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Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of hard work from Gabriel Ferreras Garrucho, Chai Hao Chiu and Tania Chancellor @cropscicentre.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social .
Let us know what you think!

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Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · 2d

It's been a busy time in the Paszkowski lab!

First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Defining the pre-symbiotic transcriptional landscape of rice roots

Plants interact with a plethora of organisms in the rhizosphere, with outcomes that range from detrimental to beneficial. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is the most ubiquitous beneficial plant ...

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · 27d

🍄 Fungi Field Day is almost here!
🍄 Save the date: Saturday 4 October
🍄 Come along from 10am to 4pm

Celebrate all things fungi with art, crafts, face painting, talks, forays and games - there's something for everyone!

We look forward to welcoming you! 🌿

#CUBG #FungiFieldDay #CambridgeEvents

Promotional poster for Fungi Field Day event on Saturday, 4 October from 10am to 4pm. Features illustrations of various types of mushrooms.

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Alexandra Dallaire @alexdallaire.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A thread 👇

Reductive evolution of the DNA replication machinery in endosymbiotic fungi

The molecular machinery for replicating and repairing DNA accurately is critically important for life and highly conserved across the Tree of Life. Here we show that two major lineages of fungi, Glome...

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Thomas Irving @endosymb.bsky.social · 26d

I'll be presenting Wed 17th 11:30 at IMMM2025 in Munich in our labs work on the role of the D14L-SMAX1 module in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, and why we think it operates in two distinct roles (regulating the common symbiosis pathway and independent of it in the cortex).
#immm2025

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Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · Sep 3

You can find fungi events near you on the UK Fungus Day website: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/whatson

Events | UK Fungus Day

Home

www.ukfungusday.co.uk

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Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · Sep 3

🍄 One month until Fungi Field Day 2025!! 🍄

Held on UK Fungus Day (4th October) @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, this event celebrates the fungal kingdom, featuring science, games, walks, talks, face-painting and much more for all ages. Please spread the word!

www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fun...

Fungi Field Day - Cambridge University Botanic Garden

www.botanic.cam.ac.uk

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Takeshi Sentoku (千德毅) @cl93.bsky.social · Jul 24

The arum type arbuscules

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Jen McGaley @jenmcgaley.bsky.social · Jul 24

Beautiful microscopy of beautiful arbuscules

Takeshi Sentoku (千德毅) @cl93.bsky.social · Jul 24

The arum type arbuscules

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Andressa M. Venturini @aventurini.bsky.social · Jul 24

Excited to share our new @nature.com paper mapping global mycorrhizal richness and rarity, led by Michael Van Nuland. Over 90% of richness hotspots lie outside protected areas: a critical gap in conservation. Proud to contribute as part of the @spun.earth consortium! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected - Nature

Machine-learning algorithms trained on 25,000 geolocated soil samples are used to create high-resolution global maps of mycorrhizal fungi, revealing that less than 10% of their biodiversity hotspots a...

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · Jul 14

She also plugged this innovation:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... The AMSlide for noninvasive time‐lapse imaging of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis - McGaley - 2025 - Journal of Microscopy - Wiley Online Library

The AMSlide for noninvasive time‐lapse imaging of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

In most soils across the globe, you will find arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. AM fungi act like an extended root system, foraging in the soil for nutrients and delivering them back to their plant-....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · Jul 14

Uta Paszkowski expands on the arbuscular mycorrhizal theme with a cool spatial transcriptome method to better resolve dynamics during colonization of rice.

Can see key transporter transcripts accumulating in arbuscules.
#2025ISMPMI

A person giving a presentation on a conference stage with a PowerPoint slide showing plant cells with colors where fungi or certain transcripts are present

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Jen McGaley @jenmcgaley.bsky.social · Jul 10

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
From a primary school workshop: a mystery arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in mystery plant. Sometimes fun to have no information about what you are looking at 🚸
#outreach #mycosky #fungi

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Thomas Irving @endosymb.bsky.social · Jun 20

I'll be at @ipgsa2025.bsky.social in 10 days time - come find me at poster 102 to discuss what we've learned in rice about the role of KL & its negative regulator SMAX1 in root development, mycorrhizal symbiosis and germination, as well as our efforts to take chemical control of this pathway.

