Please have a look at our recent work on Trichoderma nordicum (a recently described species) and biocontrol of oomycete-caused crop diseases www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/12...

📖 Read this important perspective piece in the April issue of #GENETICS that outlines the limitations of Mendelism in genotype-phenotype mapping and advocates for new experimental paradigms to understand context-dependent genetic effects. 🔗 buff.ly/4OAZJS2

What if plant immunity doesn’t stop bacteria from arriving - but from staying? Excited to share our new Dangl Lab paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2535583123), asking a fundamental co-evolutionary question: which flagellar function is targeted by plant immunity? #Coevolution #Plant-Microbiome #PNAS 🧵1/8

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established? In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread 🧵 [1/8]

The transcription factor SiROCX controls a monocot-specific CAZyme program for host cell wall remodeling during symbiotic root colonization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.05.709870v1

And so it begins!!! #Fungal26 is underway! Thanks to the great work of Antonis Rolas @rokaslab.bsky.social and Meritxell Riquelme

Construction of a randomly barcoded insertional mutant library in the filamentous fungus Trichoderma atroviride https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.30.691285v1

Calling all OrthoFinder users! We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny. GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... github.com/lauriebelch/... (1/10)

Warfare among rice sheath pathogens: Rhizoctonia solani AG 1-IA neutralizes Pseudomonas fuscovaginae cyclic lipopeptides #ApplEnvironMicrobiol by Jasmine De Rop from Monica Höfte at @fbwugent.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Please take a look our recent method paper (please DM me for full text) Rapid detection of Pythium soft rot in ginger (Zingiber officinale) caused by Pythium myriotylum using LAMP | Plant Disease apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

"The changing roles of Escherichia coli" -- a short essay by yours truly. rdcu.be/eVtXT

Opinion: The “machinal bypass” examines how #AI can replace—not augment—our own presence. From #researchers to #clinicians, what happens when we let machines stand in for ourselves? In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/Tro450XLB5q#AI#researchers#clinicians#AI #psychology #psychiatry #MentalHealth #LLM

“The enormous diversity of fungal genomes...offers catalogs of enzymes, secondary metabolites & other parts lists for biotechnology, bioenergy & biomaterials."—Igor Grigoriev, Fungal & Algal Program Head. 🖥️🧬🍄🍄‍🟫 https://jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/mapping-earths-hidden-fungal-kingdom

How #fungi sense and respond to light. Primer in our current issue👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Out in @science.org this week: PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience #PlantSci

AI model Helixer predicts eukaryotic genes ab initio, directly from a plain text FASTA file. No RNA-seq. No protein homology. No repeats, hints, or curated evidence. Raw genome → accurate gene models. Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the prize winners at Asian Mycological Congress #AMC2025 #mycology #fungi

Keynote talk from Zhensheng Kang at #AMC2025 on wheat stripe rust. Very interesting pathogen life cycle.

Great to present at #AMC2025 in session with @sunilmundra.bsky.social @qurban38.bsky.social Sakae Horisawa and Feng Cai

Starship transposons, HGT on ToxA from Fei Liu from CAS at #AMC2025

Interesting talk from Marta @mf-s.bsky.social at AMC 2025 #AMC2025 on astromycology

Lots of tools & resources for Cordyceps militaris for gene editing from Caihong Dong at #AMC2025

Interesting talk at AMC 2025 #AMC2025 from Arend van Peer on incompatibility in mushrooms

Interesting keynote talk from Chengshu Wang at AMC 2025 #AMC2025

Interesting opening talk of AMC 2025 from Marc Stadler @ms-fungi.bsky.social

AMC 2025 starting today in Guangzhou, China with next-gen mycologists symposium. lots of details of the schedule on website www.amc2025.cn #AMC2025 Big life-size schedule

Check it out!

We are delighted to let you know that your Plants, People, Planet article 'Demystifying Fungal Systematics: A Gateway to Fungal Literacy and Societal/Ecological Relevance Through Familiar Species' has been published on Early View. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Please take a look at our latest work on regulation in Trichoderma harzianum in response to oomycete cell walls Share link (free access until end Dec 2025): authors.elsevier.com/a/1m55I3MmJP... See also from here: doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...

PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here: open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

The registration link and program for the 5th Virtual ChemBioTalks are finally available! If you are interested in the field of Chemical Biology, make sure to register for this free, virtual event on September 30th, 2025! cvent.me/G1geWW (1/4) #Chemsky #ChemBio

"Fungi can see and react to a wide range of colors." journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Have you heard about MycoEd yet? A model educational program offering training for students on fungal genome sequencing and analysis. how powerful!! #mycofam #thefutureisfungal journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

The History of Enzyme Evolution Embedded in Metabolism doi.org/10.1101/2025... KIPEs3: Automatic annotation of biosynthesis pathways doi.org/10.1101/2022...

Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good! There are also little quizzes and interactives. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Remodelling autoactive NLRs for broad-spectrum immunity in plants

Hey #2025ISMPMI! 🌱 We ofcourse all aim to do great & successful science! However, it doesn't always work out the way we hope, but we rarely hear about those stories.. So let's change that! Find me at my poster P-102 on Tuesday and let's discuss "failed" science, and what we can still learn from it!

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta: A Tribute to Dr. Franklin Stahl and His Elegant Experiment. Have a listen:

I See You Dancing, Father by Brendan Kennelly Happy Father’s Day…. "Whatever happens or cannot happen In the time I have to spare I see you dancing, father". poetryarchive.org/poem/i-see-y...

Check out our fungi-tastic special issue, full of marvels of mycology — and many articles accessible for free! 🍄🍄🍄 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Would you like to write for New Scientist? We always work with freelancers, but occasionally I put out a call like this for new writers. I'm looking for 300-700 word news stories about new discoveries. Don't pitch us press releases or the big journals, we have those covered. Pay starts at 51p/word

This is wild. Chromosome distributions into different nuclei! Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The 'Oscar' of food prizes goes to a Brazilian who harnessed the power of bacteria Mariangela Hungria found microbes that were good at capturing nitrogen from the air and turning it into fertilizer for crops. www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...

Interesting meeting: Call for abstracts and sponsors The Xi'an Carbon Meeting, October 16-18, 2025 (xiancarbonmeeting.com) The meeting is organized by Xi'an Jiaotong University (en.xjtu.edu.cn) and the European Association of Chemistry and the Environment (europeanace.com)

Yes, it's Thursday! Time for Episode 90 of #MattersMicrobial. Dr. Francisco Dini Andreote of Penn State joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how the plant microbiome can be used in agriculture. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. microbe.tv youtu.be/krQGvMggA3Y?...

share.transistor.fm/s/ee922716 - nice interview with Joe Heitman on Fungi

It was so much fun to chat fungi with @fryrsquared.bsky.social and @daraobriain.bsky.social on the latest episode of Curious Cases - listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