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Mark A. Anthony

@anthomycota.bsky.social
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Ecologist into fungi, forests, and global change. Assistant professor at University of Vienna 🇦🇹 Also into 🏋️‍♂️🏃‍♂️🌈🏄🌋👾 www.fungalecologylab.com

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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Coming to the @egu.eu General Assembly in 2026? Consider submitting an abstract to our mycorrhizae session if you are working on these organisms and their linkages to ecosystem functioning. Last year, this new session was a huge hit, so let's make year two even better!
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This week as part of the @pilzfestspiele.at - our group showed mycorrhizal fungal colonized roots, our culture collection, posters of results, and we had a massive turnout! People are becoming increasingly interested in fungi @cemess.bsky.social @ter-cemess.bsky.social www.fungalecologylab.com
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Oh yeah, I may have made www.fungalecologylab.com team hats
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
What a week and almost 2 more to go sampling our Mycobiome x Climate Change exp (144/576 done)! We added isotopes to track 🍄 transfer, collected seedlings (so much 🍄‍🟫) and you can see the myco treatment effects! Grateful for such a great team in the lab! Thanks @snsf.ch and @wwtf.at for support!
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Off to CH 🇨🇭 to fix our climate change x mycobiome experiment after a surprise and massive snowfall in Valais clobbered a bunch of trees!
A pine tree fallen over an open top chamber with pine seedlings inside
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#EGU2025 has been a bop! I’m having a great time, especially at the poster sessions! The Fungal Ecology Lab was well also represented today with @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social and Christos 🍄🌲💧
Three guys standing and smiling in front of a poster.
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Beautiful start to field work with Artin Zarsav in Lens, Switzerland to track our climate change and fungal manipulation experiments
Scientists writing observations in a pine forest
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
January, 2025: Starts with a bang with new experiments, analyses, and lots of nice group hangs! I cannot wait to see what the second year of #FEL (Fungal Ecology Lab) brings!
scientists measuring soil nutrientspetri dish mesocosmsscientists pretending to be cooks making pancakes!fungal ecology group together for a meal
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
December, 2024: We destructively sample our first controlled experiment in the lab!
robinia seedlings growing before being sampled
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
November: We finish installing our plant growth chambers!
happy phds with power tools
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
November, 2024: Teaching Methods in Ecosystems and Biogeochemistry, here isolating MAOM and POM from forest soils.
a beaker with dried MAOMstudents in the course preparing samples
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
October 2024, we start getting quite good at fungal endophyte culturing
fungal endophytes in petri dishes
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Vienna Night run with fabulous colleagues @ter-cemess.bsky.social
colleagues after running the vienna night run
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Two weeks of field work across Switzerland with @wslresearch.bsky.social sampling our climate change experiment! September, 2024.
people in a forest understory sampling soils and foliagefungal colonized root tips from a soil core
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
June, 2024: I joined the Blenders (a grass roots, queer group) and we hosted a Pride Party for our Department (plus an amazing glitter beard, so come on!).
a group of blenders standing together for a pride celebration
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
May, 2025 -- Vienna gets beautiful and the wine season can kick off.
grape vines in vienna
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Close scientific collaborator and friend Nadine Keller visits for the second time to employ molecular tools from our group to study fungi in dipterocarp forests! April, 2024.
person at PCR hood pipetting
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Artin and I repairing broken roofing from our global change installations back in Switzerland. March, 2024.
Mark and Artin standing in a forest smiling
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
January, 2024. The Vienna Science Ball. I immediately learned how fancy Vienna can be!
Mark standing with his partner in the Vienna State House dressed in nice clothing.
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It's been one year since I started the Fungal Ecology Lab at the @univie.ac.at. This has been the most exciting and rewarding year of my life. I am so lucky to work with this team of talented scientists. Some highlights 🍄🌲✨
group photo of the fungal ecology lab standing outside on a sunny day
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
10 full length ITS libraries pooled from 1500 DNA samples isolated across 50+ climate change experiments globally! Ready for sequencing 🧬 What a huge week and incredible lab effort with unstoppable PhD Artin Zarsav & the one and only gel master @tommansfield.bsky.social at @cemess.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫
Three smiling scientist doing PCR Tubes filled with pooled green fluid
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question? See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
A red Amanita fruiting with leaf litter around
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Fungal Ecology Lab @cemess.bsky.social pancake night! We eat more than mushrooms 😊. @tommansfield.bsky.social @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social @giuliabubu.bsky.social plus many more not on BS!
The lab group sitting a table smiling
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Yesterday we sampled our Robinia pseudoacacia experiment where we observed big difference in plant growth depending on interactions with microbes from its native versus invasive range! Great nodule formation and amazing effort led by lab member, Yuanhao 🍄‍🟫🦠
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We finally finished installing all the modifications to our plant growth chambers! I am so grateful for a wonderful team able to culture and sequence microbes but also use powertools!
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Our Global mycobiome responses to climate change molecular work begins with samples from >1300 plots worldwide, with PhD Artin Zarsav www.fungalecologylab.com/global-fungi...
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Interested in foliar and soil microbiomes under climate change and assisted migration? Our new PhD position at the Swiss Federal Institute WSL with lots of time at @univie.ac.at is now open. Apply here: apply.refline.ch/273855/1589/... DM or e-mail questions!
Snowy swiss alps
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Woohooo! Our grant was funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social to study soil and foliar microbe responses to non-native tree invasion (assisted migration), warming, and drought at WSL and @univie.ac.at 🍄🌲! PhD ad coming soon with awesome collaborators!
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