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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · Aug 1

🖥️ The MOOC “Medical Mycology” is open for registration!   
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Medical Mycology

Welcome to the fascinating world of fungi, agents of major infectious diseases!

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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · Jul 30

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.
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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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Amelia Barber @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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Mara Breen @mbreen.bsky.social · Jul 28

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior

Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jul 25

Wow

Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions

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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Indigenizing fungal biotechnology for planetary health: an opinion paper - Fungal Biology and Biotechnology

New fungal biotechnologies are advancing applied and conservation mycology to support global regenerative outcomes for natural and human systems. Here, we propose the Applied and Conservation Mycology...

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Matt Mead @memead.bsky.social · Jul 24

What sorts of #bioinformatic tasks, tools, or processes do you wish were more user friendly or accessible to non-bioinformaticians? I'm looking to potentially build some tools (especially for the #fungal community) that can help biologists get the most out of their data and speed up their science!

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · Jul 22

Episode 10 - we've jumped an order of magnitude! Thanks for all the support, @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I totally appreciate it.
If you have artifact-free data, you can skip this one;
for us mere mortals, Erin talks about masks, alignment, and seeing how far from a mask an object is. So useful!

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Morgan Sobol @msobol.bsky.social · Jul 23

My postdoc position is open again! If you’re interested and did not get your application in last time, please send one by end of this week! Start date asap, latest by end of Fall. ‼️

Morgan Sobol @msobol.bsky.social · May 28

🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e...

Please share, thank you 🙏🏻

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · Jul 22

Americans pay ~$36/year to Elon Musk via subsidies. We paid $64/year to USAID—and helped prevent 91 million deaths. Musk’s fortune grows while USAID is gutted. Now 14 million lives, including 4.5 million children, hang in the balance. That’s the cost of billionaire worship.

B. Safarik @bradsafarik.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚩Trump's FP legacy🚩

"U.S. citizens contribute about 17 cents per day to USAID, around $64 per year...91 million deaths were prevented between 2001 and 2021...recent cuts to USAID may lead to more than 14 million additional deaths globally by 2030, including more than 4.5 million children under 5."

USAID cuts may lead to more than 14 million deaths globally, including 4.5 million children under 5 by 2030, researchers say

The figures reflect the projected consequences of halting funding.

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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · Jul 22

Can we use NGS data for pooled strain phenotyping & association mapping as a tool for the genetic dissection of trait variation in BSL3 fungi? Why yes we can.
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“Select and Resequence” methods enable a genome wide association study of the dimorphic human fungal pathogen Coccidioides posadasii

Abstract. Next-generation sequencing has unlocked a wealth of genotype information for wild populations, but interpreting it in the context of phenotypes r

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Seána Duggan @seanaduggan.bsky.social · Jul 21

📝Call for papers📝

I'm co-editing a @microbiologysociety.org #JMedMicro collection on Fungal Pathogenesis.

Contribute a review, research or short communication article by Nov 2025 (flexible)

If interested, get in touch!

#FungalPathogens #MedicalMycology #InfectiousDiseases

Fungal Pathogenesis: Mechanisms, Resistance, and Threats | Microbiology Society

Fungi are a major global health concern, responsible for over a billion infections annually and an estimated 1.5 million deaths each year. Despite their substantial impact on human health and healthca...

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Rebecca Drummond 🍄 @therad-lab.bsky.social · Jul 18

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!)
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Fungal Pathogens Meeting Promo

YouTube video by KeystoneSymposia

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Liz Ballou @balloulab.bsky.social · Jul 18

Abby Potton is studying morphological heterogeneity of Cryptococcus neoformans in my lab. This image shows the full range of cell sizes, from large polyploid titan cells, to yeast, to the small but mighty titanide, all important for how this fungus causes disease.

The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology @mrccmm.bsky.social · Jul 18

🧫 This week’s #ImageOfTheWeek captures the sugary capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans (pink) and its diverse cell types and sizes (blue).
📸 Credit: PhD student Abby Potton

#microbiology #microscopy #science #fungi #research

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 18

Exciting times to be at @johninnescentre.bsky.social !

