Sam Hemmings
@samhemmings.bsky.social
PhD student at Imperial College London, interested in fungal genetics, resistance, and air quality 🍄
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🧫 Trichophyton indotineae shows high terbinafine resistance, and azole failures are rising but remains first line treatment.
We compared Etest® vs EUCAST for 73 isolates — 89% / 83.6% essential agreement for itraconazole / posaconazole.
➡️ A practical tool for routine labs!
bit.ly/3Ya7WSP
We compared Etest® vs EUCAST for 73 isolates — 89% / 83.6% essential agreement for itraconazole / posaconazole.
➡️ A practical tool for routine labs!
bit.ly/3Ya7WSP
December 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🧫 Trichophyton indotineae shows high terbinafine resistance, and azole failures are rising but remains first line treatment.
We compared Etest® vs EUCAST for 73 isolates — 89% / 83.6% essential agreement for itraconazole / posaconazole.
➡️ A practical tool for routine labs!
bit.ly/3Ya7WSP
We compared Etest® vs EUCAST for 73 isolates — 89% / 83.6% essential agreement for itraconazole / posaconazole.
➡️ A practical tool for routine labs!
bit.ly/3Ya7WSP
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Today was a good day for our former PhD student Hugh Gifford, who got his first first-author paper out! Such a huge contribution to the mycology field and our understanding of Candida auris infection: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Xenosiderophore transporter gene expression and clade-specific filamentation in Candida auris killifish (Aphanius dispar) infection - Communications Biology
Arabian killifish embryonic yolk sac microinjection of the emerging human fungal pathogen Candida auris and dual host-pathogen RNA-seq reveal an expanded and transcriptionally upregulated family of xe...
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Today was a good day for our former PhD student Hugh Gifford, who got his first first-author paper out! Such a huge contribution to the mycology field and our understanding of Candida auris infection: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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This #FungiFriday we are looking at the work of PhD Student Rose Gooda! Rose is studying the role of mycorrhizal fungi in the natural colonisation of forest in the UK, & recently conducted fieldwork in a temperate oak rainforest in Dartmoor where regeneration efforts are underway 👇
📸 © David Satori
📸 © David Satori
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This #FungiFriday we are looking at the work of PhD Student Rose Gooda! Rose is studying the role of mycorrhizal fungi in the natural colonisation of forest in the UK, & recently conducted fieldwork in a temperate oak rainforest in Dartmoor where regeneration efforts are underway 👇
📸 © David Satori
📸 © David Satori
Currently training our master’s student Peng nanopore sequencing and today he began running his first library! Lots of learning and set-up behind this photo, a nice way to wrap up the term 📸
December 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Currently training our master’s student Peng nanopore sequencing and today he began running his first library! Lots of learning and set-up behind this photo, a nice way to wrap up the term 📸
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🌱 Today marks a new chapter for Europe’s soils
Healthy soils are easy to overlook — until they are gone. They grow our food, store carbon, filter water and support biodiversity. When soils are healthy, ecosystems thrive and societies are more resilient.
👉 The evidence is clear ...
🧵(1/5)
Healthy soils are easy to overlook — until they are gone. They grow our food, store carbon, filter water and support biodiversity. When soils are healthy, ecosystems thrive and societies are more resilient.
👉 The evidence is clear ...
🧵(1/5)
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🌱 Today marks a new chapter for Europe’s soils
Healthy soils are easy to overlook — until they are gone. They grow our food, store carbon, filter water and support biodiversity. When soils are healthy, ecosystems thrive and societies are more resilient.
👉 The evidence is clear ...
🧵(1/5)
Healthy soils are easy to overlook — until they are gone. They grow our food, store carbon, filter water and support biodiversity. When soils are healthy, ecosystems thrive and societies are more resilient.
👉 The evidence is clear ...
🧵(1/5)
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Defra is recruiting for their Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG)
Up to 7 individuals will be recruited to serve as members of Defra's AQEG, starting from 1 April 2026.
