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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D.

@annemakerofhats.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Fungal Biology at the University of Georgia | bioinformatics & genomics | she/her | opinions are my own & may not reflect the views of my employer or funding agencies | annehatmaker.com Fungi >>>

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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 20h
Come be my colleague!!! As a recent hire just 2 mos in, I have felt very supported by UGA so far, and there's a great group of fungal biologists here!! I am in an altogether different department, but please reach out if you have any questions about UGA and the Athens area! ❤️🖤
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Pfliegler Lab at University of Debrecen @pflieglerlab.bsky.social · 21h
Whole genomes of the Metschnikowia pulcherrima #yeast complex! #yeastevolution
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Recruiting students to your Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD program? Make sure your stipend information is up-to-date in the Biology PhD Stipend database: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...
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Biology PhD Stipends
Biology Ph.D. stipend database with live summaries from the shared Google Sheet.
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So cool!
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Does publishing in a taxonomy journal make me a taxonomist? 🤔 (jkjk, no it does not, pls don't ask me what a species is)
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Many of the authors are not on Bluesky, including first authors Mickey Drott & Denny Wang, but @gibbonsgenomics.bsky.social & @rokaslab.bsky.social contributed, & of course the incomparable @kellerlab.bsky.social
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Damiosanrus's Emotional Outburst
Alt: Bashful, one of the seven dwarfs from the animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," being bashful
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New paper alert! 🚨 Very pleased to be part of this paper out now in @imafungus.pensoft.net We detail some key genomic & transcriptomic differences between #Aspergillus flavus & A. oryzae, 2 closely related groups of fungi viewed *very* differently by humans 🧪🍄 imafungus.pensoft.net/article/1952...
imafungus.pensoft.net
Population-specific transcriptomic shifts underlie secondary metabolic diversification in Aspergillus flavus Link and the domestication of Aspergillus oryzae (Ahlb.)
The genomic signatures of microbial domestication remain poorly understood within the context of natural population variation. Here, we demonstrate that Aspergillus oryzae, the filamentous fungus used...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please find 5 minutes today to draft your response to this drastic change in NIH Peer review. The deadline is October 13. I pasted my own response below as an example--please share widely 🧪
I am an NIH-funded scientist who has run a lab for 34 years.  I have served on literally dozens of NIH peer-review study sections, most recently this past June.  I also have served in Council for both NIGMS and for CSR.  I thus am very familiar with the current review process from both the prospective of an applicant and a reviewer.  I strongly oppose the proposed changes.  While NIH peer review is not perfect, it is the best system thus far devised, and is the envy of colleagues in other countries. Three experts in the field spend hours reviewing each proposal, using their knowledge of important issues to rank proposals by signficance, feasibility and impact.  Then they present their opinions to a panel of 20 or more expert sin the broader field, and a spirited discussion ensues.  Thus each proposal is put through  very stringent process, and the resulting ranking has substantial value in times when funding is limited.  Having review many times, I know that the proposed binning would provide equal "scores" to proposals that were greet with substanailly different degrees of enthusiasm.  Further, grants binned just bowl and just above the 25% cutoff would be subsequently viewed as if the enthusiasm for them quite divergent, certainly not an accurate summary.  The current fine-grained system avoids these issues.  Removing it will  make the task of NIH Program officers more difficult.   Binning also allows non-scientific issues to take on disproportionate weight in funding, an issue that will be accentuated if political appointees are making the ultimate decisions.  Please retain the current system.
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Jolien van Hooff @jvhooff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We're looking for a PhD candidate who's eager to study how the genomes of fascinating eukaryotic microbes evolve and organize - and we have a fully funded PhD position available!
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Gwênlyn Glusman (she/her) ☸️ @gwenlyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have modernized and enhanced the NSF COA generator tool. Results now update dynamically • Published under more than one name? Covered! • Other people share your name? No problem! • You prefer searching by ORCID? Go ahead! Give it a try. Feedback, bug reports, feature requests are MOST welcome! 🧪
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize? 🧪🔬🧬⚛️ Since the Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901, few women have been recognized in the categories of physics, chemistry & physiology or medicine. Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates here: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize?
Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine.
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How unusual, my students will be so interested!
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
May I share this post and picture with my mycology class during the "mycology in food" lecture? And any further descriptions of the taste??
