What enables a fungus to invade a mammal host? @marco-guerreiro.bsky.social unravels signatures of translation adaptation among pathogenic and non-pathogenic species of Trichosporonales. See more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sharing our lab’s first publication! Probing clinical isolates of Cryptococcus, a disease-causing fungus of the lungs and brain, we found multiple heat-mobile elements that ‘jump’ in the genome at body temperature (!) with the ability to drive adaptive changes. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

It will always amaze me how we can visualize the location of our protein of interest inside a cell. This is possible thanks to fundamental science, as scientists studied how a species of jellyfish generates light. 🍄: Aspergillus fumigatus

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

OMG Triangle friends: Med Deli re-opening is ALMOST here!!! "We have put a pause on takeout orders as of now while we are in the final stages of getting everything ready to fully re-open our Chapel Hill location. Thank you for your continued patience, we look forward to serving you very soon! "

Please share this firsthand account from a trainee with a terminated NIH grant award. It’s devastating and hard to read but so important for us to acknowledge what is happening. Take action by calling our representatives to say NO MORE TERMINATIONS! #HandsOffNIH

They can tell their stories here: www.27unihted.org/biomedicalbe... Please share 🩷

Saw this great story on my former bench mate from the MoMy course, I know Phoebe Hsieh is destined for an accomplished career in research! www.fredhutch.org/en/news/cent...

Visit to the legendary Woods Hole MOMY course to visit with Mycology trainees and faculty. Awesome to see Andy Alspaugh, Deb Hogan, and Paul Magwene honored for their contributions! Kudos to Robb Cramer and David Andes for their final year as Course Directors! 🍄‍🟫🧫🧬

I eat organic, avoid processed foods, and load up on veggies, - but modern medicine, treatments, drugs, and vaccines are what truly extend our lives. That other stuff gives a little booster. Science matters. Watch this short video—it nails the point. www.youtube.com/shorts/mEOeC... #scicomm 🧪

Cool science! By my friend and colleague @mycorican.bsky.social

Read more about this really cool story about the role of septins in enhancing the action of caspofungin antifungal activity @mycorican.bsky.social pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

@lablabella.bsky.social Dr LaBella enlightens us with all of the different ways that codon usage bias (CUB) impacts gene expression at Duke’s Tri-I MMPTP symposium. CUB as a proxy for determining gene expression level tRNA abundance and expression are also key Awesome and insightful talk! 👏🏽

Spectrum News: Learn about our efforts to understand fungal health risks in the wake of Hurricane Helene that devastated western NC muckrack.com/broadcast/sa... and visit our website to learn more! gusalab.com

Want to learn about fungal threats to health in a changing climate? 🍄 Check our our new book chapter! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Thanks to authors Paola Ramos Irizarry (Duke) and Daniel FQ Smith (JHU). Please share!

New York Times article on the end (at least for the moment) of NIH grant terminations... [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

PUBLICATION ALERT: our new work on PDR6 is online in #mBio: Lack of an atypical PDR transporter generates an immunogenic Cryptococcus neoformans strain that drives a dysregulated and lethal immune response in murine lungs. A small 🧵 below but pare here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Excited to share our editorial on peer review, out now in #mBio! This was a mighty group effort with my mBio Early Career Editorial Board peer mentoring group @proctordm.bsky.social and Rachy Abraham. From novice to expert: preparing your peer review | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

We are looking for a Postdoc in the LaBella Lab! Do you love fungi 🍄, genetics 🧬and bioinformatics 💻 - then this might be a good fit for you! jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/63307 Applications accepted through July 1

Was a great day for science at Duke’s inaugural symposium “Fungi in a Warming World” Featured stirring talks including @acasadevall1.bsky.social

Think the cytoplasm of a cell is just an unorganized liquid... Think again! Amy Gladfelted @gladfelterlab.bsky.social tells us how condensates organize the biochemistry of the cell and how they may be targets for antifungals