For information and to apply, visit: AQEG Recruitment www.gov.uk/government/g...
Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2026 (12 noon)
Up to 7 individuals will be recruited to serve as members of Defra's AQEG, starting from 1 April 2026.
For information and to apply, visit: AQEG Recruitment www.gov.uk/government/g...
Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2026 (12 noon)
Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG)
Provides independent scientific advice on air quality to Defra, in particular the air pollutants contained in the Air Quality Strategy (AQS) for the UK and those covered by the EU Directives on ambien...
www.gov.uk
December 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Defra is recruiting for their Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG)
Up to 7 individuals will be recruited to serve as members of Defra's AQEG, starting from 1 April 2026.
For information and to apply, visit: AQEG Recruitment www.gov.uk/government/g...
Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2026 (12 noon)
Up to 7 individuals will be recruited to serve as members of Defra's AQEG, starting from 1 April 2026.
For information and to apply, visit: AQEG Recruitment www.gov.uk/government/g...
Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2026 (12 noon)
Been getting my hands dirty with some fieldwork this week! Behind every clean data set is a muddy PhD student..
December 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Been getting my hands dirty with some fieldwork this week! Behind every clean data set is a muddy PhD student..
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Come to Birmingham and do a PhD with myself and @wvschaik.bsky.social!
PhD position (Birmingham, UK)
Environmental modelling of microbial dynamics in river and flood-impacted environments
with Johanna Rhodes, Willem van Schaik, Marie Chattaway, Claire Jenkins
at University of Birmingham
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2433
Environmental modelling of microbial dynamics in river and flood-impacted environments
with Johanna Rhodes, Willem van Schaik, Marie Chattaway, Claire Jenkins
at University of Birmingham
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2433
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Come to Birmingham and do a PhD with myself and @wvschaik.bsky.social!
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We are recruiting a Research Tech! Funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social, join us to work on Mucorales adaption in collaboration with Becky Hall (University of Kent)
Deadline: 5th January
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Deadline: 5th January
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
December 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We are recruiting a Research Tech! Funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social, join us to work on Mucorales adaption in collaboration with Becky Hall (University of Kent)
Deadline: 5th January
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Deadline: 5th January
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Hi fungal friends!
For #FungalFriday a thread about our newly published work, “Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen”, now out in The ISME Journal with @bobriggeman.bsky.social, Hylke Kortenbosch, @benauxier.bsky.social + co-authors academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
For #FungalFriday a thread about our newly published work, “Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen”, now out in The ISME Journal with @bobriggeman.bsky.social, Hylke Kortenbosch, @benauxier.bsky.social + co-authors academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen
Abstract. Humans are exposed to the mold Aspergillus fumigatus via inhalation, and infections are increasingly resistant to triazole-class antifungals. Eco
academic.oup.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Hi fungal friends!
For #FungalFriday a thread about our newly published work, “Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen”, now out in The ISME Journal with @bobriggeman.bsky.social, Hylke Kortenbosch, @benauxier.bsky.social + co-authors academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
For #FungalFriday a thread about our newly published work, “Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen”, now out in The ISME Journal with @bobriggeman.bsky.social, Hylke Kortenbosch, @benauxier.bsky.social + co-authors academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
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This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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For an easier read, @w-u-r.bsky.social also published an article about the project and our main findings. www.wur.nl/en/news/resi...
Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus more commonly found in greenhouse and bulb-growing regions
WUR researcher Eveline Snelders and two PhD candidates have mapped the spread of the (drug-resistant) fungus Aspergillus fumigatus across the Netherlands. While the fungus is present ubiquitous in the...
www.wur.nl
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
For an easier read, @w-u-r.bsky.social also published an article about the project and our main findings. www.wur.nl/en/news/resi...
