I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost

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

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Postdoc (2 years) in mycorrhizal fungal biogeography & species distribution modelling @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Work with large-scale metabarcoding data and modelling. Deadline is 30th April www.umu.se/en/work-with...

A new paper suggests that grant terminations from the NIH over the past year may have further punctured the so-called "leaky pipeline" because women were more impacted by grant terminations than men www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n...

FINDING THE BIG PICTURE FOR GENETIC DIVERSITY! We are offering a 2-year POSTDOC JOB to work on genetic diversity synthesis & metrics across species, as part of a larger @bexplo.bsky.social project on multi-species genetic diversity. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social

#Fungal26 need something to read on the flight home? Now obsessed with tRNAs? New Preprints! Genes near tRNAs are enriched in translational machinery: tinyurl.com/zshnf835 Hidden Diversity in Yeast tRNAs: Comparative Genomics and Modification Mapping in a Eukaryotic Subphylum tinyurl.com/3j6f3up2

Fungal fashion #fungal26

What a way to end #fungal26 We laughed and we cried and we learned so much A great reminder to look back and reflect on the past It can light the way to the future Thank you Nancy Keller for being a light 🕯️ in the field

Shout out to the myco-skeeters 🦋 at #fungal26 It's been fun live posting with you! @germhuntermd.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social @audreykward.bsky.social @angusb.bsky.social @hyphaltip.bsky.social @uehlinglab.bsky.social

Our last talk is Marcus Teixeira on lobomycosis #fungal26

Cryo-electron tomography of appressoria of Magnaporthe introduced by @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social #Fungal26

Next talk in our #fungal26 session on emerging fungal pathogens is Dr Lisa Couper on genomes of environmental isolates of Coccidioides for tracing human infections

Nate Johnson asks if small RNAs are the other stuff in the genome We know sRNAs are important, but how do we find them 🔎, figure out what they do ⚙️, and classify them 📑 Small-RNA seq data may already exist to answer this question #fungal26

Benny Kleinerman asks how does the ancient evolution and modern variation of Ssd1 RNA binding leads to phenotypic diversity across diverse homologs #fungal26

Nawaraj Dulal @nawaraj-dulal.bsky.social reveals the role of tRNA modification and codon usage in Magnaporthe that infect 🥀 rice 🌾 Modifications impact pathogenicity in a codon specific manner #fungal26

Nava R Poudyal asks how (no really, how?) do long non-coding RNAs mediate temperature 🌡️ and antifungal ☠️ responses #fungal26

Travis Seamons invites us to 👂 listen into some microbial conversations using RNA Addressable Modification 🧬 and barcoding. (Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...) #fungal26

Pikobodies - a revolutionary technology to engineer immunity into plants introduced by @JiorgosKourelis from his work in @kamounlab.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and now @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social #Fungal26

Communication continues! Baoye He shares how cross-kingdom 🍄🌱 communication happens with extracellular vesicles 🫧 and RNA trafficking 🚛🧬 #fungal26

Flavia Rogerio discusses what the genome of Bipolaris can tell us about it's transition from grass🌾 pathogen to hemp pathogen #fungal26

Césarée Morier-Gxoyiya @cesaree-mg.bsky.social asks what is causing the rise of wheat 🌾 stem rust? Is the rising temperature 🥵 in the UK to blame for this increase? Unlikes the rusts, Césarée will end this cycle (aka her PhD) looking for a postdoc #fungal26

No RNAi, big problems 🧬➡️🛑 Mycoviruses 🦠 interfering with RNAi can make fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans more virulent in mouse models. 🐁😷 Fascinating talk from Jun Huang. #fungal26

The one and only @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social at #Fungal26 talking about ToxA’s journey throughout the stars in different Starships!

