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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 26d

Thrilled to see the INVAM fungal collection—and our dedicated curators—featured in the Fall issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social Preserving the world’s largest library of mycorrhizal fungi to power ecosystem restoration, science, and sustainable ag. 🦠🌱🌍

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Sierra Magazine Fall 2025: The Library of Spores

Behind the effort to grow mycorrhizal fungi for ecosystem restoration Photos by Arin Yoon Share This Article NESTLED AMID KANSAS’S rolling hills and …

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 27d

Apply for a research grant to come visit us at INVAM!

Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you're looking to visit (a) herbarium collection(s), or improve or maintain small collections of plants/fungi/algae, consider applying for an @iaptglobal.bsky.social Research Grant or Small Collections Grant! Applications for the 2026 round will open soon. www.iaptglobal.org/grants

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you're looking to visit (a) herbarium collection(s), or improve or maintain small collections of plants/fungi/algae, consider applying for an @iaptglobal.bsky.social Research Grant or Small Collections Grant! Applications for the 2026 round will open soon. www.iaptglobal.org/grants

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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · Aug 28

📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...

Cover of the BMS's Fungal Ecology journal

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César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social · Aug 25

Call for symposia at @ICOM2026 is open until 15 October.
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · Aug 14

A landscape architect visited INVAM. We showed that while our compound scope + $$$$ camera setup takes stunning shots of fungi in roots, you can still get surprisingly good ones with a $300 box-store scope and a phone. Check out these roots—AM fungal structures stained dark blue, absolutely loaded!

Microscope eyepiece in focus with a cell phone camera.

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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · Jul 31

We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share.

Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...

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Dr. Bala Chaudhary @balachaudhary.bsky.social · May 28

Access the full paper and data here! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TraitAM, a global spore trait database for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - TraitAM, a global spore trait database for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

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Jean-Michel Ané @jeanmichelane.bsky.social · Jun 6

The latest publication from our lab!

The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · Apr 1

This podcast explores INVAM, the world's largest AM fungi collection housed at @universityofkansas.bsky.social, to uncover what makes #mycorrhizae great!

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Celia Llopis-Jepsen @celialj.bsky.social · Apr 1

New episode of Up From Dust!

Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough?

Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...

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Celia Llopis-Jepsen @celialj.bsky.social · Apr 1

New episode of Up From Dust!

Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough?

Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...

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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · Feb 21

Teaching the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi lab next week at @universityofkansas.bsky.social! I’ve prepped spores from ten different species to showcase the diversity in color, shape, and size. Fungal diversity is truly beautiful!
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Huge thanks to @invam.bsky.social for donating the materials!

Nine species of AM fungal spores. So pretty!

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · Feb 22

#sciart

Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · Feb 21

Teaching the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi lab next week at @universityofkansas.bsky.social! I’ve prepped spores from ten different species to showcase the diversity in color, shape, and size. Fungal diversity is truly beautiful!
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Huge thanks to @invam.bsky.social for donating the materials!

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Camille Delavaux @camilledelavaux.bsky.social · Jan 9

Check out our new paper using our database and pipeline to uncover novel diversity in AMF! As always, made possible by an amazing team effort ✨
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Uncovering Diversity within the Glomeromycota: Novel Clades, Family Distributions, and Land Use Sensitivity

Using a recently developed pipeline for phylogenetic placement of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) with samples across sites in Alaska, Kansas, and Brazil, we find evidence for three putative novel...

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Dr. Bala Chaudhary @balachaudhary.bsky.social · Feb 1

Hey BlueSky! I made a starter pack for folks working on mycorrhizal symbioses. LMK who else to include! go.bsky.app/285P8Tn

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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · Jan 16

I’ve merged both starter packs - here’s 71 microbial natural products researchers - want to be added? Let me know! go.bsky.app/72NeGsT #microsky #secmet #naturalproducts #specializedmetabolites

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Sidney Stürmer @sturmer.bsky.social · Dec 20

How resilient are AMF cultures? Gi. decipiens SCT711C and Paraglomus sp. SCT771G stored for 8 years at 4C still kicking and alive. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for you all folks!! Cheers

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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · Dec 25

Happy holidays y'all #mycosky 🦠

Spores of AM fungi in the shape of a Christmas tree.

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · Dec 4

Gigaspora day is a good day. 😁

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Sidney Stürmer @sturmer.bsky.social · Dec 4

Second day of the X Workshop on Taxonomy of Glomeromycota and we already discussed the spore development model, observed 10 spp. in Gigasporaceae, discussed methods to grow these fungi and visited facilities of CICG. We are ready to dive in Acaulosporaceae and Entrophosporaceae tomorrow!!

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · Dec 1

Please add us, thanks!

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · Nov 30

Hi Matthias, please add INVAM to the list. Thanks!

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello,

I think we need a starter pack on mycorrhizal ecology, don't you think?

I started on one, who did I miss...

go.bsky.app/bqwe5h

Mycorrhizal ecology

Join the conversation

go.bsky.app

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Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · Nov 17

🌾🌍🌱🍄🌿🌳🌺🧪Articles in latest newsletter #BUC2024 by students who competed in it. What is a Fungarium? Read about RBG Kew's Fungarium and work on taxonomy, identification and distribution of fungi. Download the whole article at botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/

Picture of young man with rows and rows of boxes holding dried fungal specimens behind him. Second photo of some of specimens on a trolly being taken for DNA profiling. Text around pictures about work of Fungarium. Read full article at https://botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/ Image credit: Kew/Finn Harrigan

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Sidney Stürmer @sturmer.bsky.social · Nov 29

Lab is all set and organized to receive students, technicians and researchers from Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina and Peru to attend the X Workshop on Taxonomy of Glomeromycota. Four days learning about AMF spore morphology, spore wall, germinal walls, and how to grow them. Excited!!

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