Jen McGaley
@jenmcgaley.bsky.social
Post-doc in the Paszkowski Lab @PaszkowskiLab researching arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Great fan of fungi, plants, microscopy
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It's been a busy time in the Paszkowski lab!
First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Defining the pre-symbiotic transcriptional landscape of rice roots
Plants interact with a plethora of organisms in the rhizosphere, with outcomes that range from detrimental to beneficial. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is the most ubiquitous beneficial plant ...
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It's been a busy time in the Paszkowski lab!
First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Reposted by Jen McGaley
Did you know that over 90% of fungi are still unknown to science? 🍄 Join us at Fungi Field Day 2025 to discover more fungi facts! 📅 Sat 4 Oct | 10am – 4pm
Talks, walks, crafts & more - free with normal Garden admission. To find out more: bit.ly/48ABVcS
Talks, walks, crafts & more - free with normal Garden admission. To find out more: bit.ly/48ABVcS
September 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Did you know that over 90% of fungi are still unknown to science? 🍄 Join us at Fungi Field Day 2025 to discover more fungi facts! 📅 Sat 4 Oct | 10am – 4pm
Talks, walks, crafts & more - free with normal Garden admission. To find out more: bit.ly/48ABVcS
Talks, walks, crafts & more - free with normal Garden admission. To find out more: bit.ly/48ABVcS
Reposted by Jen McGaley
🍄 Fungi Field Day is almost here!
🍄 Save the date: Saturday 4 October
🍄 Come along from 10am to 4pm
Celebrate all things fungi with art, crafts, face painting, talks, forays and games - there's something for everyone!
We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿
#CUBG #FungiFieldDay #CambridgeEvents
🍄 Save the date: Saturday 4 October
🍄 Come along from 10am to 4pm
Celebrate all things fungi with art, crafts, face painting, talks, forays and games - there's something for everyone!
We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿
#CUBG #FungiFieldDay #CambridgeEvents
September 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🍄 Fungi Field Day is almost here!
🍄 Save the date: Saturday 4 October
🍄 Come along from 10am to 4pm
Celebrate all things fungi with art, crafts, face painting, talks, forays and games - there's something for everyone!
We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿
#CUBG #FungiFieldDay #CambridgeEvents
🍄 Save the date: Saturday 4 October
🍄 Come along from 10am to 4pm
Celebrate all things fungi with art, crafts, face painting, talks, forays and games - there's something for everyone!
We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿
#CUBG #FungiFieldDay #CambridgeEvents
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🍄 One month until Fungi Field Day 2025!! 🍄
Held on UK Fungus Day (4th October) @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, this event celebrates the fungal kingdom, featuring science, games, walks, talks, face-painting and much more for all ages. Please spread the word!
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fun...
Held on UK Fungus Day (4th October) @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, this event celebrates the fungal kingdom, featuring science, games, walks, talks, face-painting and much more for all ages. Please spread the word!
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fun...
Fungi Field Day - Cambridge University Botanic Garden
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🍄 One month until Fungi Field Day 2025!! 🍄
Held on UK Fungus Day (4th October) @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, this event celebrates the fungal kingdom, featuring science, games, walks, talks, face-painting and much more for all ages. Please spread the word!
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fun...
Held on UK Fungus Day (4th October) @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, this event celebrates the fungal kingdom, featuring science, games, walks, talks, face-painting and much more for all ages. Please spread the word!
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fun...
Reposted by Jen McGaley
Spent last week at the microscope 🔬✨, and seeing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi up close for the first time—hyphae, arbuscules, vesicles—was absolutely mind-blowing. Small but mighty partners of plant roots 🌿. Sharing a few of my favourite shots.
#Mycorrhiza #fungi
#Mycorrhiza #fungi
July 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Spent last week at the microscope 🔬✨, and seeing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi up close for the first time—hyphae, arbuscules, vesicles—was absolutely mind-blowing. Small but mighty partners of plant roots 🌿. Sharing a few of my favourite shots.
