Great evening out with the lab celebrating the end of the year and the forthcoming festivities @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

PhD position available to study the immune response to the terbinafine resistant dermatophyte T. Indotinea. www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk

Get ready for a feast of fungal biology at the GRC CMFB conference in Holderness, NH next year. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk @elainebignell.bsky.social

🍄🖋 #imageoftheweek ¦ A sketch of Shaggy Ink Cap mushrooms, drawn using ink from the mushrooms themselves! Art meets nature, thanks to Professor @neil-gow.bsky.social 🌳

Kieran Marr opens our MRC-CMM Partners day with an inspirational keynote talk about the journey from discovery research to translational applications in Antifungal therapeutics and diagnostics. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

Bunch of autumn flowers.

SWBio DTP PhD (Univ Exeter): Will global warming speed up antifungal resistance? Work with Prof Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Prof Neil Gow & team. Experimental evolution, multi-omics & modelling on medical/crop pathogens. Apply: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo... #PhD #AMR #ClimateChange #Mycology

Tell 'em Tom "November has tied me To an old dead tree Get word to April To rescue me November's cold chain Made of wet boots and rain And shiny black ravens On chimney smoke lanes November seems odd You're my firing squad November"

Great day in FAILSAFE co-sponsored symposium on fungal AMR in Bangkok. @mrccmm.bsky.social @efisg @escmid.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social @gw4amr.bsky.social

New review on the major new insights offered by solid state NMR on fungal cell wall organisation led by Tuo Wang. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.tc... @cellsurfacebio.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social

FAILSAFE funding tackling fungal AMR globally in action at our symposium in Bangkok. Great to meet the team non virtually at last. @mrccmm.bsky.social @gw4amr.bsky.social @antimicrobial.bsky.social

Ready for an exciting few days in Bangkok talking about fungal AMR at a FAILSAFE special symposium of the Thailand Biotechnology Society. @gw4amr.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social

Encouraging to find a packed audience at the Sidmouth Science Festival to hear about how good and bad fungi shape the world. @mrccmm.bsky.social. Also thanks to Ian Leaves for mycohelp. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

Happy U.K. Fungus Day. This was drawn using the ink from a shaggy ink cap growing in my own garden.

Many congratulations to Connie Lass-Florl as the very worthy 2025 recipient of the TIMM E. Drouhet lecture. Fantastic overview of the puzzles brought byAspergillus terreus infections. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social

A true hero in our field - Hatim Sati - giving an overview of the impact and advocacy of WHO on awareness of fungal infections. Watch out for the new Blueprint document on actionable interventions in November. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @who.int

Great to be up and running at TIMM12 in Bilbao. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social - a feast of medical mycology being basic and clinical mycology. @mrccmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

What better place for our lab lunch that the fabulous Forest Fungi restaurant in Dawlish Warren, Devon England.

🌡️ Fungi in a warming world: join our PhD on Candida auris evolution – thermal tolerance, immunity & antifungal resistance. Based at Exeter & Bristol, GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP : www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #InfectiousDiseases #PhD #GW4 #Exeter #Bristol #MedicalMycology #AMR #ClimateChange

New work from the Prasad lab showing that Candida auris can become amphotericin resistant either by multiple, sterol dependent and sterol independent mechanisms. dx.doi.org/10.1111/mmi..... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

Wang lab shows that in response to echinocandins C. albicans thickens its wall while C.auris stiffens the wall via regulating B1,6 glucan and strengthening B1,6 - Mannan interactions. ; www.nature.com/articles/s41... @youngecmm.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an MRC Programme Grant to study the role of fungi in eczema together with @neil-gow.bsky.social, Helen Alexander and Carsten Flohr (both King's College London). 2 postdoc positions availble at jobs.exeter.ac.uk (Job References Q05626 and Q05627)

We're thrilled to have been awarded a £3.3M grant by the Medical Research Council to study the treatment and potential cure for eczema. This 5-year res. programme brings together experts from the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology in Exeter and St John’s Institute of Dermatology at KCL. @exeter.ac.uk

A must-read synthesis by Joe Heitman about how we see the world through the fungal lens. Fungal Kingdom: A Rosetta Stone for Biological Discovery. Highly recommended. @mrccmm.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1lEfo3QW8S...

Check this latest analysis showing how Beta-glucan shaving of the wall can disguise Candida from immune detection. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2423864122).

