Now online! A genomic compendium of cultivated human gut fungi characterizes the gut mycobiome and its relevance to common diseases dlvr.it/T7CgL5

Best paper of the week for me. Beautiful work from Akos T. Kovacs and collaborators -> Enhanced surface colonisation and competition during bacterial adaptation to a fungus sco.lt/75TqVM

Excited to share our new paper on fungal necromass (aka dead hyphae) decomposition! Here, we show how fungi modify necromass and discuss the role of fungal-bacterial interactions on necromass decay. The dream team Katilyn Beidler François Maillard Kennedy Lab dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-2…

Mycena has superstrange genomes: a big expansion but no WGD, up to 97k genes. Some gene influx from ascomycetes by HGT. Most novel genes are conserved. Great collaboration with Francis M. Martin Joint Genome Institute Mate.Viragh Håvard Kauserud 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 Christoffer Harder Cover Cell Genomics shorturl.at/fhwPm BRC Biochem

Do fungal Starships 🚀 matter for human health? We dive into the pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus and connect the dots between these unusual transposons and strain variability. Spoiler alert: biofilms, secondary metabolites and intra-strain variation, oh my! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Colourful, convoluted, and so important to soil health - our paper combining the musings of mycologists, molecular biologists, and ecologists on the evolution of mushroom morphology is now out: tiny.cc/ehkzyz

Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes). aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476

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Thrilled to inform you that our article "Intraspecific diploidization of a halophyte root fungus drives heterosis" has been published online Nature Communications rdcu.be/dNBZ5 A joint project with Zhilin Yuan's CAF lab in Hangzhou 1/n

Zach Konkel built CLOCI to detect gene clusters based on the signatures of their evolutionary processes. Not just secondary metabolite clusters...all kinds of clusters. And of course we present fun new horizontal gene cluster transfers. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Come join us at Duke University as a Lab Manager and work alongside Sara Lipshutz and myself. Apply now to be part of our teams! #JobSearch #LabManager #Research #Biology academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27895

In the past years, we used k-mer binning to obtain genome info for #AMF species hard to cultivate. Here, we pushed it further to obtain a view of the G. pyriformis #cyano and MRE endosymbiont genomes. Top work by MSc Essam Sorwar, Jordana Oliveira and Madhu { Mathu Malar C } 👍👏🤘

To understand where patients acquire Aspergillus fumigatus isolates causing disease, we used a genomic epidemiology approach with Dutch Aspergillus fumigatus isolates from patients as well as agricultural hotspots of azole R. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our newest paper in Current Biology demonstrates how small changes in a disordered protein sequence enable fungi to grow at different temperatures. Ben Stormo cell.com/current-biolog…

I am super excited that one of the most interesting finding in my lab was published in Nature Microbiology !! Have you heard about the fungus that helps carnivorous plants digest insects? 🐜🍃