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Our paper with the results of Citizen Science project ‘Fungal Radar’ are now out! @evelinesnelders.bsky.social @benauxier.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen
Abstract. Humans are exposed to the mold Aspergillus fumigatus via inhalation, and infections are increasingly resistant to triazole-class antifungals. Eco
academic.oup.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Our paper with the results of Citizen Science project ‘Fungal Radar’ are now out! @evelinesnelders.bsky.social @benauxier.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! @eonore.bsky.social joined by Dr Samuel Horsfield on diagnostic & surveillance methods & GNASTy improving our ability to detect variants that haven’t been seen before👇
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @rebecca-and.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org
youtu.be/X7I-ZVyw9dw
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @rebecca-and.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org
youtu.be/X7I-ZVyw9dw
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! @eonore.bsky.social joined by Dr Samuel Horsfield on diagnostic & surveillance methods & GNASTy improving our ability to detect variants that haven’t been seen before👇
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @rebecca-and.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org
youtu.be/X7I-ZVyw9dw
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @rebecca-and.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org
youtu.be/X7I-ZVyw9dw
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New paper from the Bidula Lab in collaboration with the Waller Lab.
We show that G-quadruplexes may be novel antifungal targets with new modes of action.
Paper below 👇
Congrats to Georgie and Fuad on their first papers and a big thank you to everyone involved. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
We show that G-quadruplexes may be novel antifungal targets with new modes of action.
Paper below 👇
Congrats to Georgie and Fuad on their first papers and a big thank you to everyone involved. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
New paper!
Evidence that G-quadruplexes form in pathogenic fungi and represent promising antifungal targets
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
| EMBO Molecular Medicine
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Evidence that G-quadruplexes form in pathogenic fungi and represent promising antifungal targets
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
| EMBO Molecular Medicine
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Evidence that G-quadruplexes form in pathogenic fungi and represent promising antifungal targets | EMBO Molecular Medicine
imageimageIn this study, we show that G-quadruplexes can form within fungal pathogens and represent
new antifungal targets. PhenDC3 and/or pyridostatin are antifungal against Aspergillus fumigatus, C...
www.embopress.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
New paper from the Bidula Lab in collaboration with the Waller Lab.
We show that G-quadruplexes may be novel antifungal targets with new modes of action.
Paper below 👇
Congrats to Georgie and Fuad on their first papers and a big thank you to everyone involved. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
We show that G-quadruplexes may be novel antifungal targets with new modes of action.
Paper below 👇
Congrats to Georgie and Fuad on their first papers and a big thank you to everyone involved. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
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Whilst this research is available currently as a preprint only www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7... I would like to acknowledge all the researchers on this study who have made this possible. It's great to see the fruition of collaborative science! Thank you 🙏
Recent European origin of azole resistance in the critical priority fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus
Resistance to azole antifungals in Aspergillus fumigatus, a WHO Critical Priority fungal pathogen, is rising worldwide and threatens the efficacy of frontline therapies for invasive aspergillosis. Thi...
www.researchsquare.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Whilst this research is available currently as a preprint only www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7... I would like to acknowledge all the researchers on this study who have made this possible. It's great to see the fruition of collaborative science! Thank you 🙏
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Over many years, and a pandemic, we have worked with an international team of researchers to answer the question through genomics. We believe the origin is recent (in the last few decades, in line with previous research) and spatially from Western Europe
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Over many years, and a pandemic, we have worked with an international team of researchers to answer the question through genomics. We believe the origin is recent (in the last few decades, in line with previous research) and spatially from Western Europe
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A long time ago in this same galaxy, we asked ourselves "where does azole antifungal resistance in fungi come from?"
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A long time ago in this same galaxy, we asked ourselves "where does azole antifungal resistance in fungi come from?"
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
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🔥 At conferences, who asks the questions shapes who gets seen. Across 24 ID&CM meetings, women were 55% of delegates but asked 36% of questions.
💬 When women moderate or speak first, others follow.
Let’s change the pattern
bit.ly/47VL0eH
🙏 @maudsalmona.bsky.social & MicroID EmpowHERment consortium
💬 When women moderate or speak first, others follow.
