Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that remodel their shape to regulate cell fate. Mitochondrial division involves interactions with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), lysosomes, and trans-Golgi network...

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...

Join CDC each September for Fungal Disease Awareness Week (FDAW). <em>Think fungus</em> to save lives.

Fungi are essential to life on Earth, supporting food production, ecosystem health, medicine, and climate resilience. Yet many scientists studying fungi, especially those working in low-income countri...

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Giant viruses are known across eukaryotes, yet definitive evidence of fungal infection has been missing. This study identifies Mycodnaviridae, a globally distributed family of giant viruses that persi...

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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...

Fungal plant pathogens can be affected by the bacteria they interact with in their environment, yet the characterization of these interactions beyond direct antagonism is lacking, especially in the ca...

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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...

A research opportunity is available with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit (FDWSRU), located on the Fort Detric...

All organisms must be able to sense and respond to adverse environments, especially those that threaten cellular integrity. The age of genomics clarified the breadth and specificity of cellular stres...

Hi all, Please help out the family of Adriana Romero Olivares. Her husband, Jovani, and kids can be helped with meals over the next weeks as Adriana recovers.

Academia can be very hard to break into. I’ve posted here a number of resources, both for microbiome research and teaching/outreach, that I hope anyone might find helpful. Microbiome Research…