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Erika Shor

@mutant-fungus.bsky.social
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Fungal molecular geneticist interested in drivers of genetic instability, mutagenesis, and evolution of drug resistance. Assistant member @ www.hmh-cdi.org. Yes, that's my dog 😍

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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
When you're in Berlin, post #Candida2025, sightseeing and waiting at a random tram stop in city center, then randomly look up and see...
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Ah, the day of impossible choices, aka parallel sessions. 🥺 #Candida2025
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The first 24 hours of #Candida2025 have been fantastic. Really appreciate the breadth of focus of the talks and posters encompassing multiple Candida pathogens, not just C. albicans.
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J Lucas Argueso @jlargueso.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The preprint for our super fun collaboration with Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social is out. Check it out to see some really beautiful PFGE karyotyping gels from Candida glabrata!
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Is this thing still on? Anyway, we have a new preprint out of a story that's been brewing in my lab for several years and is finally ready to see the light of day. It's about what happens to Candida glabrata while it's hanging out inside macrophages.
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Today I learned that, apparently, one way to recognize writing created by AI is to look for em dashes, because AI uses them way more than humans do. This is a problem because this human loves em dashes -- they convey connections between sentence parts like no other punctuation symbol can.
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A lovely summary of our recent AAC article featured on the website of Theobald Smith Society (New Jersey branch of the American Society for Microbiology).
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
If you're interested in beta-glucan synthase, the target of the echinocandins, check out our new paper, where we describe some cool new aspects of its expression and regulation in Candida glabrata. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Expression of 1,3-β-glucan synthase subunits in Candida glabrata is regulated by the cell cycle and growth conditions and at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels | Antimicrobial Agents...
β-1,3-glucan synthase (GS) is a fungal enzyme essential for cell wall biosynthesis and the target of echinocandins, a frontline antifungal drug class. Given the increasing resistance to azole-class dr...
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Happening this morning: A key hearing in the cases challenging the NIH grant terminations. Plaintiffs, including multiple state AGs + researchers, are requesting an injunction to reverse the terminations. Our reporting has tracked what's at stake: projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
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Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I've gotten Novavax in both 2023 and 2024 because it didn't give me any side effects (chills, weakness, muscle pains, etc.), unlike the mRNA vaccines. And now I'm not eligible for it. 😕🙄
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Speaking to friends, I've likened the situation facing US researchers to that of the dinosaurs. We've competed for limited resources. We've adapted to our environment. We've evolved to be successful in the complex and competitive research ecosphere. And then a giant asteroid fell out of the sky.
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Sara B. @saraboboltz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Our short commentary on #echinocandin tolerance and heteroresistance in #Candidaauris.
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Tolerance and heteroresistance to echinocandins in Candida auris: conceptual issues, clinical implications, and outstanding questions | mSphere
When Candida auris emerged as a new fungal pathogen over 15 years ago, it posed challenges similar to infections by other Candida species while exhibiting additional unique characteristics that rapidl...
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Thousands showed up for the #HandsOff rally in Princeton, NJ.
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Will this make any difference? Is anyone listening?
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New constitutional crisis, who dis?
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Columbia is a test run to see what they can get away with, using federal grants as a tool for political retribution. It’s happening, and there’s a good chance that any other university is next.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Will NIH indirect costs survive in court this week? Great article on what's at play. www.science.org/content/arti...
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There’s a big courtroom showdown over NIH’s ‘indirect costs’ this week. What are they?
Here’s the story behind the billions in payments to institutions with research grants that NIH wants to cut
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This LinkedIn bot does not know that getting an R01 is the true pinnacle of success.
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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Excited to announce a save the date for the upcoming Keystone Fungal Pathogenesis meeting! Jan 12-15 2026, mark your calendars! 🗓 Program and deadlines in link below #microsky #immunosky #KSFungalPath26 🧪 www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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Fungal Pathogens: Emerging Threats and Future Challenges | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Fungal Pathogens: Emerging Threats and Future Challenges, January 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.