#Mycorrhiza #fungi
#Mycorrhiza #fungi
Reposted by Jen McGaley
Who lives underground?
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Who lives underground?
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
Beautiful microscopy of beautiful arbuscules
July 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Beautiful microscopy of beautiful arbuscules
Reposted by Jen McGaley
What does colonisation tell us? Revisiting the functional outcomes of #root colonisation by arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi
A #Letter by @frewecologist.bsky.social 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
A #Letter by @frewecologist.bsky.social 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
July 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
What does colonisation tell us? Revisiting the functional outcomes of #root colonisation by arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi
A #Letter by @frewecologist.bsky.social 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
A #Letter by @frewecologist.bsky.social 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
Reposted by Jen McGaley
Uta Paszkowski expands on the arbuscular mycorrhizal theme with a cool spatial transcriptome method to better resolve dynamics during colonization of rice.
Can see key transporter transcripts accumulating in arbuscules.
#2025ISMPMI
Can see key transporter transcripts accumulating in arbuscules.
#2025ISMPMI
July 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Uta Paszkowski expands on the arbuscular mycorrhizal theme with a cool spatial transcriptome method to better resolve dynamics during colonization of rice.
Can see key transporter transcripts accumulating in arbuscules.
#2025ISMPMI
Can see key transporter transcripts accumulating in arbuscules.
#2025ISMPMI
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
From a primary school workshop: a mystery arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in mystery plant. Sometimes fun to have no information about what you are looking at 🚸
#outreach #mycosky #fungi
From a primary school workshop: a mystery arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in mystery plant. Sometimes fun to have no information about what you are looking at 🚸
#outreach #mycosky #fungi
July 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
From a primary school workshop: a mystery arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in mystery plant. Sometimes fun to have no information about what you are looking at 🚸
#outreach #mycosky #fungi
From a primary school workshop: a mystery arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in mystery plant. Sometimes fun to have no information about what you are looking at 🚸
#outreach #mycosky #fungi
How to teach kids (+ parents) the concept of mycorrhizal symbiosis? Here's a thread of things that we use @paszkowskilab.bsky.social 🧵
#outreach #fungi #plant #science
#outreach #fungi #plant #science
Festival of Plants 2025: great atmosphere, lots of visitors, and so much enthusiasm for mycorrhiza!
Next in the outreach calendar: the Fungi Field Day, 4th October, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Save the date! 🍄🍄🍄
Next in the outreach calendar: the Fungi Field Day, 4th October, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Save the date! 🍄🍄🍄
June 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
How to teach kids (+ parents) the concept of mycorrhizal symbiosis? Here's a thread of things that we use @paszkowskilab.bsky.social 🧵
#outreach #fungi #plant #science
#outreach #fungi #plant #science
A great letter from @frewecologist.bsky.social- very important and timely. And spot on that live imaging + the AMSlide is providing plenty of insights into this! More soon...🔬
We often measure AM fungal colonisation assuming it tells us something about function. But… what does it tell us?
A short Letter where I ask what root colonisation really means for plant growth, P uptake, and defence.
#Mycorrhiza #fungi #plantmicrobiome
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A short Letter where I ask what root colonisation really means for plant growth, P uptake, and defence.
