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Marc Swidergall

@swidergall-lab.bsky.social
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Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Associate Professor at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Mycologist, Immunologist, Investigator at the Lundquist Institute

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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🍄The full program for the 2027 GRC Immunology of Fungal Infections is now online! 👀Think it looks good? Apply now to secure your spot - only a handful of spaces are left to grab! 🚨Fellowships available for those who qualify. All details and the program are here: www.grc.org/immunology-o...
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2027 Immunology of Fungal Infections Conference GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Immunology of Fungal Infections will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨Spaces are filling up fast for the 2027 GRC Immunology Fungal Infections meeting - submit your application now to avoid missing out! Full program available next week but you can see the invited speakers here: www.grc.org/immunology-o... #immunosky 🍄🧪
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2027 Immunology of Fungal Infections Conference GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Immunology of Fungal Infections will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Marc Swidergall @swidergall-lab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Proud PI moment! 🎉 Huge congratulations to my postdoc, Dr. Jinendiran Sekar, on receiving an NIH R21 award to advance research at the intersection of diabetes and infectious diseases. Excited to see this innovative work move forward! #ProudPI
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Jessie MacAlpine @jessiemacalpine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🌟Applications are open for the upcoming GRS/GRC on the Immunology of Fungal Infections in Ventura, California! Make sure to submit your abstract by September 1 to be considered for an oral presentation: www.grc.org/immunology-o...
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2027 Immunology of Fungal Infections Conference GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Immunology of Fungal Infections will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Slavica Janevska @slavi-jan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
📣 Check out this excellent #Postdoc opportunity @leibniz-hki.de which is part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #MSCA #COFUND. Consider applying to join my lab if you’re interested in opportunistic infections caused by #Fusarium (research area 5). Call ends 26 May 2026 www.fellows4fungi.eu
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Fellows4FungiMSCA Postdoctoral Network - Leibniz-HKI
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Marc Swidergall @swidergall-lab.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Excited to share our latest publication @natcomms.nature.com Non-canonical IL‑22 receptor signaling remodels the oral mucosal barrier during #Candida albicans immunosurveillance www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Non-canonical IL‑22 receptor signaling remodels the oral mucosal barrier during Candida albicans immunosurveillance - Nature Communications
Mucosal barriers play critical roles in the interaction with commensal and pathogenic microbes. Here the authors show non-canonical IL-22 signalling results in mucosal remodelling in a murine model du...
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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🗓 SAVE THE DATE! The 2027 GRC Immunology of Fungal Infections will take place Jan 17-22 in California. Watch this space for program updates! Need a visa to attend? Apply now to secure your spot early. #fungalconferences #immunosky 🧪🍄 www.grc.org/immunology-o...
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2027 Immunology of Fungal Infections Conference GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Immunology of Fungal Infections will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I’m excited to recruit a postdoc to join my lab at NIAID (Rocky Mountain Labs). We study mucosal immunity and vaccine responses to respiratory viruses in a collaborative, supportive environment. Details & apply: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-miv... #Postdoc #Immunology #Virology #NIHJobs
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Slavica Janevska @slavi-jan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📣 Job opportunity: I’m still looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join my lab @leibniz-hki.de who is interested in fungal natural product research and genetic engineering. We’ll work on an interdisciplinary project with the team of @luziagyr.bsky.social 👇🏻 www.leibniz-hki.de/en/job-offer...
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Doctoral Researcher (m/f/div) in Microbial Genetic Engineering - Leibniz-HKI
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Isabella Eckerle @eckerleisabella.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
And my group at the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases is also hiring: We are looking for a postdoc for our work on mucosal immunity and respiratory viruses! jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I am hiring a research assistant for the Homer lab at OHSU in Portland, Oregon! We work on an important, mysterious, and fascinating fungal pathogen, Coccidioides, that causes Valley Fever. Please send in your application if you are interested! externalcareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/37567/s...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 23/12/2025
Another shake-up of scientific leadership is underway at NIH after a policy clash over the alleged dangers of funding a study that would alter seasonal flu viruses. That grant is now suspended, Science has learned, and the leader of the NIH division that oversaw it has resigned.
