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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

EUKARYOME v2.1 - a major release now available (eukaryome.org): added JGI metagenomes, several long-read datasets + fully updated taxonomies for fungi and protists, including recently described phylum-level lineages

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Congrats to John Yangyuoru Kupagme for graduating his PhD thesis on African soil fungi, supervised by myself and Dr. Sergei Põlme. The thesis available here: dspace.ut.ee/items/e65b43...

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

African fungi mapped within a PhD project led by John Kupagme, an African PhD student. www.bioacad.com/article/doi....

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This exciting new paper assesses how to balance land use for conservation, agriculture, and renewable energy. I learned a lot from this collaborative effort led by Cameryn Brock ... building on our past #sparc #BIEN & #BIOFI efforts. Check out the new publication! 🧪🌐🌾 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Balancing land use for conservation, agriculture, and renewable energy - Nature Communications

An improved strategy for siting food and energy production is needed to avoid further habitat loss. This paper presents a multi-sector framework that can empower land use planners to find synergies ac...

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Ali Hakimzadeh @bioinfo94.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Ph.D. defended and the long read journey ends in frozen lands. Deep thanks to @sanslan.bsky.social and @tedersoo.bsky.social. Special thanks to @owenwangensteen.bsky.social for a demanding and fair defence as the main opponent. Thanks to all @myco-microbio.bsky.social members for their support.

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

EUKARYOME v2.0 reference database now available. A major release including >300,000 new eDNA reads with metadata, quality-screened ROD (meta)genome DB, and updated fungal higher-level taxonomy (following the Mycokeys paper). Download at: eukaryome.org/download/

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Fungal phylum-level classification update now available! Used "innovative taxonomy" to describe >100 taxa, from species to phylum, based on long reads, characteristic nucleotides and env-samples. mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616... #fungi #taxonomy #PacBio #classification #eDNA

New fungal phylum-level system, with red font indicating novel taxa and size taxonomic diversity.

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

MarieCurie postdoc co-applications on offer in University of Tartu, Estonia: Fungi in reforestation AMF in agriculture Global biogeography of fungi Fungal Host/substrate specificity Human pathogens in soil, sediment, compost DNA-based taxonomy of fungi UNITE/FungalTraits further development

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

EUKARYOME new release now available eukaryome.org/download/ This time special on early diverging fungal lineages and nucleariids. Also EUK sequences with all metadata available. Will also be available via UNITE soon.

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Custom PhD positions in my team: High-quality motivated candidates are welcome to design their doctorate research topic for a project competition in the University of Tartu, Estonia. Keywords: bioinformatics, biodiversity, fungi, metagenomics, databases, mycorrhiza, DNA-based taxonomy, biogeography

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Post-Doc position for 3 years available jointly between University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) on soil microbiome and biogeography. Skills required: bioinformatics, metagenome analysis, microbiology Contact: leho.tedersoo@ut.ee

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

EUKARYOME v1.9.3 now available in eukaryome.org A special release of long reads of marine microeukaryotes

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