Congratulations to @helenisinthelab.bsky.social for winning the Suspended! challenge at #lorneiandi 2026! She had great competition from Long Huynh. Thank you to VIIN and all the sponsors for making this amazing event possible.

Dr Helen Stölting now leads! 🎮⚡#lorneiandi

The leaderboard heating up! Long Huynh currently in the lead ⚡ #lorneiandi

@harshw.bsky.social talks about fungal escape artists #lorneiandi

Announcing my Suspended! competition just for #Lorneiandi 26 🎮 Play my video game (grow into a C. albicans biofilm). Highest biomass wins a Suspended! t-shirt ❤️ More details on poster 158, or play game here: gd.games/frankcandida...

Great work from Leanie Kleynhans showing that alveolar macrophages from diabetic patients have impaired responses to Mtb! #lorneiandi

Pssst! Mycology Masterclass enthusiasts! Details are on the website and registration opens April 7th. Places will fill up quickly. www.adelaide.edu.au/mycology/nod...

I'm doing my first pulse chase experiment and I like that it sounds like an action film. PULSE CHASE starring Françios Olivier It also sounds like a sick run club. An absolute winner of a name.

This guy was just awesome today - not often you have a guest bring you science gifts, do a great interview, and then sing about their work as well!

Just a lovely time hanging out with @drshanerrr.bsky.social, ChrisKP and Dr Scarlett on Triple R today 🎙❤️ Also my first time singing about fungi on radio... a love song about Candida 😍 Definitely harder to do live! Listen here: www.rrr.org.au/shared/broad...

Thank you to Monash Micro Imaging and Thermo Fisher Scientific for awarding me 2nd place 🥈 honours in the 2024 MMI Image competition 🤩 Well done to all the winners, there were some truly spectacular images and I am so proud to be featured alongside them all.

With more #MycoSky arriving here by the day, lets gather everyone and rebuild. Please let me know if I’ve missed out on you or anyone relevant 🍄‍🟫😎 go.bsky.app/FYRJn6M

Oh my! What a surprise to see the buzz on this app ❤️ Goodbye X 👋

Everyone meet “Billy” my new desk mate, already has a long induction waitlist 🔬 Safety SUNglasses recommended for use, which involves staring directly into an LED. The blindness that results is temporary and absolutely worthwhile for the outstanding imaging achieved.

New year, new toys 🍄🔬 Wishing everyone a happy 2024, keep pioneering and discovering!

New paper! STARProtocols actually let me write a big ol’ protocol: live cell imaging to quantify Candida albicans escape from macrophages. star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/3144 I’m talking notes, video demonstrations, troubleshooting, sample data, MATHS!

So happy to see awesome scientists migrate here! Twitter/X has so many problems, it’s just not the vibe for science anymore.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a brief etymology saccharon = sugar 🍭 myces = fungus 🍄 cerevisiae = latin for "of beer" 🍺 Think I'll have a cerevisiae tonight...

I’m excited to announce my grant-writing think tank. Already a few strong opinions expressed.

We shall by morning Inherit the earth

Fungal pathogenesis researchers, I’ve started a Bluesky feed for us here: bsky.app/profile/did:... If the link doesn’t work: search “Fungal Path Researchers” Please follow and message me if you wish to be added. There are only a handful of users for now, this will take a few weeks to build.

How human pathogenic fungi escape from macrophages- lovely review from Sonnberger & co onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fungal pathogenesis researchers, I’ve started a Bluesky feed for us here: bsky.app/profile/did:... If the link doesn’t work: search “Fungal Path Researchers” Please follow and message me if you wish to be added. There are only a handful of users for now, this will take a few weeks to build.

Yesterday I was bestowed with a superb farewell gift from @drlachie.bsky.social… “The Francois Line” on the lab’s table tennis ladder, showing my final score 🥹 I am honoured. 🫡 @ngeo.bsky.social