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Lambros Frantzeskakis @lambrosf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re a graduate student and interested in fungi please apply, this a great opportunity to experience research in an industry setting jobs.bayer.com/job/Chesterf...

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Fungal Discovery & Genomics Co-Op

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Lambros Frantzeskakis @lambrosf.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Claude code is going to be the alpha fold moment for bioinformatics. It is really amazing what this tool is enabling!

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 22/01/2026

TIL you can use Claude Code with local/open models on your own machine with Ollama ollama.com/blog/claude

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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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Lambros Frantzeskakis @lambrosf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Wow! What an awesome and super interesting finding!

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Armin Djamei @effectomics.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#2025ISMPMI Xin Li shows the exiting finding that sclerotinia is haploid with two nuclei harboring different chromosome sets making together the full set of the genome.

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Wow, this is super interesting: techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/n... $3000 for a petaflop of compute in a consumer-grade box. Their main aim is AI but think of all the ONT basecalling you could do with this - lots of opportunity for adaptive sampling at scale!

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Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' | TechCrunch

At the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a device it's calling a 'personal AI supercomputer.'

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

#PlantScienceClassics #17: The Mildew Resistance Locus O (MLO). 80 years ago Rudolf Freisleben & Alfred Lein created the first powdery mildew resistant #barley plant. 30yrs ago the gene was mapped,&25 yrs ago cloned - yet, it's mode of action remains a mystery. doi.org/10.1007/BF01... #PlantImmunity

A portrait of Rudolf Freisleben (from https://gepris-historisch.dfg.de/person/5103240?) next to the title of the 1942 paper 'Über die Auffindung einer mehltauresistenten Mutante nach Röntgenbestrahlung einer anfälligen reinen Linie von Sommergerste' by Freisleben and Lein from Naturwissenschaften volume 30, page 608.

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I want this: Genome-edited Chardonnay grapes resistant or tolerant to mildew & powdery mildew! Did you know that grapes are grown on only ~5% of European agricultural land, but account for ~2/3 of all fungicide sprayed in Europe? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #plantscience

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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Mapping river microbiomes across the U.S.: GROWdb spans 90% of U.S. watersheds, uncovering the microbial communities driving nutrient cycles & breaking down pollutants. Achieved through a major crowdsourcing effort involving >100 sampling teams. Paper (OA): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GROW sampling across the United States. The points mark the sampling location. Colour coding represents the microbiome analysis performed (metagenomics, red; metatranscriptomics, yellow; paired metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, blue).

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Lambros Frantzeskakis @lambrosf.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Really happy to be in a platform that stimulates scientific discussion. My interests have changed a bit, I am working a lot on microbial pathogens of insects. If you have any good ideas Bayer can work on for insect control, feel free to send me a message!

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Javier Brumós @jbrumos.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Along these lines, @naturebiotech.bsky.social Europe’s first field trial of gene-edited vines has begun in Italy. Chardonnay vines have undergone gene inactivation to better defend themselves against downy mildew, an oomycete disease. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Italy tests first gene-edited vines for winemaking - Nature Biotechnology

Europe’s first field trial of gene-edited vines began in northern Italy on 30 September 2024. Developed by EdiVite, a spinoff from the University of Verona, these Chardonnay vines have undergone gene ...

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