🌲The forest is connected, but not all substrates are equal from a fungus's perspective. Read more in Meirong Chen et al.'s new paper.

Leho Tedersoo@tedersoo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Fungi-substrate association patterns in boreal forests" by Meirong Chen et al. - our multi-substrate fungal survey out in Fungal Ecology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

At the BMD High-throughput Biodiversity Monitoring workshop, participants joined a field excursion to Parc Natural de Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac. @kristelpanksep.bsky.social and Kessy Abarenkov, together with Niels Raes, demonstrated eDNA sampling and camera trap deployment. #eDNA #BMDproject

eDNA workflow - from sampling to publication to improve biodiversity assessment. This week we had a workflow course at Laelatu Biology Station, see attached photos, held by @kristelpanksep.bsky.social and others. #eDNA #PlutoFGO #bioinformatics #GBIF #biodiversity #NATARC

Register today for the next @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social webinar featuring Dr. Joe Miller (@gbif.org). Dr. Miller will present his talk “GBIF: Data Integration Towards the Extended Specimen” on Friday, May 1 at 12pm ET. And please spread the word! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A good spring for us — another PhD defended. Congratulations to Dr John Yangyuoru Kupagme, whose work explored the hidden diversity of African fungi 🍄

Last week, our member @irynaya.bsky.social opened a photo exhibition at Kreutzwaldi 5, showcasing the usually invisible world of myxomycetes. Once thought to be fungi, these organisms go through remarkable life stages—some now visible at the exhibition! www.emu.ee/uudised/foto... #myxomycetes

Fotonäitusel saab tutvuda salapäraste limakutega

Eesti Maaülikoolis avatakse fotonäitus „Imelised limakud“, mis tutvustab vähetuntud, kuid lummavat osa elurikkusest – organisme, kes ei kuulu ei taimede, loomade ega seente hulka.

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Next week (!), John will defend his PhD thesis on the still underexplored fungi of African soils. His work maps fungal diversity across 32 countries—showing just how much we still don’t know about these communities. #mycorrhizae #fungaldiversity

Leho Tedersoo@tedersoo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

African fungi mapped within a PhD project led by John Kupagme, an African PhD student. www.bioacad.com/article/doi....

📢 We're delighted to announce the topic of the 2026 New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief symposium is 'Collections through time: legacy and innovation'. 📅 3 July 2026 📍 Oecologicum, University of Tartu, Estonia 👉 www.newphytologist.org/events/eics-... 🧵1/5

Collections through time: legacy and innovation

Our annual New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief Symposium will be held on Friday, 3 July 2026, at the University of Tartu, home institution of New Phytologist’s Editor-in-Chief Maarja Öpik.

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Have you ever wondered how we describe species we’ve never actually seen? Our latest video breaks this down—have a look! youtu.be/Ffk8m4XRT2U?... #eDNA #taxonomy

Guidelines for eDNA-based description of new species to genera to phyla

YouTube video by Mycology & Microbiology Center

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New publications are springing up rapidly among our PhD students — like fungi after rain! Nice work — and ironically, this time it's all about the desert mycobiome! Who would’ve thought our publication “rainfall” comes from a desert? 😄

@israelm03.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share my first PhD paper! "Desert mycobiome of Saudi Arabia is driven by vegetation patterns" doi.org/10.3897/myco... Really happy to contribute to a better understanding of fungal diversity in extreme environments. #Mycology #DesertEcology @myco-microbio.bsky.social

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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📣 🍄🐝The AFA workshop “Arthropod–Fungal Associations: From Parasites to Pathogens” is now traveling to Poland for its 3rd edition! 😊 📅 May 20–22, 2026 📍 Łódź & Spała, Poland 📝 Register by April 10th! Come and join us !! 🍄🐝🐛🐜 #Mycology #Entomology #insectpathology #Parasites #ScientificCommunity

Nice progress — one of our members has just published her first paper on her PhD journey. The study shows how different soil sampling designs can dramatically change biodiversity estimates across animals, bacteria, and fungi. 🐀🦠🍄🧬

Vladimir Mikryukov@vmikk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Manuscript link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #soil #eDNA #metabarcoding @myco-microbio.bsky.social

Alert: a freshly minted doctor just passed all quality filters! 🎓 Zero chimeras detected, PhD successfully validated. Heartfelt congratulations from all of us at MMC! 💐🧬

Ali Hakimzadeh@bioinfo94.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ph.D. defended and the long read journey ends in frozen lands. Deep thanks to @sanslan.bsky.social and @tedersoo.bsky.social. Special thanks to @owenwangensteen.bsky.social for a demanding and fair defence as the main opponent. Thanks to all @myco-microbio.bsky.social members for their support.

Postdoctoral Position in Forest Diversity, Biodemography, and Global Change at WSL (2026) WSL Switzerland is hiring a Postdoctoral researcher in forest diversity and biodemography to study climate-driven changes in global forest ecosystems. Two-year position with extension option.