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
O'Connor, cackling with the mad glee of FORBIDDEN fly-science, declared this group the HALLOWEEN GENES. And because scientists are nerds (fly geneticists doubly so), when we discovered the genes that summoned the Halloween genes (transcription factors) they were named 'Ouija board' & 'Séance'.
science.org
A gory tale behind the origin of 'Halloween genes'
Mutants of haunted, spook, and mummy send fly babies to early graves
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Kelly Dawe @corncolors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The UGA Genetics Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Associate Professor/Professor in Genetics, Synthetic Biology, and Biological Engineering. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!
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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn is here and my West Coast purple mushroom quest continues! Thanks so much to everyone who shared my flyer and/or sent me mushrooms last year — I now have 20 individuals growing in culture! I hope we can find more this year🤞 Stay tuned for updates and look out for those mushrooms 💜🍄‍🟫
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Kayla Stoy @kaylastoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper with my postdoc advisor @wcratcliff.bsky.social. I love his creativity in putting together this video to summarize the work. Happy we had the chance to collaborate with each other!
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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spread the word! I’m looking to recruit a PhD student to grow the Paulinella project. Some details can be found here: www.vanettenlab.org/join
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Join! — Van Etten lab at UMD
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...
abetterscientist.wordpress.com
Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France
I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NIH funding decisions should be made by scientific experts, not political appointees. Protecting rigorous peer review safeguards public trust, biomedical progress and U.S. scientific leadership. ➡️Learn more: www.asbmb.org/advocacy/pos... #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates
Graphic reading "Science Serves Us All" over a blue scientific background with the ASBMB logo.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026
These people inside NIH working on grants are really the best of the country, people who are not being paid big bucks but care about the mission; care about something bigger than themselves.
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Glad someone is having a non-chaotic week. And also what a gorgeous building to serve as a backdrop for a group photo!
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What about Chicken of the Woods?? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetipo...
Orange and yellow fungus growing on a tree (chicken of the woods)
From wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus
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Abigail Lind @abigailllind.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Come be my colleague! My department (Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech) is hiring a tenure-track professor in the area of Computational Genetics. The job posting is here: tinyurl.com/5fxwcds3
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Careers
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You all have been asking me for years if James Van Etten, discoverer of giant viruses, is my dad or uncle. He is not and we had never met until a month ago. Listen to this podcast episode to learn about Jim’s fascinating 60+ year career, why chloroviruses are cool, and if we are indeed related!
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Giant Algal Viruses with The J Van Ettens
Tiny Living Beings · Episode
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A decade ago, a “weird” kitten was found on a road near a Bolivian forest. Too small to be a housecat, he had a scrunched-up face, short round ears, long whiskers, & a coat of leopard-like spots. DNA analysis now reveals him as the very first of a newly discovered species & I think I'm in love. 😻🧬🧪👇
nationalgeographic.com
Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My lab is hiring a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on machine learning, model misspecification, and population genetics! Flexible start-date! Learn more about the lab: smithlabbio.github.io Job Ad: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job... Please reach out if you have any questions!
smithlabbio.github.io
The Smith Lab — Mississippi State University
The Smith Lab at Mississippi State University studies diversification using genomic data, with a focus on terrestrial snails and slugs.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have released my most powerful & high-yielding corn yet. It has already escaped my field & invaded three soybean farms. I fear it will soon kill all humans. But rather than quit corn & work to stop the apocalypse, I'm releasing even better corn in 3 months. Meanwhile, please use corn responsibly.
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It looks sooooo sad
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just told my mycology students about these last Tuesday! Where'd you find them? Students have to collect specimens to turn in so they learn to identify fungi based on morphology and a few aren't sure where to search (I'm in Athens now btw, just started at UGA in August!)
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@jabbur.bsky.social yet more sad beige :(
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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The RAxML-NG v2.0 preprint is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... v2.0 features integrated model testing, fast branch support metrics, automatic parallelization, phylogenetic difficulty prediction, genotype evolution models, to name but the most important features. And it is A LOT FASTER of course
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RAxML-NG 2: Automatic model selection, novel tree search heuristics, and fast branch support metrics
RAxML-NG is a widely used tool for maximum likelihood based phylogenetic inference. In the seven years since the last RAxML-NG publication, we have continuously improved and extended the code. Here, w...
