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PhD student | Fisher Lab | Imperial Interested in fungal AMR, genetics, and air quality 🍄
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Nature Communications
14 days ago
#Fungi
: Large-scale multi-omics profiling reveals environmental and evolutionary drivers of the phylogeographic and metabolic diversity of the fungus Aspergillus flavus
#MicrobialEcology
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Large-scale multi-omics profiling reveals environmental and evolutionary drivers of fungal phylogeographic and metabolic diversity - Nature Communications
Drivers of fungal metabolic diversity are incompletely understood. Here, the authors conduct a global genomics study of over 1,000 pathogenic fungi to show that geography shapes the metabolic diversity in Aspergillus flavus revealing how climate drives fungal chemical adaptive evolution.
http://dlvr.it/TSdNmv
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British Mycological Society
13 days ago
⭐#BMS2026 Speaker Highlight⭐ Matthew Fisher, Imperial College London, UK Matt will draw on data from Aspergillus fumigatus studies to show how agricultural substrates contaminated with fungicides drive the emergence of antifungal resistance. ➡️
www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html
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Jo Rhodes
19 days ago
An important Nature Outlook article from Nic Fleming on antifungal resistance:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Antifungal resistance is growing – will new treatments turn the tables?
Trials of drugs to fight deadly resistant infections are advancing, but they might fall victim to overuse of agricultural fungicides just like their predecessors.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01380-4
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Fiona J Whelan
22 days ago
📣 Whelan lab is hiring 📣 We are looking for an entry level technician to help us with our culturing and DNA sequencing prep of cystic fibrosis lung microbiome samples. Applications close 20 May 2026.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Technician in Microbiology and Molecular Biology:Oxford Road
https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=35017
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Fungal One Health and Antimicrobial Resistance (F1AMR) Network
2 months ago
Our programme for May 7th (Manchester and online) is now live - in-person registration open until April 21st! Lots of great speakers including
@mcmomany.bsky.social
@aoifeodriscoll.bsky.social
@normanvanrhijn.bsky.social
@jon-otter.bsky.social
www.fungalamr.org/post/f1amr-s...
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F1AMR Scientific Meeting May 7th 2026: Live Programme
What? F1AMR Network Scientific Meeting When? Thursday May 7th 2026Where? University of Manchester, UK At this fully hybrid event, we will hear presentations from colleagues in research, industry and t...
https://www.fungalamr.org/post/f1amr-scientific-meeting-may-7th-2026-live-programme
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Jason Stajich
about 2 months ago
The global mycology community calling for an effort to combat drug‑resistant - Closing the gap on antifungal resistance
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Closing the gap on antifungal resistance - Nature Medicine
Drug-resistant fungal disease must be addressed in the 2026 update to the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04334-5
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Harry Chown
about 2 months ago
First day back after a great time in Belfast at
#MicroSoc26
@microbiologysociety.org
. Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to present my work. Which, if you missed, is now currently available on bioRxiv!
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Dr Gary Fuller
about 2 months ago
"Air pollution acts as a silent accelerator that robs individuals of their healthiest years.” My latest piece for
@theguardian.com
on research on 396,000 people in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Air pollution making people in UK get long-term illnesses earlier, study finds
Pollution is ‘silent accelerator that robs individuals of their healthiest years’, say researchers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/air-pollution-making-people-in-uk-get-long-term-illnesses-earlier-study-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Whitney Bauck
about 2 months ago
Fungi make so much of life on earth possible—but are too often left out of conservation. That's slowly starting to change. As it does, a cohort of mycologists across Africa are pioneering the study and conservation of fungi in their home countries. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Without them there is no life’: the race to understand the mysterious world of Africa’s fungi
Amid growing evidence of fungi’s key role in ecosystems and storing carbon, African scientists are championing the need to preserve ‘funga’ as much as flora and fauna
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/african-scientists-fungal-conservation-movement-aoe
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Sam Horsfield
2 months ago
ggCaller v1.5.0 is out! We've removed the integrated clustering to enable users to benefit from new Panaroo features. Now, ggCaller generates GFFs that can be used with any clustering method. But for fans of an integrated ggCaller pangenome workflow read on...
github.com/bacpop/ggCal...
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GitHub - bacpop/ggCaller: Bifrost graph gene caller.
