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Jessie MacAlpine

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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🍄The full program for the 2027 GRC Immunology of Fungal Infections is now online! 👀Think it looks good? Apply now to secure your spot - only a handful of spaces are left to grab! 🚨Fellowships available for those who qualify. All details and the program are here: www.grc.org/immunology-o...
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2027 Immunology of Fungal Infections Conference GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Immunology of Fungal Infections will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Virginia Tech has TWO Assistant/Associate Professor positions open in the Department of Biological Sciences targeting fungal and bacterial molecular biologists. Join some great fungal biologists @mycorican.bsky.social and Kirsten Nielsen! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...
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Selin Jessa @selinjessa.com · 22/09/2026
Life update! This month I'm thrilled to be back in Canada to launch my lab at the LTRI @sinaihealth.bsky.social in Toronto, affiliated with @utoronto.ca! Very grateful for so much support and mentorship along the way to get to this moment. Follow along here! www.jessalab.org
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We are a computational biology lab studying gene regulation in development, disease, and for therapeutics.
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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨Spaces are filling up fast for the 2027 GRC Immunology Fungal Infections meeting - submit your application now to avoid missing out! Full program available next week but you can see the invited speakers here: www.grc.org/immunology-o... #immunosky 🍄🧪
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2027 Immunology of Fungal Infections Conference GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Immunology of Fungal Infections will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Did you know that the same types of antifungals that we use to treat humans are used BROADLY in agriculture? This practice contributes to resistance ➡️ limited or no options to treat some fungal infections like Candida auris. #thinkfungal #fungalawarenessweek
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Vikas Yadav @vikasyadavsci.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am thrilled to share that I have joined the University of Minnesota Twin Cities as an Assistant Professor as of today. The Yadav Lab will be part of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. #newPI #fungi #InfectiousDiseases www.yadavlab.org
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Yadav Lab
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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Most basic science departments at UCSF are having faculty searches this year. Biochemistry & Biophysics, Microbiology & Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and more. We're looking for new and exciting science and nice people. You'll find them all at aprecruit.ucsf.edu
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Welcome - AP Recruit
University of California, San Francisco Online Faculty Recruitment
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481
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Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Congratulations to colleagues Suzanne Noble and Ari Molofsky on their breakthrough work on the emerging drug-resistant fungal pathogen Candida auris. Not only does it trigger an immune response that enhances skin colonization, but it also DIRECTLY BINDS HUMAN HAIR! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The fungal pathogen Candida auris exposes chitin to trigger IFNγ and persist in hair follicles
Candida auris is a multidrug-resistant fungus of major public health concern whose mechanisms for persistence on skin, a major risk factor for deadly outbreaks, remain unclear. In this study, we compa...
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For the past 30 years, “whole-genome sequencing” has been a misnomer. Today the T2T Consortium publishes a dozen papers heralding a future of truly complete genomes for humans and nearly any vertebrate 👨‍🔬🐒🐦🐀🦒🐎🫏🐹🐟 (sorry, no salamanders): www.cell.com/consortium/t... 🧵[1/15]
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Jessie MacAlpine @jessiemacalpine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🌟Applications are open for the upcoming GRS/GRC on the Immunology of Fungal Infections in Ventura, California! Make sure to submit your abstract by September 1 to be considered for an oral presentation: www.grc.org/immunology-o...
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2027 Immunology of Fungal Infections Conference GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Immunology of Fungal Infections will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓
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Dr. Deanna Santer @drdeannasanter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📢 Super excited to promote that our #Immunology department is recruiting a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Immunobiology of Chronic Disease!🎉🥳 Please note this is a targeted recruitment with more details via QR code. I am lucky to work here in such a collaborative environment Please share widely
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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The WHO today published a new blueprint to help countries respond to the increasing burden of fungal disease and antifungal resistance – one of global health’s most underestimated and neglected threats. www.who.int/news/item/30... @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social
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New WHO report outlines critical steps to confront fungal disease and antifungal resistance
The World Health Organization (WHO) today published a new blueprint to help countries respond to the increasing burden of fungal disease and antifungal resistance – one of global health’s most underes...
