Join us for this exciting meeting! @embo.org Workshop "Pathogen Immunity and Signalling", 8-12 June, 2026, Leiden, The Netherlands meetings.embo.org/event/26-pat...

Looking for something to read with your tea this weekend? Try this new explainer on the #mycobiome! Learn about the 🍄fungi that live in your body, and why this matters for your health. New from me in The Conversation: #immunosky 🧪 theconversation.com/the-fungi-li...

Fancy doing a PhD on #fungi ? 🍄 I'm co-supervising a project on the MIDTP program with Dr Ayesha Rahman - follow the link for project details and how to apply! #FindAPhD #immunosky 🧪 www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...

📢 Save the Date! 🎉 The next TIMM Congress will take place 10–13 September 2027 in Antwerp, Belgium! We can’t wait to see you there – mark your calendars! 🗓️✨ #TIMM13 #Antwerp2027

🔬 Advanced Seminars are back this October at ICVS! Starting Oct 2 | 1 PM | A0.03 with Bruno Almeida – IPLEXMED: Driving the Next Generation of Diagnostics from Lab to Life. Don’t miss this month’s top talks on cancer, ALS, climate & more! #ICVSAdvancedSeminars

ICVS will be at the European Researchers' Night 2025! Join us at Forum Braga on Sept 26, from 2:30 PM to midnight, for experiments, workshops, and more. Come meet our researchers and explore the world of science! Free entry! #NEI2025 #ICVS #ScienceForAll

#JustPublished! Drug-resistant fungus #CandidozymaAuris is spreading rapidly in European hospitals. #ECDC calls for urgent action. 📈 Cases are rising, outbreaks are larger, and several countries now report local transmission. Press release: bit.ly/46uR1iK #CandidaAuris #HAI #IDsky #EpiSky #AMR

✨📄 What about the untapped therapeutic potential of the immune response in invasive aspergillosis ? Here’s some rational, pre-clinical and clinical evidence. Huge thanks to our amazing 🌍 team! 🔗 bit.ly/46kajHr @simonfeys.bsky.social @agocarvalho.bsky.social @martinhoenigl.bsky.social

🚨 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... ⬇️

We are recruiting two Research Associates! Funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social , join us to work on Mucorales adaption in collaboration with Becky Hall (University of Kent) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline: 1st October

Isto não é uma decisão de um Ministério da Educação que governa de acordo com a evidência técnica e científica. É uma lamentável cedência populista a quem não se importa de aumentar as gravidezes indesejadas e a vulnerabilidade dos que não têm recursos económicos para aceder à formação essencial.

New BBC article on fungal infections in which we are quoted: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

🖼️"From Artifacts to Facts" 🗓️21-28Jul 🕗 8h-20h 📍ICBAS-UP, foyer Salão Nobre 🎟️free entrance The exhibit "From Artifacts to Facts" is a tribute to Prof Teixeira da Silva (1932-2012), legendary #UPorto academic and researcher at the inception of IBMC, one of #i3S founding institutes. #SciArt #outreach

We are proud to present ySPI, the newly established youth initiative of the Portuguese Society for Immunology (SPI), approved in April 2025. The ySPI has been created by and for young scientists. Our mission is to connect, support students and young researchers who are passionate about immunology.

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

💥 A gut microbe metabolite that drives #atherosclerosis? Yes—Imidazole propionate (ImP) triggers vascular inflammation without changing cholesterol. 🧪 We show the pathway—and how to block it. nature.com/articles/s41... #OpenAccess at @Nature @CNIC_CARDIO #CVD #immunosky #cardiosky #microbiomesky

#EpigeneticPower! 💥 #NewPaperAlert! We show @cp-immunity.bsky.social that endogenous oxidized lipids decide whether host survives or dies during #sepsis, #ARDS, or Staph infection! Ox lipids bind & inhibit #AKT, boosting inhibitory H3K27 methylation via EZH2 & blocking #IL10!

Fungal infections are getting harder to treat. The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus tops the World Health Organization's list of worrying fungal diseases. It's growing increasingly resistant to the first-line drug used to treat it. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Quoted here about the increasing problem of drug resistance in Aspergillus isolates. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

🎓 ICVS secures over €2.27M from FCT for 11 research projects in neuroscience, regenerative medicine, infectious diseases & more. A major boost for scientific excellence! 🔗 Learn more: icvs.uminho.pt/icvs-secures...

📣 Next #Communicable drops Mon 14 July! @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @josh-nosanchuk.bsky.social invite Arturo Casadevall @acasadevall1.bsky.social (Johns Hopkins) to discuss the spread of #fungi due to climate change, and what that means for fungal pathogenesis & infection #IDSky #clinmicro #MedSky

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.

🔥🗞️Olorofim for the treatment of invasive fungal diseases in patients with few or no therapeutic options: a single-arm, open-label, phase 2b study. Groundbreaking work on a very promising new antifungal. Free access here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lHca5E-Uo...

A Functional Polymorphism in IL-36ß Modulates Macrophage Antifungal Effector Functions and Increases Susceptibility to Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis ✅ Just Accepted #IDSky

🚨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...