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Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · Jun 20

A thread of our go-to outreach activities from @jenmcgaley.bsky.social. Worth a look if you have an event coming up!

Particular favourite: the online game, 'The Adventures of a Friendly Fungus' 👇🕹️

Jen McGaley @jenmcgaley.bsky.social · Jun 20

How to teach kids (+ parents) the concept of mycorrhizal symbiosis? Here's a thread of things that we use @paszkowskilab.bsky.social 🧵
#outreach #fungi #plant #science

Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · Jun 19

Festival of Plants 2025: great atmosphere, lots of visitors, and so much enthusiasm for mycorrhiza!

Next in the outreach calendar: the Fungi Field Day, 4th October, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Save the date! 🍄🍄🍄

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Vasilis Kokkoris @vkokkoris.bsky.social · Jun 20

🧪🧬Should we reignite genetic manipulation attempts on #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi? Our review in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social suggests the time is ripe.

With: Midge Woodward @paszkowskilab.bsky.social @alexdallaire.bsky.social

Open access🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

#scicomm

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Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks to the brilliant team of @endosymb.bsky.social, @jenmcgaley.bsky.social, Martina, Ellen, Doris, Shichao + Nora from @cropscicentre.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social 🙌

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Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · Jun 19

Festival of Plants 2025: great atmosphere, lots of visitors, and so much enthusiasm for mycorrhiza!

Next in the outreach calendar: the Fungi Field Day, 4th October, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Save the date! 🍄🍄🍄

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Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · Jun 12

Our favourite fungus in our favourite plant 😍

Jen McGaley @jenmcgaley.bsky.social · Jun 12

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Just a particularly pretty arbuscule in a rice root cell colonised by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, with a cool view down an intercellular hypha. Stained with WGA-Alexafluor488, imaged by CLSM, false-coloured by depth in root 🔥

#microscopy #mycosci #fungi

Thick fungal hyphae around a cells with an arbuscule inside the cell, false-coloured with 'fire' colours to depict 3D structure.

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Crop Science Centre @cropscicentre.bsky.social · Jun 11

Celebrating Deni's Masters Viva, and the birthday of our acting Director Prof Uta Paszkowski 🎉🎂👏

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Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · Jun 10

A whole special issue dedicated to FUNGI!!! Well worth a look 😍

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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Jen McGaley @jenmcgaley.bsky.social · Jun 5

Nearly time for the Festival of Plants 2025!!! We'll be in the Pop-up Plant Science tent with microscopes, crafts, games and much more mycorrhizal fun🔬🖍️🎨🧩

@paszkowskilab.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social #mycosci #fungi #plants

Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · Jun 3

🌿Festival of Plants 2025 - have you got your ticket yet?🌿Saturday 14 June 10am - 5pm. Join us for a day celebrating the fascinating world of plants. Free tours, interactive science, family fun, Ask the Gardener, food trucks & entertainment. Book now: bit.ly/3FbGEFU

Members of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden Horticulture Team answering questions from members of the public at the Ask a Gardener stall at the Festival of Plants

Looking through lavender to a group of people enjoying a tour at Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Two children looking at each other and laughing while waving plant wands that they have made at Cambridge University Botanic Garden

The poster for Festival of Plants at Cambridge University Botanic Garden on Saturday 14 June 10am to 5pm

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Jen McGaley @jenmcgaley.bsky.social · May 22

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Been looking at the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora margarita this week. Not only does it form ENORMOUS spores, but also bunches of knobbly 'auxiliary cells'.
Can't find a description of auxiliary cell function anywhere...does anyone know what they do?
#mycosci #fungi

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Thomas Irving @endosymb.bsky.social · May 9

Sharing some of my own #mycorrhiza #microscopy from @paszkowskilab.bsky.social

Rhizophagus irregularis inside a rice lateral root (plant & fungal CWs stained with calcofluor white, 400x mag)

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Jen McGaley @jenmcgaley.bsky.social · May 8

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Some chunky hyphae and arbuscules of the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis, running along the length of a rice root. Coloured by depth in the root.
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy

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