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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Great to be at the Myk2026 in Graz and see my good friend and long term colleague receiving a long term achiement award from the German Soc of Medical Mycology. @ishamycology.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A new perspective of amphotericin B resistance emphasising the importance of sphingolipid metabolism. doi.org/10.1016/j.tc... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Partial eclipse nicely seen, even from the train, while I travel to London and then onward to the MOMY course at Woods Hole, MA, USA!

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

University of Exeter. Technical Manager Vacancy ID: 1161. Closing date of the role: 20 Aug 2026. Starting salary from £33,951 on Grade E. MRC-funded project on the skin fungus Malassezia and its contribution to inflammatory skin disorders. E. @mrccmm.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Women in Mycology (WIM) by MSGERC and Women for Mycology (WOMYC) have joined forces to launch a global survey on career development. This will directly inform programs within MSGERC, ECMM, and ISHAM. survey open until 31 July 2026. www.clinicalsurveys.net/uc/wim-womyc...

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Fascinating SCI conference on antimicrobials at the Francis Crick Institute. Great talk by Elaine Bignell about the MRC-CMM and her group’s world leading work on improving antifungal drug resilience through combination therapy. @elainebignell.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Giving a talk today at the IPC2026 which considers the 9 Wembley stadiums worth of patients who get a hospital acquired infection each year. Delighted to represent mycology & AMR. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The scale of ESCMID Global, here in Munich, is impressive. The big topic seems to be AI and everything with 10 sessions. Medical mycology has a presence throughout the day. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

50 medical mycologists put their shoulder behind an action plan to mitigate the rising threat of antifungal drug resistance. Check out in Nature Medicine. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We enjoyed hosting a visit from Robin May who entertained everybody with a seminar about his life and career as a lab scientist & government scientific advisor. From lab coat to bowler hat!@robinmay9.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I’ll be speaking at the 5th SCI / RSC Symposium on Anti-Infectives Drug Discovery in June. @sciupdate.bsky.social #AntiInfectives26 To register: bit.ly/5th_anti-inf... @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Our new paper is out on the cell wall UDP-sugar nucleotide pathways in Candida & their potential as antifungal drug targets. doi.org/10.1016/j.tc... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Great evening out with the lab celebrating the end of the year and the forthcoming festivities @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

PhD position available to study the immune response to the terbinafine resistant dermatophyte T. Indotinea. www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk

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The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology @mrccmm.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🍄🖋 #imageoftheweek ¦ A sketch of Shaggy Ink Cap mushrooms, drawn using ink from the mushrooms themselves! Art meets nature, thanks to Professor @neil-gow.bsky.social 🌳

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Kieran Marr opens our MRC-CMM Partners day with an inspirational keynote talk about the journey from discovery research to translational applications in Antifungal therapeutics and diagnostics. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

SWBio DTP PhD (Univ Exeter): Will global warming speed up antifungal resistance? Work with Prof Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Prof Neil Gow & team. Experimental evolution, multi-omics & modelling on medical/crop pathogens. Apply: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo... #PhD #AMR #ClimateChange #Mycology

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Tell 'em Tom "November has tied me To an old dead tree Get word to April To rescue me November's cold chain Made of wet boots and rain And shiny black ravens On chimney smoke lanes November seems odd You're my firing squad November"

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

New review on the major new insights offered by solid state NMR on fungal cell wall organisation led by Tuo Wang. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.tc... @cellsurfacebio.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

FAILSAFE funding tackling fungal AMR globally in action at our symposium in Bangkok. Great to meet the team non virtually at last. @mrccmm.bsky.social @gw4amr.bsky.social @antimicrobial.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Ready for an exciting few days in Bangkok talking about fungal AMR at a FAILSAFE special symposium of the Thailand Biotechnology Society. @gw4amr.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Encouraging to find a packed audience at the Sidmouth Science Festival to hear about how good and bad fungi shape the world. @mrccmm.bsky.social. Also thanks to Ian Leaves for mycohelp. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Happy U.K. Fungus Day. This was drawn using the ink from a shaggy ink cap growing in my own garden.

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Many congratulations to Connie Lass-Florl as the very worthy 2025 recipient of the TIMM E. Drouhet lecture. Fantastic overview of the puzzles brought byAspergillus terreus infections. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

A true hero in our field - Hatim Sati - giving an overview of the impact and advocacy of WHO on awareness of fungal infections. Watch out for the new Blueprint document on actionable interventions in November. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @who.int

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Great to be up and running at TIMM12 in Bilbao. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social - a feast of medical mycology being basic and clinical mycology. @mrccmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

What better place for our lab lunch that the fabulous Forest Fungi restaurant in Dawlish Warren, Devon England.

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🌡️ Fungi in a warming world: join our PhD on Candida auris evolution – thermal tolerance, immunity & antifungal resistance. Based at Exeter & Bristol, GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP : www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #InfectiousDiseases #PhD #GW4 #Exeter #Bristol #MedicalMycology #AMR #ClimateChange

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

New work from the Prasad lab showing that Candida auris can become amphotericin resistant either by multiple, sterol dependent and sterol independent mechanisms. dx.doi.org/10.1111/mmi..... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Wang lab shows that in response to echinocandins C. albicans thickens its wall while C.auris stiffens the wall via regulating B1,6 glucan and strengthening B1,6 - Mannan interactions. ; www.nature.com/articles/s41... @youngecmm.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social

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The LeibundGut-lab @lableibundgut.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an MRC Programme Grant to study the role of fungi in eczema together with @neil-gow.bsky.social, Helen Alexander and Carsten Flohr (both King's College London). 2 postdoc positions availble at jobs.exeter.ac.uk (Job References Q05626 and Q05627)

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Exeter secures £3.3 million grant to investigate treatment and prevention of eczema

A team of researchers led by the University of Exeter have been awarded a £3.3 million grant by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to study the treatment and potential cure for eczema. This new five-y...

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We're thrilled to have been awarded a £3.3M grant by the Medical Research Council to study the treatment and potential cure for eczema. This 5-year res. programme brings together experts from the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology in Exeter and St John’s Institute of Dermatology at KCL. @exeter.ac.uk

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A must-read synthesis by Joe Heitman about how we see the world through the fungal lens. Fungal Kingdom: A Rosetta Stone for Biological Discovery. Highly recommended. @mrccmm.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1lEfo3QW8S...

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Check this latest analysis showing how Beta-glucan shaving of the wall can disguise Candida from immune detection. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2423864122).

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Antifungal Immunity Research available to study T cell responses and fungal sensitization in atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Fungal Cell Wall Research available to study the Malassezia-host interaction interface in the context of atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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The LeibundGut-lab @lableibundgut.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The LeibundGut-lab at the @mrccmm.bsky.social, in collaboration with @neil-gow.bsky.social, recruits two postdocs to study the skin commensal yeast Malassezia in atopic dermatitis #fungalrecognition and #fungalimmunology jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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