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637
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The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology @mrccmm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Organoids are tiny 3D “organs” grown in the lab. They help researchers study disease, test drugs, and advance personalised medicine without human or animal testing. Image shows organoids infected with Candida albicans. 🔬 📷 O. Ross & E. Hickey #ImageOfTheWeek #Fungus #FungalInfection #Microscopy
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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 12/05/2026
📽️ New video summary of a study, Alternatively activated monocyte-derived myeloid cells promote extracellular pathogen persistence in pulmonary fungal granulomas, from @ivanzheng.bsky.social and colleagues in the Dang lab (rupress.org/jem/article/...) youtu.be/zuFiOzNMSg4
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Type 2 immunity drives persistent fungal infection
YouTube video by Journal of Experimental Medicine
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Teresa O'Meara @teresaomeara.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We are hiring @umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social ! Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Microbiology and Immunology department. We are especially looking for someone working in bacterial pathogenesis
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Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Join us! @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position using experimental evolution to understand real-world resistance dynamics. See preprint for the 🤯 strain collection we will be working with www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Closing 15 May. Apply: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #mevosky
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Prof Braj Singh @prof-braj-singh.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Our new paper in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social includes 1. Global atlas of human pathogens in soils 2. Soil biodiversity negatively linked with human pathogens 3. Many pathogens to increase in future climates 4. Positive link between pathogens & mortality authors.elsevier.com/a/1msNK6t8JE...
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Nati @rioscolombo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I’m excited to share our latest publication in @natureportfolio.nature.com for researchers to set up their own in vitro gut microbiome model with strain-level resolution. Free access to the article here: rdcu.be/e81bY
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Establishing and analyzing the Simplified Human Intestinal Microbiota (SIHUMI) as a versatile in vitro gut microbiome model with qPCR-based strain-level tracking
Nature Protocols - This protocol enables users to establish a defined, in vitro consortium composed of seven fully sequenced and anaerobically culturable human gut bacteria and follow the growth of...
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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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
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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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
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GetGenome @getgenome.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
GetGenome is present at the Asilomar Fungal Genetics Conference #fungal26 Come and visit and spread the word about #ggfungi2026
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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Check out all the great work of the Lab LaBella at #fungal26 @audreykward.bsky.social @taytaypowpow.bsky.social
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Lotus Lofgren @lotuslofgren.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Hey #fungal26 our lab is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for an NSF funded project in ectomycorrhizal competition. Come find me for more info! www.lotuslofgren.com/pd2026
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PD ad 2026 — The Lofgren Lab
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Toby Baril @tobybarilbio.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Need to annotate transposons in fungal genomes? 🧬 Good news #MycoMobilome is now live! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/narg... Access the sequences through our Zenodo community (you can also contribute seqs with credit), and synchronisation with @dfam.bsky.social! w/ @danielcroll.bsky.social
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MycoMobilome: a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom
Abstract. Transposable elements (TEs) are found in nearly all eukaryotic genomes. Despite significant advances in the sequencing of genomes, TE resources r
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 03/03/2026
For Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, Nature spoke to scientists from around the world about how their work has been shaped by playing Pokémon games, watching animated TV series and films and trading cards in school playgrounds. 🧪
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Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science
The Japanese media sensation has inspired generations of researchers in fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity.
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Congrats to our 2026 GSA Award recipients! They have made significant contributions to science, including scientific discoveries, mentoring, creation of community resources, and education. Learn more about them: buff.ly/6zAwQQ1 Join us in celebrating their accomplishments.👏 1/3🧵⬇️
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The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology @mrccmm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🔬✨ There's still time to register for #MycoTalks with Iuliana Ene and Bernhard Hube. 📅 29 January 2026 ⏰ 4:00 PM (UK time) 📍 Online 👉 Register here: buff.ly/M4wg4KJ
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Teresa O'Meara @teresaomeara.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Candida albicans is usually hanging out with bacterial neighbors, so what happens to the fungus during co-culture? The bacteria secrete metabolites that induce massive cell wall remodeling that change immune recognition and drug resistance. Read more in our new paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...
graphical abstract. Left is a fungal cell surrounded by bacteria, and the Hog1 cascade is turned on. Right is a fungal cell covered in mannan fibrils that prevent IgA and caspofungin and increase CLR recognition by macrophages
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Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Black field with a macro image of a bright orange lichen Xanthoria in one of the corner. Little diagrams showing a structure of a lichen thallus with different layers in grey and green, a phylogenetic tree, and an alphafold generated structure of a protein. White text says "PhD position in Stockholm University / SciLifeLab. 
Lichen Biology, Symbiosis, Microbial Ecology & Evolution,Meta-omics
Fully funded for 4 years. Start Apr-Sep 2026. Deadline for application: Feb 1st."