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Plants of the National Parks is available for pre-order from your favorite bookseller. geni.us/Ywmh #NationalParks #Plants #WildPlants #NPS #PlantsOfTheNationalParks #Botany #NativePlantsUSA #NatureBooks #PublicLands #PlantScience #NatureEducation
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That one was my favorite as well 😂
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We're looking for a plant pathologist 🌱 🍄 to join our department (cals.ncsu.edu/entomology-a...)! The position is fairly broad/open to different disciplines in plant pathology, but heavy in teaching. Please go to the following link for more info & to apply. jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/233...
A serviceberry twig with leaves and fruit, one of the fruit infested by a rust fungus a purple flowered clover with whitish powdery mildew growth on the leavesA shiny dark green magnolia leaf with lichenized algal leaf spot on it.
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Adam Steinbrenner @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley Submit applications by Sept 30 Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Tanya Cheeke @tanyacheeke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New paper showing that it took 7 years post-inoculation to see effects on plant communities, highlighting the importance of longterm studies in restoration research esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Inoculation with old‐growth microbes improves restoration quality and reduces non‐native encroachment after seven years
Understanding the mechanisms that promote native seedling establishment in disturbed ecosystems is key to improving the biodiversity and function of landscape restorations. Over seven growing seasons...
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.
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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration! yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
Picture shows fireweed in foreground and Mt. Lougheed in background
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IMA Fungus @imafungus.pensoft.net · 09/09/2026
#Fungi sustain food, medicine & climate resilience, but #mycologists from low-income countries often can't afford to attend global conferences. The International Mycological Association is raising $30k for #IMC13 travel awards. You can help make fungal science more inclusive 👇 #gofundme #science
imafungus.pensoft.net
Supporting Fungal Scientists From Low-Income Countries 
Fungi are essential to life on Earth, supporting food production, ecosystem health, medicine, and climate resilience. Yet many scientists studying fungi, especially those working in low-income countri...
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Jim Elser @drlimnology.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Would you like to work here? The search for the next director of Flathead Lake Bio Station is re-opened (search suspended last year due to admin issue). FLBS is in terrific shape, physically, financially, & academically with exciting prospects for the future. 🧪 Apply: apply.interfolio.com/192695
Colorful sunset over Flathead Lake as seen from Polson.  Flathead Lake Biological Station is about 16 miles up on the east shore.
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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our lab is looking for PhD students to join us in 2027 🎓🎉 The projects can be structured around our research directions: - Transposable element dynamics - Fungal pangenomics - ML/language model genomics applications - Pathogen adaptation More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏
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Evolutionary genomics of pathogens
Croll lab at University of Neuchatel. The lab of Daniel Croll wants to understand how pathogens evolve to cause disease. For this, we mainly focus on major crop pathogens to unravel mechanisms of rapi...
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Guilt?
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In a few years perhaps we could all have 🎵 chestnuts roasting on an open fire 🎶
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
After years of testing, USDA has just approved releasing GMO American chestnut trees, potentially giving us the chance to bring back an iconic species destroyed in the early 20th century by an imported disease. (Chauvinistic note: I've had American chestnuts, and they are better than European ones.)
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USDA Approval Advances Efforts to Restore the American Chestnut
Efforts by researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to restore the American chestnut tree to the American landscape took a significant leap forward with an approved desi...
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In a global first, Mexico approves use of RNA-based fungicide. Oifirax, created by GreenLight Biosciences, uses RNA molecules to kill the fungus responsible for powdery mildew on grapes. www.science.org/content/arti...
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In a global first, Mexico approves use of RNA-based fungicide
Oifirax, created by GreenLight Biosciences, uses RNA molecules to kill the fungus responsible for powdery mildew on grapes
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It ys trulye ynspiringe to see an outpouringe of love for a trulye goode person who did goode thinges and lyved a full and creatyve and free and lovinge lyfe. It ys a greate blessinge to be reminded of the love that love kan create.
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Julian Liber @liberjulian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For all the fungi hunters out there, the Heitman Lab at Duke University is looking for Cryptococcus luteus found associated with crust fungi on fallen logs. Every sample helps! #mycology
A wanted poster for the fungus Granulobasidium vellereum and its parasite Cryptococcis luteus. Searchers should check the underside of fallen logs (especially elm) for white to cream crusts on the bottom side. The parasite appears as pale-yellow circular patches on the fungal surface. If found, searchers should record the location, host, take a photo, and send the whole branch/piece in a paper bag to the Heitman lab.
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