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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · 28d

🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Fungal Ecology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Emily S. Damstra @emilydamstra.com · Sep 3

Canada Post released this set of 5 #fungi #stamps last week. I'm so pleased to have had the opportunity to illustrate them!
Design by Joce Creative.
More stamp images: www.emilydamstra.com/canada-post-...

#fungifriends #postagestamps #stampcollecting #philately #fungiart #mushrooms #lichens #SciArt

Front of the 2025 Canada Post fungus stamp set's Official First Day Cover, featuring images of 5 different fungus stamps against a background that includes larger-size cropped portions of the oyster fungus illustration.

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CanFunNet @canfunnet.bsky.social · Jul 30

Can you believe #CFN25 is just one week away? Keep an eye on your emails for updates from us!
Speakers and Moderators — please double-check the times and locations for your sessions. Registration is open—don't miss our lineup of plenary speakers! Sponsored by @biologists.bsky.social

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Linda Horianopoulos @linder-surprise.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thrilled to share that I'll be starting my lab @uofguelph.bsky.social this September!

I'll be joining the Department of Food Science and I'm so excited to study yeast diversity in this context!

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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Congratulations Linda!

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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · Jun 10

Join us tonight for this public lecture, if you are in St. John's, Newfoundland!🍄

www.mun.ca/research/eve...

Research Spotlight - Weresub Lecture with Yolanda Wiersma: Nothing Rotten! Finding inspiration in fungi | Office of the Vice-President (Research)

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Monika S. Fischer @mofisch.bsky.social · May 31

“Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi”🍄🧬 a plot twist in the story of multinucleate filamentous fungi! Really cool and bizarre new work from the lab of Xin Li! @science.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social @science.org

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · Jun 9

Check out this amazing special issue. The editorial from Joe Heitman nicely sets the scene and there are some spectacular reviews from many mycologists. I am glad to have been part of this, including in the 'MyShroom' section! #Fungi

Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · Jun 7

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rules all PIs should follow

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IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social · May 16

No plans for #BiodiversityDay?

Join us to celebrate aquatic fungi diversity in this free webinar with talks on marine arenicolus fungi, freshwater lichens, fungi as bioindicators, & driftwood fungi. 💧🍄

🗓️ 22 May, 2pm UTC

🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi...

#AquaticFungi

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CanFunNet @canfunnet.bsky.social · May 16

Two weeks left for abstract submission and early bird registration for CanFunNet: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca/registration

This virtual conference will be held Aug 6-8, 2025, register now if you plan to present!

Registration for CanFunNet25 is Now Open! | 5th Annual CanFunNet Fungal Biology Conference

This year, we are excited to go west for the first time with CanFunNet for a virtual meeting hosted by the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Continuing in the footsteps of previous meetings, our prog...

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CanFunNet @canfunnet.bsky.social · May 16

Our theme is "From Local to Global" join us as we explore themes related to:
- Fungal Plant Pathology
- Medical Mycology
- Fungal Genetics and Genomics
- Fungal Ecology and Evolution
- Big Data in Fungal Biology
- Fungal Symbioses
and more!

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CanFunNet @canfunnet.bsky.social · May 6

Our theme this year is "From local to global" and we can't wait to learn about a the amazing fungal research being done across Canada and beyond.

We also want to hear about the impacts of your research whether those inform local decisions or have global relevance.

An image promoting the Canadian Fungal Research Network conference Aug 6-8

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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · Apr 17

Hot off the press, a new paper by Jake, @tremblay-ecology.bsky.social and co-authors! journal.afonet.org/vol96/iss2/a... 'Insights from a decade of using the Motus network to track boreal bird species from Observatoire d’oiseaux de Tadoussac, Québec to temperate and tropical wintering grounds'

Journal of Field Ornithology: Insights from a decade of using the Motus network to track boreal bird species from Observatoire d’oiseaux de Tadoussac, Québec to temperate and tropical wintering ground...

Migration is the least-studied phase of the life cycle for many bird species, despite its importance to the full understanding of their life history traits and conservation. Between 2014 and 2023, we ...

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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · Apr 3

theconversation.com/meet-the-fun...

Meet the fungi that live in the sea

Despite being known to science for over a century thanks to a few early pioneering marine mycologists, most people have never heard of marine fungi.

theconversation.com

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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · Mar 28

Student award alert ! Are you a student working with fungi in 🇨🇦 who published a paper in 2024? The annual Luella K. Weresub Memorial Award recognizes the best student paper in fungal biology, & honours Dr. Luella K. Weresub, a well-known Canadian mycologist. Apply by Mar 31, '25. Value: $1k

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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · Feb 28

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors

Inorganic phosphate (Pi) is essential for life, and plant cells monitor Pi availability by sensing inositol pyrophosphate (PP-InsP) levels. In this work, we describe the hijacking of plant phosphate s...

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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · Feb 17

Way to go Jake, Trevor Avery, Danielle Quinn & co-authors! new research hot off the press from Acadia U esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

An accurate and efficient semiautomated approach to counting birds: Estimating Northern Gannet colony size in Canada

Improving the efficiency of population monitoring and conservation programs is beneficial, so long as the accuracy of the information collected is not diminished. The need to expeditiously estimate t....

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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · Feb 14

An #AquaticFungi valentine!
The perfect ascospores for today 🖤

Huzefa Raja @huzefaraj.bsky.social · Feb 14

Zopfiella lundqvistii C.A. Shearer & J.L. Crane

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Toby Spribille @spribille.bsky.social · Jan 31

How does a 🍄 genome change in evolutionary transition to life on another 🍄 ?

Congrats @ccgallen.bsky.social on first results on this strange Sporothrix we started studying during the pandemic. TLDR: +-1/3 of genome lost in switch to life in matrix of another fungus, but intriguing CAZymes gained

Carmen Gibbs Allen @ccgallen.bsky.social · Jan 30

GXM-based gels make Cryptococcus deadly to humans and jelly fungi wobbly. But how is GXM broken down? We set out to find an organism that makes a living in GXM, and found one. 1/5

Excited to share this paper out now in
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social w/ @spribille.bsky.social

🔗 bit.ly/4aGwSqk

Massive gene loss in the fungus Sporothrix epigloea accompanied a shift to life in a glucuronoxylomannan-based gel matrix

Abstract. Fungi are well known for their ability to both produce and catabolize complex carbohydrates to acquire carbon, often in the most extreme of envir

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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · Jan 29

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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · Jan 27

Rural communities in Québec are embracing ‘mushroom tourism’ to boost local economies

Mycotourism (mushroom tourism) merges nature, culinary experiences and rural traditions. Quebec’s growth in this niche is notable, yet it remains relatively unknown.

theconversation.com

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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · Jan 9

theconversation.com/meet-the-fun...

Meet the fungi that live in the sea

Despite being known to science for over a century thanks to a few early pioneering marine mycologists, most people have never heard of marine fungi.

theconversation.com

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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · Jan 6

Come join us at the best small Biology Department in Canada www2.acadiau.ca/files/files/... 🍁 Tenure track Assistant Professor, Biopharma and Animal Physiology

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CanFunNet @canfunnet.bsky.social · Jan 2

Happy New Year 🎉 - CanFunNet 🍁🍄 virtual meeting is back for 2025!

Mark your calendars 📆 Aug 6-8 and keep an eye out for abstract submission announcements!

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