#Mycorrhiza #fungi #plantmicrobiome
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
What does colonisation tell us? Revisiting the functional outcomes of root colonisation by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Click on the article title to read more.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A great letter from @frewecologist.bsky.social- very important and timely. And spot on that live imaging + the AMSlide is providing plenty of insights into this! More soon...🔬
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Just a particularly pretty arbuscule in a rice root cell colonised by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, with a cool view down an intercellular hypha. Stained with WGA-Alexafluor488, imaged by CLSM, false-coloured by depth in root 🔥
#microscopy #mycosci #fungi
Just a particularly pretty arbuscule in a rice root cell colonised by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, with a cool view down an intercellular hypha. Stained with WGA-Alexafluor488, imaged by CLSM, false-coloured by depth in root 🔥
#microscopy #mycosci #fungi
June 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Just a particularly pretty arbuscule in a rice root cell colonised by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, with a cool view down an intercellular hypha. Stained with WGA-Alexafluor488, imaged by CLSM, false-coloured by depth in root 🔥
#microscopy #mycosci #fungi
Just a particularly pretty arbuscule in a rice root cell colonised by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, with a cool view down an intercellular hypha. Stained with WGA-Alexafluor488, imaged by CLSM, false-coloured by depth in root 🔥
#microscopy #mycosci #fungi
Nearly time for the Festival of Plants 2025!!! We'll be in the Pop-up Plant Science tent with microscopes, crafts, games and much more mycorrhizal fun🔬🖍️🎨🧩
@paszkowskilab.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social #mycosci #fungi #plants
@paszkowskilab.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social #mycosci #fungi #plants
🌿Festival of Plants 2025 - have you got your ticket yet?🌿Saturday 14 June 10am - 5pm. Join us for a day celebrating the fascinating world of plants. Free tours, interactive science, family fun, Ask the Gardener, food trucks & entertainment. Book now: bit.ly/3FbGEFU
June 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Nearly time for the Festival of Plants 2025!!! We'll be in the Pop-up Plant Science tent with microscopes, crafts, games and much more mycorrhizal fun🔬🖍️🎨🧩
@paszkowskilab.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social #mycosci #fungi #plants
@paszkowskilab.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social #mycosci #fungi #plants
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New paper! The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species. Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dual-host woody species occupy a broader geographical range and environmental niche space compared to those associating exclusively with either AM or EM.
Dual-host woody species occupy a broader geographical range and environmental niche space compared to those associating exclusively with either AM or EM.
The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species
Abiotic factors influence the global distribution of mycorrhizal host plants (ectomycorrhizal fungi and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi), raising the possibility that dual associations with both mycorrh...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New paper! The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species. Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dual-host woody species occupy a broader geographical range and environmental niche space compared to those associating exclusively with either AM or EM.
Dual-host woody species occupy a broader geographical range and environmental niche space compared to those associating exclusively with either AM or EM.
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Been looking at the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora margarita this week. Not only does it form ENORMOUS spores, but also bunches of knobbly 'auxiliary cells'.
Can't find a description of auxiliary cell function anywhere...does anyone know what they do?
#mycosci #fungi
Been looking at the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora margarita this week. Not only does it form ENORMOUS spores, but also bunches of knobbly 'auxiliary cells'.
Can't find a description of auxiliary cell function anywhere...does anyone know what they do?
#mycosci #fungi
May 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Been looking at the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora margarita this week. Not only does it form ENORMOUS spores, but also bunches of knobbly 'auxiliary cells'.
Can't find a description of auxiliary cell function anywhere...does anyone know what they do?
#mycosci #fungi
Been looking at the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora margarita this week. Not only does it form ENORMOUS spores, but also bunches of knobbly 'auxiliary cells'.
Can't find a description of auxiliary cell function anywhere...does anyone know what they do?
#mycosci #fungi
Reposted by Jen McGaley
Sharing some of my own #mycorrhiza #microscopy from @paszkowskilab.bsky.social
Rhizophagus irregularis inside a rice lateral root (plant & fungal CWs stained with calcofluor white, 400x mag)
Rhizophagus irregularis inside a rice lateral root (plant & fungal CWs stained with calcofluor white, 400x mag)
May 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Sharing some of my own #mycorrhiza #microscopy from @paszkowskilab.bsky.social
Rhizophagus irregularis inside a rice lateral root (plant & fungal CWs stained with calcofluor white, 400x mag)
Rhizophagus irregularis inside a rice lateral root (plant & fungal CWs stained with calcofluor white, 400x mag)
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Some chunky hyphae and arbuscules of the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, running along the length of a rice root. Coloured by depth in the root.
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy
Some chunky hyphae and arbuscules of the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, running along the length of a rice root. Coloured by depth in the root.
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy
May 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Some chunky hyphae and arbuscules of the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, running along the length of a rice root. Coloured by depth in the root.