Postdoctoral Position in Forest Diversity, Biodemography, and Global Change at WSL (2026)

WSL Switzerland is hiring a Postdoctoral researcher in forest diversity and biodemography to study climate-driven changes in global forest ecosystems. Two-year position with extension option.

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4 PhD Fully Funded Positions in Environmental Research at UFZ, Germany The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) is offering four fully funded PhD positions within the new PSOL PhD College, focusing on innovative solutions for PFAS removal across governance, biology, stormwater…

4 PhD Fully Funded Positions in Environmental Research at UFZ, Germany

The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) is offering four fully funded PhD positions within the new PSOL PhD College, focusing on innovative solutions for PFAS removal across governance, biology, stormwater systems, and remediation technologies. Apply by 16 January 2026.

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🧬 Long-read metabarcoding is powerful, but chimera filters can trash good reads. Our new study benchmarks three algorithms on full-length ITS and shows how false positives distort results. 🔗 peerj.com/articles/204... #Metabarcoding #LongRead #Bioinformatics #Chimeras

Fungal phylum-level classification update now available! Used "innovative taxonomy" to describe >100 taxa, from species to phylum, based on long reads, characteristic nucleotides and env-samples. mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616... #fungi #taxonomy #PacBio #classification #eDNA

📢Are you attending the Living Data 2025 next week? @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social will present the preliminary results from #FUNACTION. www.livingdata2025.com/program.html... Find her during the week if you want to know more about our project and activities to conserve #aquaticfungi.

📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab! Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active? Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this. If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me. 🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓

🧬 New at Eukaryome: the Online Sequence Identification Tool is now live! Submit sequences directly on the site and get instant taxonomic identification — no downloads needed. Come find us at eukaryome.org #eukaryome #bioinformatics #taxonomy

Proud moment for MMC: a member presenting her work to the world 🌟🧬

Kristel Panksep@kristelpanksep.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Had the chance to talk about #environmentalDNA! I was on Kuku Raadio's show "Kuue samba taga" and shared how #eDNA samples are helping to solve nature's mysteries. Listen here: kuku.pleier.ee/podcast/kuue... #conservation #KukuRaadio #science

Who lives underground? Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com. Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas. Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵

PhD Funded Position in Computational Microbial Biotechnology at CNB Madrid, Spain Apply for a fully funded PhD position in computational microbial biotechnology at CNB Madrid. Join the AMBIZIONE project and contribute to cutting-edge research in synthetic microbial communities.

PhD Funded Position in Computational Microbial Biotechnology at CNB Madrid, Spain

Apply for a fully funded PhD position in computational microbial biotechnology at CNB Madrid. Join the AMBIZIONE project and contribute to cutting-edge research in synthetic microbial communities.

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We’re thrilled to share that @tedersoo.bsky.social has secured an ERC Advanced Grant! 🎉 One of Europe’s top research honors—huge congratulations from all of us at Mycology and Microbiology Center! 🙌 #ERCGrant #AcademicExcellence

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📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants! The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme. Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu

Yesterday, we had the chance to present our proposal to the Estonian Environmental Board and Climate Ministry: 29 more fungal species for protection, in addition to the ~40 already listed. My favorite: Rigidoporus crocatus—locally common in wet alder forests, globally rare. Our responsibility!

🍄🧫 You might spot us more easily now… The Mycology & Microbiology Center has new T-shirts! Whether it’s fungi in the forest or microbes in the lab, we’re all about the small things that matter. Keep an eye out! We will be in Helsinki next week for the #EcologyOfSoilMicroorganisms2025

Paper out in Journal of Environmental Management: How we manage forests today shapes what is possible tomorrow. We show that thinning may undermine long-term goals for carbon and biodiversity in boreal spruce forests. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Balancing biodiversity, carbon, and profit with pathogen risk: Effects of felling age and thinning in spruce forests

Global forestry is balancing multiple societal needs, including carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation, in addition to timber production. …

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PhD in Plant-Microbe Interaction – Fully Funded at University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) 🌿 Position Summary: Join the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for a fully funded 4-year PhD exploring the molecular interaction between lettuce and the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae. You’ll…

PhD in Plant-Microbe Interaction – Fully Funded at University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

🌿 Position Summary: Join the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for a fully funded 4-year PhD exploring the molecular interaction between lettuce and the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae. You’ll investigate effector gene function in host-pathogen systems, contributing to solutions for lettuce wilt disease—an urgent global agricultural challenge. This interdisciplinary project is part of a collaboration between UvA, Utrecht University, and industry partners.

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Postdoctoral Job in Plant-Microbiome Chemical Communication at University of Amsterdam Join the University of Amsterdam as a postdoctoral researcher exploring chemical communication between plants and their microbiome. Work on groundbreaking eclepin research, plant resilience, and sustainable…

Postdoctoral Job in Plant-Microbiome Chemical Communication at University of Amsterdam

Join the University of Amsterdam as a postdoctoral researcher exploring chemical communication between plants and their microbiome. Work on groundbreaking eclepin research, plant resilience, and sustainable agriculture. Apply by June 8, 2025.

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