Gulnara Tagirdzhanova
@metalichen.bsky.social
Postdoc at @deepsthlmuni.bsky.social (Stockholm University)
lichen symbiosis | metagenomics | evolution |
Previously at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. PhD from @ualberta.bsky.social
Personal website: metalichen.github.io
#StandWithUkraine
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lichen symbiosis | metagenomics | evolution |
Previously at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. PhD from @ualberta.bsky.social
Personal website: metalichen.github.io
#StandWithUkraine
she/her
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⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Firmly believe this would serve multiple needs.
January 29, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Firmly believe this would serve multiple needs.
Huge congrats to @ddiazescandon.bsky.social and @spribille.bsky.social! What a massive amount of work and such exciting results!
I am thrilled to congratulate David Díaz Escandón @ddiazescandon.bsky.social on successfully defending his Ph.D. on lichen fungal comparative genomics at @ualberta.bsky.social — the culmination of a journey!
January 30, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Huge congrats to @ddiazescandon.bsky.social and @spribille.bsky.social! What a massive amount of work and such exciting results!
Can't wait for this meeting!
Here we go again! Join us in Vienna, May 21–22, for two days of plant science—talks, discussions, and celebration of what makes plants both beautiful and essential 💚Full program + registration here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve...
Come be part of it — each of you counts!
Come be part of it — each of you counts!
January 27, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Can't wait for this meeting!
One week left to apply for the PhD position in my group in Stockholm!
⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
January 26, 2026 at 10:59 AM
One week left to apply for the PhD position in my group in Stockholm!
Check out this amazing paper on the Umbilicaria lichen and a black yeast fungus that appears to be its ever-present component!
January 22, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Check out this amazing paper on the Umbilicaria lichen and a black yeast fungus that appears to be its ever-present component!
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Inviting applications for #PhD (3y) & #Postdoc (2y) to work on alpine #lichens: evolution of #SecondaryMetabolism & #Chemodiversity.
#genomics #metabolomics #fungi #biosyntheticGenes.
Send your CV +motivation letter ➡️ [email protected]
Please share 😊
#genomics #metabolomics #fungi #biosyntheticGenes.
Send your CV +motivation letter ➡️ [email protected]
Please share 😊
January 20, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Inviting applications for #PhD (3y) & #Postdoc (2y) to work on alpine #lichens: evolution of #SecondaryMetabolism & #Chemodiversity.
#genomics #metabolomics #fungi #biosyntheticGenes.
Send your CV +motivation letter ➡️ [email protected]
Please share 😊
#genomics #metabolomics #fungi #biosyntheticGenes.
Send your CV +motivation letter ➡️ [email protected]
Please share 😊
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Almost lost amidst the cow excitement (cow-motion?) was that @currentbiology.bsky.social featured a brilliant paper on #lichen fungi in this week’s issue by Victoria Keller et al. including @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social — what is not to lichen about this new double ascomycete living arrangement
January 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Almost lost amidst the cow excitement (cow-motion?) was that @currentbiology.bsky.social featured a brilliant paper on #lichen fungi in this week’s issue by Victoria Keller et al. including @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social — what is not to lichen about this new double ascomycete living arrangement
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The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social has two open PhD positions, help us spread the word! 📣
We are looking for a PhD student in Lichen Biology, and one in Ecology & Evolution. Find more information and apply by 1 February below!
We are looking for a PhD student in Lichen Biology, and one in Ecology & Evolution. Find more information and apply by 1 February below!
Work with us - Stockholms universitet
www.su.se
January 21, 2026 at 1:29 PM
The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social has two open PhD positions, help us spread the word! 📣
We are looking for a PhD student in Lichen Biology, and one in Ecology & Evolution. Find more information and apply by 1 February below!
We are looking for a PhD student in Lichen Biology, and one in Ecology & Evolution. Find more information and apply by 1 February below!
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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
January 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
My (recent) work environment vs the quality of work that actually gets done there
January 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
My (recent) work environment vs the quality of work that actually gets done there
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So once upon a time, I got savaged on Twitter for saying that all a man in the games industry had to do to end a woman’s employment at the same company was sexually harass her. As soon as it happened, the timer began counting down. (Thread)
"The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school...The principal had doubts they even existed." 1/
And now one girl is expelled for fighting back.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
And now one girl is expelled for fighting back.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. She was the one expelled
A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her
abcnews.go.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So once upon a time, I got savaged on Twitter for saying that all a man in the games industry had to do to end a woman’s employment at the same company was sexually harass her. As soon as it happened, the timer began counting down. (Thread)
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Genomic analysis of a lichen photobiont alga (New Phytol.) @metalichen.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/IQC6qOT
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
Genomic analysis of a lichen photobiont alga | Plantae
Lichens are complex assemblies that are composed of at least two organisms, a fungus (the mycobiont) and a photosynthetic partner, the photobiont. Lichen lifestyles have emerged several times…
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December 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Genomic analysis of a lichen photobiont alga (New Phytol.) @metalichen.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/IQC6qOT
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
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Doing great here, yes, thanks for asking: “Stockholm on track for darkest December since 1934” www.thelocal.se/20251216/sto...