Erica Washington tells us how TREHALOSE may be a key metabolite in the adaptation of fungi to a warming world

Closing out the talks Rytas Vilgalys helps us understand how the mycobiom varies in the natural world Rytas is also a driving force behind training the future generations of mycologists So glad to be a part of this mycofam @lotuslofgren.bsky.social @uehlinglab.bsky.social

Colin Averill kicks off our last session by asking What does a healthy forest microbiome look like? @colinaverill.bsky.social

Iian Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social tells us how the changing climate is directly and indirectly leading to antifungal resistance And he did it featuring the coolest art! More art 🎨 in science 🧪

Today is the inaugural Duke Climate and Fungi symposium. Arturo Casadevall is the first keynote speaker. “Whenever the earth does poorly, the fungi do well” mgm.duke.edu/about-mgm/se...

No-one speaks about climate change, so we assume they're not interested in it Therefore we keep quiet, reinforcing the spiral of silence But other people do care, and speaking up opens the door for them to speak too Sharing your worries is hugely powerful, and EVERYONE can do it

Feels awkward but necessary to celebrate scientific progress in this imperiled time for US biomedical research. Proud of our latest paper out today exploring the role of transposable elements in antiviral resistance to HIV 🦠 genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🧵1/n

Excited to announce Duke’s inaugural Climate and Fungi Symposium May 16, 2025! Please register for in-person or virtual 🍄 mgm.duke.edu/about-mgm/se...

Julian Liber @liberjulian.bsky.social is a rising star, so fortunate to have his expertise on this collaborative project! Check out the fungal sampling video in the article 👀

Really proud of the NIH funded work we are doing to improve ability to detect past exposure to the fungus that causes #valleyfever #tcell #diagnostics academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

Please join us this week for #MycoTalks with Rebecca Shapiro and Guilhem Janbon 📅Thursday 27 March 📷16:00 GMT Sign up here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

@guidopuccetti.bsky.social, Gabriel Scalliet and I are excited to share our latest work. Resistance in agriculture emerges fast, but we fail to grasp how the myriad mutations in pathogen populations contribute to this. Please check out and share our latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fibroids affect the health of so many women I know! Thankful to Dr Robinson and Duke researchers for this research @dukemedschool.bsky.social

So happy to see this story come together. Check it out! Kathleen Mills and many collaborators - GM-CSF–mediated epithelial-immune cell cross-talk orchestrates pulmonary immunity to Aspergillus fumigatus | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Me trying not to panic after every work email urging research faculty to "keep writing grants" While awarded grants get canceled, Grants calls get withdrawn, Study section meetings are rescheduled, Banned words in grants are added daily, etc #HigherEdUnderAttack

Sporothrix is neglected among the neglected Daniel Matute and Marcus Teixeira PLOS Pathogens #MedMycoSky journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

The new extended deadline for MSA abstracts is March 21st! #MSAfungi25

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

Great editorial from the editors-in-chief of all five CoB journals, including @dmmjournal.bsky.social

No matter what Rocket Man says, the NIH offers a strong return on investment www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Join us for this month's #MycoTalks with Rebecca Shapiro and Guilhem Janbon 📅Thursday 27 March 🕓16:00 GMT Register here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We need to organize--let’s help each other. NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond. I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations. Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

Wheat Pathogens webinar, March 20th! Dr. Daniel Croll, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, will talk about “Understanding mechanisms of crop pathogen emergence using large genome panels”. Please share! buff.ly/45ttOjL @karchuntan.bsky.social @ReemWheat

A special issue on #WomensHealth in #ScienceAdvances highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences. Learn more: scim.ag/3R59fPe (THREAD 🧵)

Time to start calling again. Tillis' office in DC just answered the phone which means call volume dropped. There are so many things to comment on-I asked what the Senator would do if tomorrow Musk & Trump decided all federal funding to UNC, Duke & NC state was ended. Call NOW! 🧪