Let’s change the pattern
bit.ly/47VL0eH
🙏 @maudsalmona.bsky.social & MicroID EmpowHERment consortium
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🔥 At conferences, who asks the questions shapes who gets seen. Across 24 ID&CM meetings, women were 55% of delegates but asked 36% of questions.
💬 When women moderate or speak first, others follow.
Let’s change the pattern
bit.ly/47VL0eH
🙏 @maudsalmona.bsky.social & MicroID EmpowHERment consortium
💬 When women moderate or speak first, others follow.
Let’s change the pattern
bit.ly/47VL0eH
🙏 @maudsalmona.bsky.social & MicroID EmpowHERment consortium
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Genomic and phenotypic insights into the expanding phylogenetic landscape of the Cryptococcus genus journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Genomic and phenotypic insights into the expanding phylogenetic landscape of the Cryptococcus genus
Author summary Cryptococcus is a genus of fungi that includes both pathogenic species capable of causing life-threatening infections in humans and many environmental species that inhabit soil, fruit, ...
journals.plos.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Genomic and phenotypic insights into the expanding phylogenetic landscape of the Cryptococcus genus journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Had a great time in York sharing my work on fungal bioaerosols on behalf of the WellHome study at the @ukcleanair.bsky.social meeting.
Awesome to see science and policy working side by side to take on the real world challenges of indoor air quality.
Awesome to see science and policy working side by side to take on the real world challenges of indoor air quality.
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Had a great time in York sharing my work on fungal bioaerosols on behalf of the WellHome study at the @ukcleanair.bsky.social meeting.
Awesome to see science and policy working side by side to take on the real world challenges of indoor air quality.
Awesome to see science and policy working side by side to take on the real world challenges of indoor air quality.
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If you're interested in using pangenome graphs for comparative genomics, check out my webinar, part of EMBL-EBI's "Concepts, methods, and resources in pangenomics" series, available on-demand: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
Pangenome graphs as a new paradigm in comparative genomics -
Pangenome graphs as a new paradigm in comparative genomics -
www.ebi.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If you're interested in using pangenome graphs for comparative genomics, check out my webinar, part of EMBL-EBI's "Concepts, methods, and resources in pangenomics" series, available on-demand: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
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Shout out to University of Birmingham folk:
A science-themed play that I co-wrote is coming to you at the Midlands Art Centre on the 17th. A lab-night out? See you there! 🤞
linktr.ee/panaceaplay
@wvschaik.bsky.social @alanmcn1.bsky.social @drjorhodes.com @jkreft.bsky.social
A science-themed play that I co-wrote is coming to you at the Midlands Art Centre on the 17th. A lab-night out? See you there! 🤞
linktr.ee/panaceaplay
@wvschaik.bsky.social @alanmcn1.bsky.social @drjorhodes.com @jkreft.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Shout out to University of Birmingham folk:
A science-themed play that I co-wrote is coming to you at the Midlands Art Centre on the 17th. A lab-night out? See you there! 🤞
linktr.ee/panaceaplay
@wvschaik.bsky.social @alanmcn1.bsky.social @drjorhodes.com @jkreft.bsky.social
A science-themed play that I co-wrote is coming to you at the Midlands Art Centre on the 17th. A lab-night out? See you there! 🤞
linktr.ee/panaceaplay
@wvschaik.bsky.social @alanmcn1.bsky.social @drjorhodes.com @jkreft.bsky.social
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Research Technician: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Postdoc: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Postdoc: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Technician in Microbiology:Oxford Road
We are seeking a motivated laboratory-based Research Technician to join a dynamic lab working to understand the evolution of antimicrobial resistance within human fungal pathogens. This role is based in the lab of Dr Bottery, part of the wider Manchester Fungal Infection Group. The role is full-time for 12 months, available from January 2026.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Research Technician: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Postdoc: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Postdoc: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Exciting news! I have two positions open in my lab at the UoManchester: one PDRA and one Research Tech.
Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!
Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Exciting news! I have two positions open in my lab at the UoManchester: one PDRA and one Research Tech.
Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!
Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!