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy
Some chunky hyphae and arbuscules of the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, running along the length of a rice root. Coloured by depth in the root.
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Roots are busy places... here's a rice root packed with mycorrhizal fungal arbuscules 🔬
Roots are busy places... here's a rice root packed with mycorrhizal fungal arbuscules 🔬
April 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Roots are busy places... here's a rice root packed with mycorrhizal fungal arbuscules 🔬
Roots are busy places... here's a rice root packed with mycorrhizal fungal arbuscules 🔬
Reposted by Jen McGaley
Good news for fungal networks in Europe as the EU moves towards healthier soils.
The Soil Monitoring Law will pave the way for healthier soils that benefit us, and our environment: buff.ly/SodAQYg
Protect soils.
Protect the Underground.
📷 Seth Carnill and Quentin van den Bossche
The Soil Monitoring Law will pave the way for healthier soils that benefit us, and our environment: buff.ly/SodAQYg
Protect soils.
Protect the Underground.
📷 Seth Carnill and Quentin van den Bossche
April 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Good news for fungal networks in Europe as the EU moves towards healthier soils.
The Soil Monitoring Law will pave the way for healthier soils that benefit us, and our environment: buff.ly/SodAQYg
Protect soils.
Protect the Underground.
📷 Seth Carnill and Quentin van den Bossche
The Soil Monitoring Law will pave the way for healthier soils that benefit us, and our environment: buff.ly/SodAQYg
Protect soils.
Protect the Underground.
📷 Seth Carnill and Quentin van den Bossche
Reposted by Jen McGaley
"Tropical tree in Panama has evolved to kill its 'enemies' with lightning"
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Original paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Original paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Tree that kills its 'enemies' with lightning discovered
Tonka bean trees survive lightning strikes — and use the powerful electric shocks to kill their competitors.
www.livescience.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Tropical tree in Panama has evolved to kill its 'enemies' with lightning"
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Original paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Original paper in @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
No rice this week: instead a beautiful arbuscule formed by native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (identity unknown) within a Plantago root. This animation takes you through a z-stack 🔬
No rice this week: instead a beautiful arbuscule formed by native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (identity unknown) within a Plantago root. This animation takes you through a z-stack 🔬
April 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
No rice this week: instead a beautiful arbuscule formed by native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (identity unknown) within a Plantago root. This animation takes you through a z-stack 🔬
No rice this week: instead a beautiful arbuscule formed by native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (identity unknown) within a Plantago root. This animation takes you through a z-stack 🔬
Reposted by Jen McGaley
アメリカセンダングサ（Bidens frondosa）の根に形成されたアーバスキュラー菌根菌の樹枝状体。
外来種の繁殖にもアーバスキュラー菌根菌が影響している可能性があります。
外来種の繁殖にもアーバスキュラー菌根菌が影響している可能性があります。
April 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
アメリカセンダングサ（Bidens frondosa）の根に形成されたアーバスキュラー菌根菌の樹枝状体。
外来種の繁殖にもアーバスキュラー菌根菌が影響している可能性があります。
外来種の繁殖にもアーバスキュラー菌根菌が影響している可能性があります。
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Neighbouring arbuscules formed by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. Makes the rice root look like an apartment block full of fungal inhabitants 🌃🌇
Neighbouring arbuscules formed by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. Makes the rice root look like an apartment block full of fungal inhabitants 🌃🌇
April 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Neighbouring arbuscules formed by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. Makes the rice root look like an apartment block full of fungal inhabitants 🌃🌇
Neighbouring arbuscules formed by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. Makes the rice root look like an apartment block full of fungal inhabitants 🌃🌇
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Some chunky hyphae of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis forming fungal pipelines inside a rice root. Coloured by depth in the root 🔬
Some chunky hyphae of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis forming fungal pipelines inside a rice root. Coloured by depth in the root 🔬
March 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Some chunky hyphae of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis forming fungal pipelines inside a rice root. Coloured by depth in the root 🔬
Some chunky hyphae of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis forming fungal pipelines inside a rice root. Coloured by depth in the root 🔬