Dr Barber describes how genomic epidemiology was used to establish clonal spread of azole resistant C parapsilosis through hospitals in Berlin

Spyros Kanellopoulos discusses how Aspergillus fumigatus is evolving in response to fungicides ☠️ Are there new resistance mutations in environmental strains? #fungal26

Exciting session at #fungal26 in Asilomar on Emerging and are-emerging Fungal Pathogens First talk is from award winning scientist, @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social on Candida parapsilosis #MedMycoSky

Amelia Barber @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social discusses the emergence of C. parapsilosis as a drug resistant infection This is very concerning because parapsilosis can spread in hospital 🏥 #fungal26

Fungal domestication in action - @benwolfe.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol... #Fungal26

Ben Wolfe wowing us with cheese and fungi and ecology and metabolites. Field sites from the forest to the cheese caves. #fungal26 @benwolfe.bsky.social

Erin Carr shares work on fungi that can withstand multiple extreme environments 🧂🔥💧 What role does melanin play in these polyextremotolerant fungi aka the Fungal Bunch #Fungal26

Check out our new review on exciting advances in molecular tools for studying DNA and RNA biology of fungal pathogens! w/ Matthew Blango @femsjournals.bsky.social @trr124-funginet.bsky.social @leibniz-hki.de academic.oup.com/microlife/ar...

Field work that I could get used to. In the cheese caves. Benjamin Wolfe #Fungal26

Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social celebrates the discovery of the interaction between Penicillium 🍄 and bacteria 🦠 But how do these fungal-bacterial interactions occur in complex real communities... Like cheese 🧀!? Or cheese gone awry! #fungal26

Laila P. Partida-Martinez tells is about endofungal bacteria 🦠 Mycetohabitans 🦠 provides Rhizopus 🍄 with a toxin ☠️ and promotes reproduction Oh and there's a virus in the fungus! #fungal26

My new word for today is 'pyrocosm' - essentially a fire in a bucket to study 'fire-loving' pyrophilous fungi - more fun than a microcosm experiment I think. @sydneyglassman.bsky.social #Fungal26

Sydney Glassman @sydneyglassman.bsky.social shares the Pyrophilous - or fire 🔥 loving - fungi What makes these fungi good at colonizing after a fire? Are they fast 🏃‍♀️ or thermotolerant 🥵 or can they eat special things 😋? #fungal26

The Pezizales being introduced by Gregory Bonito include beauties like Scutellinia scutellata- the eyelash fungus. #Fungal26

Morning #fungal26 and giving and getting some morel support with Greg Bonito

Cook your morels and avoid painkillers at night- fungal wisdom at #Fungal26

Lichen fungal effectors are potentially targeted to algal chloroplasts ⁦‪@puginiercamille.bsky.social ‬⁩ #Fungal26

The locals at Asilomar #Fungal26

#Fungal26. Asilomar sunset.

How does form and function evolve in the Pezizales fungi 🍄 The truffles moved from cup 🍵 to underground tuber 🥔 and lost their spore dispersal... So they evolved to be yummy! 😋 What else can an revolutionary approach reveal? Great work from Greg Bonito #fungal26

Jasmine Ono (@jtono.bsky.social) discussing some matchmaking mechanisms gone wrong 😱 💔 Saccharomyces paradoxus and Saccharomyces cerevisiae F1 hybrids are sterile largely due to recombination rejection 🛑✋🏻 due to mis-segregation of chromosomes 🧬➡️❔🤷‍♀️ #fungal26

Luis Larrondo @lflarrondo.bsky.social is illuminating 💡the role of light 🕯️ in the circadian clock ⏰ They are doing this by building 🏫 semi-synthetic clocks ⏰ #fungal26

María Angélica Bravo Núñez uses natural isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae 🌳🧫 to understand how aneuploidy and structural variation 🧬🧱 changes over time. Take home message (with some of my own soapboxing): don’t just rely on lab strains - look for natural variation in the wild! 🏕️🍇 #fungal26

Leslie Torres Ulloa presents on the zombie 🧟‍♂️ fly 🪰 fungus E. Muscae The death 💀 summit of the fly 🪰 occurs around sunset 🌇 before the fungal snow ❄️ rains down This effect is under circadian ⏰ control! #fungal26

Xiao Liu shows that disruption of clock ⏰ genes impacts pathogenicity 💀🥀 in Fusarium #fungal26