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NIH leader resigns after flap over risks of seasonal flu virus study
Agency may be expanding list of pathogens subject to dangerous “gain-of-function” regulations
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Bryan Bryson @thebrysonlab.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The @ragoninstitute.bsky.social is launching a new faculty search for a computational immunologist! Applications are open now and reviewed on a rolling basis. Please share broadly with your networks! #immunosky www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Computational Immunologist - Boston, Massachusetts (US) job with Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, & Harvard | 12849577
The Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard in Cambridge MA, together with the Departmen
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Marc Swidergall @swidergall-lab.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Anakinra restores immunological misfiring that drives influenza-associated pulmonary #aspergillosis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Anakinra restores immunological misfiring that drives influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis
IL-1 receptor antagonism alleviates immunological dysregulation that drives influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in mice.
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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🚨Deadline approaching! 1 more week to get your late breaking abstract in for this must-attend meeting for fungal biologists and immunologists in 2026. #KSFUNGALPATH26
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JAMA @jama.com · 29/10/2025
H-1B visa–sponsored physicians are twice as prevalent in rural counties and nearly 4 times as common in high-poverty areas, highlighting the potential harm of rising visa costs to health care access. ja.ma/47Iw84h
JAMA research letter, published online October 29, 2025, shows geographic distribution of healthcare professionals sponsored for H-1B visas in the US. Four US maps display percentages for physicians, advanced practice providers, dentists, and other health care workers.
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Sophie Acton @actonlab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
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Slavica Janevska @slavi-jan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
📣 I’m excited to share two open positions in my lab @leibniz-hki.de. For this interdisciplinary project with @luziagyr.bsky.social, I’m seeking (1) an enthusiastic PhD student interested in fungal natural product research and genetic engineering, as well as (2) a technical assistant 👇🏻
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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Fancy doing a PhD on #fungi ? 🍄 I'm co-supervising a project on the MIDTP program with Dr Ayesha Rahman - follow the link for project details and how to apply! #FindAPhD #immunosky 🧪 www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
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Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership - University of Birmingham
MIBTP is a UK-wide doctoral training programme that equips bioscience PhD students with interdisciplinary skills to tackle global challenges in agriculture, health, and sustainability.
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The LeibundGut-lab @lableibundgut.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Interested in skin immunology and T cell biology? The @mrccmm.bsky.social is advertising a #postdoc position to study the antimicrobial-allergic immune response in atopic dermatitis with @lableibundgut.bsky.social. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... #immunosky #mycosky #eczema Please re-post
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 23/09/2025
🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
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Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper
We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...
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Iliev Lab @ilievlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Just a few days left for scholarship and short talk submissions! Science, snow, and exciting advances in fungal and immunology research🔬 🍄❄️Claim your spot! #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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Ivan Zanoni @lozanzi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
💥 #ImmunometabolismPower! Excited to have this officially out @cp-immunity.bsky.social 💥 We show that pathogens induce the host to produce oxidized lipids which rewire the #metabolism of #macrophages, causing #epigenetic modifications which dampen anti-inflammatory IL-10, exacerbating #inflammation!
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Epigenetic silencing of interleukin-10 by host-derived oxidized phospholipids supports a lethal inflammatory response to infections
Phagocytes initiate immunity to invading microorganisms by detecting pathogen-associated molecular patterns via pattern recognition receptors. Pathoge…
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Hepworth Lab @hepworth-lab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
New Postdoc position as part of the recently awarded MRC Core in Exposome Immunology, led by Jo Konkel here @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social. Job ad and more info below: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Research Associate in MRC CoRE in Exposome Immunology (Defining Acute and Chronic Mucosal Responses to Pollution Exposure):Oxford Road
Project Title: Defining Acute and Chronic Mucosal Responses to Pollution Exposure
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Norman van Rhijn @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
JOB ALERT @bertuzzilab.bsky.social is recruiting 2 Research Associates for a project on Mucorales! Very exciting and can definitely recommend working with this group ☺️ www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Associate (PDRA) in Fungal Infection Biology :Oxford Road
The Bertuzzi’s laboratory at the Manchester Fungal Infection is looking for two outstanding candidates be part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers, working on an Wellcome Trust funded project investigating how Mucorales fungi adapt to natural and in-host environments and how stress adaptation drives infection. The posts are available from the 5th of January 2026 on a full-time basis for 3 years, with the possibility to extend.
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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We're hiring a tech for a project focused on the impact of genetic background on genetics and evolution. If you like doing lots of microbial evolution experiments and are good at bioinformatics/computation, this might be for you. aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05782
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Madhani Lab – Junior/Assistant Specialist
University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!
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Amelia Barber @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Just a few more days to apply! ⏰
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
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Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students
Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.