Bifrost graph gene caller. Contribute to bacpop/ggCaller development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/bacpop/ggCaller
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Sam Hemmings
The Lancet Microbe
2 months ago
New review article WHO assessment of the preclinical
#antifungal
pipeline: evaluating innovation and preparedness in the face of emerging fungal threats
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky
#ClinMicro
#MycoSky
#OpenAccess
#OA
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Will Pearse
2 months ago
Develop a forecasts of severe patient harm to be used by the NHS! Every 4-hour delay in Emergency Department admission increases 30-day mortality risk by 8%: join the SPHERE forecasting contest and help the NHS reduce delays before they happen! Find out more here:
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
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Researchers launch forecasting challenge to help predict severe patient harm in NHS hospitals
Researchers have launched a new data science challenge aimed at improving the ability of NHS hospitals to anticipate and prevent severe patient harm.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/articles/natural-sciences/life-sciences/2026/researchers-launch-forecasting-challenge-to-help-predict-severe-patient-harm-in-nhs-hospitals/
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Michael Habig
2 months ago
Now out! We show that TEs can be horizontally transferred between fungal species via Starships. Once transferred, these TEs can become active, changing the genome organization and affecting the lifestyle of the recipient fungus.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@oggenfussursula.bsky.social
#TEsky
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Transposable elements hitchhike on Starships across fungal genomes - Nature Communications
Large mobile genetic elements known as Starships act as vehicles for transferring transposable elements (TEs) between fungi. Here, Griem-Krey et al. show that these ‘hitchhiking’ TEs can drive rapid e...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69410-3
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Jo Rhodes
3 months ago
Excited to share our latest work: “Antarctic marine microplastics reveals environmental persistence and rapid evolution of Candida auris.”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This study explores how environmental microplastics may act as reservoirs for Candida auris. 🧵
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Antarctic marine microplastics reveals environmental persistence and rapid evolution of Candida auris
Candida ( Candidozyma ) auris is a critical priority fungal pathogen that emerged two decades ago near simultaneously on multiple continents. Since emergence, C. auris resistance to all four classes of antifungal drugs has been described, including pan-drug resistant isolates, sometimes evolving in-patient. Here, we confirm the first isolation of C. auris from Antarctica and show cold-adapted phenotypes and an affinity for binding to nylon. We also provide evidence to suggest mutator phenotypes contribute to the rapid evolution in C. auris and are responsible for the emergence of multiple, distinct genetic clades worldwide. Isolates in clades I, III and IV with a mutator phenotype displayed elevated mutation rates compared to non-auris Candida species. This phenotype had a complex genetic basis and was associated with drug resistance mutations. We postulate that the mutator phenotype has a significant effect on evolutionary potential and is responsible for the emergence and rapid spread of drug-resistance C. auris and novel genetic clades. ### Competing Interest Statement This work was partially support by a Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Fung Springboard Fellowship awarded to JR. PH and JR were funded through a JPIAMR IMPACT grant (JPIAMR2024_IMPACT-197 Consortium grant: FuGACI) and the Dutch Organisation for knowledge and innovation in health, healthcare and wellbeing (ZonMw) under project number 10570172410003. NvR is supported by a Wellcome Trust fellowship (226408/Z/22/Z). MCF is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). RAF is supported by a Wellcome Trust Career Development Award (225303/Z/22/Z). JLS is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awardee of the Life Sciences Research Foundation. SD and HG are supported by the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter (MR/N006364/2 and MR/V033417/1), and the MRC Doctoral Training Grant (MR/P501955/2), and the NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. We also thank the Exeter Sequencing Service facility and support from Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (WT097835MF), Wellcome Trust Multi User Equipment Awards (WT101650MA and 218247/Z/19/Z), Medical Research Council Clinical Infrastructure Funding (MR/M008924/1) and BBSRC LOLA award (BB/K003240/1), as well as the University of Exeter High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility, funded by the UK MRC Clinical Research Infrastructure Initiative (award number MR/M008924/1). Wellcome Trust, https://ror.org/029chgv08, Strategic Fung Springboard, 226408/Z/22/Z, 225303/Z/22/Z JPI-AMR, JPIAMR2024_IMPACT-197 Consortium grant: FuGACI ZonMw, The Dutch Organisation for knowledge and innovation in health, healthcare and well-being, 10570172410003 CIFAR Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awardee of the Life Sciences Research Foundation MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter, MR/N006364/2, MR/V033417/1 MRC Doctoral Training Grant, MR/P501955/2 NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre BBSRC, BB/W009625/1 MRC, MR/4002163/1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.13.711634v1
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Sam Hemmings
MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis
3 months ago
✨NEW EPISODE✨
#ScienceInContext
This week
@eonore.bsky.social
speaks with Prof Nicholas Grassly & Dr Joyce Akello about wastewater surveillance as early warning of viruses with pandemic potential & the WASPP Network👇
youtu.be/7sbL-Eq9U7A
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
@gatesfoundation.bsky.social
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Sam Hemmings
Applied Microbiology International
3 months ago
Did you know an air fryer can thermocycle? Read the journey of two scientists’ attempts to run a PCR cycle in the kitchen, in the latest feature in #TheMicrobiologist.
