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The IFS Ken Haynes Travel Award is now open! This €500 award supports early career mycologists in their attendance to an international scientific conference. Don't miss out - apply before January 31st 2025. Details and application at the following link. irishfungalsociety.org/khaynes/

Thrilled to get a second major story from my PhD out in Nature Microbiology! Stay tuned for follow ups from the clinic! Many thanks to van den Berg lab Jacquomo Toni Gabaldón Christina Cuomo Jeffrey M. Rybak PharmD, PhD @VandijckLab FWO Biology | KU Leuven nature.com/articles/s4156…

Hi 👋🏾 I'm Dr. Angeline Dukes - daughter of Haitian & Trinidadian immigrants 🇭🇹🇹🇹, proud #HBCU alumna 💙💛, AND #ForbesUnder30 Social Impact honoree 🙌🏾 Always grateful for #BlackInNeuro and the incredible community we've grown together ✨

My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990 #jobs #AcademicTwitter #fungi #mushrooms

Online today! npj Journals review by Aayushi Laliwala Ashruti Denis Svechkarev and Dr. Marat Sadykov. on Advancements of paper-based sensors for antibiotic-resistant bacterial species identification. UNMC COP UNMC Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology UNMC Research NIBIB nature.com/articles/s4432…

We're fortunate to be part of this amazing group to uncover common properties of #polyploidy across species! Thanks to U.S. National Science Foundation for supporting us! pi3biology.org

Open call! The EMBO Global Investigator Network supports group young leaders who are setting up their laboratories in Chile, India, Singapore or Taiwan. Apply by 1 May: embo.org/funding/fellow… #ResearchFunding #LifeSciences

This is smallpox Defeated by the wonder of vaccines!!

My first first-author scientific paper is now officially available Molecular Ecology! We studied the #populationgenomics of baker's #yeast from trees and found that human migration has left its mark on these wild populations. #phdresearch #fungi onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

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 #KSFungalPath26 Iliev Lab keystonesymposia.org/conferences/co…

Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨ z.umn.edu/minds ✅ two-years full-time research 🧠 ✅ $41,000 annual salary + benefits ✅ personalized grad school prep ✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds ✅ dedicated mentors + more✨

I’m on the market! 🎉 What do I do? -I develop research questions and applied biotechnology to understand and disrupt insect symbioses. -I coordinate international teams to tackle interdisciplinary global challenges. -I train mycologists, entomologists and insect pathologists.

Unapologetically black in 2025! Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro! Happy Black History Month! Kendrick Lamar

My NIH Study Section (MABS) was cancelled a little more than 24 hours before the start. With 35 members, & 45 h of reviews/member, that wasted 1575 hours of scientists' unpaid time. NIH, protect scientists right now & cancel all study sections until you get clarity. @NIHDirector

Yeast2025 meeting, Paris, July 21-24 2025 📢 With nearly 400 abstracts submitted, the conference promises to be exciting! 🔗Registration is still possible, but but there's not much room left so hurry up if you'd like to join - premc.org/yeast2025/

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on

An important a step for us towards functional genomics of mushrooms in Cell Genomics. We annotate UTRs, splicing, polyadenylation sites, microexons, uORFs, starvation/light responsive genes. Zhihao Hou BRC Biochem Lots of data at mushroomdb.brc.hu shorturl.at/XW1YE

Recently, we found out that our R01 funded through PAR-22-241 was withdrawn by NIAID News as NIH no longer prioritizes research programs related to DEI. This has been devastating news for our young research group, and we are now trying to scram together for a path forward 🧵1/12

The only rule in biology is that there are exceptions to every rule. This is what makes biology infinitely exciting; even when you think you’ve got the complete view, the floor can drop out from underneath you at any given moment. Case-in-point: The nucleus is the thing that