🚨 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... ⬇️

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.

Our latest preprint is out describing amr.watch - a platform for monitoring AMR trends from global genomics data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)

WHO reports on the critical lack of medicines and diagnostic tools for invasive fungal diseases. #PublicHealth www.who.int/news/item/01...

The organization's reports discuss the small number of newly approved treatments, the limited, late-stage antifungal pipeline, and challenges around diagnostics for this class of infections. #IDsky #Medsky

born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze

Post-doc in fungal molecular cell biology. Seeking person with an understanding of gene expression and phenotypic analysis, who is interested in epigenetic regulation in fungi, to explore mechanisms of antifungal resistance in Zymoseptoria tritici and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Email me! #ECFG17

Such an exciting 3rd Symposium on the Basal Fungal Kingdom! a complete success! Intriguing discussions with this amazing community. Now #ECFG17!

Excited to see everyone at the conference and at the Basal Fungal Kingdom Symposium!

I am thrilled to share our new review on holocentric chromosomes. It was a lot of fun to write it together with Ines Drinnenberg! Same but different: Centromere regulations in holocentric insects and plants doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Delighted that the final version of our Candida parapsilosis outbreak +MLST creation manuscript is out now in The Lancet Microbe. doi.org/10.1016/j.la... Thread of the main findings below!

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Small but mighty: targeted antifungal liposomes of a smaller size are superior in treating cryptococcal meningitis Xiarong Li's lab developed amphotericin B packaged in liposomes coated with dectin Smaller DectiSomes™️ ++ more effective in🐁 model of Cryptococcosis journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Cool story on fungal epimutaions!

It's great to be back in the light!💙🦋 In case you missed it while on the dark side, check out our latest preprint on the heritability of RNAi epimutations mediating drug resistance 🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... More details? ▶️🧵

Testing, testing, one two, one two... 👋