https://www.the-microbiologist.com/features/a-journey-to-run-a-polymerase-chain-reaction-in-the-kitchen/7580.article
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A journey to run a polymerase chain reaction in the kitchen
Did you know an air fryer can thermocycle?
https://www.the-microbiologist.com/features/a-journey-to-run-a-polymerase-chain-reaction-in-the-kitchen/7580.article
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Sam Hemmings
Genetics Society of America
3 months ago
🌟 New at
#Fungal26—the
inaugural Fungal Spore Lecture featuring Matthew C. Fisher (Imperial College London). Working at the One Health interface, Fisher explores how antifungal use and global trade are reshaping the Fungal Kingdom. Join us for his lecture:
buff.ly/oCNlI2l
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Toby Baril
3 months ago
Need to annotate transposons in fungal genomes? 🧬 Good news
#MycoMobilome
is now live! Check it out here:
doi.org/10.1093/narg...
Access the sequences through our Zenodo community (you can also contribute seqs with credit), and synchronisation with
@dfam.bsky.social
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@danielcroll.bsky.social
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MycoMobilome: a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom
Abstract. Transposable elements (TEs) are found in nearly all eukaryotic genomes. Despite significant advances in the sequencing of genomes, TE resources r
https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqag026
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British Mycological Society
3 months ago
📣 Call for Abstracts - British Mycological Society 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting. Inviting researchers, early-career scientists, postgraduate students, & practitioners to share their latest research👉 Event webpage & abstract submission:
www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html
#BMS2026
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Sam Hemmings
Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)
4 months ago
New study in
@nature.com
finds pesticides in 70% of soils sampled across Europe, showing they suppress beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Authors call for assessing pesticide impacts on entire soil communities to better protect soil biodiversity. Link to paper:
buff.ly/wJzWiYB
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John Lees
4 months ago
How do bacterial pangenomes evolve, what controls their dynamics, why do they exist? Fitting a mechanistic model to 450 species from
allthebacteria.org
suggesting fast vs slow gene exchange (i.e. amount of MGEs) is a major differentiating factor, correlated with phylogeny rather than lifestyle
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Sam Horsfield
4 months ago
At long last, my final PhD chapter is out: we developed a novel evolutionary simulator of bacterial pangenomes, Pansim, fitting it to data from >600K genomes using a likelihood-free framework, PopPUNK-mod, to explore neutral and adaptive pangenome dynamics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Pat Schloss
5 months ago
New paper up on bioRxiv! This is my third and hopefully final paper on rarefaction. It's still better than the other available methods.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Rarefaction is better than robust Aitchison PCA and other compositional data analysis methods at controlling for uneven sequencing effort
Amplicon sequencing typically results in a wide distribution in the number of sequences obtained from each sample. How best to account for this variation has been a persistent problem in the microbial...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.06.697977v1
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Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm
5 months ago
Really important read for people working with long-read MAGs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - Nature Biotechnology
Long-read sequence assemblies from metagenomes contain frequent errors.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02971-8
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Sarah Dellière
4 months ago
🔥 New study on invasive
#mold
infections in severe
#burn
patients. These infections affect ~20% of cases and are hard to distinguish from colonization. We analyzed 6,000+ samples from 276 patients to identify strategies that could improve mycological diagnosis. 🔗
bit.ly/4a4l6I0
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Jo Rhodes
4 months ago
Really proud of former PhD student Hugh Gifford for wrapping up this massive project, looking at almost 13k whole genome C. auris sequences 1997-2024!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.03.703534v1
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Paul Behrens
4 months ago
I wrote an op-ed for the
@bmj.com
on the UK government's national security assessment on ecosystem collapse and how we need act. This report was released last week, delayed by months—allegedly it was seen as too negative by number 10—and abridged🧵
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Ecosystem destruction will force the UK to tackle food security
The UK’s approach to food makes it increasingly vulnerable in an unstable world. A great food transformation with a focus on resilience is urgently needed, argues Paul Behrens Last week the UK gover...