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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social Please share widely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
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Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer
YouTube video by Association of American Universities
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Attention Attention Attention If anyone knows clinicians or patients who have knowledge of pediatric patients with the very rare cancer interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS) or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytoc sarcomas please contact Sri
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Chris Pickett @chrispickett5.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The justification here is gibberish. Philanthropic orgs don’t set their F&A rate independent of NIH. They gauge their rate based on NIH’s rate to stretch their far more limited dollars to support more research. Lowering NIH’s rate throws this balance into chaos. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The checks are not checking and the balances are not balancing.
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Will the order be implemented while this is going through the courts? Because we all know Congress will do nothing to stop it. Can a federal judge block it?
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Brilliant work by Takeharu Nagai and team: Creating coveted bioluminescence colors for simultaneous multi-color bioimaging www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
 Twenty-color variants of bioluminescent proteins, eNLEX.
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"Nice research enterprise you got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it."
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
What's everyone's backup plan if the biomedical research enterprise in the US is dismantled? I have two skill sets: doing research and driving (thanks, long commutes!). So I think my backup is... Doordash? Uber? Driving a bus?
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a man in a black hat is looking out of a red telephone booth
ALT: a man in a black hat is looking out of a red telephone booth
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Never imagined I’d have to say this, but if you want to have a look at NIH RePORTER to see how much NIH funding your state receives so you can write to your elected representatives, you’d better do it now, and get a screenshot.
Screenshot showing that Arizona currently has $490,436,626 in NIH funding.
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Really great about Tik Tok. Now do NIAID.
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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Listen to my podcast on fungal infections in this Finding Genius Podcast hosted by Richard Jacob on the below podcast platforms: * Finding Genius Website: tinyurl.com/bddjkeve * iTunes (Apple Podcasts): tinyurl.com/yey7tvfc * YouTube: youtube.com/embed/pM0n455YZVY?si @mrccmm.bsky.social
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Killer Fungi: Exploring The Silent Threat To Global Health With Professor Neil Gow
In today’s podcast, Neil Gow enlightens us with his research on killer infections in humans caused by fungi. Neil, a British microbiologist and former deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Exete...
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Would totally consider it if it didn't almost fully overlap with the #Candida meeting in Berlin. 😢
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Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Trim72 is a major host factor protecting against lethal Candida albicans infection
Author summary Candida albicans is an important cause of fungal infections associated with high mortality rates, and the lack of effective treatment options emphasizes the urgency to develop new antif...
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
In mouse and gut-on-a-chip models, pre-colonoscopy bowel preparation promotes pathogen colonization of the gut and translocation to other organs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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In mouse and gut-on-a-chip models, pre-colonoscopy bowel preparation promotes pathogen colonization of the gut and translocation to other organs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.26.625504v1
In the United States, an estimated 14 million colonoscopies are performed yearly, each requiring pat
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Very cool. I'm always looking for methods to measure microbial parameters in vivo (in the host). Wonder if this method would work in a eukaryotic microbe, or if it relies on the cell having a single origin and a single terminus...
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Went looking for genome stability and/or DNA repair starter packs and found one for both! 🙌🏼
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
New paper alert 👀 academic.oup.com/femsyr/advan...
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A multidimensional assessment of in-host fitness costs of drug resistance in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida glabrata
Abstract. Drug-resistant microbes typically carry mutations in genes involved in critical cellular functions and may therefore be less fit under drug-free
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Tobias Hohl, MD PhD @fungalspore.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I am a transplant infectious disease physician with a laboratory research program in medical mycology and mucosal immunology, with a focus on Aspergillus, and in mycobiota science. I work at MSK in NYC with a wonderful group of graduate students, fellows, and postdocs.
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Sounds like NIAID will be first to go...
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
As on tw*tter, I have 2 bluesky accounts: one for work/science and the other for general ranting. However, if/when Dr. Fauci is arrested (as apparently he is now expecting to be), the twain shall meet.
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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Genomics, evolution, and more starter pack! Help build community with this starter pack. This list is currently incomplete. Want to be included? Reply and I will remedy that! go.bsky.app/JjvzkWU
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I haven't been here in... almost a year? Nice to see this place coming to life. 🌱
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Interesting. Possibly an(other) example of evolution of hyper-mutators under pervasive stress (antifungal treatment).
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Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
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