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 18/12/2025
#NewResearch IL-17 signaling restricts C. albicans pathogenicity in the colonized oral cavity. #MicroSky 🦠🍄 @lableibundgut.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ @frois-martins.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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IL-17-mediated antifungal immunity restricts Candida albicans pathogenicity in the oral cavity - Nature Microbiology
IL-17 signalling restricts C. albicans pathogenicity in the colonized oral cavity. Lack of IL-17 is associated with overt filamentation due to impaired zinc nutritional immunity and over time leads to...
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Jo Rhodes @drjorhodes.com · 12/12/2025
Come to Birmingham and do a PhD with myself and @wvschaik.bsky.social!
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Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Thrilled to share that I recently got a position of an Assistant Professor/SciLifeLab Fellow at Stockholm University, where I will continue my work on #lichen symbiosis. The lab opens in April 2026, and if you are interested in joining please get in touch! #newPI
Black background with white letters 'metalichen lab'. Right and lower part of the image taken by a macro photo of a bright yellow lichen. The lichen surface has numerous cup-shaped fruiting bodies with orange inner surface
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Bryan Bryson @thebrysonlab.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The @ragoninstitute.bsky.social is launching a new faculty search for a computational immunologist! Applications are open now and reviewed on a rolling basis. Please share broadly with your networks! #immunosky www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Computational Immunologist - Boston, Massachusetts (US) job with Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, & Harvard | 12849577
The Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard in Cambridge MA, together with the Departmen
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The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology @mrccmm.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Join us this week for #MycoTalks with Bernd Schnabl and Michal Olszewski @olszewskilab.bsky.social 🗓️ Thursday 23 October 🕓 16:00 (UK time) 📍 Online – open to all! 🔗 Register now to secure your spot: universityofexeter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 20/10/2025
#Candida albicans is a leading opportunistic fungal #pathogen of humans. Ci Fu, Leah Cowen &co expand the GRACE #Calbicans #FunctionalGenomics resource, identifying genes important for temperature-dependent fitness & highlighting its power to reveal vulnerabilities @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Wft0Xg
Screening of expanded GRACE mutant collection at six temperatures reveals distinct functional enrichment in genes clustered by fitness profile. Top left: Schematic of GRACE mutant construction. Bottom left: Summary of GRACE mutant collection expansion based on manual curation of biological process gene ontology annotation on Candida Genome Database (CGD). Pie chart with four concentric rings visualizes the relative proportion of genes from various versions of the GRACE collection with biological process descriptions completely unannotated or annotated based on: experimentally characterization, S. cerevisiae ortholog, S. pombe ortholog, orthologs in other fungal species, conserved protein domains, or unannotated; see Materials and methods for full details. Right: Heatmap of genes ordered by hierarchical clustering of essentiality scores across screening temperatures. A score of 4 (red) represents no growth and 0 (yellow) represents growth comparable to wild type.
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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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...
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Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership - University of Birmingham
MIBTP is a UK-wide doctoral training programme that equips bioscience PhD students with interdisciplinary skills to tackle global challenges in agriculture, health, and sustainability.
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Jeremy Barr @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41... PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
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Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature
Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.
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Arthur Mortha @theonlylabever.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Happy to share new work from #theonlylabever, lead by the phenomenal @sltai.bsky.social - who developed a tool to study the biology of ILC3s, identifying their role in controlling CSF2-dependent myeloid cells. 🤗 @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social @societymucosalimm.bsky.social OA: doi.org/10.1016/j.mu...
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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Incredible new paper from @schacherer.bsky.social et al rdcu.be/eLcTH
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From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes
Nature - A newly compiled atlas of species-wide structural variants and gene-based and graph pangenomes derived from highly complete assemblies of genomes from 1,086 natural isolates enable...
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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!
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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
If you saw my talk on the population structure of #Aspergillus flavus at Fungal Genetics in 2024, you might have heard someone ask "how does Aspergillus oryzae fit into the picture?" If so, you heard my answer was "wait and see--we're working on this exact topic" Well, the wait is over! Preprint ⬇️
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The American Association of Immunologists @aai.org · 06/10/2025
Congratulations to new Nobel Laureate and AAI Distinguished Fellow Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell! Honored for his foundational discovery of regulatory T cells (Tregs). www.nobelprize.org
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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/09/2025
When harmful fungi invade their carefully cultivated crops, fungus-farming termites fight back with the precision of skilled gardeners, a new Science study reveals, smothering them in soil clumps enriched with microbial allies that inhibit fungal growth. scim.ag/4nsAqCu
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Fungus-farming termites can protect their crop by confining weeds with fungistatic soil boluses
The symbiotic agriculture of fungus-farming termites can collapse if they fail to prevent invading weeds. Previous studies suggest a role for symbiotic fungistatic microbes in bringing about weed cont...
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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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