https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s199
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
4 months ago
Many aren't aware that burning wood at home can seriously impact indoor and outdoor air quality. Tonight is Clean Air Night - learn about how to protect your health and your home:
www.actionforcleanair.org.uk/campaigns/cl...
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Chris Knight
4 months ago
We're Hiring! We're looking for a postdoc with bioinformatics/modelling skills to join us in an exciting microbiome ecology project in Manchester (deadline 1st March)
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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'Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Manchester
We wish to appoint a PostDoctoral Research Associate to an exciting project exploring the assembly, stability and function of microbial decomposer communities.
https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=34316
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Microbiology Society
4 months ago
It’s World Aspergillosis Day! This article published in JMM examines the prevalence of azole resistance among clinical Aspergillus isolates. Read more about these resistance patterns here:
https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.002112
#WorldAspergillosisDay
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Sam Hemmings
Imperial Medicine
4 months ago
On
#WorldNTDDay
,
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
+
@dndi.org
strengthen their partnership to speed up new treatments for
#NeglectedDiseases
affecting 1 billion+ people worldwide. 🌍 From
#AI
to drug discovery, we’re working to turn science into real-world impact.
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
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Imperial and DNDi strengthen partnership to accelerate treatments for neglected diseases
Researchers from Imperial College London and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) met on 19 January to strengthen a growing partnership...
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/articles/medicine/2026/imperial-and-dndi-strengthen-partnership-to-accelerate-treatments-for-neglected-diseases-/
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Earlham Institute
4 months ago
📣 Today Earlham Institute and
@nhm-london.bsky.social
announce a joint venture spin-out company Agnos Biosciences and its cutting-edge rapid
#air
#sequencing
technology, AirSeq, to transform biological threat detection.
@ukri.org
@richardmleggett.bsky.social
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Earlham Institute and Natural History Museum launch deep tech startup Agnos Biosciences™
This new technology is a method for characterising biological particles in the air using a combination of novel molecular biology, DNA sequencing and bespoke computational analysis.
https://buff.ly/GS1gpV2
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Imperial Medicine
4 months ago
“Take a breath before drawing conclusions.” Professor Leon Barron from
@imperialsph.bsky.social
says some
#microplastics
studies may be overstated, and that more robust
#research
methods are needed before alarmist headlines. More via
@thetimes.com
👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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Worried about plastic in your brain? Scientists say otherwise
Claims that microplastics are contaminating the human body and threatening our health may have been exaggerated, experts say
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/url-microplastics-health-news-8l390qf5q
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Ali Abdolrasouli
4 months ago
Emerging terbinafine-resistant Trichophyton indotineae between 2018 and 2023: a multinational genomic epidemiology study - The Lancet Microbe
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Emerging terbinafine-resistant Trichophyton indotineae between 2018 and 2023: a multinational genomic epidemiology study
That no clear geographical clustering of isolates was observed confirms the rapid transcontinental spread of T indotineae from its likely centre of diversity in Asia. Our findings highlight the import...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247%2825%2900201-0/fulltext
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Kew Gardens
4 months ago
This year, the taxonomists on the Fungarium Sequencing Project had a goal to review 10,000 specimens. They hit their target an impressive three months ahead of schedule, so to celebrate their hard work, here are some of the stories they’ve uncovered!
