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Alex Idnurm

@aidnurm.bsky.social

An academic in the School of BioSciences, the University of Melbourne. blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mycology Profile photo? Clear out of lab fridges in 2024, and found an enzyme that arrived in January 1992. Did finally get rid of it in September 2026.

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Michelle Momany @mcmomany.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Join us in UGA Fungal Group! Dept of Microbiology is hiring tenure track Associate or Full prof in Medical Mycology pursuing translational and/or fundamental understanding of human fungal pathogens using any experimental or computational system. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/508...

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Andrew Urquhart @starships-andrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another step in the #Starship story - they move via a circular intermediate. Helps explain how these elements horizontally transfer and means that we can modify them into transformation vectors (starmids). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Aaron Vogan @fungage-lab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The final version of our latest Starship manuscript is out!🚀We study the evolution of a gene cluster for formaldehyde resistance to show that #HGT mediated by giant Starship #transposons is a recurrent force in #fungal adaptation. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Summary slide showing how the giant transposon "Chrysaor" (Centre) confers resistance to high concentrations of formalin in both Paecilomyces variotii (bottom right) and Aspergillus fumigatus (Bottom left). Phylogenies (Top left) and whole genome comparisons (Top right) indicate that Chrysaor has been horizontally transferred between these species.

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