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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Aug 24

Congrats! Great paper

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Bertuzzi Lab @bertuzzilab.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are recruiting two Research Associates! Funded by the
@wellcometrust.bsky.social , join us to work on Mucorales adaption in collaboration with Becky Hall (University of Kent) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Deadline: 1st October

Research Associate (PDRA) in Fungal Infection Biology :Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Aug 6

Get the proposal checked by people in your field and people outside your field!

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Jul 17

This paper blew my mind!

It can really have massive implications

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Imidazole propionate is a driver and therapeutic target in atherosclerosis - Nature

Imidazole propionate produced by gut microbiota is associated with atherosclerosis in mouse models and in humans, and causes the development of atherosclerosis through activation of the imidazoline-1 ...

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Jun 10

Next Tuesday I am giving a @efisg-escmid.bsky.social webinar to explain our proposed definitions for the phenomena of antifungal tolerance and persistence in filamentos fungi, and provide guidelines for their detection and quantification

Sign up here if interested👇

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Toward the consensus of definitions for the phenomena of antifungal tolerance and persistence in filamentous fungi. After registering, you will receive a co...

Organised by EFISG

us06web.zoom.us

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · May 23

Congratulations! Great news!

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · May 8

Well deserved @chownbioinf.bsky.social ! Congratulations!

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · May 8

The Microbiology Society, with the British Mycological Society, is delighted to announce Dr Harry Chown of Imperial College London, UK, as the 2025 Tony Trinci Award winner. Read more here: microb.io/4jUSinB @chownbioinf.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · May 8

The Microbiology Society, with the British Mycological Society, is delighted to announce Dr Harry Chown of Imperial College London, UK, as the 2025 Tony Trinci Award winner. Read more here: microb.io/4jUSinB @chownbioinf.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · May 7

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Mar 27

I think this is a very important topic, reviewer fatigue

How many invitations do your receive per week? For me it's well over ten.

New ideas/approaches are needed

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

On improving the sustainability of peer review

The term “reviewer fatigue” has become only too familiar in scientific publishing. This editorial discusses how we can ease the burden on reviewers to make the peer review system more sustainable, whi...

journals.plos.org

Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Mar 24

Wow, new antifungal with novel mechanism of action

Looks really promising

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A polyene macrolide targeting phospholipids in the fungal cell membrane - Nature

Mandimycin, a polyene macrolide, exhibits strong antifungal activity and possesses a mode of action that is distinct from other compounds of this class.

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Mar 7

Outstanding work!

And so many posibiities to use this going forward...

Aaron Vogan @fungage-lab.bsky.social · Mar 7

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Illustration depicting the ways in which fungi can exchange genetic material with each other. Starship mediated HGT is confirmed experimentally in this preprint.

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Aaron Vogan @fungage-lab.bsky.social · Mar 7

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Mar 6

How was it? In the end I went for dinner with the Spanish gang. Maybe next time I can manage!

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Mar 1

En route to #asperfest and @ecfg172025.bsky.social
Can you believe it's my first time? I'm excited to see old friends and meet new ones. And of course, for five days of outstanding fungal research!

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Feb 28

"Fungi made Earth’s land liveable..."

Such important organisms... so underestimated!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks

Imaging study reveals how fungal networks are constructed.

www.nature.com

Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Feb 25

Thank you to my co-authors and friends Mike Bromley, Gustavo Goldmann and Clara Valero
(not on bluesky yet!)

Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Feb 25

Antifungal tolerance and persistence are gaining relevance in fungal pathogens. However, the terminology is unclear, particularly for filamentous fungi. In this Perspective we propose tailored definitions and discuss methods for detecting and studying these phenomena
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Toward the consensus of definitions for the phenomena of antifungal tolerance and persistence in filamentous fungi | mBio

Antimicrobial tolerance and persistence are definitions that describe the ability of microorganisms to survive the action of antimicrobial drugs for extended periods. These phenomena are distinct from...

journals.asm.org

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Feb 25

I thought many will appreciate here. Mini chocolate mushroom cookie 🤤

Reposted by Jorge Amich

Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · Feb 23

We are looking for a postdoc in #EvolutionarySystemsBiology.
Exciting science, amazing team, wonderful city!
landrylab.ibis.ulaval.ca/research-opp...
#evolution #synbio #systemsbiology #genomics

Research opportunities | Landry Lab

landrylab.ibis.ulaval.ca

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Jan 28

This is certainly a very interesting study.

Just the terminology is confusing. I'd say "proliferative or quiescent state" rather than "resistant or tolerant"
All is done at []s around the MIC

But is is interesting to see the cell capacity to adapt the response!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Jan 26

Hello All, plz share. Last call for applications for a post-doc position in our lab to study immune function in frogs infected with the fungal pathogen Bd. Deadline is Feb 1, reviews will begin soon after. zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs

We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

zamudiolab.org

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Jan 23

The Institut Pasteur launches an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders in the application of cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to the exploration of host-microbe, tissue-tissue, or host-environment interactions.

research.pasteur.fr/fr/call/call...

Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur | Research - Institut Pasteur

research.pasteur.fr

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Jan 18

I'm proud to present our latest work

We used Nanostring technology to study the expression of sulfur-related genes during infection. We identified potential virulence-relevant factors and characterised one of them, validating it as a novel antifungal target

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sulfur metabolism is an essential aspect of fungal physiology and pathogenicity. Fungal sulfur metabolism comprises anabolic and catabolic routes that are not well conserved in mammals, therefore i...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jorge Amich @jorgeamich.bsky.social · Jan 18

I'm proud to present our latest work

We used Nanostring technology to study the expression of sulfur-related genes during infection. We identified potential virulence-relevant factors and characterised one of them, validating it as a novel antifungal target

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sulfur metabolism is an essential aspect of fungal physiology and pathogenicity. Fungal sulfur metabolism comprises anabolic and catabolic routes that are not well conserved in mammals, therefore i...

www.tandfonline.com

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