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Big congrats to Jo and all collaborators on this paper, happy to have played a role in the lab
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The Lancet Microbe
4 months ago
New research article Emerging terbinafine-resistant
#Trichophyton
indotineae between 2018 and 2023: a multinational genomic epidemiology study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky
#ClinMicro
#MycoSky
#AMR
#OpenAccess
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Jason Stajich
5 months ago
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Climate change may be driving spread of a deadly fungus from U.S. Southwest
Valley fever has exploded since 2000. Scientists are trying to figure out why
https://www.science.org/content/article/climate-change-may-be-driving-spread-deadly-fungus-u-s-southwest?utm_campaign=Science&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ownedSocial&fbclid=IwdGRleAPY0ZxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeJ6nxKBij-fCziJxgbw1FzueFoJiK_LUVAi3VXCuqPbb-CpOz4mAwxYXnACI_aem_DLFIz6MG4wD3Ge4rGF-kzQ
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Sarah Dellière
5 months ago
🧫 Trichophyton indotineae shows high terbinafine resistance, and azole failures are rising but remains first line treatment. We compared Etest® vs EUCAST for 73 isolates — 89% / 83.6% essential agreement for itraconazole / posaconazole. ➡️ A practical tool for routine labs!
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Jo Rhodes
6 months ago
Today was a good day for our former PhD student Hugh Gifford, who got his first first-author paper out! Such a huge contribution to the mycology field and our understanding of Candida auris infection:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Xenosiderophore transporter gene expression and clade-specific filamentation in Candida auris killifish (Aphanius dispar) infection - Communications Biology
Arabian killifish embryonic yolk sac microinjection of the emerging human fungal pathogen Candida auris and dual host-pathogen RNA-seq reveal an expanded and transcriptionally upregulated family of xe...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-09321-z
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Kew Gardens
6 months ago
This
#FungiFriday
we are looking at the work of PhD Student Rose Gooda! Rose is studying the role of mycorrhizal fungi in the natural colonisation of forest in the UK, & recently conducted fieldwork in a temperate oak rainforest in Dartmoor where regeneration efforts are underway 👇 📸 © David Satori
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Currently training our master’s student Peng nanopore sequencing and today he began running his first library! Lots of learning and set-up behind this photo, a nice way to wrap up the term 📸
6 months ago
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European Environment Agency
6 months ago
🌱 Today marks a new chapter for Europe’s soils Healthy soils are easy to overlook — until they are gone. They grow our food, store carbon, filter water and support biodiversity. When soils are healthy, ecosystems thrive and societies are more resilient. 👉 The evidence is clear ... 🧵(1/5)
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6 months ago
Defra is recruiting for their Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG) Up to 7 individuals will be recruited to serve as members of Defra's AQEG, starting from 1 April 2026. For information and to apply, visit: AQEG Recruitment
www.gov.uk/government/g...
Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2026 (12 noon)
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Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG)
Provides independent scientific advice on air quality to Defra, in particular the air pollutants contained in the Air Quality Strategy (AQS) for the UK and those covered by the EU Directives on ambien...
https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/air-quality-expert-group#recruitment
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Been getting my hands dirty with some fieldwork this week! Behind every clean data set is a muddy PhD student..
6 months ago
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Jo Rhodes
6 months ago
Come to Birmingham and do a PhD with myself and
@wvschaik.bsky.social
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Bertuzzi Lab
6 months ago
We are recruiting a Research Tech! Funded by the
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
, join us to work on Mucorales adaption in collaboration with Becky Hall (University of Kent) Deadline: 5th January
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Eveline Snelders
6 months ago
Hi fungal friends! For
#FungalFriday
a thread about our newly published work, “Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen”, now out in The ISME Journal with
@bobriggeman.bsky.social
, Hylke Kortenbosch,
@benauxier.bsky.social
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academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
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Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen
Abstract. Humans are exposed to the mold Aspergillus fumigatus via inhalation, and infections are increasingly resistant to triazole-class antifungals. Eco
https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf246/8315832
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Dr Steve Westlake
6 months ago
This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/record-heat-drought-2025-cost-uk-arable-farmers-estimated-800m-climate-crisis-grain-harvest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus more commonly found in greenhouse and bulb-growing regions
WUR researcher Eveline Snelders and two PhD candidates have mapped the spread of the (drug-resistant) fungus Aspergillus fumigatus across the Netherlands. While the fungus is present ubiquitous in the...
https://www.wur.nl/en/news/resistant-aspergillus-fumigatus-more-commonly-found-greenhouse-and-bulb-growing-regions
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