Climate change: shifting boundaries of fungal disease in Europe and beyond New review in Thorax by @mbottery.bsky.social Sarah Sedik @germhuntermd.bsky.social @martinhoenigl.bsky.social @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social thorax.bmj.com/content/thor... #MedSky #IDSky #PulmSky #ClimateSky #MedMycoSky

Portugal won the UEFA Nations League!!! 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹😁💪🏻🎉🍾🥂

🌍 Advance your research career with ICVS at the University of Minho! We're seeking postdocs for MSCA Fellowships 2025. 🧪 Tailored mentoring, top facilities, & collaborative research in Portugal. 🗓️ Apply by June 10th: icvs.uminho.pt/job/icvs-is-... #MSCA #ICVS #ResearchFellowship #BiomedicalResearch

Research Opportunity at ICVS ICVS is hiring a Doctoral Researcher (initial level)! 🧬 Position: 1 Doctoral Researcher (Labour Code). 📚 Area: Basic Medicine. 🌟 Project: “FUNPATH,” funded by “la Caixa” Foundation. Details & applications: icvs.uminho.pt/job/icvs-is-... #ICVS #Research

The LeibundGut-lab at the @mrccmm.bsky.social, in collaboration with @neil-gow.bsky.social, recruits two postdocs to study the skin commensal yeast Malassezia in atopic dermatitis #fungalrecognition and #fungalimmunology jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

🚨 We did it! Our latest work—led by my lab and the @lloydlab.bsky.social is now published in Nature Immunology! 🎉 Using single-cell spatial transcriptomics, we provide the first map of the airway wall. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #spatialbiology #asthma #mastcells #lungimmunology

DEADLINE IS NEAR!! Register and submit your abstract before 30th May!! Join us!! 7th-9th September 2025 for BSMM annual conference at Norwich Assembly house @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @idiots-pod.bsky.social #Norwich2025 #BSMM2025 bsmm.org/BSMM_2024/bs...

New online! Aspergillus fumigatus biology, immunopathogenicity and drug resistance

The Frightening Fungi have long been overlooked. Read the @nature.com editorial highlighting that time to act is NOW. #MicroSky 🍄 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As with malaria, there is no vaccine against fascism either. Only education, freedom, justice and empathy can protect us The 25th of April has a special flavor in Portugal, we celebrate the anniversary of the Carnation Revolution of 1974, by @elmiguelche.bsky.social expresso.pt/opiniao/... 1/6

Fungi can protect the environment, grow food and even develop new medicines. 🍄 But they can also cause disease. As climate change spreads pathogenic fungi to new places, more people worldwide will be at risk. Learn more in our explainer ⤵️ wellcome.org/news/will-cl...

Excited to welcome Luis Lago to @metabolomicaceu! He’ll be working on #InvasivePulmonaryAspergillosis with Coral Barbas within the #FUNPATH project, led by @agocarvalho.bsky.social and funded by @CaixaResearch

🧠🧬✨ Day of Immunology – April 29 Don’t miss this special event celebrating the power of young minds in science! 🔬 Samuel Gonçalves, from ICVS, will be speaking on Infection and the Immune System, bringing insight from cutting-edge research in immunology.

Human Immunity to Fungal Infections. New review from Donald Vinh @donvinh.bsky.social @mcgill.ca: rupress.org/jem/article/... #InfectiousDisease #HostDefense #HumanDiseaseGenetics #Immunodeficiency

🌟 ICVS was rated EXCELLENT in the FCT’s 2023/2024 evaluation of R&D Units, recognizing the outstanding work of our researchers, clinicians, faculty & staff in advancing biomedical and health sciences. 🔗 Read more: icvs.uminho.pt/icvs-receive... #ICVS #FCT

Our newest review is published @nature.com Reviews Microbiology! 🥳 Together with Julian Naglik, we discuss the interplay of #Candida albicans, the host, and the microbiota during commensalism and pathogenicity. 🍄🦠 Check out the article here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @leibniz-hki.de

🌱♻️ At ICVS, lab plastic gets a second life! With Oiá Plast, we recycle hard plastics like tip boxes and falcon tubes into new materials. Part of our Green Labs initiative for a more sustainable science. 💚 📽️ Watch the video! #ICVSGreenLabs www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Do you run a research lab working on Aspergillus? The Aspergillus Genomes Research Policy Committee is looking to host a list of Aspergillus labs on its webpage! Drop us a message with your lab website and a photo and we'll get it listed. Have a look here for inspiration aspgrpc.com/aspergillus-...

Great #YECMM networking event ! Thanks to all YECMM members who joined. To be renewed at #ESCMIDGlobal next year ! @rosannesprute.bsky.social @sarah-delliere.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social

April 13 – World Sarcoidosis Day Over 1.2M live with this rare, often misdiagnosed disease. At ICVS, the i3D team researchers raise awareness with a photo series. 📸 Facts in photos ℹ️ More at: fibralung.pt #Sarcoidosis #ICVS

New post doc opportunity in our team at Kiel University in the north of Germany. We are looking for a motivated molecular biologists to unravel plant-microbe interactions in grasses. Please see: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de

On April 1, 2025, our project officially started. A significant milestone that we have worked towards for a long time. Now, we look forward to taking the next steps together. @martinhoenigl.bsky.social @simonfeys.bsky.social @agocarvalho.bsky.social

The World Health Organization @who.int issues its first-ever reports on tests and treatments for fungal infections

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