A new immune receptor for recognition of fungal chitosan. doi.org/10.1016/j.tc.... @mrccmm.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Antifungal Immunity Research available to study T cell responses and fungal sensitization in atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Fungal Cell Wall Research available to study the Malassezia-host interaction interface in the context of atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

The LeibundGut-lab at the @mrccmm.bsky.social, in collaboration with @neil-gow.bsky.social, recruits two postdocs to study the skin commensal yeast Malassezia in atopic dermatitis #fungalrecognition and #fungalimmunology jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Celebrating the astonishing career of Jonathan Jones whose work has transformed the field of plant pathogen biology and immunity, and helped shape 37 years of research at The Sainsbury Lab. @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social @kamounlab.bsky.social

Hope this new review on the fungal cell wall is useful. Dedicated to Salomon Bartnicki-Garcia and his inspiring work on the fungal hypha. A special issue of FGB Article link: doi.org/10.1016/j.fg....

We were honoured to welcome our Royal Fellow, HRH The Princess Royal, to this week’s Helix reception. Her Royal Highness joined us to mark 10 years of vital support from our Helix donors, helping us drive advances in health and biomedical research 🚀 👉 Read more: ow.ly/Qn2m50VLjRw

Very nostalgic trip to present at the Scottish Microbiology Association in Dundee. Could see the bridge my father worked on when I was a boy, and also my old house - all from my hotel window. I was the guest of an old school friend and heard a great talk from a student I taught 40 years ago (omg)!!

Heading to Dundee to present to the Scottish Microbiology Association. The west coast train line is a joy.

Bees working hard pollinating the apple blossom in the garden.

Surrounded by history and mycology in Budapest. Also, the best and most affordable public transport system in Europe.

Off to Budapest to give a talk and a grant writing workshop. The thought of goulash is making me Hungary.

A stroll by the Rhine before the science starts in Dusseldorf.

Joe Jarvis explains the evolution of fungal infection management in Africa and Asia for Cryptococcal meningitis and talaromycosis via the AMBITION and IMPRINT trials. #Mcology2025, @youngecmm.bsky.social Also the immediate and catastrophic effects of USAID and other global health cuts.

“As I watch from afar what’s happening to the free press in the United States during the first weeks of Trump’s second presidency—the verbal bullying, the legal harassment, the buckling by media owners in the face of threats—it all looks very familiar. “ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Anna Selmecki shows us how the adaptable Candida pathogen can quickly generate drug resistance gene copy number variations to overcome antifungal efficacy. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social #mycology2025

Fungal biofilms are usually: not just fungal; not just a planar film and not just biological (they may collect heavy metals). Gordon Ramage and Riina Richardson describe the medical challenges of treating fungal biofilms. #mycology2025. @youngecmm.bsky.social

Samir Agarwal describes how stepping off the antibiotic rollercoaster with a prophylaxis- lite approach to management of Invasive fungal infections of Haemato-oncology patients was not detrimental to suppression of fungal infection. #mycology2025. @youngecmm.bsky.social @bsmm.bsky.social

Could AI help us determine MICs and drug sensitivity breakpoints? Rob Beardmore uses neural networks and open source to harmonise differences in CLSI & EUCAST. @youngecmm.bsky.social #mycology2025.

Mat Fischer. kicks off #mycology2025 with the question “What if Fungi win?” - and the sobering conclusion that they are too good at drug resistance to lose! Big need for surveillance and stewardship. @youngecmm.bsky.social @matfischer.bsky.social

I was j reviewed, along with other microbiologists. on how microbes disguise themselves from our immune systems. The article is out in The Scientist. www.the-scientist.com/the-art-of-m...

We are indebted to Alessia Buscaino for the discovery that the Candida albicans type SC5314 type strain is an RNAi Argonaut mutant. Her great talk today also shows that this is relevant to microbiome and macrophage interactions and has host niche specific consequences. @ecfg172025.bsky.social

Great talk from Aaron Vogan @fungage-lab.bsky.social -the exciting story of the discovery of the huge Starship transposon family in the pezizomycotina that can move up to 3% of the pangenome within and between fungal genomes under control of the Captain Kirc transposases. @ecfg172025.bsky.social

A mycological vision in pink. Jason Stajich (note carotenoid shirt) @hyphaltip.bsky.social describes 450 genomes of the ultra ecologically diverse and extremophilic pink Rhodotorula group that is at home in deserts, salt flats, Antarctica, space stations and your fridge. @ecfg172025.bsky.social