🌲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.

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

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

📢 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

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

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? 😄

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...

📣 🍄🐝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. 🐀🦠🍄🧬

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

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.

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…

🧬 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 🌟🧬

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.

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

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...

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…

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…

Most land plants team with mycorrhizal fungi to survive. This ancient partnership has helped both plants and fungi thrive over much of Earth. Learn more on #EarthDay: scim.ag/4cMgplJ

MarieCurie postdoc co-applications on offer in University of Tartu, Estonia: Fungi in reforestation AMF in agriculture Global biogeography of fungi Fungal Host/substrate specificity Human pathogens in soil, sediment, compost DNA-based taxonomy of fungi UNITE/FungalTraits further development

Join us for our Editor-in-Chief Symposium: Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life, hosted by Maarja Öpik! 🗺 Tartu, Estonia 📅 8–10 July 2025 💡 Abstract and travel grant deadline: 12 May 🔗 www.newphytologist.org/symposia/eic #PlantScience

EUKARYOME new release now available eukaryome.org/download/ This time special on early diverging fungal lineages and nucleariids. Also EUK sequences with all metadata available. Will also be available via UNITE soon.

A postdoc position in Aarhus University now officially available for applications: international.au.dk/about/profil...

New Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) in the Biological Station in Roscoff. "The position is focused on the ecological, evolutionary, and functional roles of marine fungi, crucial to understanding our oceans" www.sb-roscoff.fr/fr/2025/02/2...

Custom PhD positions in my team: High-quality motivated candidates are welcome to design their doctorate research topic for a project competition in the University of Tartu, Estonia. Keywords: bioinformatics, biodiversity, fungi, metagenomics, databases, mycorrhiza, DNA-based taxonomy, biogeography

While oil palms and pastures alter tropical stream microorganisms, riparian buffers offer a lifeline. 🚑💧 Saving biodiversity could depend on protecting these green corridors. 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/fwb.... #eDNA #FreshwaterBiology #conservation

Memory card game developed by #FUNACTION members is now available to all! Enjoy! 🍄💧 Share widely! #aquaticfungi #conservation

Winter nature challenge. ❄️ Today, the view is a lot less winter wonderland-like ... River Emajõgi in Tartu, Estonia on Monday, January 13th, 2025. Photo by J. Lees.

❄️ Postdoc position in Arctic terrestrial ecology ❄️ If you're interested in Arctic plants, fieldwork and multi-site syntheses, please apply! You'd be replacing me and joining a lovely and dynamic team at University of Edinburgh. DM me with any questions! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...

Were you recently awarded a PhD in biology/mycology? Are you interested in #fungaltaxonomy? Apply for this two-year #postdoc fellowship at Charles University in Prague. Get in touch with Dr. Ondřej Koukol to discuss projects <[email protected]> natur.cuni.cz/en/research/...

Job alert 📢 We are looking for a new Independent Junior Group Leader in plant molecular biology at the ZMBP in Tübingen! 🌱 Submit your application by December 8th as a single pdf Please share

🍄📖 Do high-impact journals lead to more fungal species discoveries? Think again! Low or even no-impact factor journals contribute significantly! Let's value research quality over impact metrics in funding and hiring decisions! Read more @MycoKeys: mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/136048

On Friday, we’re broadcasting a #FEMSMicrobiolEcol webinar on Microbial Impacts of #ClimateChange! #MicroSky #Microbiology #Microbes #science Join us if you can: fems-microbiology.org/fems-microbi...

We have an assistant professor post in molecular microbiology available in the School of Biosciences/Institute of Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham - come join us! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Final Call For Papers! 📣 Work in #Phylogenomics? Why not consider submitting your research as part of our Evolutionary Journal's #SpecialIssue on Phylogenomic Discordance, deadline 30th November!

Please find us also elsewhere! mmc.ut.ee?lang=en #MMC #mycology #microbiology