Stockholm on track for darkest December since 1934
The Swedish capital has recorded just a half-hour of sunlight in the first half of this month, putting it on track for the darkest December since 1934 if the trend continues.
www.thelocal.se
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Doing great here, yes, thanks for asking: “Stockholm on track for darkest December since 1934” www.thelocal.se/20251216/sto...
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I had such a blast at the French Phycological Society conference in Paris! Huge thanks to the organizers for the invitation. I really appreciated the opportunity to discuss the algal side of the lichen symbiosis and learn about cool research on all kinds of algae!
C'est parti pour les #JSPF2026 accueillies par @sorbonne-universite.fr en partenariat avec @mnhn.fr. Bravo à Jeanne Miebach et Richard Dorrell pour l'organisation!
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I had such a blast at the French Phycological Society conference in Paris! Huge thanks to the organizers for the invitation. I really appreciated the opportunity to discuss the algal side of the lichen symbiosis and learn about cool research on all kinds of algae!
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Everything you always wanted to know about mushroom-forming fungi! Great collab with amazing mycologists. Thanks Laszlo Nagy for leading this effort!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The biodiversity, genomics, ecology and evolution of mushroom-forming fungi - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Mushroom-forming fungi have along evolutionary history and a suite of important ecological roles. This Review highlights advances in understanding of Agaricomycetes evolution and ecology driven by gen...
www.nature.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Everything you always wanted to know about mushroom-forming fungi! Great collab with amazing mycologists. Thanks Laszlo Nagy for leading this effort!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Our paper on Zymoseptoria tritici 3D genome organization is officially out! @iglavincheska.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Three-dimensional genome architecture connects chromatin structure and function in a major wheat pathogen - BMC Biology
Background Genome spatial organization plays a fundamental role in biological function across all domains of life. While the principles of nuclear architecture have been well-characterized in animals ...
link.springer.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Our paper on Zymoseptoria tritici 3D genome organization is officially out! @iglavincheska.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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New preprint from our group led by @metalichen.bsky.social on the discovery of a Starship giant transposable element in the genome of a lichen-forming fungus.
New preprint: 🚀🧬 Starship in the genome of the lichen fungus Xanthoria. Discovery of giant transposons Starships challenged what we thought we knew about fungal genomes. But what about Starships in #lichen fungi? Let us present Tangerine! 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky doi.org/10.1101/2025...
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
New preprint from our group led by @metalichen.bsky.social on the discovery of a Starship giant transposable element in the genome of a lichen-forming fungus.
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PhD opportunity in our lab - deadline passes on Dec 2nd - don’t miss out!
New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
PhD opportunity in our lab - deadline passes on Dec 2nd - don’t miss out!
New preprint: 🚀🧬 Starship in the genome of the lichen fungus Xanthoria. Discovery of giant transposons Starships challenged what we thought we knew about fungal genomes. But what about Starships in #lichen fungi? Let us present Tangerine! 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky doi.org/10.1101/2025...
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New preprint: 🚀🧬 Starship in the genome of the lichen fungus Xanthoria. Discovery of giant transposons Starships challenged what we thought we knew about fungal genomes. But what about Starships in #lichen fungi? Let us present Tangerine! 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Huge honor to receive this price! Glad to see the lichen research rewarded with such a distinction
Thanks @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social for your SUPERvision ✨
Merci @academiesciences.bsky.social pour cette opportunité et cette belle cérémonie!
Thanks @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social for your SUPERvision ✨
Merci @academiesciences.bsky.social pour cette opportunité et cette belle cérémonie!
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Huge honor to receive this price! Glad to see the lichen research rewarded with such a distinction
Thanks @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social for your SUPERvision ✨
Merci @academiesciences.bsky.social pour cette opportunité et cette belle cérémonie!
Thanks @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social for your SUPERvision ✨
Merci @academiesciences.bsky.social pour cette opportunité et cette belle cérémonie!