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Major funding boost to bring world leading researchers to the John Innes Centre | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre has been awarded an equal share of the new £54 million Global Talent Fund, to attract and support leading researchers and their teams to relocate to the UK. The new Global Talent...

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Eva Kowalinski @kowaeva.bsky.social · Jul 17

Postdoc positions in structural biology of RNA processing complexes.

An ERC-funded position will dissect pre-mRNA processing pathways in the infective organism Trypanosoma brucei. An ANR-funded position will characterise large complexes in RNA modification.

Details: tinyurl.com/postdoc-RNA-...

Postdoc in Structural Biology of RNA processing complexes

Postdoctoral positions in structural biology of macromolecular complexes are available in the laboratory of Dr. Eva Kowalinski at the EMBL Grenoble, France. We are looking for highly motivated and amb...

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · Jul 17

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A Fungus, Not Its Insect Host, Paints the World Red

Lac insects carry a yeast-like symbiont that produces a commercially important bright red pigment, revealing insights about insect-microbe symbiosis.

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · Jul 17

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for students to join your lab as a PhD student? I made a Starter Pack to help PIs and potential PhD students connect! If you would like to be added to this pack, please let me know! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi

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Slavica Janevska @slavi-jan.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 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...

Job opportunity Postdoctoral Researcher (m/w/div) in “Microbial Infection Strategies” at Leibniz HKI Jobportal

Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena

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The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology @mrccmm.bsky.social · Jul 16

We are proud to be partnering with @ddu-dundee.bsky.social and GSK on this global health mission funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social 🌍

Manu De Rycker @mdr-ddu.bsky.social · Jul 16

Delighted to announce a £17.9 million award from @wellcometrust.bsky.social for the development of new antifungal treatments to a consortium of @ddu-dundee.bsky.social, @labwyllie.bsky.social, @mrccmm.bsky.social and GSK.

#Cryptococcus #Candida #drugdiscovery #antifungal 🧪

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£17.9m research grant to discover new treatments for fungal diseases

A team of leading infectious disease scientists from academia and industry have been awarded £17.9 million to identify new drugs to treat fungal infections

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The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology @mrccmm.bsky.social · Jul 4

#imageoftheweek

Rhizopus delemar (blue) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (yellow colour, but pink if inside the fungus.)

This image shows how bacteria interact with fungi - through direct contact and interdependent relationship (endosymbiosis).

Credit: Dr Corzo Leon.

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Manu De Rycker @mdr-ddu.bsky.social · Jul 16

Delighted to announce a £17.9 million award from @wellcometrust.bsky.social for the development of new antifungal treatments to a consortium of @ddu-dundee.bsky.social, @labwyllie.bsky.social, @mrccmm.bsky.social and GSK.

#Cryptococcus #Candida #drugdiscovery #antifungal 🧪

tinyurl.com/wywtkpsx

£17.9m research grant to discover new treatments for fungal diseases

A team of leading infectious disease scientists from academia and industry have been awarded £17.9 million to identify new drugs to treat fungal infections

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · Jul 10

Fungal infections are getting harder to treat. The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus tops the World Health Organization's list of worrying fungal diseases. It's growing increasingly resistant to the first-line drug used to treat it.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Fungal infections are getting harder to treat

The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus tops the World Health Organization's list of worrying fungal diseases. It's growing increasingly resistant to the first-line drug used to treat it.

www.nbcnews.com

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Darcy Wooten (she/her) @darcy-id-doc.bsky.social · Jul 14

Interested in training with international fungal experts at an ECMM-designated Center of Excellence in Fungal Infections?

Apply to ID Fellowship at Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital Consortium in St. Louis, MO.

medicine.washu.edu/news/washu-m...

WashU Medicine fungal specialists fight often misdiagnosed infections | WashU Medicine

The WashU Medicine Invasive Fungal Infections Clinic has been recognized internationally for its world-class diagnosis, care and research.

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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · Jul 14

Join us in BPP!! We are searching for a new Herbarium Director. This open rank, tenure-track/tenured position will direct/manage the OSC herbarium, lead a robust plant systematics/ecology/evolution research program,
teach UG/grad courses and more! (see PD linked below)

Full consideration: Aug 31

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Botany & Plant Pathology)

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure-track or tenured Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor position.Any hiring at the rank o...

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