We are hiring! We are going to use some really, really cool new techniques to look at the chemical and spatial dynamics of how the plant micobiome takes shape and what it means. Join us! Apply online until 20th Oct here: www.microverse-cluster.de/files/conten...

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

JOB ALERT @bertuzzilab.bsky.social is recruiting 2 Research Associates for a project on Mucorales! Very exciting and can definitely recommend working with this group ☺️ www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was! Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors. With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)

Just a few more days to apply! ⏰

A little more than 2 weeks to apply for a Postdoc position in our lab @leibniz-hki.de 👇🏻

Our study on a mycovirus that boosts fungal virulence is now out — and beautifully covered in this Behind the Paper piece by Amariliz Rivera Huge thanks for capturing the heart of the story so thoughtfully. @natmicrobiol.nature.com rdcu.be/eB9yg

🚨 Fungi + viruses + mammalian lungs? Buckle up! Our new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com uncovers the story of a deadly fungus and its gnarly viral hitchhiker — and how this duo may change how we diagnose & treat fungal disease 🍄🫁🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s415... ⬇️

📣 Massively proud of this ⬇️ great study, led by the brilliant @mesny.bsky.social surprisingly uncovering that many pathogen effectors stem from ancient antimicrobials 🤯 #EffectorWisdom #EvoMPMI

Amazing work from Dr. Anne Hatmaker @annemakerofhats.bsky.social at @canfunnet.bsky.social #CFN25 She takes us on a deep dive into the diversity of Penicillium isolates from diverse habitats

Job ads for TWO postdoctoral positions available in our group are now online. Deadline August 25th. 🧪Immunologists, apply in link below. 🍄Microbiologists- please follow link in next post. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share! More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup

Only a couple of weeks till the @eseb2025.bsky.social conference! I’m so honored to be one of the keynote speakers, and incredibly excited about the amazing scientific program and the opportunity to meet up with old friends and make new ones! #eseb2025

Excited to have joined the Editorial Board of @plosbiology.org a few months ago, the #PLOS flagship journal in the Life Sciences. As an editor, I aim to contribute to their support of equitable #OpenScience and reaching global audiences to help advance science faster.

Last week we enjoyed a lovely day of socialising and networking with the groups of @mgblango.bsky.social and @slavi-jan.bsky.social. We broke into teams for a scavenger hunt and visited a palace outside Weimar. We were even joined by special guest @mulveylab.bsky.social while he was visiting!

Yesterday, Thuringian Science Minister Christian Tischner visited #LeibnizHKI to learn about our junior research groups fighting the antibiotic crisis with high-tech. It was a pleasure having him with us! lmy.de/AYoYM @slavi-jan.bsky.social @jethrohemmann.bsky.social @luziagyr.bsky.social

📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social rdcu.be/exBSp

The first preprint of our #BIDlab!! 🤩 Short story on our favorite organism #streptococcuspneumoniae and our beloved #extracellularvesicles! #newPI #fingerscrossed

Do plasmids evolve faster 🐇, slower 🐢, or just like chromosomes 🧬? In our new paper, we tackled this question using theory, simulations, bioinformatics, and experiments! 👇 Check out all the details in Paula’s thread! Hint: 🐇 (most of the time)

Check out our new preprint Metabolic imprinting drives epithelial memory during mucosal #fungal infection. Thanks to all collaborators www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Truly honoured to have been recognised as a Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology 🏅 Looking forward to many years of research 🧫🔬 #ECMM #MedicalMycology

📣 I’m recruiting a #Postdoc to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group @leibniz-hki.de will be a good fit for you! Please share! jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...

Curious about how novel #plant #pathogens emerge? Check out our microreview on whether #fungal disease outbreaks are instigated by Starship #transposons. We present three examples that we think are evidence of outbreaks caused by Starship HGT. bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#OMGN2025 Keynote speaker Bart Thomma - with a short introduction on how to survive in Cologne

In another fruitful collaboration with the @rokaslab.bsky.social, Hittinger Lab members @katarina-aranguiz.bsky.social and @linder-surprise.bsky.social , et al. established a ML framework to identify gene families in the yeast subphylum Saccharomycotina whose copy numbers predicted ROS resistance.

