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 ...

To cause rice blast disease, the filamentous fungus Magnaporthe oryzae develops a specialised infection cell called an appressorium, which generates enormous turgor to breach the rice leaf cuticle. Al...

The human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus has been found in natural and agricultural environments around the world. Disease is acquired when susceptible individuals inhale airborne asexual spores from ...

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What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge…

The mechanisms underlying the adaptation of lichens to nutrient-poor environments are poorly understood. Here, Happacher et al. show that a globally distributed lichen fungus produces an iron-scavengi...

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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...

Yeasts and related fungi isolated from cacti or nearby non-cactus plants were characterized phenotypically and genomically, revealing differences that hint at modes of adaptation to the cactus host.

Septins are a family of GTP-binding proteins that assemble into heteromeric oligomers and polymers, associating with specific membrane domains and organelles according to their subunit composition. G...

Aspergillus fumigatus is a thermotolerant saprobe found in soils and plant debris worldwide and an important pathogen of humans causing two million deaths annually. A. fumigatus makes abundant asexual...

Plants and animals respond to pathogen attack by mounting innate immune responses that require intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins. These immune receptors detect pathog...

The blast fungus forms a force-generating appressorium for plant infection. Eseola et al. show how individual spore cells adopt distinct fates, trafficking organelles to the appressorium or undergoing...

Trials of drugs to fight deadly resistant infections are advancing, but they might fall victim to overuse of agricultural fungicides just like their predecessors.

What? F1AMR Network Scientific Meeting When? Thursday May 7th 2026Where? University of Manchester, UK At this fully hybrid event, we will hear presentations from colleagues in research, industry and t...

Increasing evidence suggests that lichens are not just a partnership between one fungus and one alga or cyanobacterium but may contain multiple intera…

Open vacancies in Aspergillus and fungal research Postdoc – Imperial College London, UK Fungal genomics of the human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. For informal enquiries please conta…

Next event Asperfest 22 22nd International Aspergillus Meeting March 2026 Asilomar, California, USA 22nd International Aspergillus Meeting Merrill Hall Monday 16th March 19:00 – 22:00 Poster …

Abstract. Genome sequence contamination has a variety of causes and can originate from within or between species. Previous research focused on contaminatio

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