may have further punctured the so-called "leaky pipeline" because women were more impacted by grant terminations than men www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n...

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds

A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations

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FINDING THE BIG PICTURE FOR GENETIC DIVERSITY! We are offering a 2-year POSTDOC JOB to work on genetic diversity synthesis & metrics across species, as part of a larger @bexplo.bsky.social project on multi-species genetic diversity. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social

#Fungal26 need something to read on the flight home? Now obsessed with tRNAs? New Preprints! Genes near tRNAs are enriched in translational machinery: tinyurl.com/zshnf835 Hidden Diversity in Yeast tRNAs: Comparative Genomics and Modification Mapping in a Eukaryotic Subphylum tinyurl.com/3j6f3up2

Fungal fashion #fungal26

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

Shout out to the myco-skeeters 🦋 at #fungal26 It's been fun live posting with you! @germhuntermd.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social @audreykward.bsky.social @angusb.bsky.social @hyphaltip.bsky.social @uehlinglab.bsky.social

Our last talk is Marcus Teixeira on lobomycosis #fungal26

Cryo-electron tomography of appressoria of Magnaporthe introduced by @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social #Fungal26

Next talk in our #fungal26 session on emerging fungal pathogens is Dr Lisa Couper on genomes of environmental isolates of Coccidioides for tracing human infections

Nate Johnson asks if small RNAs are the other stuff in the genome We know sRNAs are important, but how do we find them 🔎, figure out what they do ⚙️, and classify them 📑 Small-RNA seq data may already exist to answer this question #fungal26

Benny Kleinerman asks how does the ancient evolution and modern variation of Ssd1 RNA binding leads to phenotypic diversity across diverse homologs #fungal26

Nawaraj Dulal @nawaraj-dulal.bsky.social reveals the role of tRNA modification and codon usage in Magnaporthe that infect 🥀 rice 🌾 Modifications impact pathogenicity in a codon specific manner #fungal26

Nava R Poudyal asks how (no really, how?) do long non-coding RNAs mediate temperature 🌡️ and antifungal ☠️ responses #fungal26