After more than 10 years at the @kent.ac.uk , my lab will move to the @quadraminstitute.bsky.social ! I’m sad to leave behind amazing friends, but excited to start a new chapter. The good news? My lab members will be making the move with me, and we’ll advertise several new positions.

Check out the Ziemert Lab’s new YouTube channel m.youtube.com/@ZiemertLab We’ve uploaded short tutorial videos on how to use our tools for genome mining and natural product discovery. Thanks Semih, @martinaadamek.bsky.social @turgutmesut.bsky.social ! #GenomeMining #SecMet #naturalproducts

Interested in working on Mucorales adaptation? Thanks to new funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social, we will have two postdoc and a technician positions advertised very soon! if interested, please get in touch for more information.

The first paper of my PhD is now available as a preprint! 🎉 Transposable elements (TEs) don't just jump within fungal genomes, they also move extensively between species. In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events.

Big news, friends! I just joined the team at Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org as a Researcher & Fact-Checker 🐦💻🔍 Basically I get to nerd out over science with wildly creative people every day. Dream job 💚 Go watch their stuff if you haven’t already! www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt

Amazing to see @hannajohannesson.bsky.social on this list here! Big congratulations! Very much looking forward to your discoveries!

Happy Barbara Day, happy #TransposonDay2025 to all that celebrate! Every day we get to work on transposons is such a privilege and joy, and I will never not be amazed by these jumping weirdos -the neutral, the bad and the good. Share some black walnut brownies with your friends today!

Hey there, Our latest paper is out in Cell. We made a knockout collection in a human fungal pathogen, performed over 140 screens, and developed 6 follow up stories. Phenotypic landscape of an invasive fungal pathogen reveals its unique biology Share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lFMiL7PXu...

🚨Our latest review in Thorax about the impact of climate change focusing on fungal pathogens in Europe 🌍 A truly enjoyable collaboration with Sarah Sedik @germhuntermd.bsky.social @martinhoenigl.bsky.social and @mbottery.bsky.social thorax.bmj.com/content/earl...

📢Our synthesis of current knowledge on the fascinating cell of #arbuscular #mycorrhizal fungi is out @currentbiology.bsky.social, part of the special #fungi issue. With @rachaelcargill.bsky.social @tobykiers.bsky.social @thomasshimizu.bsky.social Open access link: www.cell.com/current-biol... 1/4

One more week to apply for an open PhD position in my team at Utrecht University. Interested in genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, microorganisms and plant-microbiota interactions, don't hesitate and apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

I'm thrilled to share that I've joined the Universidad Miguel Hernández in Spain as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology! Excited for this new chapter and the opportunities ahead.

📣 We have a postdoc position in fungus-microbiota interactions! Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2197 ⁩ For more details, visit: bewerbungsmanagement.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Excited to have @metalichen.bsky.social as seminar speaker today on the fascinating (effector) biology of the sunburst lichen Xanthoria

Next plenary speaker #efpp2025 is @danielcroll.bsky.social about the importance of geographic breadth and migration in plant pathogen evolution

Our next speaker #efpp2025 is Antonio Di Pietro presenting a beautiful experimental evolution approach to track TE movement in Fusarium.

European plant pathology conference #efpp2025 is kicking off in beautiful Uppsala

Hi everyone! I’m new to Bluesky. At the beginning of the year, I moved to Zurich @UZH_en to start a postdoc with #CyrilZipfel and @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social, investigating protein phosphorylation in plants 🌱 If you’re nearby or working on something similar, let’s connect 😀

🎉 Congrats to @microverse.bsky.social on 7 more years of funding! We’re proud to support this success at #LeibnizHKI and continue exploring microbial interactions together. Kudos also to the new #Imaginamics Cluster! 👏💭✨ #Excellence #Microverse 💡 lmy.de/CYLBO 📸 Nicole Nerger

I am honoured and delighted to join the #CIFAR family as an Azrieli Global Scholar. Looking forward to working with this fantastic community to tackle complex global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration! cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...

Come to @unibirmingham.bsky.social to do a PhD with me and some awesome scientists! The Last of Us: Developing a Genomic Epidemiology Toolkit for Fungal Outbreaks - deadline 31st July www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social

Congratulations @microverse.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