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Jennifer Landino @jenelandino.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Dartmouth is hiring! Come be my colleague. Biochemistry and Cell Biology is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Join us in New Hampshire for great science, nice people, and beautiful scenery ⛰️ apply.interfolio.com/171438
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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Assistant/ Associate Professor of Mycology at UGA - Go be part of a Legendary Fungal Group fungi.franklinresearch.uga.edu and dept of plant pathology plantpath.caes.uga.edu www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...
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Assistant or Associate Professor - Fungal Biology/Mycology
The Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at the University of Georgia is recruiting for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor in Fu...
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Sarah Ross @sarahhross.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Tissue immunity meets biological sex differences - context is important in the immune system. Another of my reading recommendations during a trip to @iuis-online.bsky.social Congress. From Sonia Sharma, Alicia Gibbons and Erica Ollmann Saphire in @science.org buff.ly/XPN0Tpb
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Sarela Garcia-Santamarina @sarsarela.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
We’re hiring a Postdoc in Gut Microbiome Metabolomics! Help us decode microbial metabolism and its impact on human health @leibniz-hki.de , Jena 🇩🇪 🔗 jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...
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Job opportunity Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/div) in Gut Microbiome Metabolomics at Leibniz HKI Jobportal
Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena
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Darcy Wooten (she/her) @darcy-id-doc.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Interested in fungal diseases? Come do fellowship at WashU ID fellowship and join the Mycoses Study group, doing groundbreaking research on all types of fu gal infections. www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...
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Geographic distribution and associated mortality of invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis among Medicare enrollees in the United States (2008-2015)
Invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis are widely distributed in the United States, with certain regions experiencing significantly higher incidences. For invasive aspergillosis, each increase of 5 c...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A human inborn error of immunity guided discovery and development of a prophylactic, mRNA-based antiviral www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Scholarships are available to attend the Keystone Fungal Pathogens meeting in Jan 2026! Want to be considered? Submit your abstract by 16th Sept. Links and details in post below 👇🧪 #KSFungalPath2026 #immunosky
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Bertuzzi Lab @bertuzzilab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We are recruiting two Research Associates! Funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social , join us to work on Mucorales adaption in collaboration with Becky Hall (University of Kent) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline: 1st October
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Research Associate (PDRA) in Fungal Infection Biology :Oxford Road
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The number of cervical cancer cases and deaths among American women dropped after the HPV vaccine was introduced in 2006 www.mskcc.org/news/new-res...
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New Research Shows the HPV Cancer Vaccine Saves Lives
Learn why MSK recommends that children be vaccinated against HPV.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget
Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into law.
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Marc Swidergall @swidergall-lab.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Congrats to my friend Nick @jendzjowsky.bsky.social and his team on his R01
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Job ads for TWO postdoctoral positions available in our group are now online. Deadline August 25th. 🧪Immunologists, apply in link below. 🍄Microbiologists- please follow link in next post. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Fellow - Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy - 106119 - Grade 7
The successful candidate will make extensive use of a range of in vivo models of fungal infection and will have access to the wide range of transgenic tools and in vivo immunology techniques establish...
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Liz Essley Whyte @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding
The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.
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François Mayer @francoismayer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment New Review Article by @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and @drjorhodes.com Read it here: rdcu.be/eyobz www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment
Nature Microbiology - This Review discusses the evolution, emergence and expansion of environmental fungicide and antifungal drug resistance.
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Amelia Barber @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share! More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup
AI-generated drawing of a woman looking through a microscope with DNA and fungi drawn in the background. The text contains the same content as the bsky post.
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Nandita Garud @nanditagarud.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!
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Garud Lab
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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
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Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The abstract and scholarship deadline is fast approaching for the Keystone Fungal Pathogens meeting #KSFungalPath26 ! Submit your work by 16th Sept to join the fabulous line-up of invited speakers, featured in the video below (also includes submission links!) youtu.be/olUnNGEsqbk?...
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Fungal Pathogens Meeting Promo
YouTube video by KeystoneSymposia
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Marc Swidergall @swidergall-lab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Check out our new preprint Metabolic imprinting drives epithelial memory during mucosal #fungal infection. Thanks to all collaborators www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Metabolic imprinting drives epithelial memory during mucosal fungal infection
Epithelial cells at barrier sites are emerging as active participants in innate immune memory, yet the underlying metabolic and epigenetic mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we uncover a previously unre...
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Slavica Janevska @slavi-jan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
📣 I’m recruiting a #Postdoc to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group @leibniz-hki.de will be a good fit for you! Please share! jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...
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Job opportunity Postdoctoral Researcher (m/w/div) in “Microbial Infection Strategies” at Leibniz HKI Jobportal
Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena
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