Fascinating SCI conference on antimicrobials at the Francis Crick Institute. Great talk by Elaine Bignell about the MRC-CMM and her group’s world leading work on improving antifungal drug resilience through combination therapy. @elainebignell.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social

Antifungal resistance is growing – will new treatments turn the tables? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Giving a talk today at the IPC2026 which considers the 9 Wembley stadiums worth of patients who get a hospital acquired infection each year. Delighted to represent mycology & AMR. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

Some of the ESCMID delegates are AI experts and are very helpful in finding the medical mycology sessions. @escmid.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

That is quite a programme ESCMID. @escmid.bsky.social

The scale of ESCMID Global, here in Munich, is impressive. The big topic seems to be AI and everything with 10 sessions. Medical mycology has a presence throughout the day. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social

50 medical mycologists put their shoulder behind an action plan to mitigate the rising threat of antifungal drug resistance. Check out in Nature Medicine. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social

We enjoyed hosting a visit from Robin May who entertained everybody with a seminar about his life and career as a lab scientist & government scientific advisor. From lab coat to bowler [email protected] @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social

I’ll be speaking at the 5th SCI / RSC Symposium on Anti-Infectives Drug Discovery in June. @sciupdate.bsky.social #AntiInfectives26 To register: bit.ly/5th_anti-inf... @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social

Do consider coming to this premium fungal AMR conference in Bangkok in November. @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

Our new paper is out on the cell wall UDP-sugar nucleotide pathways in Candida & their potential as antifungal drug targets. doi.org/10.1016/j.tc... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

Catch our new review on amphotericin B resistance in fugal pathogens. doi.org/10.1016/j.tc.... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

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.